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4 Dear John I would like to meet you once more, and I would like to meet your wife but I know that a very great distance
lies between us and I also know that you will come to meet us all whenever a favourable time presents itself. I shall be happy
to have a letter from your wife and to know her better All the family with their families are well at present and hoping that
Gods blessing will ever rest upon you and your household I am Lovingly Mother 00952 1 Portage Octr. 6th 1880 Dear
John I yesterday received your letter of Septr 27th informing me of your safe arrival home, and well satisfied with your
travels in Alaska which news pleased me very much Last month I mailed a letter for you to Fort Wrangel thinking you would
find it when you returned from the north but I perceive by yours, you did not. When Joanna returned home from Hamilton her
father and Mr Brown accompanied her Your father remained here about six weeks but is now at