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    "description": "In this letter, Lady Bird Taylor is unhappy about Lyndon B. Johnson's last letter; she assures Johnson that she loves him. She says she received his pictures and will forward one to Alice and one to his mother. She describes purchasing lumber for fencing.",
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    "ocrText": "tought But g shall tamors.\n4\ng enjoyed the clipping you\nand how much give found out\nabout lumber! - that it comes in\nsent ! no, dear, Kaore you didn't leave\nyour edhrown Guest there and g\nthousand feet, and even numbers\ndon't remembernaution you had\nare standard lengther, and that\nit l last - 8 do hope you find it!\nmules walk around inside\nthe lumber houses carrying\nmention it you do.\n/\nsleds-ful, - and that cypress\nThe pictures came this\nmaker the best pickets\ng\nmorning and 9 shall mail one\nshall soon know how to go\nto Oliee and one - g haunt milie\nabout buying anything T from\ndecided which to your mother\nan hydrantic ram to a white\nelephant. shall\ngill pack them quite carefully,\nBy the way dearest, what\nLyndan, so They want he lent\ndid g say in my Included evil\nPerhaps g should keep the\nletter that gave you thoughts?\nsmaller one thut g do like the\nso g can't eximimber what it was\ng forget how g felt which day,\nbig one blis woll tfus fallow\nburd my darling, please don't\nit today S have agent hunting he so - whatever it was - m your\nup prices and descriptions of\nletters, anymore. you Round like\npicket Unit fencer, at lumber yard\nnegatives\nyou at all. gu fact, you sound sills \\\nyou thought I didn't care about\nBecause g - o well g do Sogoadnite, all my lovie Bird"
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