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Stawell House, Richmond July 19 [1876]
My dear Brother,
It was indeed a great gratification to me to secure your affectionate letter of the 9th May. Altho' the news contained in it was not what I could have anticipated! Both Elizabeth & Isabella have undergone sad & bitter trials, but let me hope that all cause for anxiety has long been departed from among you and that hence the [indecipherable] has shed its healing influences over the hearts that have been so sorely afflicted! I cannot understand this outbreak of fever in our once healthy climate and especially at so great a distance from any over-peopled locality. The virulent nature of this feavor in England is attributed almost entirely to the [indecipherable]
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