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Jersey Co Ills March 30th:63 Dear Son I received 3 letters from you on Saturday last I suppose that some of them had lain in the office some days for we have not been to Kane for two weeks we are all pretty well now Annie was quite sick last week but is most well now the leaves you sent came safe neither of them were broken in the least but the package you sent by Sargent Powel never reached the Kane post office I suppose they were to be left there I did not get the news that George Stokes was comeing there or back to the Army in time to send anything if I could get to Kane I would send a package by some of the other boys that are going we have no way of going anywhere now Pa has bought one third of a threshing machine and peter has to go on the machine that breaks our team