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New Hampton Aug 4. ‘58 Dear Friends, one and all, Welcome thrice welcome was the familiar face of old Cenhadwr as he suddenly stepped in this afternoon! It was a long time since I had received some thing tangible from home before, something to make me really know that you still existed. My last letter from home dates I believe, July 18. Of late you may be sure l have longed much for a letter. I hope and am disappointed every time the mail comes. But I am in a measure prevented from being homesick by the very frequent visits I have from you. You are with me often, as I with you in my thoughts, and in my dreams

written in top margin As I was writing Lizzie wanted to know if I was going to ask them if they had forgotten her letter. She wrote to Grandma a good while ago you know, and asked her to write soon she says Hattie wrote to Grandpa in my last letter, which I hope has been received.