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                    <text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span font-size="medium"&gt;Botetourt Contey Va Dear sur I have taken this opper tunity to right to let you now that we ar all well at presant and I hope that thes few lines [my?] find you in the same helth and we wont to now when you have any idy [idea] of comen home but you musen cme excepet to gow home with my girls for you cannot and get in tentey slep of ay of them befor you think of them for tha ar as wile as any of the squirls and by groney the girls cant go to no boddey hoses hous with out puttint so mutch while lead on thear fases that tha can not see out of thar eyes and tha run up stars like hell but i [don?] care people of that fore I ame in the [mele?] chest every day i want to let you now that some of the girls says that if you get any study that you will stand still and not move a lot o i have sumtin to tel you that on ester that the girls come hea and tha cant supe becose tha ar lases sow tite [can’t sup because their laces are so tight] that is the cose of it i have gon to see all the girls that a [lout] hear i have noten mor at present forwell deer girls farewell farewell i neen shall love another in peace and comfort you may dwell and ill go home to mother. JS tel [miss Jane] that mother wol like to see her at hme if you ples may the 31 the 1844 John Josepph Trevey&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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