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4717 Kimback Ave. Chicago Ills. Dec 18, 1887 Dear Father, We received your letter yesterday saying you did not know as you should come this winter. I thought you had decided to come as you wrote you might be here Christmas. I had planned that you would come this week. We should like very much to have you come and you can be just as useful underscore as last year for you can tend furnace and shovel snow if we have any and other things to numerous to mention. We have sent the horse out into the country and