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[added text: [1855]] Thursday night Oct [October] 11th 
My dear Callie,
I have just returned from the Canebrake, feeling a great deal better than when I last wrote you -- found all well, except Booker who was suffering, from his imprudence, with chill and fever --

the time drags heavily till [until] I start for my darlings -- sweet Callie, how I long to clasp you in my arms, and press your dear form to my bosom -- my son too, God bless him, how anxious I am to see his noble form and know thus in his veins courses my blood --

Heaven bless and preserve you both

Your fondly attached husband -- 
[Signed] Porter King