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speak sadly of his death. As for myself, it 

 has caused a sadness which will last through 

 life, and which words fail to describe, for he 

 to me was a true friend and a brother, and I 

 think how little I have done for him to what 

 he has done for me ; he never knew how 

 much I thought of him for his acts of kind- 

 ness to me and to my family ; look where I 

 will about my home, I can see something to 

 remind me of him. 



Please excuse me for writing so much, 

 and be sure he is mourned in more homes 

 than one. My wife, daughter, and myself 

 deeply sympathize with you and your dear 

 daughter, whom to us he so often spoke of. 

 May God comfort and protect you both, and 

 permit you to meet him in the world to come, 

 where parting will not be known, and tears 

 will never flow. 



Yours in love, 



DAVID FREEMAN. 



