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confidence so far as to have
learnt of my first great sorrow,
only makes you dearer to me for
I am confident that to no one
else, (unless to one that he could
have esteemed & loved as he did
your own sweet self) would he
have confided my heart's secret:
& think not that I alone of our
home circle, love you! each &
every member have given you a
place in their hearts & petition
daily at the throne of grace
that God's richest blessings may
be your's: A letter from my
eldest brother, a few days since,
gives me the gratifying information
that he has named his only son
Johnie Braxton, whose name
will make him the pet of our