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  My Dear Friend

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​