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March the 27th 1861 Cousin Edgar Dear Sir, I received your letter on yesterday and was much pleased to hear from you again. The cause of my not writing sooner was this. You wrote from Staunton and wished me to write soon and direct my letter to Staunton as you expected to leave that place in two or three weeks, and I had a letter directed to that place but did not get it mailed in time so I concluded not to send it to Staunton for fear you would leave there before it reached you. As you did not state where you were going when you left Staunton and as I did not get a letter mailed in time to reach you at Staunton it broke our correspondence for a short time But however it is all right now as I see you are again back to Kane. We are all well at present living at the old homestead where I've always lived sinvce I was a 1/2 yearling. Milts live in a new one story frame house 16 by 20 feet about a half mile- in sight-of-our-house- in a cata-western direction. The citizens of this vicinity have again got in the notion of building a church and have already