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Alice- (I call her that) send love, + Buddy + all send their love to you
Lexington, Aug. 13th, 1853
You percieve, my dearest Mary, that I have
not yet forgot the way to this place, tho you are not
here, and I miss you oh! so much. I came up yesterday
to see something about our arrangement for going
to the Springs. The probability is we will all go down
to the Healing Springs next week.