5 in margin: for pitties sake do not allow this horrid looking letter to live burn it as I do yours Sarah has been staying
with us this week and wishes mother and I to go home with her on Saturday. We think we will, and on my return I shall expect
to find a letter from you so you had better hurry up James Balentine was burned? last week he died of lung fever there has
been a large number of funerals here lately but I do not think you are acquainted with any I fear you will illegible make
out on envelope: 6/3/1874 frm Joanna Miss Mary Muir Madison Wisconsin in square box: 19