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4 4 letters by the Tiernan so one has been lost. 3 came by the Thos. Pope. Mr. Rixford sent me 25 copies each of the Bulletin
for June 20 July 13, containing your letters. I have sent them to your mother and Sisters Sarah, Joanna, Mary and Margaret
and several others. I have sent to mother everything concerning you and the expedition. Saturday, a letter came from sister
Anna. Mother had not heard from you since your farewell letter and I hope they will receive letters from you by the Dora,
for their hearts are sorely troubled. I try to cheer and comfort them all I can. Your mother and sisters have all been good
to me and baby I wrote to them Friday night 01022 1 1881 Sunday, July 24, 1888. O my beloved, my husband, So many
precious messages have come to me at last from the far North-land, that my heart goes singing all the day, and I am thankful,
almost as if I had looked upon your face may, not even almost when I think what it would be to see you now, this moment, but
yet I can be joyful for a little while, until there comes again the thought of icebergs so terrible and pitiless in power;
and the moan and howl of cruel Arctic winds Father in Heaven be merciful and lead safely my beloved through the frozen wilderness,
and out from the shadow of Death I must not think; for the sake of the little child