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Isaac W. Wolfe letters, 1869-1871
1869-08-20 Page 1
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Unionville Iowa September 20th 1869 I have set down to talk with you and family by pen ink and paper, now Rachel we don't wish you to think when we write you are excluded; I never have written to you all but what I think of you as well as the balance although I never seen you but you compose a part, and a very important part of the family; you must never think my letter is not as much to you as it is to Isaac and the children; we received your kind and welcome letter in due time dated August 5th and was truely glad to hear so much about you all, and other things in that Country it seems to me when I read a letter from you I can see how every thing looks around you and how you all are doing and when you receive my letter I imagine, I can see Isaac reading it the children and Rachel seting round listening to all that is in it. We are all enjoying good health and have enough to eat and wear for which we feel thankful to the giver of all good gifts; yet I don't know whether we are thankful enough for such blessings. we are shurely blessed more than we deserve. the past spring, summer, and fall, thus far, has been the wetest, I think, I ever seen, the ground has not been dry enough to plow more than a few days at a time for the last seven months. the people that has been here for twenty years says they never saw but one such a season that was 1857, when they did not make any thing scarcely, yet for all the wet there is finally good corn
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Unionville Iowa September 20th 1869 I have set down to talk with you and family by pen ink and paper, now Rachel we don't wish you to think when we write you are excluded; I never have written to you all but what I think of you as well as the balance although I never seen you but you compose a part, and a very important part of the family; you must never think my letter is not as much to you as it is to Isaac and the children; we received your kind and welcome letter in due time dated August 5th and was truely glad to hear so much about you all, and other things in that Country it seems to me when I read a letter from you I can see how every thing looks around you and how you all are doing and when you receive my letter I imagine, I can see Isaac reading it the children and Rachel seting round listening to all that is in it. We are all enjoying good health and have enough to eat and wear for which we feel thankful to the giver of all good gifts; yet I don't know whether we are thankful enough for such blessings. we are shurely blessed more than we deserve. the past spring, summer, and fall, thus far, has been the wetest, I think, I ever seen, the ground has not been dry enough to plow more than a few days at a time for the last seven months. the people that has been here for twenty years says they never saw but one such a season that was 1857, when they did not make any thing scarcely, yet for all the wet there is finally good corn
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