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New Orleans La. Dec 29th /63 Dear Brother Henry In one of my former letters I promised to write to you. Will now endeavor to keep my word good. Although Christmas is passed will wish you all a Merry Christmas, and a happy New Years, and hopeing that old Stanaclaus came with a bountifill supply to fill the Stockins of the Children, to make their young hearts glad. Yesterday I received Sara and Carries long letter of the 13th Inst. Am much obliged to Sara for such a long letter, and but two or three days before, two came to hand, one of them containing some Postage Stamps and two dollars in Money, am much obliged for the money although did not much need it, but put