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some time to learn their language and to procure materials for spinning 11 Month 1st To a friend - Thy letter of 7 mo last came safe to hand. The wholesome counsel together with the interesting information, was truly acceptable; for it reached me at a time when I was very desirous of hearing from my native home; being of the latest date of any I had received -- I was pleas'd to find thou hadst been to see my dear father Coope for whose situation I have near- by felt; knowing it was a close trial both to him and us, to be thus separated, now in his advanced stage of life. Indeed when I view'd the prospect not only of leaving him but society in gen- eral, with my dear friends and relations, to many of whom I have of late felt an increasing nearness, with desires for the advancement of our Zion, and to live so retired in an uncultivated part of the coun- try, was so in the cross, that at times I