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My dear friend (Amy Kirby Post),

Today[sic] is my birthday. 75 years have “come and gone.” I am in good health and very tolerable spirits. I have been reading over Phebe’s old letters to ETJ. How thankful I feel that she has a new and beautiful home now – her work done on Earth – her work of suffering for she always was a physical sufferer. I enjoy thinking of her and fancy she’s often near me. I make thy cheering visit at Leaks[?] in N.Y. How lasting the effect of such an occasion. Thy letter too, so precious that I hardly could realize that I was once more so placed in “rapport” my dear [illegible] Amy. I was joyous and so full that I was induced to transcribe a page or two for Dorcas[?] – as I was filling a sheet for her and shored funds to same, wishing for more of the same kind. She still writes favorably of her health and has a cabin in new country still. H. and Thorne[?] have builded it and tho’ rough yet it is builded and plaster’d so as to be warm in their short winter and we hope unto[?] excludes the heat in the summer. The mercury has only been 1 day below zero with them and that only for a few hours. I have cheering hopes for them and have been heretofore on the occasion of my children attempting to secure any new enterprise[?].