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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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all well and glad to see me back again. Ellen is not teaching this winter but is helping mother with the work. Ellen was taken quite sick about the time I came home which was very much like the symtoms of poison she seemed not to get any better but under the skillful treatment of Uncle Milton she is at the last time they wrote much better. The doctor thought it was caused by eating rabbit which they all had eaten. It made them all feel badly but Ellen was taken so much worse. We learn from him that rabbits rare subject to trichina. They did not tell Ellen so while she was sick thinking she would worry a great deal about it. Well I suppose you would like to know something about Cedar Falls. It is about one hundred-forty miles from home. It is situated in the
 
Iowa Women’s Lives: Letters and Diaries