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Sunday Evening Jan 31st 1864 Dear Wife

                   It is raining here to-night & has been raining most of the P.M. It is very muddy here. How I long to know just how you all are. I suppose before this our dear "Ba" is either getting better or has perhaps joined his little sister in her heavenly home. O, I do want to hear fro you. I shall eagerly watch every mail. I have had a long talk with Doct. Higday this evening. He says he has a greater dread of the Scarlet fever than of almost any other disease, on account of the after effects that frequently follow. He says Scarlet Fever & diphtheria are diseases that are Kindred to Each other, that croup is often to follow diphtheria, but in Scarlet fever the inflamation of the throat is apt to make its way to the inner chamber of the Ear through