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keeps him at present poor & sickly looking - Libby looks old & fagged with her many duties - but she is a happy woman - for I think she is full of love to God, & a strong feeling of Gods love to her & thankfulness for the blessings He gives her carries her thro all her fatigue & work with cheerfulness, but at present she looks to me rather done up - a family of 10 boys is far better than 10 girls, for the endless governesses would be much more wearing than sending her boys one after the other to day schools in London to prepare them for a school near Brighton, which prepares them for a public school - the eldest boy Herman is now at Winchester, & Edward & Walter at the school near Brighton the 3 next

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