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by everyone, even the fastidious Jos says it is excellent. 

 I have got John Allen's as a companion to it, which puts me 

 in a passion, but having no better I am forced to take up 

 with that. I mean to frame Caroline also. Can you get 

 me a good one of yourself and Jessie ? I should be very 

 glad to pay for them, of about the size of Fanny's. I should 

 delight to have them. A thousand loves to you all, my 

 dear sisters and nieces, E. W. 



