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[?] Augs. 1st 38

Dear Uncle Turner.

I waited with much
patience, & great anxiety to hear from you--
but to no avail. Uncle Turner, do I deser-
ve such treatment? >If I'm guilty
of any crime whatever, I am unconscious
of it, unless its for my not writing oftener last
year--but thought I had atoned for that
I wrote you a long letter about [5th?] April
which I endeavored to make as interesting
as possible. I fear it was not from your not
answering it. I think I have not been
negligent in writing to my relations. But
have not exactly, come up to my promise.
I reccollect perfectly well that I promised
to write you every two months. But learning
that I could not write an intersting letter
every two mos (when I had so many to write)
I defered writing many times which I
shoyuld not have done had it have been oth-
erwise. I onlly have to say that crops
generally very good. both corn and Cotton.
I saw Nathaniel Drake last week
heard from all of my old No. Ca. acquai-
ntances. James Hunter, is getting on pretty