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acquainted with your part of the mountains. I am sorry to bother you to write, but you can make it short. I am getting better,
tho my face? is still half dead an one side and my right eye will never work for more than an hour or two at a time. Remember
me very cordially to Mrs. Muir and the young ladies. My wife wishes me to add that she is still hoping to see Mrs. Muir here.
I pledge myself to see that you are not ambushed and forced to make a speech, if you come. Yours faithfully, Melville
B Anderson