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West Chester, Pa Oct. 29th 1876 Dear Fred Your letter announcing your safe arrival at your home was duly received and I intended answering it when I mailed the Photos to your Ma two weeks ago but have suffered it to be delayed until now we were all very glad to hear of your good health for we were fearing that Yellow Jack might visit you as the papers were noticing its [purveyance] in localities not very far distant from you- now so rare in the fall we suppose you feel safe from its attacks. We are having beautiful Indian summer with cold nights and frosty mornings followed by warm hazy sunshine peculiar to the season and if you are having such a season you ought to escape there are often enquiries made of us as to your arrival home. Eliza was here yesterday to dinner says she got a letter from your mother recently they are well. Emmeline & [illegible word] are spending a week at [illegible word] very much to the delight of Muster D. I have been several times since you left but now when the weather has got cool the crowd is so great that it requires much time and patience to examine points where the exhibits are especially interesting. I was present on Penna day when there were over 260.000 persons which compelled you to [several illegible words due to a hole in the page] all the time I have been in several large crowds before but this one far outnumbered all Gov Tilden visited the Exhibit on New York day about a month since on that day there were over 100000 persons attended on last Thursday Ohios day Gov Hayes was there and the crowd present numbered about 20000 more than ion the first occasion which is indicative of the way it will on Nov. 7th at another counting of noses. I was not at all surprised to hear from you that large numbers of your La Republicans were turning to Democrats I had read something similar from other localities in your section which led me to examine the cause of the change and I must confess that I find the arguments are so strong and forcibly presented that I cannot see how they could do otherwise with [illegible word]. We up here remember an effort of like meaning and [illegible word] that commenced to unveil its self in the same reagion about sixteen years ago which brought trouble and distress enough one would think to have schooled the people to be governed by wiser councils that lead to peace & quietness instead of murder war & bloodshed. we here look with gloomy foreboding to the future. If the Dem party are placed in power by the solid South and the solid Catholic Church neither of which have any desire to perpetuate our government on its principles but we don't believe it will be so far the [illegible words] solids are consolidating very rapidly other elements over the north that will largely out number them both. but enough of politics. The whole family home except myself are having sick heads I am hale write again soon. Your Truly Reuben Bernard