Williamsport. Teusday, May.7. 1872

 

My Dear husband

                                    I now take up my pen to write you again. I supose you were disapointed at not getting a letter from me last week and in your last letter I sense by your last you did not get the one I sent you the week before I did not get it written untill teusday and last sunday we had company and when evening come I felt so sleepy I could not write to scave save me and through the week I was cleaning some and planted the lot and at night my rest has been very much broken with the baby having the whooping cough since you went away you know I have/you know I have all the rest to loose with them and perhaps the ones that twit you about your letter would not do half so well if they were situated in a like manner but you can have this one thing to comfort you if I say not much sometimes I think all the more about when ever I have any time for thought and as for love I love you for other things than money if they want to know it my life has but few bright spots in it some times as mother is not allways pleasant and I often tell if it was not for the few kind words I get from strangers I would sometimes have a long time of it but tonight she is kind a and pleasant enough kitty had two chills last week and she looks quite yellow of them/her appitite is not good just as soon as the children get to looking right and Rubie gets no cold I will take them in tow and get their photgraphs taken to send you I have not had him out since he has taken the cough and if a door happens to be lft left open on him he gets worse for that reason I have kept him close we have had very cold weather this week again I feel afraid some of the seed I put in the ground will rot for me the potatoes are all planted but four rows corn beans cucumbers onions lettuce carrotts and parsnips are out also peas and flowers seeded also. do you think I have been Idle and had no one to dig for me abner Foersman plowed for me and charged me two dollars. he plowed close and harrowed and furowed/so he was not unreasonable in his charges Charlie said I should tell Jackson had judgement on your property as he could not get judgement on the other he is going to take a stay on it until you come home Mother says she wants you to send her one hundred indeed I think we have our fare share pulling with the world and if it was not for our three helpless ones I would try to earn my way through but as it is my hands are full yet I will do what I can in my weak way and Dear husband I think you misunderstood me in my letters I have no of objections to your staying west and would rather you would go where you can earn more money than here and if you can get a/permanent situation at your buissness where you are now and could have the chance at the same wages or more you would be foollish to spend your time in merely toiling for your daily bread of course it would be natural for me to wish you ever by my side but it is your back must bear the heat and burden of the day so whatever pays you best I must be content with remembering it is a long lane has no turn and an ill wind that blows luck to no one Onely strive Onely we must strive to keep our hearts pure and our bodies also towards one another so when we grow old if spared to let live together we may have great peace to gether/

 

There is one passage in the bible my mind dwells on much since you left home and it is this for far above price is the woman in whose heart her husband doeth safely trust and that is my feelings I want to be perfect in that part towards you and want to feel also that my heart safely trusts in yours you shall be fondly welcomed by me home and if you can get a situation wich pays you and you think you can stand the country do as you see best wages are comeing down here and wheat is rising fast so flour on in one month more they say will be double I guess I shall get a small stock on hand. I shall have to get col coal as my wood is fast going some times I think we have/a little help at burning it

 

in your last you askes where Tomeys had moved they live in the house Will Innman lived in and pay fifteen Dollars per month rent I supose the girls are suited now but that is nothing to me I asked you in one of my letters to tell me what you thought of my cash account I sent you you never awnswer my questions I want to know just what you think do I make the right use of the money you send I often wish we had the money to spare I would come out and see you some time when you are not aware of it to see you and the country but I will have to wish it out and be content as it is if any children were older I would learn the milliner trade and see if I could not help us out/

 

In closed in this you will find a note from Mr Kerrick he says he will go out there if he can make it pay My letter has laid over since sunday night I was obliged to go down street last Evening and was to tired to write after coming home I washed yesterday I am my own hired man and woman both what clothes I get I want to Earn so you see I am not idle and today I shall clean house. I have not got my dress done yet after going into the back room last night Mother and I had good freight by two good loud raps on the window pane if it is any person trying to intimidate me I hope they will get pay in their own coin for it Mother believes it was a token but I hope not but I shall have to close I told you in my last of geting a letter from Annie B uncle Archy was in town

 

[margin]          Rubie sits alone and when he gets sp sleepy he sings him self to sleep with bob bob and dad da and mom mom mom The other children often speak of papa Mother sends her love when you come home bring her some little trifles and to see us next week you will see Mr Isacsands out there he will bring you word form from us This will not do as I must go to work from your ever true and devoted wife and friend Agnes Miller

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