
I Receivied received
your kind & Most Welcome
Letter A Short time A go ago
And I Have Received 22 News Pappers Newspapers
And It
is Hard For me to tell you How thankful I am to you for them. I Wonder
How you Could think what was So Gratifying to us. Well My Health I But Verry Very
little Better But If I Had Stayed In W Va
I dont don't
Suppose I would Have Been Liveing Living
Now. I am Sorry to know your Health is So Poor
But I whish wish
you would come to Minnesota and I do think
you would get your Health Better. their there
is People comeing coming
From Almost Every State to Howard
Lake For their Health. Dear Friend
you Said In your Letter Prehaps Perhaps
We Would
Meet know no
more In this world But I Do feel As this
Pleashure Pleasure
will Come to me Before I Leave this world A Pleashure Pleasure
I do So Mutch Much
Desire For I think My Joy
would Bee Be
unspeakable
to Meet a Friend that was So good & kind to me As you was when I was In Washington.
But I Hope If We Do Not Meet In this world we will meet In Heaven.
Being In the army & Loosing Losing My Health So I am Not Able to work of Corse Course we are Poor But when I went In the army I had a Comfortable Home Was a good Lover

My Mother Leives Lives In W Va My Father Is Dead Tongue Can Not Express How Much I think of My Mother And well I would Like to See Her I Have Not Seen Her For 8 year My Brothers & Sisters Lives their there too
I Will Close My letter By Saying I Hope you will get your Health
My Wife Sends Her Best Respects to you And Says tell you She thanks you for your kindness And Care to me
My Children Sends their Love to you Now My Dear Friend I Hope you will write Soon
Good Bye William Stansberry
My Parents Came From New Jersey Not Far From Camden they was Born their there