Transcription:
1 Fort Mackinan August 19th 1876 My Dear Friend, Your farewell note of the 2nd of July after halting at Indianapolis
and learning the way followed me here. I wander many times if in your wanderings your feet have ever trod this fair island.
I should love to think that you had been here. Sister Kate and I left home the last of June and have been here with our dear
Cousins underlined: the Houghs since then. You may be sure that we have enjoyed ourselves. We were neither of us well- she
worn out with her years labor in school and I worn with