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and I want you to continue to send them - Mother must continue her journals and you in those same good long litte4rs that you always write

    Tell Uncle Henry that if hs has only let him come with me he sould have hit it exactly
    As to Davis T- tell him that I sympathize with him deeply - Congratulate Mary Bassett for me,  - and tell her that I hope that she will soon have [unclear] enough to make a [unclear] for me - as John and I shall have to have a new one, it's said the splendid yacht we intend building in when we get home - and will ask her to accompany us on tht first trip in return for the favor - and now [unclear] about all of this them girls - I can't paticularize ay - for you don't know how I shjould like to see them all = how I shall even pray then for them Kind letters I don't know unless they will [unclear] the wills for the  deces--  I did intend to answer them but I can't possibly see how I shall get time - give my love to them all - Would not I like to see Bess Hawly standing on her stoop - think you just now - as she used to
    What has become of Ed Ensign - tell him to write me I also wonder if Lotta Tilden has been in St Louis this summer - find out if you can and tell me
    I must not forget to tell you that the latest letter I have received are dated 27th of June The Steamer from Panama arrived last week and brought a few arrivals dates to the 17th of July but the Big Mail from the states has not arrived when she left, so that it will not reach her now until the first part of next month - and after I shall have sent this -