Jan
	Comer the 11th 1863

			Dear Uncle and aunt
& Cousins after So long a time I will try
to write a few lines to you to let you
Know that we are al wel hoping these
few lines wil find you engoying the Same
blessing I went to mr Strattons last Spring
and have ben living there ever since
but Hellen wants that I Should work
for her next summer I came home [crossed out] [shr]
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christmas to mke a vis^t I have ben to
Cambria the whooping cough ben around there
but the people are Jenerly wel at present
Cyrus Beache,s wife has fits she has had
them for 2 [crossed out letter] years they have [crossed out letter] ben
Building there house al over they have
got a kitchen & stoop on [crossed out letter] back each of their 
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girls for a newy^ars present got a Set [crossed out letter] of 
fur,s there have ben a great many deaths
among childern with dipthrea Johns . Edy had
it and herbert is [crossed out] [go] growing deformed So
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that his back is quite c^oocked I have heard
that you got hurt last summer & that
agness had to weave & I would like to be
there & help her I want you should
write to me al the particulars how you

got hurt I thought that I would
not write to you until i Could send
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my likeness & I have got it at ^ through
the summer I was so poor in flesh and
health but i am now [crossed out letter] quite wel & i have
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got the lik^ess for you i want you to
[crossed out letter] Direct to the lake [Reade?] as i am going
back
^ to mr Strattons    mary & James have ben here
to day they had their [crossed out] [th] little [Cora?] with
them she is smart & spunky enough
to mr Barber,s family quite wel at present
he cut his foot 3 years ago and it has
troubled him very much since that time
and two years [crossed out letter] ago this winter he had
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a part of it taken of tel agnes th^odore
is alive   & wel and keeps the post office
and grocry yet how does the war
affect you i have worried about it a
great deal but it does [crossed out letter] no good as i Se
but when I See the youth enlisting
and going to the war perhaps [crossed out] [nev]
never to return it makes me feel
bad a great many have gone from
these parts if i had no mother i
would [crossed out] [com] go to [crossed out] [yor] your place and [crossed out] [ler]
learn to weave with Ag but i am
very glad that I stil have one Ellen
Rockwood has [crossed out] [h l] ben with mother 

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about four months She was Sc^k, and
Could not work and as She would
not live at home here She is now
quite Smarte and wil Soon be able
to work again [son?] I want to write
as son as you get this and let
me know as i [crossed out letter] [S] shal fel ancious to hear
I do not think of anything more So
I wl bring myletter to a close
    my love to each one of you I
           cal my Self your frend  &  neice
			C J Reynolds
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			Charlote Spindley
		      wants
Mother say that She ^ you and [illegible]
to Come and make us a visit
     and I also say the same but
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     I wa^t to se you al tel [E?] when
         She gets large to come and se us