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Ans.
July 31/93.

Berkeley Springs

July 16th

My dear Friend

I have
delayed writing on ac-
count of Tely illness.
We went to Baltimore
the last of June to have
some dresses made, Tely
was taken sick just after
our return home. Would
go into one fainting fit
after another, the Dr
said she was on the eve

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miss your sister at this
time. They tell us every-
thing is for the best,
but it is hard to feel
or think so; that so
useful a man as Mr
Stanford should be taken
and so many useless
clods left. I feel sure that
if your dear husband
had been President in
place of Mr Harrison,
the country would not
now be in such final- [sic finan-]