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I send you tonight 25 per Am' Ex'. I am sorry Dan that I could not send it sooner, but what with giving lending I was poor,
when you wrote I am getting along pretty well, I have a good room and a tip bed and have framed my pictures - I am on pretty
good terms with Osgood Smith I spent Christmas in putting up a lime shaft in the new brick shop. Prof Butler paid me a visit
last Saturday and I spent a very happy evening with him etc Merril's I sent a book to Henry I hope Dany with all my heart
that this will be a happy year with you and be full of pros- parity satisfaction in the pursuit of your plans We do not know
what of trouble illegible of joy is to be given us, but surely it is the part of a wise man to nerve himself for either. May
our beneficent heavenly Father bless you dear brother and make this New Year all your other years abound in all that is manly
good Most cordially John