4 I should like them all to write to me, I expect Anita and Hattie are nice scholars and I wish specially to be remembered
to them in much love and also to Sarah David G and Sarah and her Annie spent the most of yesterday with me Annie is teaching
this summer but her health and also her mothers are very poor indeed Annie joins me in kindest wishes to you all and I trust
you will all write to me soon Very affectionately Mother illegible your father is well and happy as usual. illegible
1 1881 1881 Portage June 29th Dear Daniel Your two letters were received and highly prized And now I gladly congratulate
you on this your birth day and wishing you much more happiness and peace than you have yet experienced I am much pleased to
know that you like Lincoln and that your health is better and that Emma and the children are all well I trust the house you
think of moving into will be found quite suitable I expect David wrote to you agreeably to you expectations -