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the way in which I got my pension I will tell you if you ever meet again it is too long to write you have my best wishes for your prosperity the coming year & when we meet you can smell the smoke and have a kiss yes a lot of them from W Barden?
Oshkosh thursday Dec 29 1887 A.A. Hurd now hour ago I recd your letter and of all the presents I recd this blessed year, yours was as acceptable as any I knew it to be in your writing before I opened it and was in hopes it was an invitation to meet you in Milwaukee which I surely should have done it would make no difference with me about the loss of your teeth & hair you have got your heart left unclear and that is the best part of you and the part that