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your apple candy was exceedingly nice as usual. it came late last week thank you.

Letters & express packages are very late these times on account of the war. it looks now as if our war with Germany would soon be over & the radio said that after it was over that Russia would wage war against Japan. they were sure of it. from a person who knows & is kept in touch with the doings of the day. I fail to know what we should have been if it hadn't been for Russian aid. it makes my blood run cold to read the papers about so much bloodshed. what must it be to witness it? I have lived to see three such but none as cruel as this. I lost three cousins in the Civil War. 

Now I am very thankful for all your generosity & hope you live to be blessed when you are old. With love 
Mrs. Lucy Holmes.