Eliza & Frank I want you should git your wood this fall for the winter hier some one to cut it into stove wood & cord it oup it will Be cheaper for you than wait for winter to git it. git your poark & Beff & Butter & Eggs is as cheap as Eny thing lay in for A noughf of Every thing this fall it is hard to git it in the winter & it cost mor an to git Close two make you Both comfatble through the winter and not go cold for want of close I want Frank to have his Boots Bigenoughf so tha will go on & off Eaza & tha wount Be so apt to freeze his feet going to schooll this winter. I will have A nother check in septembear to send to you of sixteen Dolars & this one of thirty two Dolars will help / puty well to git all you want this winter with what I shall send to Frank Bimbuy if nothing happens & I am well it cost A grate Deal hear for things to Eat to make him confatable sutch as Eggs & Buter & cheese & other litle notion pies cakes & sutch other stuff I paid tenn cents for A small lemon oup to port hudson to make me A litle lemonade I was so thirsty it made the warter tast Better to me the canal warter thear is mutch Better than the warter we drink hear I would like A good drink out of the canall now while I am writing wall one must git A long the Best he can I shant go hungry hear while I have got mony nor I dont want you should               Asa Holmes

 

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Be Carful & save the number

of the Check & not loose it

 

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take cair of your self

Frank & Be A good Boy

Asa Holmes

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