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Woodburn, January 17th 66, Dear Son, Yours of the 5th is with us we are all well except Pa he is complaining some I am sorry to learn that your health is not so good as it was truly the mind has great influence over the body and your not in the stirring active buisness you were last winter you say I must tell how Pa and the children take the loss of poor [buby?] they dont any of them seem to get over it at all hardly well John and Lizzie dont seem to feel so deeply as the rest I think poor little Mary is seemed as though her heart would break almost and Fanny manifested more feeling than I thought she would she