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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.M. saw me enclose the money and Marley? & M.. 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 to 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