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4 here to the depot. It was about one and a half hours from the time she left Joanna until the Portage train left here,
and by the same length of time no longer. After the train started her from us the little baby died, It cried very hard for
a while but we saw nothing alarming until a few minutes before it died. Really I was some alarmed as soon as I saw it, but
J. said it had had several such crying times and soon quieted. I thought she knew best deleted: and as I had seen nothing
of the baby excepting when it was quiet or sleeping. She held it in her own arms the last half hour and saw 00969 1
in margin: Please send me a true photograph or I may not get a true portrait- Baby sends kisses to his little cousin 1881.
Phillips, Wis. Dear Brother Sister, Before me is a letter that I wrote to you Nov. 13th . I had scarcely finished it and
was interrupted Since that time many things have occupied my time in such a way that writing has almost seemed out of the
question Accept of tardy, but most hearty congratulations on your happy meeting. We were overjoyed to know of the safe return
of the Carwin I had feared that the coming winter days would