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Correspondence to Albert Miller from family and friends, Boone County, Iowa, 1876-1916
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I. L. KEPHART, A. M., ACTUARY U. B. Mutual Aid Society of Pa., AND EDITOR "MUTUAL AID JOURNAL." Lebanon, Pa., Sept. 4, 1880. Mr. Albert Miller, My Dear Sir, At last my heart is made to rejoice and my tongue to sing for joy by receiving a letter from you. If I did not write to you last, I surely thought I had, so you must excuse me by taking the will for the deed. So you are married and have a baby or rather your wife has - pardon the mistake, and you think it just the tastiest, sweetest, prittiest, little baby in all this world, of course you do and I think you should, for you were a long time getting one. Success to the daughter and the wife. Please introduce us all to both of them and give them a big stove-pipe hat full of our warmest love. I just wish I could peep in at your window some morning and see you nursing that baby while its mother is preparing breakfast. Wouldn't that be a sight. It seems to me that it is pretty well on in life for a man to begin to learn to nurse babies when he is almost forty years old. Don't it go a little awkward? You know, they say it is hard to
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I. L. KEPHART, A. M., ACTUARY U. B. Mutual Aid Society of Pa., AND EDITOR "MUTUAL AID JOURNAL." Lebanon, Pa., Sept. 4, 1880. Mr. Albert Miller, My Dear Sir, At last my heart is made to rejoice and my tongue to sing for joy by receiving a letter from you. If I did not write to you last, I surely thought I had, so you must excuse me by taking the will for the deed. So you are married and have a baby or rather your wife has - pardon the mistake, and you think it just the tastiest, sweetest, prittiest, little baby in all this world, of course you do and I think you should, for you were a long time getting one. Success to the daughter and the wife. Please introduce us all to both of them and give them a big stove-pipe hat full of our warmest love. I just wish I could peep in at your window some morning and see you nursing that baby while its mother is preparing breakfast. Wouldn't that be a sight. It seems to me that it is pretty well on in life for a man to begin to learn to nurse babies when he is almost forty years old. Don't it go a little awkward? You know, they say it is hard to
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