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Sarah Jackson to Rachel Jackson Lawrence
Sea Song Octr. 1st 1860
My precious love,
Your sweet letter of the 9th 16th & 18th mailed on the 20th of Septr is now before me. I am truly thankful to know all the dear little pets were well at that date. also at the time of the Dr's letter to your Pa, which was received enclosing the procedings of the grand celebration of the Odd Fellows at the Hermitage. I think dear Johnnie will, or has I should say immortalized his name. it wil be handed down to posterity in conn[illeg]ion with our dear Father's, on that appropriate gift.
I wish I could have witnessed the presentation. I offer him through you my best congratulations. tell him I am proud of my son, but this is no new thing I have both admired and loved him for years past. I hope he may continue to make friends, warm and true through life, and at death find one truer than all, to recieve his disembodied spirit and to cloathe it in robes of righteousness, and give him a name to live in joy through a long eternity which will be better than all the friends of time can bestow. this is a mother's wish, a mother's prayer.
You have no doubt e'er this recieved our dear Sami's letter giving you an account of his journey, also the particulars of his reception, as well as his happy escape from accident or injury during the storm, to which he was exposed on the lake. it was truly terrific you cannot form any idea of it by any description I can give you on paper. the wind was blowing most fearfully, from the north, but notwithstanding its violence, was not strong enough to counteract the influence of a more awful storm out at