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[[written sideways]] The worst of my case is that I  wrote in my imagination in good season affectionate ^[[insert]] Christmas [[/insert]] letters to Each Beach household especially to my two brothers.but (partly [[?]] to an eye give-out never got them on to paper.
Heaven brings us some day more together
Yours always Abbott H. Thayer [[/written sideways]]
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substantial effect the following year.
and behold you Violet give me will of Mr Will for my own and this delightful bellows is a striving gift to an old-time lover who [[underline]] dotes [[/underline]] on ^[[insert]] wood [[/insert]] fires.
Have you all seen Oliver Hereford's ^[[insert]] new [[/insert]] animal book? It is a really the best thing of the kind.

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