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Barney, Phebe M ?. Letter to Esther ? Titus.

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   My lov'd Aunt E.
 
   My lov'd Aunt E.
 
                               Thy welcome came in due time and I hasten to say a few words, for it will not be <u>answered</u>.
 
                               Thy welcome came in due time and I hasten to say a few words, for it will not be <u>answered</u>.
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    I have often wish'd Aunt Esther would write and when I rec'd nothing would think to write to her __. but it has got to be quite a task for me to get a letter writing, therefore an easy matter for me to see the little thief Procrastination running off with my treasure __ <u>time</u> __ and the summer has passed without one word from Esther <u>.</u> had I written should have directed to Amy Post: yes she <u>is</u> a nice little woman, am glad to have made her acquaintance; [sis?]
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      My haste now is to spend the afternoon with an invalid friend who has been lying at deaths door for two weeks; first Dysentery then a complication of diseases _ his name is [? Syman?] Howe _ a [medium?] and I believe

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                          Brant Sept. 15th, 63
  My lov'd Aunt E.
                              Thy welcome came in due time and I hasten to say a few words, for it will not be answered.
    I have often wish'd Aunt Esther would write and when I rec'd nothing would think to write to her __. but it has got to be quite a task for me to get a letter writing, therefore an easy matter for me to see the little thief Procrastination running off with my treasure __ time __ and the summer has passed without one word from Esther . had I written should have directed to Amy Post: yes she is a nice little woman, am glad to have made her acquaintance; [sis?]
     My haste now is to spend the afternoon with an invalid friend who has been lying at deaths door for two weeks; first Dysentery then a complication of diseases _ his name is [? Syman?] Howe _ a [medium?] and I believe