Thanks for the beautiful Views of the Valley and surroundings you so kindly sent me. I like them very much and they have
been much admired by other So you are a staid home body now with a good many cares and a great many comforts Do you not some
times wish for an opportunity to climb to some mountain top where you have not yet been David still continues to spend his
life in that store with seldom a days vacation and not always quite well and his wifes health is not very good either Carrie
is teaching this year for the first time Annie is again engaged in the store she likes that kind of work much better than
teaching We are having a very cold backward spring which causes the farmers to complain not a little but we have not been
visited with any very severe storm such as have swept over many places arround us It seems a long time since I have had a
letter from you but will hope to hear from you soon With much love to you dear John, and to your wife and little Daughter
I am sincerely yours Mother