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4 I read the newspaper clippings with much interest - - and am glad you are so much known and appreciated. I trust you will
yet fill a more honorable and important position than you have yet attained to if compatible with your highest good - -The
girls join me in sending you much love May God bless you and keep you, - is the sincere wish of your affectionate Mother
00544 1 Farm 9th Nov 1871 Dear John Your very welcome letters are always a scource of much pleasure to me - With my
mind I often follow you in your wanderings in the valleys and on the mountains, ever praying that the Lord will comfort and
protect you at all times - this summer and fall I have enjoyed a ramble in the woods very much - the trees and flowers, and
plants, looked more beautiful, to me than ever before, and I took care of the garden - sowing the seeds and gathering the
vegetables for the first time -