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Rh No. 3.

, Secauqua, Ill., July 7, '77.


 * Although I am fully aware of the robust condition of your respected husband's health, and of your tender affection for him and your little ones, I am impelled by a sense of the propriety of providing in time for the casualties and fortuities of the future, to ask of you permission, in case of your (at present unexpected) widowhood, to renew the addresses which were broken off by your marriage to your present estimable consort.

An early answer will oblige,

Yours respectfully,

JOHN PICKETT.

No. 4.

1317 ., N.Y., July 30, '77.


 * The unintermittent interest you have perpetually indicated in the direction of my well-being stimulates me to announce my approaching