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  Clinton 14th 1852?

Dear Sarah

  Perhaps you thought that I never was going to answer your letter. But I did for I commenced to write to you a few days after yours came, and then it was mislaid until a week after I was looking over my papers and I saw it so I took it to finish it but it was lain aside again and after that I was ashamed to send it, I have