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Remsen, May 24, 1866. Dear Sister, We were very glad to get your letter and to know that you reached your destination so comfortably. We miss you very much, but hope Eddie will find enough comfort in your company to equalize in some degree the good and evil resulting from your absence. You know, I'm a selfish body, and when I long for your dear companionship - the hope will rise in my mind that Eddie will get the good I lack. My "little birdie" has not quite made up his mind yet to leave his "friend" and sleep with me - tomorrow night I will sleep with you he says - but tomorrow night never is you know. Day before yesterday father and Mary went to Utica with the horse and buggy and came home last night bringing with them a new buggy. It is not