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but the pain of again parting with you would in a great measure counterbalance the pleasure experienced by both parties at meeting.

I don't know what to send for by Johnnie Hall, but I know you would like to send me something. and to make the burden light on him send me a small, neat, and cheap photograph album and before send it get as many of my relative's, friend's, and acquaintances' photos in it as possible, leaving of course two places for yourself and mother, which I have unsoiled in my Port Folio. to which Johnny Hall can bear testimony. Now the more photographs your get me the better as nothing affords a soldier