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it will be - she will call it Julia - Don't be frightened at having a namesake - it will be principally for Julius - Romaine has not been at all well this winter - and has now a bad sore throat - one of those that last forever - I have been trying to realize that your baby is nearly a year old - but I can hardly believe it - it does not seem near so long since he came - Give bushels of love to the children every one - and ask Frank and Bud if they cannot write me a letter and tell me what Kris Kringle brings them - Ma wants to know whether in making pepper hash you cook the cabbage. Nannie's does not seem soft or tender - and she thought perhaps it ought to be cooked - Ma thinks she will not send the apple butter - it is so late in the season she could only get

Right Hand Margin: three gallons and that's not page cut off note: continued 3 pages back, in letter of Dec 20, 1860