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My very dear Cousin Most gratefully do I Acknowledge the receipt of your truly affectionate and sympathetical note it showed us that although the wide Atlantic separated us externally our affections were still mutual. I cannot help wishing that you and my dear dear sister knew more of each other. I mean by writing it would have been a source of pleasure to her I am sure she had anticipated a long pleasant visit to your country this summer and her hopes and thoughts about it were very sanguine but dear child she was so resigned for as she said herself getting weaker she said the night unclear “ I would like very much to go to America but if I should die on the sea I feel it all unclear should be quite willing to go if God wished and she was quite willing