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My dear children I must say a few words to you.
You are constantly my daily and hourley [hourly] thoughts.
I have so often wrote to you to be good and Kind
to each other that it seems unnecessary for me
to repeat the request -- I hope you will bear in mind
your fathers [father's] anxiety for your wellfare [welfare] and hapiness [happiness]
and rest assured that my anxiety to see you is
as great as yours possibly can be to see me. I hope
you are comfortable and well -- little did I once think
I should ever during my life be seperated [separated] from you
so long -- but when I return to my darling family
and home it seems now as though I should never
be induced to leave you again. I wish you to stay
home from school when the weather is cold and
stormy and be quiet and learn all you can -- you
must have good comfortable warm clothes and light
shoes -- I often think morning noon and evening
about what you are a doing (making the allowance
of the differance [difference] of time) being about two hours later
than at home. I have been so long in this warm
climate that I am afraid the cold wind and severe
frost of Ill [Illinois] would be dangerous to my health should
I return during the depth of winter but I shall
start in time to reach home early in the spring
about all the ice and snow I have seen sure since I left home
was in the summer on the top of the mountains.

My dear family I must bid you adieu again hope-
ing [hoping] the time is near when I shall embrace you at home

Your affectionate husband

R J Boylan

To my Dear
Margaret