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Oswego Kan March 24th
[1879]

Dear Hattie
	What a queer child you are to answer a letter, you never say, yours of such a date, containing letters from Maggie, Frank, Bob, or Thedore, received. You never reply or comment on anything I say, so that I never know whether you got any of my letters. It is most unsatisfactory
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I sent you two letters last week each containing $50. Let me know if you get them. Just received one here from you. I had thought it might well for you to remain another year in Boston and spend your summer in reading. I want you to be thoroughly prepared before making your debut so that you may feel satisfied
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with your own work. I suffer the miserable feeling all the time of condemnation of my own efforts. If another year at Boston would, you feel, be of great service there is no hurry. Take your time, and all the culture you need. Of course I long to have you with me, but I desire your improvement first. Tell me my sweet one, why you
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I have just returned from my lecture. Am sitting alone in a little hotel in the prairies away beyond the Mississippi in Kansas and shall be going west in this state and Nebraska for a month yey, farther and farther from my precious girl baby I cannot tell you how happy the thought that in two months we shall
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meet again, to part no more, for if you go to Boston next winter I shall go too. I intend to stick to you like a burr closer than a brother. But I must to bed. Good night my pretty one, Tell Marmie all about your blues and who admired you, and if you lack any of the comforts of life. Lay all your little sorrows on my shoulders
With love and kisses
	Mother
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Oswego, Kan. March 24th
[1879]

Dear Hattie,
	What a queer child you are to answer a letter, you never say, yours of such a date, containing letters from Maggie, Frank, Bob, or Thedore, received. You never reply or comment on anything I say, so that I never know whether you got any of my letters. It is most unsatisfactory. I sent you two letters last week each containing $50. Let me know if you get them. Just received one here from you. I had thought it might well for you to remain another year in Boston and spend your summer in reading. I want you to be thoroughly prepared before making your debut so that you may feel satisfied with your own work. I suffer the miserable feeling all the time of condemnation of my own efforts. If another year at Boston would, you feel, be of great service there is no hurry. Take your time, and all the culture you need. Of course I long to have you with me, but I desire your improvement first. Tell me my sweet one, why you
I have just returned from my lecture. Am sitting alone in a little hotel in the prairies away beyond the Mississippi in Kansas and shall be going west in this state and Nebraska for a month yet, further and further from my precious girl baby I cannot tell you how happy the thought that in two months we shall meet again, to part no more, for if you go to Boston next winter I shall go too. I intend to stick to you like a burr closer than a brother. But I must to bed. Good night my pretty one, Tell Marmie all about your blues and who admired you, and if you lack any of the comforts of life. Lay all your little sorrows on my shoulders
With love and kisses
	Mother