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our land in this state to sell & help us at present at least. I am glad my services are so well appreciated I hope now that we shall be able to commence the first of Sept. out of debt so far as those are concerned which we have contracted since we went down to our farm & have our house painted & not sell any stock except those cows I have sold Erasmus. If possible I want to redeem them too. But even if we sell them our stock will be worth more than when we went down there & we have repaired our house that the lightning injured, built a half a mile of fence, put out a good orchard & trees in front yard, built a shed around the yard, & improved sixty acres of land besides building that house that was built with your money. I hope we shall be able to keep out of debt in future as another such an