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11/28/[67/69?] Dear All I have just got through making preparations for a good Thanksgiving dinner and wonder- ing whether we should eat it all ourselves or be gratified by having some of our friends to share it with not having invited any except our children and it being a litle bit rainy fear they will disappoint - us I thought of your family gathering with one accord and how pleasant it would be if you could step in here and would we not all enjoy a real heartfelt Thanksgiving It seems to me we should It is so long since we have written much but I cannot believe it has been from any diminution of love but from the [illegible] [illegible] of other things wh clamor for attention to say the truth I have never been so wholey engrossed my faculty for accomplishing diminished & small things are magnified We never had so good a visit from Mrs Mary before we enjo -yed it very much and after them the next day our friend [Cyrus] Peirce came