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May 30 1864
Kings Ferry bay Co NY
Dear Amy, Thine came duly and as usual was very welcome It found
me in a state of health, not as well as I could wish but in no particular pain
or distress tho’ unable to bear excitement I have had but a poor chance to
try riding out, for monthly we have had the worst roads and of the longest
continuance in my memory we had no sleighing in winter I shall try
riding as soon as the busy season is over but not try to attend [YM?] I am glad
to think thee will be there hope thee will have good company ^from home^ I hope Lucy
Coleman is in Washington as I think she needs some evidences of immortal
love & wisdom which she may reap in the hospitals or in doing for the Colic
sufferers – her presence at the [M2?] and particularly her nearness to my sympathetic
nerves and internal soul reading were too much for my aged head and I
did not recover entirely for months but pass’d ^a^ very comfortable winter and
suppose I must look for some proof of my old age – it seems some of the
symptoms are the same as affected me in youth. I felt when I found how D
Clark had help’d Willie that I should like to take him by the hand &
let him tell me what simple thing I should do to restore me to equilibrium.
yet I turn to warm weather as I feel cool most of the time and am
now seated in the sunshine to write this long ditty to my belov’d Friend
but perhaps as we exchange letters so infrequently my long story will not
be more tiresome than if I was seated by thy side. I dont by any means
feel indifferent to the M2, but I feel that the time has come for me to be more
needy of attention which I have been hitherto able to do without and too I do
think that Abbie & [GLJ?] can both afford to go and shall hope they will be in
some ways as ^much^ happified by the Religious & Social benefits as I have been year
after year going alone or [illegible] them Abbie writes she is thinking of going

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I dont see but thee
will have to read a
long letter for
I cant help it
I like thy rem-
ark of L [Motts?]
independence
dear woman she
suffers from bad
health all the
time but her tal-
ents are used to
the best advantage
[tks?] to the Spiritual
convention I have
not seen is though
I shall_I have had
the reading of Jane
[Gibbon?] [&?] paper for
the past year and
now I mean to
take it myself