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children. The need to make them comfortable the money which my absence & labor will bring in hence I am contented & am willing for the time being to deny myself the pleasure of being with them, for the sake of making them comfortable & happy. I do, dear wife, so long to make you happy that when I know you are not satisfied with our home it causes great pain. Were it in my power I would have you live in some place where you would be satisfied. So my health now is I cannot attend to business & consequently I could not support my family in town. The little business I am now attending to, in which I have no pecuriary interest makes me so nervous that I cannot get to sleep before 11:12 & 1 o'clock at night. Our home on the prairie will become more & more attractive every year, & I do hope it will become to you, home, the dearest spot on Earth. I will try & make it as comfortable & pleasant as I can, & as fast as we can without involving ourselves we will improve it. Let us then, dear one, thank God that we have as good a home as we have & especially let us thank him for our mutual love, & for the buds, blossoms & fruits of that love as manifested in our own dear children, for it was his providence that first made us acquainted & united us as husband & wife & He has from our united & combined souls & bodies made our children & stamped upon them the impress of