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in margin: Martinez 1887 Family Affairs 01251 Martinez January 1, 1887. Dear brother David I wish you the children a
hearty happy New Year We are all in ordinary good health affairs go on not in any new way but in the old way as if the Year
were not in any sense new Still we have much to be truly grateful for, for nothing more than for hope of better things stored
up for us unseen in the future. Maggie writes that she greatly enjoyed her visit with you that you were in better health
than usual prosper illegible generally which was good news indeed You proposed in Your last