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5 in margin: P S John please tell me what you think about things dont you think we had better go down live on the place
try to hold it if we are able. as it may be valuable before many years Trouble has seemed to so unsettle John that a great
part of the time he seems unable to think clearly on a few things what would we do with the place in Kan. Everything would
be torn down taken if left alone. I think we had better move down there it would not take much to keep us. Jessie gets thirty
five dollars a month the prospect of more perhaps. she could board or stay with Anna Anna has a good home. May is able to
teach and will be old enough soon, she is seventeen now I think the boys would like it on the farm I would be glad to be a
kind of hermit after what has passed if my family are fairly comfortable. how glad I will be to see you. I sometimes wish
I could talk to or