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November the 16, 1864.Dear Nephew:We got your letter we heard of your distress and troubles. I want you to try and bring Josephine out here and I will try to help you all I can. Try to get your Aunt Jane to come with you. Come and stay till the war is over. Anyhow if you come bring all you can, bring your meat if you can.We are all well at this time and hope when these few lines come to hand they may find you and all enjoying the same. Give my compliments to all the friends. No more.Hanah Newton to Mathias Embry

Times is about as they are for coming the same to be getting a little harder on the account of so: many skedadlers coming in there is a great many coming on account of the war.Peter Newton to Dear Nephew: I take my pen in hand to inform you that myself and family are all well and I hope these few lines come safely to hand they may find you and all the rest of the friends enjoying the same. Tell Father and Mother Newton howdy for me, tell Aunt Patty andUncle Sheasser (?) howdy and all the rest of the friends, tell them that I am yet in Canada (7?)

I will tell you the price of produce: wheat is $1.00 per bushel.Meat per pound 5 to 6 cents; potatoes per bushel 50 cents, corn meal,$2.00 per hundred, butter 20 cents per pound, flour is from $2.25 to$3.00 per hundredPlease to write, what has become of James Butler, I can't hear what has become of him. I received a letter from Benjamin Butler stating that Charles Newton was dead and I hear again that the boys were all well and I want you to write soon and let us know more at presentPeter Newton to Mathias Embry.