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in margin: of letter to Dear Daniel from your mother)? 4 Dear Brother Who ir ee comin on, and ire e weel I am brim full
of astonishment at the silence which has followed my visit and begin to think that it must be I did not make a good impresssion.
Why does Emma never write to me. I have wait ed and waited for an answer to my letter but it has never come. I trust however
that ere long we shall have something more satisfactory than even a letter I wish you could all make us a visit before the
Fall has passed away. I return the pat illegible which Emma lent me and am much obliged. I would has sent them sooner but
feared she was not at home. My love to all. Joanna. Joanna G (Muir) Brown in margin: 47 1 1874 Portage Augt. 10
Dear Daniel I wrote you a few lines on your birth day and have not had an answer but believing that a multiplicity? of business
and many worldly cares have engrossed all of your time I again write you I hope you and your family are enjoying good health
has Emma returned from her visit The weather here has been excessively hot, so hot as to have injured the wheat crop considerably
around here. All of your friends around here are in their usual health before illegible Sarah with her