a wonderful letter sure enough 12 yds long. when I say so to any one they stare. I am glad you are so well and happy I dreamed
I was down at Madison with you and was laughing and talking with you and felt well too and I was just telling you to come
and show me your funny things when I awoke. Father has just arrived from the creek there has been a great many revival meetings
held there lately, there has been a few at frenchs mill and a good many at Montello I hope much good may be done that will
be permanent The girls and Dan were up at the new years vacation and Sarah was here on new years day. how did you spend it.
Sarah staid 4 or 5 days with me since I was sick Mother was up a while too She is very very thin I suppose you heard of father
getting so much wheat burned. He has also had the misfortune to have broke down and falling out the buggy has got a black
eye and a sore side. He has bought a house in Portage the girls don't like it they will have to walk about a mile to school
that don't look much like coming back to the farm. We have loss sight of a book John borrowed from Louden Graham the name
of it was Anecdotes on the (Shorter) catechism. It had the same name on the boards as them ones you sent to New York for Carter.
Will you please to send the adress and if you see the name of the book in your catalogue see what the price is. I want to
send for one. There is a Scotch piece of poetry tell me what you think of it. I don't hear of anything now. This has been
a very mild Winter there has been a good deal of sickness