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I hope to live to see better days and
less corruption and once more a happy and united
country I thank you for the kind offer to secure
for me some female correspondance [correspondence], although I doubt
your eficacy [efficacy] to do as they would say let him write
first and I would not have thought presumptous [presumptuous] to do
so much as I should like an occasional letter
from some one there to give variety to dvert [divert] myself
when I get leasure [leisure] to do so but who is Clara Allen
is it she who was Clorinda or not I must close
for the bugle will soon sound the watering call and
then I shal [shall] be employed intill [until] night I have
a bad horse to manage The Capt [Captain] gave me a new
one to break yesterday and took one I had well broken
but close is the word Write soon and after and
believe me ever truly and devotedly
Yours

Osborn Ayer

Sweet as before