Dear Childern
I will wright you a fiew lines to lett you no that I am alive and hope you ar  I havent had a letter from you since the once you wrote Augst the 2  I wrote you one when I was to Herbs  I gess I have had all the letters you have wrote now less you have wrote since that  I had a letter from Mate  I will send it to you  I think of going out thair after the faier  O how I wish you could be out hear through the faier  I look for Ed up then  I have got my rooms all settled  I live over the tea store  Maby you havent got my letter  I have ben sewing some for Mrs Bur Baily  I shant worke for enyone through the fair as I no of  Uncle Arad was hear yesterday  He is not fealing very well  He has had a doisentary  He looked quite bad  Helen donte lett the moths eat your sack up  Daisey hasent hatch but one bird this summar and that died  She mated with Mrs Mans bird  She sings all most as good as Fred did  Em Taylor has gon to Rundles to live and the old folks have gone to Annie to liv  Mrs Talor came and stayed all day and all night with me before she went away  How is your potatoes and corn or havent you got eny  You dont say whether you have a good garden or not  Do you have eny fruit thair or not  Thair hainte mutch hear  I have got some imbrorday for the bottoms of Tess dress  I will send it sometime in a little box  I thought it mite be prety short now  Gramma wantes to see her so bad she cant hardly stand it  I dident go to the ofice last night  Thair may be a letter thair  I am looking for one from Packer evry day  He said that I would gett a pension  He would try as hard as he could for one  He sent those letters that your pa wrote me when he was in Elmira  He said that thay were good  I donte no what I shal do if I donte gett one  Enyone can doe a goodeal if thay hafto  When I am sick I hafto gett along the best I can  I have no one to do enything for me  My head was real bad when I was over to Herbs  It is better now than it has ben in some time  I havent done enything with those black dresses yet  Maby you will gett yours sometime  I will put a pice of my dresses in the letter  The litest one is a rapor  The other one is a polnais to wair with skirts  I have had your pin fixed  I will send it as soon as i can  I have made me an apron of that cloth you lef for Tess a dress  It wasent good enough to put that triming on  I will gett her another one  She wonte neede it this sumar and it will be nice next sumar
I cante thinke of eny more to wright now  You can hear all the news in the paper  Daytons folks have got a boy  It was borned July 4  Sade and Ede was hear last weeak to see me  Helen why dont you wright oftner  Cant you gett time or what is it  Do you hear enything from Will  Faney said she wrote to him last spring and had no answer yet  She wrote again when I was thair  I wish you would right soon as you get this  How is Birts mother