Letter from Thomas Leiper Kane, 5 January 1853
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Excerpt:My dear Sir, I have not answered your kind Letter as I intended, through mingled stress of business and sickness. My state of health has of late forbid all unnecessary labor on my part, and I now only write to bid you good bye. I sail for the West Indies from New York on Friday next—to be gone, God only knows how long—perhaps it is well I do not surely know myself. My health at last seems to be rapidly declining. So bid good bye to all my ...
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Excerpt:; but my feelings for them all, collectively and individually, remain unchanged. Let them all know, if I do not return, of my thinking of them ever with affection, and remember me always, their, as Your, friend truly Thomas L. Kane Mr. Woodruff Philadephia Jan. 5, 1853. ...
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Excerpt:[sideways text] Col Kane farewell [end of sideways text]