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My dear Son,
Your Father and the girls write so often, I think you will not expect letters from me. We are very glad to hear from you often and it is a source of real happiness to us, to think you are happy,m and doing well.
I do not allow my self to regret your abscence so much as I otherwise would.
I am afraid Charlie is not very comfortabe, perhaps I borrow trouble about him, but I sometimes think he has not commenced right, I hope you write to him. It will do him good. When you send the $20, for him, if you can spare it, let it be $25, - I did not
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know that you owed Huested, and Down's, thought your bills were included in Fathers, If you have any idea what it is better send it, and if there is enough pay the shoe maker We have not paid any body this long time except Huested and he was paid up in the fall. Am. is getting along better this winter than usual never any "flares up" now a day Fathers health is better, I think, than it has been since his long sickness. There has not been much amusement, and perhaps not much chance for improve -ment, for Alice since you went away. I think she tries earnestly to improve such opportunity as she has. She has not been to town, and we have had no company, except our two
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regular visitors, one comes about every or every other sunday or Saturday evening, and the other every other Thursday -
Cora goes to school mornings and Ira. I really think is going to do something, is very ready to go to school and has the credit of being the best behaved boy in school and getting good lessons, which latter he could not do, if cora did not help him, as he can not read well enough to study himself. I expect to have to wait a year or two longer for Flint to take a start.
He was very much engaged until the cold weather in putting up his collection, carried his pin cushion in his pocket, and had his own pins, as much as you ever did. Says he
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is going to be a naturalist -
He is more engaged in skating now, than any thing else, behaves pretty well at school, and is willing to go.
Father would like very much to go to Washington. And no doubt it would do him good.
I should think he would be a better man than Marray - but he says there is no chance.
We think more highly of the machine every day, and you may tell your friend we commend her judgment in reccommending it to you.
You have not told us if you go to church with Mrs Baird this winter. Hope you do.
Mother