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Indanapolis, Ind, April 10th 1870 Dear Mr Muir Merrill illegible a drama called the Hoosier? Days. Lacey Hough is dead,
he died of the Scarlet illegible on the 24th of March at San Francisco Cal. Ha illegible you seen uncle Hough yet? We wish
that you would come here. because we want to see you very bad. Why don't you send that lamb? One time our horse bit me so
that I could not move? . it until about ten minutes. One time at school Miss King told her* that I could not write so very
well because I had only been there four weeks when I had been there illegible Some of the boys had such funny names such as
Wooddy Do illegible and Sig? Horsigh . I have not any more to say so I will not say anything more