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but not with the young Lady that I spoke of when writing you from Cairo, for she proved to be as Dutch as Crout, although quite good looking but some Arkansas beauties that got on board a little below Memphis. There were two of them, and the youngest I tell you was a beauty, such as is seldom seen, and then her name, it is a sweet to the sound as the notes of a Mocking bird it was none of your Smiths or Jones, but --- but, - Marg Brown (Just see how my hand trembles to write it) As to whether she has a Plantation or not I did not find out, but she has traveled considerable since the war broke out, has been to Boston, and St. Louis and has just been on a visit to her Sister-in law who was with her