Letter from Thomas Leiper Kane, 5 January 1853 [LE-11791]
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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 friends
for me; I do not name them, lest in my haste I should
omit any. Sorry indeed I am I should have
lived to know of a point of difference between us;
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; 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