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added at top (Aunt Anna had the melodeon evidently with her at Galesburg J.E.E.)

Remsen, July 6, 1858 Dear Cynthia,

  I believe it has been two weeks, at least, since I have written to you, and it seems to me a long, long time. I assure you, Sis, you are not forgotten at home, although we are sometimes a long time without writing. O, we miss you much, and I am sometimes very lonely, but if we can not be together now I trust we meet more than once a day and pray for each other and for all of our dear ones
 I wish you could be with me tonight. it is almost too dark to write but just right to talk. I am