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Remsen, July ,1865

My dear cousin Lizzie

What a commotion was made when Jack Nathaniel's good letter, and your representative ? in among us, you ought to have seen it! I was ironing at the time, and though I gave myself great credit for not leaving my work to answer your note immediately, I must confess that some wrinkles dried into the clothes, as every now and then they were left spread out on the table, which state away to get a fresh look at your sweet face.
Each of us girls tried to claim you as a nearer relative than the rest, by saying I believe she looks like me "No, she don't, she looks like me" [me is underlined] be, but Lizze, I carried the palm, for when we showed the likeness to baby, he [he is underlined] said it was "[thithy?]," as he calls me, [me is underlined] and you the proverb, Children and fools always