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Medford June 9th / 55
My dear Kate
I have been thinking / for a long time I must write you / letter, or I should not get another / from you, for I find you do not / like writing two, to my one, I am / now staying for a few days, at your / Aunt [Hats] _ who has got a little / bright eyed, black haired cousin to / introduce you to, when you come / here again. Aunt Jane is getting / ready for a visit to N.Y. She was / expecting to see you there, but a / letter from Florry tells us you have / not made them a visit yet, and / she now thinks it uncertain / about your doing so, I suppose / your Aunties think it best, that
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You should [^ not] be running about much / this cold weather, and no doubt / they are perfectly right. I hope / your grandpa is not sick, I have / been expecting a letter from him / for some time, and begin to think / he must be sick, or I should / have heard from him before this / Give my love to him, my dear / child, and tell him he must / not forget Mama. Willie is / well, and happy, he has a pair / of long boots as he calls them, / and a large warm coat I have / made him, in which he [?-fies] / all sorts of weather, Frank has / been a little sick for a week past / but he neither loses his appetite / or his spirits, so I expect he / will soon be himself again, /
I hope to hear from you / very soon my dear Kate, be
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A good girl, and try to make / those around you happy
From your affectionate mother
S. IrvingTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
