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Dear Amy Abby handed me her paper to add to Sarah B. and I that I would direct the same to thy care as we have not heard where they are located for [months] but suppose at [Sophie's] ^.^ I think of thee and thine very often and as is the wont of the aged I ran over and over the same old tracks ^.^ I have lately had a letter from my grandson T W Collins who has gone to [Tenn] ^and^ taken a farm on the table land of the Cumberland mountains 60 miles in circumference ^.^ his farm contains 200 acres (or more) and there is a fine stream or river running thru his land capable of being used for mill purposes ^.^ my busy brain has been at work on a project for [Willy] Post to go there and set up a saw mill as he did at Colorado. There is good timber there of all the different varieties ^.^ His cleared land is only 20 or 30 acres ^.^ He find the cattle can be sustained on the wild grass and the hogs on the []