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La Porte Ind. March 15 1864

My dear good Wife

   I wrote you the 8th 10th & 11th & I find myself to night earnestly desiring to hold communion with you.  It is a dark stormy night.  I hear the rain pattering upon the sky light & am glad to be in my comfortable office seated in my large arm chair with a cheerful light & the pictures that represent my good wife & our three little boys before me.  I have kissed more than once to night these representations of my hearts treasures.  I wish that my kisses might be impressed upon their warm loving lips & I know I should receive in return kiss for kiss.  How thankful we ought to be that God has made the sun such a portrait painter.  Would you dear wife like to have my photograph put in the