Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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        succeed as well as I anticipate
        I do not see anything to prevent
        our union then. The months of
        August [and] September are the
5      warmest in New York, and
        less business is done during
        those months, so I w[ould] have
        more time to spend with you
        in get our house set in order.
10    My beloved truly it may be said
        I have left “home < country >,
                kindred [and] friends”
        out all for thee. Yes Eliza, all,
        all for thee. Sweetest Eliza, would
        to God that we may both have
15    length of happy years to spend
        with each other. I know if we
        are spared they will be happy.
        But why sh[oul]d I thus write, God
        knows Eliza, but that when I
20    get to New York I may receive
        a letter from you wh[ic]h will dash
        this cup of imaginative
        happiness from my lips, a letter
   
   
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