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Richmond
July 15th
My dear William,

The time is stealing along for the arrival of another mail and we are beginning to look anxiously for letters from you, which I hope and [indecipherable] may bring good tidings of all at Camden.  I need not say how much my thoughts here are with you in this great & overwhelming sorrow! To me it appears while like a troubled dream & I can scarcely yet realize the fact, that our dear Brother is no longer a dweller upon earth.  My dear Emily [indecipherable] & yourself, & Elizabeth, who must all & each have daily, hourly, some fresh cause however trifling to [indecipherable] of this sad certainty, the trials occasioned by his loss must indeed be hourly felt!  I can only hope & pray, dear William, that time may soften 
 

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