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Osawatomie June 19, 1856

Dear Father,

Yours and Robert's of June 4 received. Very glad to hear Robert is so well. I sent last week for 2 more Tribunes and 4 more 3 week ago with the money in both cases ($6.00) If not received let me know. The P.U. saw me enclose the money and Marley U. will bear the loss. The pie plants Lewis sent, 6 of them, are growing nicely. Hope you will not lose so much on your one hand as you were afraid at first. Dear father and Robert, I cannot agree with your reasonings on the peace question. The same principle which would constrain us & leave Kansas for the sake of peace would carry slavery triumphant over the whole country. Would you leave your homes because the slaveholders wished to make