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Bleakwood Texas
June 29, 1871

Mr. R. E. Russell,

Kind Friend.
I received your
kind and very interesting letter of the 25th
which was a pleasure to me [illegible] and I assure
you my feelings are ^not in a very good writting [writing]
mood this evening. and know^ing how you dislike
dull letters, it will be quite difficult task to
write an interesting one with out news. I can
very well see what kind of a letter I wrote
the last time by you asking me so repeatedly
to give the news, now I have undertaken to
give it you and where it will come from for
I am very sure I can't tell. I suppose I will
have to write of Storms and Sunshine, the