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Hawleyville Page Co Iowa April (Sabbath) 7th 61

My Dear friend Nellie,

I must digress upon the lords day, to answer your verry welcome letter of a late date, for I assure you It was full of news to me, for beleive me, I love to receive letters from your hand, as I think you possess so much of that native frankness, usual to your uncle Fuller. I must say I should have written you a mite sooner than I did after my arrival, but really, I had to many, things to attend to, and did not write to any one, but Martha at an earlier day, than I wrote yours, and I am hopefull