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Letter to Elizabeth W. Braman from Aaron W. AldrichEntry/Object ID
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Letter to Elizabeth W. Braman from Aaron W. Aldrich
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Dover Feby 25th 1877
Elizabeth
I received your letter mailed the 20th last night. I wnet after the mail myself for I kept thinking all the week that you would send that present but was disappointed. I ded however receive a letter from you & postal card from Henry who went to Oberlin last week saturday & was yet returned he has been drawing wood from ?J Peels? all the past week We are having a very strange winter it froze up solid the first day of december so my cold very cold & snowed most all the month with snow 22 inches on a level. This month has been like a april weather; the snow has all melted except the drifts, which in Henrys land are from one to 3 feet deep yet. Wheat never looked better than it does now, but there is time enough yet for it to be destroid. I am going to sow 10
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acres of oats on shares on Henrys famr this spring & calculate to plant 8 acre lot that the elm tree is in, I have said nothing to him yet about it but the dutch have, but he has refused them which makes me think he intends to let me work it. I spoke to him about raising potatoes but he nor I do not know where to plant nor how many we want to plant. so you see I am going to get a llittle mony this summer & shall give uup going to Kansas until Dec whn B Finny goes. Since the Ashtabula is on suspension railroad Bridge brokedown & so many persons lost their lives rather dread to undertake the journey alone for fear some other bridge might fall. What kind of a bridge did you cross the Mississippi on BF cannot tell nor how wide it is at that place. I have been looking for those verses in Wood magazine, there are five of them here but Mary Ann Think & so does Della that the one that has those verses in is in Oberlin I will & find out. I was down to Bill Saddlers last sunday for the mail. They have got into their new
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housess had one mite society in it. I was not there of course but Goody & Lillys were. Of course the folding doors were thrown open which throws the parlor sitting room & dining rooms into one. It is a nice house but he is a fool to build such a hous. A Bates Bill is over $3000,00. I told Ann Elisa she ought to have the Emancipation Proclamation picture to hang in th eparlor I thought she seemed to think so to. If you will sell it set your price & I will try them & see what can be done Mary Ann wants it & wants me to write & find out whether you will sell it & if so what yout price would be. I second the interest on these notes to the 1st day of Jan 1877. want him to look it over & if there are any mistakes rectify them & if he has paid anything let me know for if he has I have forgotten it There are no indorsements on any of the notes. 25 D. Miller is moving into the Braman house up the lake & Cooks son in law is going to move in when miller gets out he has bought it
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Old Mr Stocking was buried last yesterday. He was 95 years old last september. I have a great many questions I would like to ask about plowing, raising grain hogs stock & I think Ds hands are sore from ??? or ?serofula?. I think the reason of my hands cracking is on account of ?serofula? That Field that married Elizabeth. Miller is going to Kansas this spring He is going to hary County. He has a son there. Henry got home from Oberlin last night the 26 og Feburary He was gone 11 days If you want anything sent by mail I will send it any time I am just going to the office
The postage on the books is 35 cts I want to write to Julia G & Then I will write to you
Yours AaronCollection
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