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My Dear Son:	It's with great pleasare that we receive news from you the beautiful
day of All Saints. We had waited a long time. We have been waiting to hear from
you to know your knews ? We saw that you enjoyed perfect health. It's been a
long time but we wanted to know news from you because we know that this terrible
sickness febat ravaged all this country. We are all in very great sadness, all
brothers and sisters and relatives to know that you are in the middle of this
Our
epidemic. My mind is always occupied thinking of all of you. -My health is good except me dear brothers I am stiii more and more congested^with a cold.
I have to work more than ever until that i-ean time when I can't get out of my bed anymore. We are troubled dear brother and I'm not surprised that you don't tell us of Gabriel	of San	de	lee.	that when we ask	you	to give us
news of him as well as of your	aunt of	. We have given	him	a letter to
give you. ???-?eeii-asYou don't tell us if you received the wife of de clove You told us that you were enjoying perfect heiath health. It was in a letter that you saw in August that you told her you were in good health. You don't tell us either' Andrizine received the letter we sent to her the sixth of August.
She told us that yourhadfamily had grown of a fine little boy and that the wife of Joseph was any moment to be a mother. You don't tell us either about all that but I hope you will explain all that in the next letter you will slen send us.
It was a letter of sadness the death of this poor child. It was alot of unhappiness in relation	to his	family	to	have	told all that to	his	parents, all
the cares that you have	given him and	all the	honors that you have	made at his
last service and after his deai?h death, dear children, as you see that this terrible epidemic ravages all the country. To be obliged to have to die -<SHUl LtmZf&l ay unfortunately as that without being able to iHKimtgxttodtonmkkhxmt confess ones sins and receive the last sacraments. But dear son I would ask you to come to France near the frontier of the mountains because its a country
xautRx at the same time its very pleasant and encouraging to come for a