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in margin: Father is very well but almost all illegible in bed he complains of great weakness in his back and limbs. He sends
love to you and says tell Mary I illegible hear illegible her and all of them Kansas City, Mo. Jan. 30, 1884 Dear Sister
Mary: Your letter came today and had I allowed my-self to entertain any unkind thoughts about your long delay I would certainly
reproached myself severely now that I know the cause but I felt there must be a reason or tried to think so all the time and
when I write the postal? it was only because I could not help it. But dear dear what could I say to express my illegible
partly in all your illegible catching and illegible (4) I think of it, I think it depends some on how people live, and
in what part of the city, no doubt illegible an how places it is illegible but we have a illegible in that respect. Now
I suppose you are smiling to yourself at all my long story and I supposed it is all for nothing but I somehow felt illegible
to write what I have. So little illegible is pretty, well, again, how glad I am, my heart always warms at the mention of
him. I hope you will manage to build up again soon. Did I tell you what a time Walter? had with illegible last winter? or
carbuncles I could say. they came one after another on the? back of his neck right where his collar weighted to illegible
and oh how he suffered, illegible this illegible and had to go with his head down. But felt all the time that he must be at
the office if it killed him. And this illegible when he was having his hardest illegible financially and by the way, he had
a very bad illegible then too. Besides he had to do chores and help me with the work some, father too had to be wait illegible
as you illegible sick, so I fuss illegible could ? sympathize with illegible Willis? now as Willis with him. He has had illegible
good health since then. Well you certainly have had plenty of help through all your trouble which is something to be thankful
for. My illegible is pretty illegible sick just now and I do not know but that she will have to go home. illegible is wakling
now, just fairly inserted later started out. she is so busy it has taken her a long time. illegible Many illegible I shall
be very anxious to hear a illegible occasionally. in margin: Love to illegible and yourself and the little boys. tell illegible
I send him a kiss as big as the one he sent me.