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"It's quite a comfort, Austin, to hear / that you're alive"

- erasures -

< transcription 1, transcription 2 >

< transcription 3, transcription 4 >

Notes:

A 617 | JL 144 | Early 1850s | Pencil | watermark/embossed: Oval Congress | 20 X 25 cm

Sue's name has been carefully erased from the bottom of page one and the top of page two, which is indicated in the transcription by brackets; references to her, however, have been left on page four, perhaps because they refer to Sue hearing "nothing" from Austin.