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Cedar Keys Jan 7th 68 Dear Brother Dan I should have written to you long ago, but what with the ex- citement inconvencies
of travel my long sickness of two months. I have been hindered from writing almost all together I mean to start for Cuba in
two days, if well enough will proceed to S.' America. I am not very well yet. I was kept down with coast fever illegible .
I hope I may be able to complete my journey I had a very happy ramble through the south have many a story to tell you when
we illegible meet. I suppose you are now quite strong and are making as many chips as anybody. I hope you will be successful
in establish- ing yourself in Mich in becoming rich enough to marry if not to travel, I wish you were with me, I am sometimes
lonely but I dispel my sore thoughts with the hope of seeing the snow capped Andes the flowers of the equator.