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do it any farther than to say that I
am to be connected with the Eastern Land gran
Road in some capacity. In all my operations
here I have endeavored to arrange it
so that I might be returned to Wisconsin
if not immediately at least in a short
time. I want to speak again of your
friendly treatment of me - but I am conscious
of the hollowness of words and how
inadequate they are some times to give
satisfactory expression to the real feelings
I trust that you will accept in the
same confidence in their genuineness with
which you have always received me into
your family - my acknowledgments of you
very many kind attentions and my high
appreciation of the disinterested and unremitted
civilities I have always experienced
in my acquaintance with you and with
every individual member of your family -
I hope that the first time any of you go
east you will grant my Mother the privi