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Mississippie via Shieldsboro
P. S.
If the letters are not directed as above they wil go up to Purlington. This is a post office in a quarter of a mile of our house, it is especially for ours and Col Claiborne convenience for no other persons on this side of Purlington has any correspondence. good buy
Sami.
ALS. THi.