Thomas Lincoln Casey to General Silas Casey, March 18, 1867: Image #1

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Agnes is here making a great {??] because he has not arrived in Columbus. and I imagine he will hope to get that position. Edward and his [??]we will and join us in [R??] [??] to all at home. Your affectionate Son Tho Loncoln.

March 18, 1867

My dear Father

Invite you in the [??] when I was about [coming?] for New York with Emma to visit her father. We arrived in that city about 11 o'clock at night and met John [??] who informed us that the operation of cutting out the [??] had been performed at 2 oclock that day. It was a fearful operation lasting time forty minutes and the [calculus?] [??] was as large as the [drowning??]. Dr. [Van?] Buren performed the operation and there were [??] twelve surgeons [??] in the