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                                                    Fair holme?
                                                    Oct 16th 1876

My dear Sister

  I was grieved to find in the  [[  ]] that you have again been called to  [[  ]] through the deep waters of affliction, such a long & severe illness as dear Cynthia had

to suffer, [[ ]] have fallen heavily on your all, and then to be deprived of your dear daughter so soon after her father. must have ben a sore trial But it is very soothing too the trobled? [[ ]] to feel [[ ]] that the dear departed are with their Savior above all, Suffering [[ ]] sorrow incedent to this present life. They have entered their Heavenly Home