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consideration having passed between us. If you made me rich, I feel with you, that you are at least equally rich. I have been
showered upon with good things since I am in my present condition. God in his mercy and love clothes with flowers the scars
that threaten to deface earth and is make. Since writing last, the good wife and dear babe have returned quite unexpectedly.
The old, illegible was improving, and the wife and mother must have felt, that I was waiting for her with open arms. We have
a feast of good feeling everyday, and the materialism of illegible the most delicious bunches of grapes that came to illegible
house this illegible detracts none from the genuiness of happiness. I am a new man since, the illegible weeks. I will see
the day yet when I plant illegible and trail them with rosebushes. The dear wife sends her kind regard end words of appreciation
for your cheer for us. I enclose one half of the letter that babe wrote to me from the land where the pines grow. With best
wishes for you and your home sincerely yours illegible