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are --- and still more our thankfulness
that you were mercifully preserved
through that terrible danger to
come home we trust and pray
to us ---- "Covered with honors" as
you will be when you get these
two [underlined] Crosses!!!

Fond love and blessings
from us all dearest [underlined] one.
Your devoted Mother
R. Helen Bates

When I am excited as I am today
I can write with difficulty &
make many [underlined] slips of the hand
& pen. Lovingly Mother.