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Thursday Jul 1

My own dearest Edward,

We are all wondering how you
are as no letter has come
since Thursday _ the one written
at U.S. Grant the night you
arrived –

It was a fine[underlined] letter & did
us all a lot of good & so did
your telegram — Effie too
wrote me a fine letter saying
how glad they were that
you had stopped off & how much
they had enjoyed seeing