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Osawatomie May 12 1868 (Tuesday) Dear Father, We received yours of Apr 27 (and Robbie's) the last of the week. I have just received $20 for Mr. T.D. Lewis, and if you can send $20 (from the sale of my U.S. bond) to him, it will accommodate me much better than to send it to me. I can not say that my health is very good. I have had a very bad cold for over a week, with at a first a good deal of soreness of the lungs and loss of appetite. But that soreness has passed off, and I am getting better. The weather has been very changeable this spring, and this cold attacked me when the weather was the hottest.