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them and teaches them good manners by precept and example which is a great satisfaction to me in my declining years for I had some foreboding in regard to the outcome in the start on acct of his age and my own experience in my fathers family with a step mother and 2 kinds of children. But Herberts wife has now two children of her own but in honor and justice to her I must say that I see no difference in her dealing with them and I do not think that the children by his first wife ever has the least complaint to make I have been this partickular in writing well knowing, or judging from line of work of your choice. that you would feel great anxiety for children even of distant relatives that were left motherless at that tender age We send you enclosed a picture of their mother.

T. [[Nabsretar?]]