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                                                                           "unclear" Feb the 8 -1866
                                                                 Dear Father
                                                                                       Being very lonesome to day I thought I could not pass the lonesome hours away any better than writing to you We are all usualy well now Mary health is improving as well as pleasant winter so far & very healthy I am waiting very patiently for the springtime to come & then we expect to see you as Charley wrote you were coming if you dont intend to come write & let me know & I will come home if I can get money enough to come with I have no home now & feel very low spireted you wrote to me to know about affairs but I did not know how my things were a going