Febuary the 7 1866 Dear sistr it is with much pleasure I most earn est ly desier to drop you a few lines to inform you of my situation my health is as good as I can hope but as I have past the frost of many wintrs I am feeling the efects from it and I am most hopefull when Thees lines may Come to hand you may be enjoying good health my family is in as good health as usual I have not had no informati on of you for a long time which has caused me many warysom hours it would give me unkown joy if we could but spend a few of
the gonby days We are yet enjoying enjoying the warysom ted of our farm and have many warysom Some steps I have not had no noledg of our friends in kentucky for some time and it seems as our onst hapy home is almost forgot The war it seams has reased but
thare is a numberless host of
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