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to sell and it will come up again. We shall probably suffer as little as most any one.

  I have not time to tell you what a change has come over the city. I presume you have better descriptions in the papers than I could give. But the whole thing - the destruction and the reconstruction - the hurly-burly of the hitherto quiet streets, and the quiet of the formerly noisy ones - The hundreds of miserable disgusting looking people huddle together in barracks - the scores of carriages and veickles of every description in the streets - every things is so strange that I am hardly more at home in the next street than when driving on Wabash Avenue or North Dearborn St.  
  Thank you dear Cousin for your kind inquiries. it did us good to know you thought of us. but I believe you owe me a letter, and for people abroad not