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(2) hold out under all his burdens. You see he has never entirely recovered from the sickness of a year and a half ago,
caused by ptomains poisoning. He has asked me to reply to all his letters of sympathy, so he will not likely write you himself,
but pray do send him a few words occasionally or a magazine with some article of your own, anything to let him see you are
remembering him. Your later letter to me mentioning my going to Kearney came a day or 1 Sept 16 10 Dear brother John
Your letters to brother Danl. and myself were duly rec'd and the loving sympathy you expressed, I am sure, did him good, for
he seemed a little less depressed all the day after reading them. If his case were an ordinary one it would not be quite
so bad, but there is so much that is painful in the past which still casts it shadow over the present, that some times I wonder
if he can 04877 in margin: Mary is still with us and sends love to you all -