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The papers of To-day announce your
nearing your "Home again", and you
can be assured it was most welcome
and very gratifying news to all our good
and true citizens to hear of the improved
health of Gov Stanford and yourself.
and God grant that your health both of
you shall steadily improve under our
present most delightful weather.

I can truly realize your own deeply
depresed feelings, as you look around your
home and miss the sister who was so
deeply fixed in your affections, and who
seemed a part of yourself - yet I hear the
words of "Percival" the eminent poet.

"Who says"

"And, her last fond, lingering look, was given
To the loved she leaves, and then to Heaven,
as if she would bear the loved away,
To a purer world, and a brighter day."