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perspirations day and night except
at intervales [sic]. I was under the
Doctor's care for a number of years
with some good results but I
am not able to apply any longer
for want of means. I had been
feeling some better until I meet
with a severe Earthly Sorrow
in the sudden death of my dear
and only brothe [sic] who departed
this life last May 17th. I am
left alone and friendless.
I am all alone - all my loved
ones are gone I trust to a better
home. Yet my grief knows
no ending and my fears refuse to
cease No dear voice to ask are
you feeling any better or is [there]
anything I can get to help you. My dear
brothe [sic] had been suffering for some
years with heart and stomach
trouble and this spring was taken

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my father located for a time and
as my father was a Classsic
Scholar their [sic] were not much for
my father to do at that time but
teach a Common School. After
a time my father went into the
lumbering business and it was there that
my dear father meet [sic] his death
by the fall of a tree. It was a sad
blank for my dear Mother far
away on a distant shore from
all her loved ones and was left
with three Children Young in
Years. My dear Mother and
Elder brother has passed from
Earth away many years ago.
My youngest brother was spared
with me for to help me to bear my
loneliness. I have been an invalid
for many years I have suffered
from uterine trouble and pain
on the nerves and perfuse