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in margin: The heat is so intense that illegible feels very weak. Mother your kind letter was daily read? Annie would you
pray? for the little blue illegible 1 Kansas City Mo. July 27, 1885 Dear Mother and Sarah and Annie to? i know you
are anxious to hear from us and I must not be so selfish as to keep you waiting too long. I can write only of that which fills
my heart. I think Mother told you how we hastened to the country with our little sick darling, thinking that the change might
assist and by strong advice of the doctor. On the way the cool breeze seemed? to revive her a little and arriving there at
9:23 22 P.M. we all had a good