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uneasy about them & then I see by the Greenfield Paper that Diphtheria has been recently raging in the vicinity of Brattleboro in a Malignant & Epidemic form. Do you Miss me as much as you Expected. I miss you O so much. When evening comes I miss home & our dear children with their thousand little acts of friendship & affection & my wife & her words & acts of love. I hope I may once more be blessed with home & wife & children. I love them all. I know I am sometimes naughty & get out of patience but I am resolved to have more patience in future & to do what I can to Make my hearts treasures happy & good. I regret the necessity that seems to Make it necessary that we should be separated for a time. I hope that separation may not be long but I fear it will be longer than Either of us wish, as I owe so much that I must Earn money to pay. I find that I now owe $525 that I must pay immediately. I shall sell Zeke at first opportunity- & pay Erasmus. I wish you had remained here this winter.