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Five Mile Creek Miss. Jan 12 /65 Dear Sister Sallie Last Saturday I recd. Cousin Lucy's letter with the intelagence of our Severe affliction. And yesterday evening Yours written on Christmas day. I had become quite anxious, and fearful lest my worst suspicions should come true, on receiving the first news from home. So that when I recd. Cousin Lucy's letter, Mailed at Alton; and in strange hand, the truth flashed upon my mind in an instant, or at least was confident that Carrie was worse Although I was not entirely