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great desire to have a visit from me this
spring, that I have concluded to go, & effect
to set out the last of this week or first of next
to spend a few weeks with her. They were
all well when she wrote, 30th [?], except colds
though Scarlet fever & diptheria prevail in
that region - I transcribe for your amusement
an extract from a recent letter from A.

"Ag lost her Bantam chicken the other day -
it was quite an affliction to her - as she was very
fond of it - the funeral was indefinitely postponed
on acct of the weather & an hour or so after she
found she was dead, I came into the dining
room & found her writing a letter to the departed
some of it was rather queer - so I thought it might
amuse you to see it - so here it is -

"Dear little Miss Thumb - Oh how I do miss you
are your feet frozen, or did you freese in the hen
house last night? What a fool I am to hold you
so much, don't you think so? - Father put you
on the shelf in the work room an hour ago - you
are dead & gone to the Lord's [thro?] - I thought you
might get better yesterday - I hope you get your
chicken feed in heaven & lay an egg every day &
send it down to me in a basket, for I wish it.
I will tell you how to send it - go through the
hog house first - then through the hay stack & then you
are here - say your prayers every night, & dont get
in a fight, but hold your head up tight - So
little darling good night, for ever & for ever amen"
from your aff mistress Agatha Minturn"

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Ferrisburgh 4th Mo 3rd 1864

Dear Cousin Rachel

We do indeed rejoice
with you in the deliverance of your dear
son & brother from his protracted & horri-
ble imprisonment. We shall be glad to
hear the particulars of his hospittable enter-
tainment by the generous chivalry of the
[Sunny?] South. His story must be a pain-
fully interesting one. When you are
favored with it, I shall expect as copious
extracts, as they time & the [privacies?] of domes-
tic correspondence will permit. I was
glad, as we always are, to hear of the
health & prosperity of the other members of
thy dear family & hope they may long con-
tinue to be a blessing to thee & to humanity.
I suppose you are now in the midst of
your Sugar harvest & hope you may have
an abundant one. If convenient, I shall
be glad to have cousin Thomas make us

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This letter was directed
to [H?] Co [KY?]
but A. thinks
there is no such County in that Coffeebean
State. Sister & the boys join with me in love
to all. thy aff cousin Robt T. Robinson