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over some of the most beautiful country I ever saw. In a word our journey has been a most delightful one. The only object I could find to it was that it was very dry-dusty and warm in about all the [illegible] we [passed?] through with one exception, viz Louisville, which is a good sized town situated upon the banks of the Ohio, very neatly built, having all neat stone pavements, (very level being a wide contrast with Chicago) containing some splendid hotels and business houses.

         While you today are spending the Sabbath in the House of the Lord in Chicago I am sitting under a large tree three hundred and twenty (320) miles from home, penciling penning these lines.   
    I have written much in this