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     Rare Book School 1998: Course 46: Introduction to Electronic Texts and Images

     Prepared for the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center.

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      I drop
you these few lines. I hope you and all
of your family are enjoying the blessing
of health and my love to them all.
I am quite well and so is my family
at present and they send their love to all.
I like the country Right well and
I find it Better than I expected
and the weather is quite pleasant and
comfortable and we need our warm
clothing here as well as we did in the
States. My health has been quite Bad
and I have been quite sick often and on
But thank God my health is better. We have
great many and different kind of vegetables
grows here eddoes, and [unclear: cassavas,] sweet
potato, and [unclear: plaintain banana] and sometimes
rice and corn. These are our breadstuff
and we have beans and peas, cabbage greens, [unclear: rhubarb,] okra.
We can raise cowever and several kinds of vegetables.
Fruits of all kinds grows here too
fine apples, gorgeous cherries, and oranges.
Lemon meat is hard to get here. I did
not get any groceries at all but 2 barrels of
flour. If you please to send me two barrels
of pork, one barrel of fish, one barrel of
of sugar, and box of soap and a keg of
Butter and two barrels of flour and I thank
you if you please to me some
calicoes and ginghams and some stuff
to make my Boys some clothes as