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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