3 will you please send me Miss Merrill's address I have not heard from her since her visit to Lone Rock She wrote Cash and
I did not know where to write to I did not receive your letter till lately, it having lain in the office during vacation.
You can hardly conceive how much I longed to hear of your welfare I would not have written you again but I was about to start
for Pr du Chin to investigate the matter I thought that if Mrs Peltons friendship was of that character spoken of by Burns
as being to frail to bear transportation I should sadly? have confidence in that of anybodys I have found that the beaten
path of friendship is not worth walking upon in many cases. I trust that your letters will not be separated? by such fashionable
distances while your health is not very good, one or two lives just to inform me of your health is all I shall claim Give
my best wishes to your father and mother May God bless you in all things. Goodbye J Muir