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Kane Jersey Co Ills Jan 6th Dear Son it has been six weeks since I wrote you and now you see there is a mistake to begin with the reason I did not write was that I thought you could not get as there was no line of communication between you and the states at the north but I learn from the papers that there were loads of mail reached you at Savanah So if I had written regularly they would probably have reached you in time we are all well I have had the neuralgia in my face for about three weeks but have got clear of it at last in my last I told you that Jimmy Frost was very sick he died on the next day after I wrote on the 7th of november I think it was he had the jaundice and inflamation of the bowels it did not seem to make any change in Wm H indeed they did not any of them