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We ought to win then by love and kindness - & perhaps you will overlook all the infirmities of this epistle and be able to make it intelligible. I have written it while I was baking, getting dinner, washing dishes, mending pantaloons besides doing study at the unmentionables and no wonder it is done with an unsteady hand as well as with a poor pen.
Your affect. cousin Ann
Miss Lucy H. Metcalf