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Correspondence to Ellen Mowrer Miller in Boone County, Iowa from family in Pennsylvania, Iowa and South Dakota, 1865-1890

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upon us. We have had remarkable fine weather during the fore part of the winter season. We did not have snow of any account untill Feb the weather being too mild it soon disappeared without making much sleighing. And fears were entertained that the icecrop would be a failure. But the cold snap we had in Feb did the work and we succeeded in filling our house with the almost indispensable articles Cousin Ellie I must tell often that the matrimonial season is not over yet in our neighborhood It seems to be an almost prevailing epidemic almost every family being infested with It (ours being an exception) We have not as yet fell a prey to this contagios disease and
 
Iowa Women’s Lives: Letters and Diaries