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it. For the sake of variety I may
mention that I dreamed last
night (and not for the first time
for there is scarcely a night passes
but more of my waking as well
as sleepy thoughts are with you
oftener than in the day time) of
receiving some letters from home
with which I was vastly pleased
altho they appeard to have been
written some "centuries" ago.—
I was in a terrible splutter about
answering them, being very much
afraid to send them so far
not knowing under what circumstances
they would find you —
At one time I dreamed they were
opend before reaching their destination
– and at another that
they were cast away — I was
in a peck of trouble, for fear
you would think I was lost
or had ceased to care about
you — and finally concluded
come what would I could
not dare to write at all
and must put you parience