Poughkeepsie   June 10      1862,
My dear Miss Stowe
I am this morning in receipt of your very interesting letter
of the 3d inst: with enclosures, and am prompt, under its inspiration of
goodness to reply, I am happy to make others happy in any acts of kind-
ness or courtesy I can bestow.   As you manifest so much interest in my
welfare and the V.F. College enterprize I will briefly answer your
enquiries, as to the progress of the work, the edifice has now risen to
the third tier of beams and expect to have enclosed by the first of Decem-
ber next.   Allow me to suggest that you must dismiss your modesty in all
matters of enquiry touching this institution, I shall allways be happy to
impart to you every information pertaining to its progress and prospects.
It gives me pleasure to notice in one paragraph in your letter before me
that you have "put on Christ11 by a public profession!^ "Baptism*1, this my
dear friend is true wisdom—.-nothing can sustain us like the grace of God
while walking through this world of Sin and Sorrow, I do congratulate you
in this decision, may you my dear friend and Stranger find much consola-
tion in living near to your Saviour.         I thank you for what you please to
call the counterpart of yourself   I send you mine in return on the Frontpiece
of the "American Journal of Education" with a brief history of my early life.
I have now passed my three score and ten, yet have much buyancy of youth,
and fair mental vigour, considering that some two years ago had a slight
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attack of paralisis which some what impairs my memory, otherwise am
as well as I ever were in the earlier period of my life.   Other engagements
oblige me to close this letter.   I subscribe myself your friend,
On verso:   Letters and answers to Carrie F. Stowe
Woodstock, Windsor Co., Vermont
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