Josiah Dunlap

to Nancy J. Moore

Union Greenfield Jan 17^th/62

 

Dear Cousin It is with great pleasure that I take my pen in han to let you no that we are all well and hope that these few lines will find you the same. [?] has been in thought sence you and I sence you and I last parted I am going to school this winter we hav got one of the best teachers in this naborhood he is first class in reading first grammar first in geography first in [faded] five that studdy Algebra there is 58 scholars that gose to our school we  had a spelling last tuesday night and there wase five other schools came up to spell us down but they did not get it done I tel you Nan it takes good spellers to spell us down there was about one hundred people to the spelling we hav got asingen school in town we hav one evry weeke / and we hav got one in the church about one mile above us your folks went past it when they wase down here I wase to foure singen this week and to one spelling dont you think that will do for one weeke I wish that you was down here I would like to see you Nan I can talk better than write how did you put in your holly days I will tel you how I past them a Christmas I halled salllogs that day it was like Sundy and newyears I done some little notions about the hous but I think that if I live to see annother newyears did you hav atime of it or not we hav got asing on tuesday night and I wish that you was here to go to it if ever go up to your house you must make them hav asingen I would like to go with you to a singen Tom and I are [faded] to the oil cuntry this morning with aload of oats they took 1.25 bushel up with them the folks says that oats sell for 50 to 75 bushel [faded] no yose along here five and six evry day this is one of the most travld rods in this cuntry dad has gon to bucher some hogs to day for one of our merchants we hav got asingen to night I think that there will be quite a croud there / nice eccys and dialogues that was some of the nices eccys that ever I herd one in perticular it was on egication ithink that I will hav to pitch in for her about the next night of the singen dont you think that I had better do it she is about [?] but she has got one failing do you want to no what that is I will tel you what it is mebey I had not of to find any fault about it but she is all write in all other respects now comes it She has got read hear and you no that red hed gils girls is not my stile we are to train next Saturday and I am the caption we hav got anice meadow to train in did you hav any new years gifts if you had you had more than I had. hav you any spellings or any singens this winter or do you stay at home or not if you do you do more than I do for I am out most evry night I went home with three girls last weeke it was not one girl it was diferent ones and one this weeke dont you think that it is wright or not next weeke I am going home with the girl that [?] for my lady that is if I can get [?] write soon as you get this if you think this is worth anwering or not write or not

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