Cerrogordo Ill

January the 14^th 67

 

                      Dear Father and Mother

 it is with plesure that I take mi pen in hand to inform you that we ar all well and harty and I hope that those few lines ma find you all injoying the same grate blessing

 

well pap we recieved your verrey kind and welcomed letter of the thirtieth of Dec 66 and was glad to hear from you and to hear that you was all well and a doing well and that you had got your barn dun and that you had a good place for to put mi horses when I kum to see you but I dont know when that will / be perhaps not fur sum time well you wanted me to right and give our cuntrey a big name we have got a nice anuf cuntrey for enney body to live in and we have hade as nice a winter as I ever sen in mi life there has not bin a day this winter but what a man could work all day and the roads is splended and to prove that I will tell you what I have bin doing I have bin halling brick for a old man and I halled eight hundred at aload so you se that I halled hevey loads

 

well a nuf of that you wanted me to set a price on that plow well I dont know what it is worth you will just have to sell it for what you ken git let that be what it will sell it just as tho it was yours and that will be right

 

well I guess that I will have to close / as Julia is coaxing me to go to bead so good night for this time pleas right soon and often I hope to remain yours as ever

                                                                                    J W M^cmullen

                                                                        to G and C Hubbard

 

                                                pleas wright soon

 

                                                                                                                        Dear pap and

mother as Jim is writing I thought I would write a fiew lines O I tell you I would love to see you both the best in the world but that cant be for three years unless you come to see us Jim sed that you and mother was a coming to see us next faul but you dont talk much like it in youre letter now I want you to come it wont cost you much and this country is so much prittier / than that you would think that you was paid besides you would see the prittiest little grand child that you hav got She is just as fat as a pig and as pritty as a prinss pap I like this country very well we hav had such a nice winter this is a pritty sun shiney day there is a little snow on the ground and it is rite cold but not so cold but what the boys can work they ar a cuting saw logs to day and a hauling them to the mill to curb the well and build a privvy the perrey winds blows so coald that we freeze up with out a privvy well I guess that is enough on that subject I will hav to bring my letter to a clos for I want to write some to the girls I want you to write soon and oftin grammaw I wish you could se sweet little ella I no you would love to see her she is a siting here in the cradle by me a cawling her dad so you see the next will be a boy

 

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I still remain youre loving child Julia A M^cmullin

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