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as good a situation as this and we may value a dollar then for bread and butter as much as we do ten now. I don't ever want to have you dependent upon your father for bread and butter as in 1859. I am in excellent spirits, and thank you from the bottom of my heart for your most excellent letter of the 28th which came this morning - the winter green enclosed with taste and smell all right. I grow sad when I think of the bloodshed - but really hope that the rebs will yield before long. They must feel terribly discouraged. Copperheads must too. I almost expect to hear that Charley Juvette is killed this time.