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1868-09-20 Page 1
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Philadelphia Sept the 20 1868 Dear brother It has ben a longe time since I have hearde from you One more harveste past ande a nother sumer endede passed and gon for ever wee hade a Dry harvest this year potates is goode for this year so is buckwheat the last Chees soulde for 16 cents per pound Cowes are worth 50 dollars with us this fall barley has ben up to 1,75 Down now to 1,25 butter Is worth 40 cents father will have some 5 or 6 hundrede pounds of Hoopes this fall it was very Dry up to the 10 of this monthe wee have hade some rain since that Henry Who be you a going to vote for this fall Grant Or Seymare I supose Thomas has Soulde out and gon to California
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Philadelphia Sept the 20 1868 Dear brother It has ben a longe time since I have hearde from you One more harveste past ande a nother sumer endede passed and gon for ever wee hade a Dry harvest this year potates is goode for this year so is buckwheat the last Chees soulde for 16 cents per pound Cowes are worth 50 dollars with us this fall barley has ben up to 1,75 Down now to 1,25 butter Is worth 40 cents father will have some 5 or 6 hundrede pounds of Hoopes this fall it was very Dry up to the 10 of this monthe wee have hade some rain since that Henry Who be you a going to vote for this fall Grant Or Seymare I supose Thomas has Soulde out and gon to California
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