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Orange. Orange. Co. Texas. May 8th. 1871

Miss Kate McFarland
Esteemed Friend
Your most
kind and welcome letter of the twenty eighth of april
came to hand yesterday. and I assure you that it is
a great pleasure to me to read letters from you. as I
had been some two or three weeks since I had written
to you and was so long getting an answer I thought
perhaps my letter had been misplaced by some means or
other. but from what you say I guess it was secured in
due time. So as they tease you I will make a fair bargain
with you if you will grant me the privalege{sic] of receiving
a letter from you every three weeks I will be satisfied
dont you think that is fair enough. you ought to do and
do not be teased by them you bet they dont make anything
off of me. you can show them my letters if you choose and then
let them see if they can find anything to tease you about of[sic]
they can it is more than I can do. I am very glad indeed
to hear that that medicine is doing your Mas[sic] cough so
much good it is a good medicine there is no mistake about that
. So the long looked for wedding has come off at last I did not
think that Mrs. Ed. W. would marry so soon from what I heard
when I was up there. I heard that the old Folks did not like
the match very well. Though I guess they will have to make the