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Alder Creek Dec 9th 1888 My Dear Cousin Anna: --

  You don't know how glad I was to get your letter to know that you are getting along so nicely and feeling so well.  Aunt Annie has been scolding myself for weeks past because I was neglecting to write you.  I always ask Mr. E. Davies if he has heard how you are when I go to church.  Friday Auntie & myself went to Boonville & I felt so sorry that I had not written a letter to you so that we could mail it on our way it was on our way home we stoped at the P.O. and 

written on left side I am reading the 4th ch. of Ephesians will finish with the old year. Give my love to the Cousins when you write & to Aunt Jane when you see her. So much from your Cousin Mary E.