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  Fairfield, Sheldon P.O. Nos 23, 85,

Dear friends Mary, Sarah, & Cynthia.

  Your thrice welcome letter reached me on my return home. I remained at our kind Dr's much longer than I anticipated at the time you left. I intended to have come home Sept. 18, but was unable to do so after I had packed my trunk & I made the necessary preparation. I came home Oct. 24 or rather started on that day & reached home upon the 26. I could have sung with all my heart the following lines:

"I'm with you once again my friends No more my footsteps roam &c.

 Glad indeed was I to learn that you were all so well. I do rejoice with you. You can but be happy while enjoying so comfortable