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May God bless you all- Love + Best Wishes
from your
Aunt [?]
P.S. Seneca I wish
you had some of
Aunt [?] nice
pound sweet apples.
She says tell you
to come to + [?] one
Sunday with us +
you may have all
you want of theirs.
I tell her I am
getting fat eating
theirs. I can
feel so much better
than when I left
home nine weeks
ago yesterday.
Russia, N.Y.
Dec 9, 1900
My dear nephew,
I ever so glad to
get your letter, and it really pleas-
erd me to think that Seneca
cared enough for his Aunt Mina
to write to her.
Well, this is really a winters
day. The wind blew hard in the
night and all days. It has blown
and the snow with it. So blustery
that Aunt [?] + I concluded
it was better for us to stay at home.
I am so glad to know you
are feeling so well. Think you must
have fleshed up, too, by what your
mother wrote, you had gained. I
had a good letter from her this
last week. I know you will be
glad to get home again. I
would love to see you there but
do not think I will this time.
Now that I am here I better
make my visit out. They all say
I must not think to go back yet.
Aunt A. says she is going to
keep me until warmer weather
I think unless am needed
at home, I will stay a while.
Your mother says for me to. I
fear she is alone. For the two
last letters she has not mentioned
the girl. She says she is
getting along all right, for you
not to worry so I wont. I will think
they are better off without me.
How much you will think
of going to church + endeavor
again and SS. They will all
be glad to see you.
Friday morning, 14th
I intended to have finished
this before this time but have let
it [?] when not sewing which I have
been real busy at all the week.
Have been reading. Last evening, I
thought I would write but I see
Aunt was sort of lonesome so I
read. We have been reading
books aloud taking turns One
since Sunday "Stephens, A Soldier
of the Cross." Did you ever read it?
Now we have commenced another
"The Wrestler of Phillipa." She ahs
a number of such books.
I had a good letter from
Aunt Esther this week. She and
your mamma both write to me to
gratify Aunt [?] and stay
with her until warmer weather
or towards spring anyway. So I
have decided to do so unless they
need me and want me with them.
Aunt E writes she + Uncle Howard
are well but they miss Roy more
and more. I am so sorry about it.
Wish we knew just how he is.
I do hope he is not a reckless boy.
Dear Seneca, let us pray for him
more earnestly that he may be
kept from temptations and all
wrong and may he yet be a comfort
to his Father + Mother. It does not seem
[?] to know he is so far from them.
I was in Trenton when your
letter came. Aunt + I were there
three weeks. We spent Thanksgiving
with Cousin Rose Hubbarts. She
had the Barker family there what
are left here, twenty in all with me.
While there Coz Will Barker took
me over to Trenton Falls. A [?]
[?] place it must be in the summer.
The [?] falling so was grand
to look at that day, but it was
so cold getting around.
It is all [?] of snow. They are
building a large power house and
works and have a line [?]
from there to [?], 18 or 20 miles
for the electricity. The works were
something to look at and then the
Falls. I just wished you were there,
Seneca to see it and the others, too.
I must close. Let me wish you
a very "Merrie Christmas" + a "Happy
New Years." I shall think of you all.