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[?] Octo the 9.

My Dear

Charles [?] you [?] [welcome?] letter, and am very thankfull for your kind favor, should of answered you letter of some time ago, but am kept very busy as Mother has got to [OBSTRUCTED TEXT] a [?], dont get [up?] where she is helped, and [OBSTRUCTED TEXT] [?] [?], is not [?] [OBSTRUCTED TEXT] [easy?] [?], some days I [OBSTRUCTED TEXT] very stupid, I [have?] not been [OBSTRUCTED TEXT] well for [sic.] some time, Mother [OBSTRUCTED TEXT] [?] pleased with you [?] [OBSTRUCTED TEXT] could [sic.] only [the?] [?] and [sound?] like some old Lady much older than she is How much [?] [food?] we could have, I do think sometimes it could be so