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12 for nearly a month, and we have not received our accumulated mail since leaving the Peninsular, and I am beginning to think we never will get them. But I dont feel in a writing mood at all and so I will stop. I am elegant in health and spirits. Love to Pa and Ava [[Ann ?]] Loving Son Sam [[note in different/changed handwriting]] Bob McKim and his wife have had a settlement and are going to live together. He has resigned his commission in the army and is going to Balto. [[/note in different handwriting]]
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not on the bottom is a different handwriting