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6 once, as I go to Philadelphia early in the morning, and it was ten o'c. when he left. It is now much later and I am so
tired packing, and arm still lame But the worst of it is that I do not like to write you as I am doing. I did feel once to
write you in behalf of the effort Dr Benjamin made at first: Please do not 7 pay any attention to this if not agreeable
to you to do so. I am already indebted to you beyond power of expressing the same. Someday I will write you a pretty letter
to show that I can write better than this With love to each of the precious family. Yours gratefully Annie K. Bidwell