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Osawatomie, Oct. 30, 1876. Dear Sister Jennie,

I received yours to night, and will forward to Elizabeth tomorrow. I am more than willing to sign it. But if I was there, I should make it a condition of my signature, that mother should make the payment to the Missionary Societies in her will. It seems to me, as Mary told the Surrogate, (Probate Judge, we say here,) that if Cynthia paid all the expense mother bore for her, to save that fund, it would all have been expended without taking into account all the expenses attending her last sad lingering sickness and death. Of course at this distance, and with my limited information, I merely write this to show

in margin: If you can make the arrangement I suggest about the two fifties, ought not Mary to have more? John