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think best under all the circumstances & as will best satisfy you. You know jut what our {precuniay} situation is. you know just how your own health is, you know just how my health is, you know just how much my society is worth to you & I have tried to tell you just how much your society & presence is worth to me & you know something of what our combined influence is worth to our children. Now think the matter over carefully & prayerfully & tell me what responses you get from your true womanly heart & judgement. And I assure you I shall weigh well those responses coming as they will from the inmost heart & judgement of my own dear wife when I regard as one of the purest, best & noblest of women. ------- I have recently been reading a poem by Doct Holland editor of the Springfield Republican who usually writes under the name of Timothy Litcomb. The Poem is entitled the "Bitter Sweet", It is designed to illustrate the good that evil does in the world by developing the latest energies of the soul for visiting. Have you seen it, I wish you & Mary could read it together & then tell me what you think of it. I like it very much indeed. I was not aware before that Doct Holland was a Poet were you,----, Remeember me kindly to all. Hug & kiss our dear children for me & tell them their papa loves them very much. With much love I remain your affectionate husband. N. Kendall