
we recieved received
your wellcome welcome
Letter last evenigng evening
& was glad to hear from you & to know that you are well & happy with your friends in the City. we are all well as usual I have just returned home from Red Bank where I w[damage]illed to se see
of my Dear Mother who is at this time to all appearences appearances
near Death to day today
when I left her I felt that it would be the last time that I should se see
her alive. Dear frend friend
you can judge of my feelings better than I cn discribe describe
them. we shall look fore for
you down with us Teusday Tuesday
but please do not think of
going back in one day I shoul should
not get
go to se see
you at all
surely you can give us more Than one day from your friends I know they can make you more comefortable comfortable than we can but they do not care fore for you more than we [damage]tions
ever your friend S M. Stafford