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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania

My dear Mrs Stanford:

Imagine, if you
can, the torn heart and soul
of a woman who has been
laboring for thirty years - yes,
for over thirty years of a
difficult life, to do her
whole duty to those whom
God gave into her keeping,
-imagine, if you can, the
feeling which is engendered
within the woman's mind,
as she reads the enclosed,

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realizing your blessings,
and wondering why it has
been my ill-fortune, to see
everything fail in happy
fruition. If you could
but know how faithfully
my apparent duty has
been done, and how, after
all_ after all, I find but
disappointment staring
me in the face,+_ well,
perhaps you would not
ever wonder that a weary
soul at last yields the
battle, and longs, at last,

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