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[[strikethrough]] farst [[//strikethrough]] farmers will shrink from taking a family needing so much clothing, fuel so immediately before their services will be of any avail, and especially as the fall crops will be gathered and the labor will not be of [[strikethrough]] half the importance as it is now. However, I may seem to be intruding advice. After so long delay and numerous perplexations I begin to feel as affairs are getting so confused and complicated, it will be too muddy a muddle for one to stand and in a few weeks more direct my labors and sympathies to some other field.
Very truly yours 
O. S. St. John

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Brooklyn Aug. 24 '65
Rev. St. John