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A postage stamp is stuck to the middle of the page. Is this not clearly an error which someone now in posession of the papers should remove so the text can be read?

where is he, Has he gone to the battlefield, or any of your brothers, We have great changes all around us, many families have been broken, on account of our country's troubles But the overruling hand of Providence seems plainly to be seen, And to us it seems, that the death blow to slavery has been struck. What do you think about it? Was not Gen'. John C. Fremont as near right as Gen'. McClellan is? but he has acted nobly) He has gained friends this way they are willing if his life is spared I hope it may be to have him President next But his is looking ahead some way, Why has every thing 3¢ stamp covers text still along the Potomac so long stamp obscures but we shall find out before long.) I will tell