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  Dear son,

I shall return on Monday next, in the 12:30 train from Jersey city—(the train I usually come in)

Pete I have rec'd your letter of 26th—Mother seems to-day full as well as usual—

 

I continue all right—I have been on to New Haven, about 75 miles from here—a former friend of mine is in a dying condition there, from consumption & expressed such a strong desire to see me, that I went on—I thought he would die while I was there—he was all wasted to a skeleton, faculties good, but voice only a low   whisper—I returned last night, after midnight

—Well bub, my time here is short—I have had a good quiet visit—the best in some respects yet—& I feel satisfied

—My darling son we will very soon be together again

Your loving comrade Walt.