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oh I do wish you were down here to go to the
school house to church this evening you must
come down soon I know you are done planting corn
by this time I want to see you so bad give my respect
to Jo when you see him & to Tom My love to Millie
and Bell and share a portion for your one good
self

your Constant

Dear [Sr]
[]ning you as a true Friend
and lover Our acquaintance with one another
has now continued for some space of time during which
an intimacy guided by the nicest sense of propriety has existed
between us, emboldened by this intimacy I now address you
though the subject is one of a painful nature at least to
my feelings as I doubt not it will also prove to yours
therefore forgive me since the warmth of my attachment
has impelled me to write, my own attachment to you has
been most sincere but I have remarked of late and I can
not conquer my desire of saying it that your behavior
toward me has seemed to partake of an unwanted coolness
which nothing I am convinced upon my part could have
given you the slightest caus for showing, I have asked my
self is it likely that another has usurped my in your
affections, and when I have endeavored to call to
mind in what society of ummarried feamales I have seen
you I find there is one object toward whome your affections
are plased if my suspicions are groundless ease my anxiety
by a few brief lines to that effect, they will not fail to reassure
me and convince me that a place in your affections is still
retained by

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