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Hobnny Pl. [?]
September 18th 1861

Dear sis Sue,
I haven’t written home nor heard from home in several days, and I write this evening merely to let you know how I am getting along. But first how is Ma, where is Tip? I am anxious for an answer to both these questions. My health for more than three weeks has been very good until in the last three days. I have had these chills in the last three days. I have taken nothing as yet to treat them, but shall take some quinine this evening to see if I can't stop them. Sam Morrow [?] is still out in the country. I have no