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that you sometimes make, that
you will write to your old
friend? or is it that you feel
Ah! well he is married now &
does not need my letters or
care to receive them? The latter
reason I suspect is the true
one, if so, you are mistaken.
There is no time that I would
not take very great pleasure
in reading a letter from
you. The great kindness that
I received at the hands of
your good people is still very
fresh in my memory & your
letter were the only medium
through which I ever heard any
thing of yourself & others.
Since I last wrote I have had
a great deal of happiness not
tho an unbroken chain of it
the rod of chastisement has
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What are you all doing in the way of
planting. I think tho your Mother adopted
the tenant system long ago. If we could only
get a decent State Government we could still
make something of old S.C. but our
State & County officials are a set of
robbers & are trying to take all.
We were very very sorry to hear of the
death of Mrs [Maria?[ & son, twas indeed
very sad. We have not heard of any
of the particulars of their death, only
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