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I have not answered thy darling letter, but will do better Sunday, I guess. How I do love thee and how "thankful I am Thee is my husband." It is pretty good thee loves me so. Yes, dear, for all I've been so anxious about thee, and this separation is so much harder than I supposed it could be, I never was so happy away from thee, for I am so filled with the blissfulness thy great love brings me. Darling + precious + my dear, dear husband ++++
(2-1-1871) O, my precious-- never so dear, it does seem some nights before I go to sleep, as though we could not bear to be so far apart-- one day longer-- Indeed, we could not if "it was not best. Mary sends love and says "were having a glorious time here, the music that now greets our ears is like that of the "German warrior's welcome home." O my if we ever have any fairies let's not whip them all the time. Thou dear, I must stop, for this noise is a little
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more than I can bear. Thine, Anna.
