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Record Group Number: 900000
Collection Number: M92- 1
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Collection/Series Title: Call family and Brevard family papers, 1788-1925.
Container: 00001
File Unit: 00001.00005
Item: 00011
Title: Letter, August 23, 1853, Richard K. Call, Lake Jackson, to Ellen Call Long, Tallahassee, 2 pp., consoling her on the death of her daughter Ellen Douglass: "Your affliction has been very great my dear child, but it is only the common lot of humanity . . .I have often thought . . . that it is happy for man that he can die. . . it seems to me necessary that this life should have an end . . . I hope Mary and the dear children are all well this morning, and that I shall have the happiness of seeing you tomorrow. Come prepared to stay as long as you can."
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