Name/Title
LetterEntry/Object ID
2018.012.0127Scope and Content
Glenkein
Feb 12th 1894
Dear Cousin
I now sit down to write you a few lines. I'm sure you will think me very ungrateful for being so long of writing but I always put it off to have good news for he have had a good deal of sadness now and again since you wrote but, another little son four months ago she calls him Sammuel Corbett, and since that she had a little son died age 3 years and five months (Welhein Church) mother has been very poorly all winter the is greatly___ with a headache it has been a very sever winter of storms the ___ has been for 40 years. ___ are very dull now all present produce is very cheap potatoes selling from 15 pence per __. I hope this will find you all in good health, for mother is very uneasy with you all for she is always dreaming about you and the more I did not write Mother was always talking about you. At the time she received your letter Mrs. McLeers second daughter was lying with Mronchillis (?) the Dr. had given up but thank goodness she has able to go to church last Sabbath for the first and Mrs. Mayberry has got corn 4 ___ per stone and ___ never has so cheap. Larmess can make so many out of anything. Dear Cousin I will write soon and let us know how you all are, I would like to know how Allie is, I don't know her husband's name and how many __ family she has got. We would like to know how Willie is getting along if the ___ hand is much use to him, we would like he would try and come over to spend the summer months with us and bring one of his sisters along, Mother would be so glad to see them.Collection
Benicia Historical Museum Collection
