Berkshire Nov 25

                                                                                                Sunday afternoon/62

 

Dear Cousin Cinda

                        It was with great pleasure that I received your letter & the news it contained of a prospect of a visit from you I intended answering it right away but have had no opportunity untill now I have had a great deal to do this fall & have not got through yet but hope to soon for two weeks past it has become settled again in to the ordinary rotiune & should be very glad to welcome you & famaly at any time I suppose your Husband is at home before this I hope he will come with by all means we should enjoy a visit from him very much indeed You can’t imagine how pleased I was to get those photographs although I was sory to see yours looking so thin you spoke of looking old I don’t think it looks old but I think it shows you have suffered from ill health.

I hope a journy may do you a great deal of good

 

                                                                                                Dec 7^th

                                                                                                Monday eve

I will resume my pen again after so long a time & try and finish this letter, I have been looking for you for some days I immagin you would want to come before the cold weather sets in but it is upon us in all its fury it has been very cold indeed & the wind has blown very hard scince night before last, if we only had good sleighing we could endure the cold better but it is horred traveling now so we have to keepe indoors I have forgotten that I had mentioned Hugh’s going to see boys he went down and made Wallace & Albert visit had a very pleasant time and found them well—I had a letter from Ella a short time ago saying young Charles Bellows he is now Dr. Bellows was married to a Babtest Minester’s Daughter of Saritoga where he is living he is Cousin Charles’s son whose wife died a few weeks before Ella & George came out here last summer Aunt Hannah lives with Charles scince his wife died Charlotte stays with George—Our freinds here and at Richford are well as usual all but Father he has been very well all the Fall for an old man but the other day he went in to the woods to chop some wood and fell and hurt his side so as to lay him up for a few days I was considerable frightend at first fearing it might result in something serious he has got to be so old he will feel it more than a young person would—I was glad to hear you had heard from Marlins People for I know it would do them so much good to get a letter from you, and I also wish you here to night that I might talk to you instead of writing I have so many things to say & dont feel in the mood of saying them on paper, it is to dull business to have all the talking on one side especially if our wants to ask a few questions

 

I suppose your Husband is at home by this time it must be a great pleasure to you to have him home again but I must say I almost regret his leaving the army on one account that is we shall have no more letters from him from             we did enjoy getting letters from him very much all the fault I found with them they were not often enough—but I don’t wonder at his wanting to leave if his health is poor it is not the place for him it makes me heart sick when I think of how they are all suffering for the comforts of life that have left the                       and gone from a sense of duty.

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