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Minerva Cottage
Feb 6th 1858

Mrs. Sallie Watson

My Dear Aunt.
I have often
thought of writing to you, since, I
parted from you, last summer,
but the time has glided so swiftly
by, that more than one half the
session is gone, and, I find myself
just commencing, my first letter
to you. I think of you often,
sitting so lonely in that large house
and wish I could stop over and
spend a week with you. I have
heard from you, only once since
I came to Minerva the last time
and that was when Lucie went
home Christmas. she told me
that Fa, and Ma had been up