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La Porte Ind. Feb. 4th 1864 My own dear good Wife

    Your kind letter written the 27th of Jan & Mailed the 28= reached me to-day. I had looked for it long & anxiously. Your letter was miscarried some way as it came in the mail from Chicago. I have no doubt but that you wrote me again Saturday the 20th & the letter ought to have been here before this. I am looking for your letter with much anxiety. I fear it will bring me the sad tidings of the death of our dear, good little boy. Oh, how I long to be with you & help care for him. Do you remember my saying to you when I went after you at Mr. Atkins that I had had the night previous strange, sad forebodings about your going East & that I felt that I should never see the baby again. I have thought of it many & many times since you have been gone. I fear my forebodings will but prove too true. I think now he was taken with it, the Scarlet fever,  while at the Lugarden? Tugarden? House when he so vomited & than he took cold on his way home. Doct. Higday says he is inclined to think so, for his symptoms were those of scarlet fever. I am so sorry I let you go East at all this winter. Could I have foreseen what I now see I would ave preferred to remain on our farm this winter, even if we had been compelled