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Sept.26,1864.

We shall not sorrow as those who have no hope; we shall endeavor to live as you lived, that we may rejoin you whenever it shall please God to call us, too, away; one after another we shall leave this world, where we have not found the happiness which we all hoped for, until, at last, we shall (please God!) be reunited in Heaven to part no more for ever; from whence we may look down upon the sins and the sorrows which we had committed and suffered in this world, and see them all covered over and redeemed by the forgining love of God, as a rainbow gilds a tempest. 

But I pray God that you may be spared, in health and happiness, until at least I can see you once more in the flesh.
 
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Johnny was delighted with your letter, and is very proud of it. He read it himself, and read it to Emily and Minnie who were astonished that a letter should have come all the way from America,- a distance which to their little minds appears something not possible to one of them. Emily has already begun a letter to you; but she writes slowly, and it takes time for her to accomplish such a feat in penmanship. How many sheets blotted, how many fingers stained with ink, how much hard thinking, how many mistakes to be corrected, before the letter will be presentable,- I leave to your recollections of the childhood of your children to guess. In about amonth, perhaps, you may get it.

Minnie is making progress slowly towards recovery, I hope. What is the matter with her, precisely, I cannot say. There happens to be in the same Boarding-house where we now are staying (above Veyvey, looking down upon the lake of Geneva,) a very celebrated physician, one of the most celebrated professors of Germany - Professor Wunderlich:- he thinks she has a chronic imflamation of a part of the left lung, of which she is recovering. The physicians