From Ardis in Wisconsin, September 16, 1866 page 1

Rural, Waupaca Co. Wis, Sept 16th, 66

My Dear Nell,

Your letter received so long
ago should have been answered ere this, but
my time has been so ocupied with other
things that I have hardly had time
to write however if you had remained in
Norway It would have been ans at once.

I havent forgotten you though in
all this time for often very often have I
thought of my dear friend Nell and wonderd
how she enjoyed her long voyage over the
Sea. did you Nell ever think of the many
warm hearted friends you left behind you
of the one all alone in the West? Methinks
you spent many hours thinking of absent
friends those you had parted with and
the one you were so soon to meet. Am I not right

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