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La Porte Ind. April 14th 1864

My dear good wife,

   Your letter written last Thursday & Friday & mailed Saturday came here in last nights mail.  I thank you a thousand times for it.  It told me just what I wanted to know about your preference for a home.  I saw & now see at present no other choice of home for us except either in some inexpensive New England Village or on our farm.  I wanted to make our home where it would be most pleasant for you & I was under the impression that you would prefer a home in Warwick on some other village there & had been schooling my mind to be contented to be away from home a great part of the time as I should