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AUGUST · I 89 I From Mary A. Elliott Columbus Aug Pith 1891 My Dear Brother I was thinking yesterday sabbath how well T would like to be with you aD a while, or see and talk with you at least. I hope this may find you and the little ones well and happy. I suppose that you are getting a long by what I read or hear through the Student very near every week. We get to hear from the school which gives us great satisfaction to think what great progress the school has and is makeing. The knowledge that we get through the Student makes us feel near to you all, and gives us a desire for the up building of the school aside from other Closter ties. I think you did a good thing when you got some one in Mrs King's place. I am so glad for I dident think that she had the right kind of feeling for the children and all the love that the children could ever have for her would be through fear. I dident want to make you unhappy by telling you what I thought. So I hope that you have got a good woman in her place. I am sure that the change will not be for the worse. Tell me if the children are well, and if they grow. I suppose the hot weather is hard on them and if you are well? I do hope Dear brother that you will stop for a moment and think; for your children's as well as your own happiness you should rest more then you do. The future wellfare of the school also demands it. You work hard most of the time through vacation. I hope that you have taken some rest this summer. I have had a nervous prostration for several weeks by working hard at my trade and being over heated by the warm weather. I never experienced any thing of the kind before. I have not been capable of writing my hand and armes have almost been useless for several weeks past. But thanks to the Lord I am getting so much better again that I feel incouraged greatly. Mother is living in her new house she has moderatly good health she still weaves. She sais tell little Baker that may the Lord bless his little heart for praying for her. She sais she prays for him every night too. She sais kiss them for her. Tell them Aunt Mary and Grandmas both prays for them. Tell them to be good children. I know that Davidson's temper will be his greatest cross, poor little dear I wish ~69