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Marysville Aug [August] 12 1863

My Dear Sister

I have recieved [received] no reply
to my last letter to you but I suppose
the cares of your large family take
up most of your time. Six Such as
you have are not to found in the Streets.
I should Say mine are Some Punkins
as they Say in the South if I may
Judge by their Daguerotypes [daguerreotypes]. Sara sent
me to [two] of them one of Sallie & herself & one
of Sallie & Lizzie the Last is a capital
picture Lizzie looks very much as she
used to & Sallie although altered still
has the Same expression all my friends
think that they are remarkably pretty girls
& are phrenologically disposed. Thought that
Sallie had a very fine head. I think
that Lizzie looks like you & there is also
a resemblance to her mother also.

Sara's Picture is not a good one Sallie
is taken with her & does not look like the
Same child, I do not think Sara looks
a day older than when I saw her last.
The great objection to dagerotypes [daguerreotypes] is that
they do not give the expression which is
the chief Bauty [Beauty] in an intelligent face.
Did the Idea never Strike you that I have
no likeness of you nor Aunt Rachel Murray
nor any of the children as there is no
probability that I mite [might] visit the Atlantic States