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...I shall soon be able to furnish here a home. My dear Laura, you will love my little girls for other reasons than because they are so dear to me. I know you will love them because they will excite and return your affection.

I am extremely pleased that you were authorized to present me the respects of your sister. Tell her I shall make her a good brother. Should you resolve on going to Sharon, I beg you will apprise me of it as early as possible.


Most affectionately, I am yours,

S


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Transcribed for this website by Terri Nan Trebbits.

Courtesy of the Delaware County Historical Association Archives, 46549 State Hwy 10, Delhi, NY, 13753.

Further information on the Sherwood Family is available in the Letters and Journals of Samuel and Laura Sherwood (1813 - 1823), edited by John Crocker, Delhi, NY, 1967,  available in the Delaware County Historical Association Archives.

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