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Kearny, Nebr. Feb. 4. / 94. My dear Brother John; Your holiday letter and card came to me and was greatly enjoyed, not
so much enjoyed not as a visit would have been, but as you could not arrange to come our way, the next best was a letter from
you. Your recent long trip must have been grand indeed, both from what you write and the home people write, and mother must
have been very grateful for all the pleasant news you brought from her long loved home in Scotland. She sent me a tartan kerchief
at Christmas time saying that, the others had one and 01779