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Kane Nov 13th 1862 Dear Son yours of the 5th was duly received and we were glad to hear that you was in pretty good health and spirits we are all well at least I am in hopes so I am writing at D Popes Mary F has a fine daugher 4 days old I have been staying here since monday they are getting along quite well Fanny will write but I cant tell when soon though I expect they are having a tall time in Kane to night a dance at Hudsons and a shiveree Pinkney Gilbert and Mollie Davis are Married and just returned from Staunton on a bridal tour they are all well at Frosts except Theo she is quite sick they are over head and ears in buisness threshing I wrote to you last week in which I told you how often I had written and expressed my surprise to your thinking I could neglect to write I did not see James Lovelace