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My very dear Cousin Most gratefully do I Acknowledge the receipt of your truly affectionate and sympathetical note it showed us that although the wide Atlantic separated us externally our affections were still mutual. I cannot help wishing that you and my dear dear sister knew more of each other. I mean by writing it would have been a source of pleasure to her I am sure she had anticipated a long pleasant visit to your country this summer and her hopes and thoughts about it were very sanguine but dear child she was so resigned for as she said herself getting weaker she said the night to me “ I would like very much to go to America but if I should die on the sea I feel it all one — should be quite willing to go if God wished thus, and she was quite willing

written sideways thought I was not going to heaven unclear such a struggle as I had unclear on Sunday morning she went to glory without a single sigh or groan she spoke very little Sunday morning. Mama once said ”I think dear you have begun a Sabbath you will end in heaven” “When? When?” was her answer. She was in such a hurry to go dear sister she suffered much but now I am sure she thinks it nothing compared the glory she now enjoys. I have filled this sheet with an account of her but I am sure you can have no idea what she was to her?