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I hope you will like your new home. I suppose you have all the business you can attend to and when you get tired I hope you
will come here to recruit and rest. I hope Emma and baby will be able to pay us a visit this summer it would give us such
pleasure I hope Joanna will improve so that she will be able to walk out when fine weather comes. we are all in our usual
health, and all unite with me in sending you all much love from you affectionate Mother The same day, Which is Pa s Ma
s St. Patricks Portage City, Wisconsin. My Dear Racinians, It underlined: is so, if that there Postal did? look so bad,
I underlined: did reach home inch of the road illegible illegible any injury (visible at best? ) to either my p illegible
or safety illegible I found all in usual health with the except- tion of John Reid Jn. who was quite sick last week but is
now convalescent. ahem I went illegible illegible the country on Monday to visit my Caledonian friends and was illegible staid,
returning only 3. This letter from Annie is written on p. 3 4 of letter from Mother to Dear Daniel Mar. 17, 1875