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LETTERS.
these two or three days past, has been of such service to me, that I hope shortly to tell you, that I am quite well. I have scarcely slept before last night, and then not much.—The two Mrs. ———s have been very anxious and tender.
Yours truly
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I need not desire you to give the colonel a good bottle of wine.
LETTER XV.
Sunday Morning.
I wrote to you yesterday, my ———; but, finding that the colonel is still detained (for his passport was forgotten at the office yesterday) I am not willing to
let