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2 spending all my leisure time in adorning my home with flowers, have laid out all my front yard in beds of fancy shapes
edged with large shells pure white am putting? all I can get in there both wild and cultivated? Have a hill of illegible luxuriant
vine illegible plants of illegible beautiful illegible with the white berries from illegible , it is called the Snowberry?
plant? Went? to illegible Key on purpose to get it. Mr. Hooper says I am planting asters for the illegible of Mosquitoes?
in greater nos? I cant help it, I must have my flowers illegible the illegible sprig of Sparkle berries (all I am said illegible
) from Auld Lang Syne I have been able at last to purchase my home from the original owner? , so I feel quite secure in placing
my labour I love? on it to improve embellish it, we do not forget illegible but we have to eat, as well as see have about
20,000 young? grape leaves coming among? a couple of hundred lemons limes 5-0 figs 150 bananas plantains with a few pine apples,
so you see we have not been idle the past years We have now? a flourishing garden from which we are eating vegetables daily
have illegible today - with illegible potatoes illegible Eddy send best respects to you says he wishes he had gone with you
to Col illegible (but what would I have done without my Eddy near me) 3 He says if he does not succeed here as he wishes
he will sell his place go out there yet, but I hope he will be successful stay near me while I live, Since I wrote you last
my health has been very bad indeed? but after a sore? attack with my throat in Feb I have been improving now feel as well
as ever Hope to see you before the 10? years expire paying me a visit here again hope we will be able to illegible some considerable
The name of illegible was? Wm. P. Croasdale (Croasdale) went to Texas somewhere, I cant tell you where, have never heard from
him since he left Galveston for the interior. Mrs. Richard? return to Maine in bad health does not write to me, Wife? Thompson?
is still illegible although I'm not illegible could easily be induced to change it illegible prefix. My other children are
all well still remember think speak of Mr. Muir often I have a lady friend? visiting me now for a while that I wish you
could know she is the daughter of a illegible (Mrs. MacRae) I have illegible of you read part of your last letter to him,
illegible as I illegible will any illegible die out illegible Mrs. H is now engaged in getting out illegible illegible enough
to make us a supporter? illegible