Beloit
August 23, 1857
My Dearest John,
It is six weeks tomorrow morning since you left home. I did hope that you would of been to home by
this time but I have hoped in vain.
There have been many changes since you have left for here. I am now all alone, and have been a week, and
Robert did not pay his last week’s board, but wrote to Edwin to tell him to
send it down to me, but I have not received anything from Edwin, although I
wrote to him and told him if he had no money to bring me some butter for I had
none. And wanted him to saw some wood
but he never came nor wrote so I have had to saw and split my own wood, for
Robert did not leave only enough for a day and a half, but I look for better
times before many days are over, for I can’t stand this longer. If I had been well I should not mind it, but
I am getting better than I was last week.
I was quite sick last week with dysentery, but thank God I am
better.
This has been a very lonesome Sunday to me. I don’t know how it has been with my dearest John. I received your kind letter last
Tuesday. It had been 16 days in coming ,
the one you wrote on the 3rd of August, the one you wrote the same
time as Robert’s, I have not received
yet. It is strange. I think Edwin’s letter I had posted the next day and
wrote a note with it. My dear John, your
letter raised my spirits up considerable well.
I shall say cheer up, cheer up for if we have only a cover over our
heads that we can call our own, Oh! what money it will save. I shall feel like a queen. Well, hurry up your cakes for I don’t want to
be paying two dollars and a half here and you will have to come quick for I
have only half a sack of flour in the house and no money to get some.
I hope you have written to Banks for __ to come home before
now, for it will be getting late for the children and sooner the better you
come home for to try to sell some of the things for I can’t go out to see
anyone about them. I did go to the boss
of the paper mill and he came to see the lounge but he said he did not want one
so high priced, but perhaps you can get him to take it. We shall have to let some of the things go
for rent I suppose for it will be twenty dollars on Tuesday .
I believe the children are very impatient to see you. Sis says that is a very long time and Bobby
says he thinks it’s dreadful strange.
Sis opened her eyes when I told her I had a letter from Pa. When is he coming home, she said. The baby is as fat as butter and grows like a
___ ___. You would hardly know him; how
strong he is. When I lay him down in
turns right on his face. He is a good
child. I hope he will prove a blessing
to us. I am doing all I can with him
sewing so that I shall have time for something else when I get to my journey’s
end , which I hope will be before long.
I look for a letter from you every day. I have had a present of a dress from Mrs. Wheeler. I get my milk there now. I get all the sweet corn I want too.
I hope that these few lines will find my dear John in the
enjoyment of good health. Don’t be too
venturesome. You might acquire a cold by
sleeping so. Be sure and cover yourself
from the night. I hope to see you for an
answer to this letter. Be sure and come now. That’s a good boy. I hope you had my letters, 4 I think I have
sent, for you must feel lonesome not hearing anything from home.
When Robert has gone to Dedham
________________________________.
Your affectionate and fond wife,
Elizabeth
I don’t know what the bedsteads are worth, the chairs too,
suppose you want to sell.
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