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failing health in time for you to see him, had you been sent as you [[underlined]] should have been [[/underlined]].
Your mother will always feel sore about it. Your father was feeling badly until his pain kept him from thinking of it.
   I feel [[underlined]] sure [[/underlined]] christian people cannot keep you from your dear Mother a day.
   I will write for your mother after dinner.  She must eat before she can tell me what to write.
   Your true friend
(Mrs.) Hamilton
PS. I can hardly write, I feel so badly for your dear mother & little children
   E. D. H.
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From your father's aunt.
"All I ask is I want them sent home"
"It is bad enough for me to be left alone in in the world, you are the oldest boy & ought to be here working"
   I want you to come home right away,
   from your
    "Grand Mother"

Your Mother feels too bad to write so your Grand mother has told me to write the above.   Mrs. H.