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1842 Milo August [2d? 192?]

My dear sister Lucy

What a nice girl you, [to?] overlook and [harp by?] my negligence and inability to write you, and send me such a nice good letter warm from the heart.I am really delighted with your generosity. You say it is but a short time since there seemed to be a great deal of [religious?] interest and feeling among Mr. [?], but how soon it all did away. I [pressure?] you refer to the time of the [?] mating when, such there was [duf?] feeling, and such feelings I [resume?] that christians here were before experienced. And what was that feeling? Was it not the feeling of overwhelming joy that God had been [blessed?] to answer our prayers, that sinners were [finching?] the Savior to the joy of their souls; and a willingness to spend and be spent in the [services?] the [Budermin?] You [favorably?] did not enjoy as much at that time as others did who were [?] to the [seem?]. May even feeling at that time are [ritterly?] [incriseribable?].