My very, very, very dear Alice,
As soon as I came here from Albany, NY, I went to the Post Office and there I found your very good letter and it did my heart good; it went pit pat, pit pat, as yours does sometimes, when you are glad, until I got through reading it. I thank you, my very dear little daughter, for thinking of your papa in his absence and of writing to him as you have done. I shall love you, if possible, the better for it.
I intend to start out for Hartford
in a day or two and shall be
with you on Saturday or Monday.
How I long to come home and kiss
you and love you all! You must
pray for me, morning and evening,
that God will preserve us both
in health until we see each other.
Adieu my dear and dutiful daughter. Kiss the children for me and mamma and Miss. Huntley and Amelia and Harriet .
I am, my dear daughter,
Your affectionate father
Mason F. Cogswell
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