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My dear good brother Georg!

For your birthday we are sending you the heartiest greetings, may the good God bless you only with good and lovely things, and mainly with health, because this is the best we can wish. We drink a glass of good wine for your best, and let the glasses sound, hooray. You shall be blessed with your family, may this day repeat many more years. This wishes from the bottom of my heart your loving sister, my dear husband and children wish the same and are sending hearty greetings. Farewell, let us hear from you soon, greet your dear family, again hearty greetings

Your sister Marg. Hinkel, at the 9th April 1887