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April the 27 [1863]
Deare husban
i now seate my self to write
you a few lines inn ancer to
yourse witch i receivd last
night i wase glad to heare frome
you i wose agiting veary uneasy
a bout you i hadent heard
frome you in solonge i am sorey
you hant never got my leters
i rote your fore if it gose
as hard with you as it dose with
to miss giting a letter
me i am sorow fore you i back
my leters just as you rote
fore me to do i am veary sory
you are a giting so fare frome
home but i hoap youre next
march will bee back this way
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i wil now tell you off
our miss fortion the
Caverly hase takend lius from
from me larke can tell you
all a bout it you spoke
off old Jacke hale giting to
you i receone you wose glad
to see the old devel he is
the wone that reported lius
op Aandrs heard hime do it
so [pase?] hime as a un notiss
doge an just let him a lone
mabia this ware wonte last
all waye so bee contted with
hour condition i will do all
i cann to make a litle corne
i bought 10 bushels of corne at 3
dollers per bushel
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pap iss moved he moved be fore
tha taken lius off
he is sorow he went an left me
i dont no what of a out i will
make without some gid Doctr
matthews said he woll do all
he could to helpe me but
understand he wants a faivor
he wants your s[t]ill to s[t]ill
fuite so if you or larke cant
bee at hom maby it wolld
bee the best to lete him it
i hope you will bee at home
befre that time but i want
you to git off on good turmes
so mabay you can gite to
stay at home inn some
pease
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i have gote too boys hyrd
i will do the best i can with
them i will hafto to go
with them if i git much wor
ke out of them you may guess
i am not able to do hard
worke Jane [Hail?] iss a stay
ing with me a gaine i had
to hire some won to mind
my babe while i am out
i am hapy to thinke you
didant take no hand in
stealing lete that bee
the last thing you do
my Deare, the lorde will not
Justifie no such worke
so put your truste in him
that is able to save you