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Mary sent me my ___ [?] by Laura. ____ [?] is ready and waiting to go. Ms. Montgomery nailed up the box so tight she couldn't get it in. By the way, did you get the box? We are quite anxious to know. Line left yesterday. I think Mr. M. is calculating to remain in Randolph another year. Line said she would probably not get home again before next Spring. Bro. J. hasn't come up yet from our poor dear sister. She gets no better. Mrs. Hill wrote me she had just torn up the last dress[?] she had when the things I sent her last week got there. If I hadn't sent them just then she would not have had a dress [?] to put on.
A letter from ___ __ [?] informs us of the death of Aunt Mary. She died 22nd Oct in the full assurance of a home in that house not made with hands. She left an infant named Hugh Brown 4 months old. Lea [?] is in the army.