Ohio Post Office

                                                                                                            Bureau C^o Ill

                                                                                                            June the 15^th 1861

 

                                                                                                                        Dear niece

I take my pen in hand to inform you that I am well at present and I hope that these few lines will find you the same. I received your letter of the 27 of may and mailed the 29 on the first of June which states that you have not received a letter from me for about a year. now I will assure you that I have wrote three letters to you within that time the reason that I have not written/ is because that I have not had time for I have got 26 acres of corn to tend this summer and I have no time to write on week days and on sunday I am too lazy to write I have got 40 acres of wheat to harvest this year and five acres of oats and the wheat looks tip pop top I have got about eight hundred bushels of corn in the rr crib and I can get eight cents a bushel now for it and that is all and I have got 25 bushels of wheat yet and I cant get of over 40 cents per bushel for it Oats is 8 cents per bushel and every thing else in proportion and there is no prospects of getting any more I have not received any paper from you yet I received a letter from/ Augustus the same time that I got yours and he is a talking about coming out here this summer Now you wanted to know whether I have heard from your father lately I have not heard anything from him fo since he was at camp point only what you have told me about him being in Texas

 

I am not married yet and not much sines of getting married for awhile although the people about here have had me married a half a dozen times within the last year there was some prospect of me getting married last fall but its all dried up now with that girl for we had made a solemn promise to get married and had got all ready with the exception of setting/ the day and then she backed out and I am glad of it now for she is working out for her boarding and she is a trying to get me to come back again and she says if I dont marry her and get married to some one else that she will sue me for a breach of promise but she cant do that for I have got the advantage of her there for I have got her refusal of me in black and white

 

Write as soon as convenient and let me know all the news

 

I send my best respects to you and also to Father and Mother and all inquiring friends

 

            no more at present

 

I remain your sincere Uncle

                        from Daniel Dickson

 

                        to Sarah Ann Dickson

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