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does much to sustain me I know that I would soon recover if I was at home. I feel more like getting well now than I have for
a long time, say to mother the girls that I am getting better, don't till them any more, Your letter of the 20th Nov? took
twenty days to come As soon as that 75 dollars reaches me I will take the steamer for New Orleans if the doctors there tell
me to go home I suppose I will have to submit I suppose those feaus are the price of my walk I am willing to pay it, I hope
you are all well. Has Dan returned to Mich, Did you receive my plants My money is nearly all spent. I hope to get that package
per Ex illegible Goodbye David My love to all