Dear Childern
I take this opertunity to wright you a fiew lines to lett you no that I am alive and well and I hope you ar the same  I havent had eny letter from you since the one you wrote of July 1  I have wrote you one since the flood but havent reseived eny from you

Why donte you wright  I will send you to dresses for Tessie  I should have made them before but my machine shuttle has been broke  I had to go to Mrs Mans to make it  You can sew in the sleeves  Thay may be to long and to small around the neck  I will send them by maile  It will be the cheapest  I hav ben to Kates and stayed a week  I went Saturday after the fourth and stayed till the next Saterday  She was sick like she was when thay lived whare Clint dose  I have rooms upstairs in the house whaire Vanharts live  When I come home I got a letter from Packer fore evidenc  I have got them and sent on  I donte no what way will send for next  I hope thay will send me a pension  donte you  Em Talor and Ed was maried last week  Helen I donte no what to wright tonight  Thair is so mutch nois and racket around the house  I donte no as you will like the way I have made Tessies dress  I had to make it all by gess  I think it will be pretty larg for her  Gramma would like to see her with it on  I have got my gray dress made last week.  Helen I wish you would wright oftener  I wante you to lett me no if you gett the dresses all right  Wright soon  from your mother

I will make a white bonet and send her in a week or so by mail  Helen I wonte send the dresses today  I will sende them some time this week.