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Survey Office
                           [?]
                                       April 20th 1863

My dear Father
I am it appears just in time to write you a few lines by this mail and but I could not allow this opportunity to pass without doing so.  I hear through Robert that you are much better which I can assume you release my mind Very much for I have been Very anxious about you. It is now some time

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