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  Saratoga, Nov. 1, 1858

My Sister Anna:

  Your letter was received Saturday evening. Thank you for so faithfully remembering me in the midst of all your haste, sleepiness and weariness. Wish we could be with you to assist. Hope you were able, as mother wrote, to sew some on Saturday and have them mailed; it must have made it very bad for father to go to Dearfield. Did he return home last evening? You are probably all very busy today. Hope you will be able to get them most all in the mail today. It is so near the last of the year that any delay would

in margin: Please imagine this full of love from both of us to one and all of you. Don't forget Nellie. Hope she will be somewhere about if not where she is now when I go home. You will please excuse me for writing so much, if you get tired of reading my nonsense just hand it over to Mary, she will know how to make excuses. Sarah threatens to write to Sis today.