This is a two page letter concerning conditions on the farm and the difficulties relating to travel to Ohio due to potential illnesses. From Amy Nesbett to her father, the letter discusses a possible trip to her new house for Christmas. Her new residence is much nicer than the previous one. She resided in Elyria [note]
Transcribed:
Dear Father [ca.1850]
I just got all my calculations made to
write to A W A until I read Es letter I did not
blame you for I am feeling the same towards Julia
Ann I cannot help looking for some of you
up here though I do not expect you do not come
Christmas expecting to hang stockings unless I know
Wm hes gone to Columbia when he comes home he
will find me with a third girl she is Mrs
Laftezs niece I think I shall like her much
better than the one that left me with the ague [fever]
Mr. Jackson [?] left us about the time [?] mooved
I thought for good but since Wm has been gone
this time he has come with all his clothing and
I suppose expect to make a home here as long as
he lives I do not feel able nor capable to
undertake this if it is the Lords doing he will
enable me to go through with it We are living
on the hundred acres that joins the old homestead
on the west so that our post office address is
the same as before this house is much more more
like a dwelling house than the old but we have
three windows in the kitchen my bedroom 14 by
16 feet large have got a carpet across it one way
and a stove in it the road that I did live on was
diagonal so that I was lost as to the points of
compass I never lived before where I could not
Back:
look as I thought toward my native land
now I live again on a straight road and can
look towards my fathers plantation
and sigh for the cabbage which tastes so well
Mother I would like to see you this winter but
I am afraid it will make you sick to come
To[?] my expected parents
A A Nesbett
