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Dear Brother and Sister It is with much reluctance that I take my pen this morning, too adress you owning the long neglect of useing it we receive yours dated Jan 26 we were glad to hear from you in regard to your health and prosperity we have been blessed with a good degree of health fore I wrote you, and the rest of our friends. It is a general time of health, though this vicinity, there was some cases ov the winter fever last winter, but there has not been as much sickness as usual this summer thus far ...