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and there are lots of good people here Stilll there are there. How I would like to come in 88 if I could only get my mind adjusted to [?] I would like to see Older & Sarah & Mr. Wood & many others. well may be I will - I really want to. Say Mary I have been [?] if our friend Tom OConner couldn't do [several faded words] He should be {hole in paper] there is no excuse for holding him longer. If [hole in paper] line if the outstandng indictments are [?] [?] dismissed which Lem long ago promised & should be done. I wish you would get him to go over & see J.B. [?] & see if he could do something. I will manage to raise some money for him if he can & any time pay him myself for going over. I would like to help them. let me know. I am very easy y ou wrote me about the "my friends" I was going to send it to you it is a peach. I rather [?] [?] the [?] year old girl first or any other girl past. It is too [?] I am still working like the devil finalizing people out of the clutches of the law, whose only