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am thankful. Please write as soon as this reaches you. Give my love to Louie and Wanda and Helen. I hope the girls will write
to us as soon as they have time, I am always glad to see their letters to our girls. With much love Joanna M. Brown
Port Norfolk Va. Dear brother John: Margaret wrote me, two weeks, or more ago, that Louie was very seriously ill, and
how you and the girls had been called home from Arizona. Since then we have heard nothing, but as no news is usually interpreted
to mean good news, we are