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We have funds raised for Fohl's chapel, only that, in the hands of D.F.W., it is so safely deposited as never to be accessible to a draft. Else that would be very convenient now. D.F.W's life of reliability has suffered a sad blight. Financially, he was never a success.

A house at Freetown, to be uninhabited five-sixths or nine-tenths of the time, illustrates the verse;

"A soul without reflection, like a pile

Without inhabitant, to ruin runs."
The thing to do is to get an interest in a health resort there. The sanitation of a common dwelling would evidently be inefficient--especially if shut up, unused most of the year. If we had a hundred American missionaries, we might have use for a house at Freetown. Lucy's sojourn there did not terminate roseately.

My health has become very good again. The family are Well. Wilbur is at Le Mans, France preparing for a demonstration. Your brother, M. Wright.