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421 00881 Tuesday morning Jan. 27, 1880. Dear John, A glad Welcome Home to you though I have but few minutes in which
to say it, and you are not yet in clear sight but it is the best I can do. Only just now, looking over a stray copy of Sundays
Call, I found your name in the Oregon s passenger list, but there was nothing of it in the Bulletin. Mother is still too sick
for father to leave her, so we can not go to meet