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Cambridgeport, Aug: 6th of 60.

Dear Aunt:-

It is not without some misgivings, as to the interest you may gather from it, that I pen you this short letter, for you hear from me so often through John, that I cannot write anything new about myself, except that my health has been, and is, very good, for which I am very thankful; but you must not think that because I have not written to you before that I have forgotten any of you, far from it,--for often do my thoughts return to the kind friends I've left behind; and to none more than yourself, for I feel that we have (not withstanding the great kindness of all to me) not only in these temporal things but in a still higher one, that of endeavoring, as I trust, to follow out