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Wise-Clark family papers, December 1864-February 1865

1865-01-19-Page 03

I have no doubt but you have - would love so much to see you I seldom hear from any my old school mates - after over a years silence. Molly Evans Miller. wrote me - It did me so much good - she keeps track of the old Pa folks pretty well - and always writes sumthing about them. 
She has a boy baby over a year old. Is helping Ike teach and hires some one to take care of baby, says our Smith V is in Ohio paying his dreadful distresses to a young lady there - Recon he's getting pretty near old enough to dry up as he was called a little oldish when I was a little gal. Poor Smith I'd most give a bushel of taters to see him Wonder if he has the "blues" as much as he used too. He always made such a good brother And Newt Biddle preached a sermon in the Presbyterian Church this fall or rather last fall. I did not hear him Mother did

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I have no doubt but you have - would love so much to see you I seldom hear from any my old school mates - after over a years silence. Molly Evans Miller. wrote me - It did me so much good - she keeps track of the old Pa folks pretty well - and always writes sumthing about them. She has a boy baby over a year old. Is helping Ike teach and hires some one to take care of baby, says our Smith V is in Ohio paying his dreadful distresses to a young lady there - Recon he's getting pretty near old enough to dry up as he was called a little oldish when I was a little gal. Poor Smith I'd most give a bushel of taters to see him Wonder if he has the "blues" as much as he used too. He always made such a good brother And Newt Biddle preached a sermon in the Presbyterian Church this fall or rather last fall. I did not hear him Mother did