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Let me thank you for it again. In the present trying times it helps me to look more cheerfully to the future. Even if we lose this land in this state we have a home such as it is at our farm life & with the assurance from my dear good wife that she can be contented & happy there till we can do better the future does not look as dark to me as it did. I love home & wife & children, & of course the knowledge that wife & children are contented & happy makes me happy too, while on the contrary if I think they are not satisfied & happy you can judge what my feelings must be. If I cared nothing about them of course it would make but little difference with me how they felt. but you my dear wife know I love you & you love me & of course you can understand my feelings upon this point. If we stay here after you return we