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Eckford, Monday morning, December 1st
My son we recieved 2 letters last thursday
from you they were of the 21st one of them, and the other
was not dated was very glad to here from you and hear
that you were well we are all as well as common at present
I have finished the school house and the school has commenced today
it has been quite stormy three or four days snowing most of
the time but the snow is not more than three inches deep at
present, today it is quite warm and pleasent again,
in my last I wrote you we would send you a box the first of the week,
mother is knitting you some very nice mittens now and just as soon as they
are done we will make up a box and send to you,
I believe that Frank Chase[?] starts this morning to join your regiment,
Have you had any gloves since you left home, ma thinks you had some
on when you had your likness taken, just write and let us know weather
you did or not,
we found the gun at Greens Barn but have not found the trap,
John has got them from George Daniels Lester Mumbrue
has cut his foot very badly, he wont be likely to walk on it for 5 or 6
weeks Piet[?] Mumbrue has gone trapping,
we heard yesterday that B Patm..[?] and Hiram Blake and one or 2 others
of our boys were all in the Hospital sick, how is Charley W.
now is he got well of the rhumatism yet,
and Cicero L, how is he getting along,
we have pretty tight times here every thing is so high priced you have
no idea how much it takes to get such things as we have to, all kinds of
dry goods are about double what they were one year ago and groceries the
same, we used to get nails for 3 ½ cts pond[pound?] now we have
to pay 6 and they say that they are selling for 8 in Marshall
Coal Oil is now worth one dollar per gallon and 4 weeks ago we could get
plenty of it for 50 cts,
Ma and myself were up to uncle Greens last evening, Sarah
had gone to her school, Martha [Bitely, Green's mother-in-law] is so as to be about
the house but is not able to do much the rest are all
well as usual, Poor Albert has fits as bad as ever,
he hardly knew us last night when we went in there,
I will stop writting for ma wants to write some to you and I am in
a hurry to go to Homer,
this from your Pa
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yes we got the 2 letters you sent without paying the postage on and
want you to adopt the same rule with all your letters
it will be quite a savings to you
['Twas not to be. The cost and availability of stamps remains a
constant problem for Wm.]
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