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01209 Indianapolis March 20th 1887 2323 N. Ala. St. My dear friends My Janet has written me of the delightful visit.
She has been having with you. in your own home seeing you your dear children. talking with you and eating at your table. You
may well believe if I could envy my dear child anything it would be this visit to you. But I would not wish my self in her
place - only with that I could be there with her. see talk with you both know love you all over again. How hungry we do get
for our friends Sometimes I feel a faintness - an emptiness for those I love who are far from me. in margin: Miss Eliza
Henricks? often asks after you very kindly 01259 2 But Janet's seeing you and being in your home. makes me feel almost
as if I were there, I am sure that some one whom I shall see before a great while - has seen you and will tell me much that
I want to know about you and yours. And I am happy in it. I wish I were so that I could leave my boys. come out for a few
months - settle down near you pick up the threads weave all together once more. Thus had I some the last two or three summers
with my dear friends at Peekskill. I have seen their faces, sat about their board, heard their talk renewed the sweet friendship
of early years - and now upon earth. I shall see his face