i want you to send me a little box as soon as you can i want about 4 pounds of chees 2 pounds of plug tobacco 1 pound of smoking tobacco git 4 pounds of maple shugar 2 pounds of dryd apples go to the tin shop and git a quart pail and send it ful of buter then it will do to make coffe in a candle box will be large enough put in a few bookes and a few nut cakes telant orra i have wated so long for that shirt i think she ought to send me a sweet cake Doant put in eny pies for they wont keep Mos send me a half pound of gum that is al / we are clost by the railroad and a box will come as soon as a letter i have lived on hard tacks so long i want something elce send a cheep jacknife and 2 blocks of [?]sarps alittle good thread that is al i want send it as soon as you git this

from George Camp

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