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M.J.Bursleigh to Margaret Sims May 15 Mar 1872 [Philadelphia] March 15th [pencil, upside down at end of 306) I send you a large letter which I presume will be the last of its kind. To converse with Miss H. & to hear from her many little incidents would be highly gratifying to you doubtless; still you know enough to comfort yourself with the idea that the last phase of your brother's life was very peaceful; and although troubled by much bodily infirmity so peaceful that no sad associations of whatever kind cling to it. I shall look now for replies to the communications I have been sending for a weeks past. Miss G. & I will probably be absent from the city for a few weeks. but I shall ask Mrs Jones to forward letters (just opening yours to take out a draft if there be any enclosed, a process which you may be assured does not involve, in such hands, the reading of a single line.) We think of going South to Charleston S.Carolina for the to anticipate the Spring. I have hope that out of door life may prove advantageous to me as medicinal treatment does not. For several months I have been troubled with inflammation of the pharynx, the result of excessive use of vocal organs (in teaching) & general debility. My lungs are perfectly sound & I don't hesitate to go out in any weather, but it's talking that increases the congestion. We have a friend living on the bay just across from Charlston where we are thinking of going. Miss G. needs rest, & I sunshine & air. Per If you were to answer this immediately on the receipt of it, I should probably be returned to Philadelphia at the time of your letter arriving. I write at the Phila. Library which is near the P.Office. Yours hastily M.J.Bursleigh I made a mistake of a date in one of my letters Nov 1868 should have been Nov 1869. [ Note The proprietor in 1868 of Edward Strange's Philadelphia guesthouse was a Mrs Jones. Is "Miss G." who needs rest the Mary Grew whose letter came too late?.]

15 Mar 1872

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Bursleigh, M.J.,
May, Margaret Sims,
Jones,
Grew, Mary

Philadelphia, Charleston