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January, THURSDAY 9 1873 I felt very sleepy this morning, but had to get up with the other boys. Today is our weekly recreation day, and it proved to be most weakly to me (pardon reader this most unsuccessful attempt at a joke). Most of the morning I was writing my speech, which I finished about three or four in the afternoon. At ten or eleven o clock in the morning I received a long letter from papa. It is the first one I have received in 1873 . I am glad to see papa has begun as well as he usually writes very short letters; seldom if ever reaching the middle of the second page. I believe, I answered the letter "de mon pere", during the hours of three and six p.m. In the evening I received a long letter from Bay and Brasher. It was five pages and a half of business paper. An excellent letter, well written, and filled with uninteresting news. In the course of the letter he says that Mary and he went to the concert of the Amateur Philharmonic on Tuesday the 8th west