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Aug. 1876 Page 5 I do not know how to thank you enough for your splendid photo we know how to appreciate it you may depend
I send you a poor return the eyes have a dazed expression I meant not to have sent it but to sit again However an accident
in a small way has happened me Friday last while putting up an iron store front here; a joist fell taking me heavily on the
eyebrow and nose, bruised and peeled both somewhat, but inflicted no severe injury. Strangers might think to see me, that
I was the victim of a big row. My count illegible ance is certainly not such as I wish to photograph and send to my friends.
This also accounts for your getting this letter to day as I am not fit to be seen in meeting. The other card represents our
family as it was 3 years ago; about a year and quarter before the decease of the same two children. Our present family is
much the same except that the sexes are reversed as we have a little daughter now eleven months old since last writing you
You must readily admit that I have the advantage of you in in margin: 00741