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Jersey Co Ills April 1st 1864 Well Edgar I sit down to write a few lines to keep you from thinking we have forgotten you which I fear you will ere this reaches you it has been so long since we wrote to you I hardly know the reason why one circumstance and another has prevented I have delayed writing some Eugeans account he again brought to deaths door which way he will turn is yet to be seen he has got the fever much such a spell as he had two years ago when we were living in the frame house this is friday he has lain insensible most of the time since last sunday; two weeks ago yesterday I think it was we started a box to you containing two quart cans of peaches and two of butter four pocket handkerchiefs four collars two pair of socks two towels I had intended sending some cakes good light bread pies &c