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Savannah 6^th February
1867

My Own Dearest Mother,

On Wednesday
I had the happiness to receive both
your dear affectionate &welcome letters
Thank God your [threa?d] illness passed
off - Oh Mother I entreat you to take better
care of your [invaluable?] health - for the
sake of your large family if not for your
own [?] entreat you take care
of your dear self - I feel very anxious
aboaut my beloved Butler - he is so very
[inexpresably?] dear to me I shall react
with much anxiety tomorrows mail
to hear how he [?] dear Floyd are -
How my heart stood still when I
read of his being so much [hurt?] Oh I
pray that I may hear tomorrow that you
were all well & as happy as my beloved
Fathers visits always make you- how
I wish that I too could have been at [home?]