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Julia Sends
a kiss to you 
and baby 

Eccles.
Friday
Manchester
10th - August 1855.

My dear Mary -

Were I by your side I would give you a thousand kisses for the kind loving letter you sent me - as to my darling Emily - My anxiety was indeed great for her, and I thank you for with a Mother's love for all your kindness to her. She wished to spare Calvert the distress of her suffering though I am sorry she did not send however as all ended well, we will be thankful - from this time my dear girl I shall really feel you are one of my own.  Your tender sympathy for others, and Christian forbearance towards the erring husband of another, makes me doubly love you, my Calvert is a noble minded man, with a loving heart, deeply is it twined round mine, and I thank god daily that he has a loving true minded wife to help and comfort him for all must have trial and anxiety in this varying world, to be seperated from you all is a deep source of grief to me

Yet I cannot divide myself, and those at home in the "father land" have strong claims, were I 40, instead of 62 - the Atlantic would bear me across to see you, as it is 

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