Norfolk City july 21

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Dear wife

I received your welcome

letter last Saturday it brought me

good news you was well at the time

you wrote  I hope you may still enjoy

the same blessing when this Comes

to you I am well this morning and

glad I can send you that much good

news I have not much other good news

too send you I must tell you I am

yet in norfolk City and not in

Harrisburg I wish to be thane it wood

be run my way thane ? I long

to be  to day is very hot  last week was

plesant  it is glad news for me to

hear you are still well and in good spirits 

I hope you may Continue in that same

spirit  I at times get almost out of

hart thinking you mite be sick

and need my help and I Cannot

be with you to care for you as you may

stand in kneed of my kind care other

times I feel in good hart knowing God will take of