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Princeton January 18, 1851

Dear Aunt,

It is some time since we recieved your letter. We are all well. Everett Peter Marcus Julia
and I go to school to Ms. Smith. I study grammar and arithmetic. We did not go to school last summer and autumn but staid at home and worked hoeing corn digging potatoes gathering apples. We had about 50 bushels of apples plenty of plums but no
peaches. We got ten bushels of hickory nuts and two or three of black walnuts.
I told you in my other letters that I did not think we take Mary's Museum any longer but are we conlcuded that we would take it last year. We don't like to give it up but father thinks we had better for he wants to take Little's Living Age. Our school teacher is the daughter of Rev. Harvey Smith who formerly preached at Weybridge. There is a man by the name of Tarmenter that a
teaches a school here who graduated at Middlebury College a year or two ago.
Peter thinks he will not write to you this time. I can think of nothing more to say.

yours affectionately,
Cullen Bryant

You'll find a lock here in of little Chatty's hair. Her hair is rather
thin. She has much to spare.