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Buffalo Nov. 19. 1866 Dear cousin Jennie I am afraid you think me a very ungrateful, negligent cousin, in letting so much time pass, before answering your very kind and most welcome letter, for which mine all but a poor return at best. I think of you all many times in the day, but my time has been so much occupied with necessary duties that my correspondence has been sadly neglected. You know perhaps, something of city life, how the whole time seems to be taken up with the practiced answering of the questions "What shall we eat, what shall we drink, and where with all shall we be clothed?" Now dear Jennie, do not think for one moment that I am leading a fashionable life, for that would be a great mistake, still I know the customs of society do, make a