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your kindness & liberality in the hour of need to my lamented niece & from whom you [illegible] for her, it is a comfort to me & my family to know that her [illegible] will in you continue to find kind friends.

In behalf of my poor afflicted sister Mrs Cooper I beg leave to offer my best thanks & respects to you & Mrs Baird & to that noble bond of friends who in that trying hour come forward to the assistance and relief of my niece Mrs Beall

Believe me very seriously [illegible]
Sarah A. Baker