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2 but you well know that I am such a home-body that I never could even think of it - but I shall not forget your kindness
in this matter - I cannot express to you my disappointment in not seeing you at the time you intended to visit us - Since
you have had so many home cares and illegible I have refrained from writing on this subject but will yet hope to see you again,
and also your wife and daughter. I am sorry to think that Annie does not seem to improve very much where she is I think
if she had gone to Cal- last spring when she meant to Phillips 3 - she would have had a far better chance of regaining
her health as it was she came back from illegible much worse than when she left home. I hope it will not be too late for her
to try what your climate can do for her poor girl Your father this month reaches his eight stuck out th year and I am just
nine years behind him, so we have reached the span of life allotted to us - and now we require to look forward to an abiding
home eternal in the Heavens