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To - ans.

302 Essex St.
Salem Mass.
May 14, 1948

Dear Mother Van Waters,

Well I hope this letter
will find you in the best of
health and happy. as
for myself I can't complain

Hope you aren't over
working yourself again.
as I don't want you to
get sick. after all you are
still my stepmother.

I want to thank you
for everything that you did
for me I'll never forget it
and I don't know how
to pay you back.

Well I will have to
close now as I have to go