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It is with much reluctance that I take my pen this morning, too [unclear] you owning the long neglect of useing it [unclear] we were glad to hear from you in regard to your health and thankfully we have been blessed with a good degree of health fore I wrote you, and the rest of our friends. It is a general time of health, though this vicinity, there was some cases of the winter fever last winter, but there has not been as much sickness as [unclear] this summer thus far ...