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Hawleyville Page Co Iowa April (Sabbath) 7th 61

My Dear friend Nellie,

I must digress

upon the lords day, to answer
your verry welcome letter

of a late date, for I assure

you It was full of news
to me, for beleive me, I love
to receive letters from your
hand, as I think you possess
so much of that native frankness, 

usual to your uncle Fuller. I must say I should

have written you a mite sooner
than I did after my arrival,
but really, I had to many, things
to attend to, and did not
write to any one, but Martha
at an earlier day, than I wrote
yours, and I am hopefull