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in margin: and now with much love to you all I am as ever affectionately Maggie R. embossed letterhead 4 It will soon
be a year since you David were here poor boy he has again been in the furnice of affliction since then. May the Lord comfort
support him. It has been a hot dry summer, and vegetation begins to look like fall. I think Mrs. Mayce must enjoy very
much illegible nice trips as she has every year. Give her my kind regards. And also to Doctor Mrs Strentzel I am glad they
are so, well 1 Crete, Neb., May 28th 1886 Dear Brother John Your letter of a day or two ago has done me much good,
it was for just such a letter I was hungry for. You told me some -thing good about every one of your family also their? Grandpa
Grandma You seem to think that Wanda Sister Annie has told me all the news necessary. Well the dear child does well will
be able someday. If it was a shame to keep her looking so long for a letter illegible stricken word I really though I had
written to her, but I am so