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Tuesday Afternoon Dear Sister Mary,

  I have left half the sheet from you but if I am not able to fill it, I hope you will forgive me, and try to unclear it as full. 
  You see by my writing so much in one day that I'm gaining in strength decidedly. O, Mary, I do hope I may yet be well. Dr speaks quite encouragingly, and what is better still, I feel so much better. I suppose it will take a good while longer but I shall try to be patient, hoping for the best. I have been here now almost six months, a long time, do you not think so? 
  Last Wednesday evening I had a very pleasant visit from Robert and Miss Pipa? Mr. Roberts and Miss Smith. I was not much acquainted with the ladies and having seen them since our donation, you remember they were at our house then; but still, I enjoyed the visit very much and ? ? a little more acquainted with them, which I was very glad to have the chance of doing. Miss P. and Miss S. spoke of you several times and they wished you could have been here with us; they told me to give their love to you when I wrote. — Susan started on her mission? yesterday. It was a great trial to her and to all the family but they seemed very much resigned; they do not expect to see her ever again; although it is possible that she may return it is very doubtful. She was married just before she started, and so, of course had no wedding. Mr. Sutran?, the gentleman that Susan married came here last Friday evening with his father and mother who came with him to attend the wedding and to see them start: they all seemed to feel very bad, but still were very calm and composed. Poor Susan she was a dear good girl; her mother