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4 The love of our family goes to your wife Mrs. Williams and Henry to the Doctor's household * I am as ever Your affectionate
friend WPGibbons. 1 Alamanda 12/20th.1884. Dear John I have long neglected the duty of responding to your kindness.
The heavy burden of sorrow has been long pressing on me, now, that the morning of a brighter day has dis illegible the way
side darkness of the world, toward one whose illegible soul has clung to me with devotion unwaver- ing love for 50 years,
I am brought to a feeling recognition of those more remote ties, which should be affectionately cherished along our pilgrimage
toward a better, but an unknown land. My illegible visit to you was the last time that I have left that dear companion.
For years past,