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to my best feelings – There is no one like thee Amy I look in vain over the rounds of those who I have been endeared to by the ties of friendship and lo! they are gone. So this morning I feel like address- ing thee – and hope I shall meet an answering card of renewed love - I have enjoyed better health since I came here and have been visiting some of my cousins in the East part of this town (Hector) I enjoyed the visit very much indeed the country is very beautiful and I came home after spending more than two weeks away renew'd. I find a great joy in the social companionship, and feel more and more like [illegible] the gift which have not had full play for want of some opportunity which I hope to have this fall before winter sets in. I intended to visit you on my way to Macedon some time during this mo ^th^ but I learn from [illegible] that my brother & sister intend visiting their children in Wis. the later part of this mo ^th^ and my visit will be defer'd till october. I should not know how to go to see them without giving you my dear Old friend a call for I shall have to be far limited by circumstance, I suppose