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Gowanda Feb. 1st 1869
Sojourner Truth my dear
Friend
with Pleasure
I remember the good & well
com [sic] visit that thee
made us last fall &
thy good me^e^tings that I
attended. these long evenings
I think on how I wish
Sojourner was here ^with her^ insp
iring [sic] talk & good songs oh
how it would cheer me
when I have not been
out much my health
has been so poor.
when I read Amy Posts goo
d letter in the standard
I would have written then
but for ill health but
am gaining now
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George Taylor & Wife
were here at Chrysmus [sic]
& I inquired if he knew
whare [sic] thee was he thou
ght at Battle Creek
but the next Papper [sic] I
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received
informed me Anne Taylor
was well att [sic] Chrysmus [sic] I
enjoyed her self [sic] well wee [sic]
had a pleasant time I
had all my Children & gra
nd Children [sic] come home
as wee [sic] have been in the
habet [sic] of for more than
twenty years I may not
live to meet them a not
her year let Gods will be
done yet I shall try to live
as long as I can that
I think is every ones [sic] Duty
I was glad to hear of thy
visit to gerrit Smiths
I have menny [sic] years thought
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that he was a verry [sic]
venerable man I never
saw him but I have read
of his menny [sic] & menny [sic] good
Deeds and theirs outh
ers [sic] too this wourld [sic] of
People dont seem to know
the Richness & Beauty of
John g Whittiers writi
ings [sic] not in full. I wish
I could see his Barefoot Boy
my will is good to write more
but my writing is so bad
my Husband is well as
usual & our Children & our
neighbors that thee saw
they speak of thee whith [sic]
Pleasure with much
love Lydia Allen
Gowanda
NY
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I was glad to hear that
thee had left smokng
now thee is not a slave
to the flithy weed thee
has been Freed twice
from slavery
oh that our yong [sic] People
would do the Same
Lydia Allen
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Please write soon