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Sept 14 Today has been (illegible) & rainy drippling (illegible) foot sometimes. This eve it (illegible) (more?) rain but (little?) cloudy. Hope we will not have any rain more. O dear (illegible) (illegible) I thank you that Fathers health is better O (illegible) (illegible) will Spare him (lung?) yet it (illegible) thy will. O God help him give him that sweet peace of (illegible) (illegible) go (illegible) him though life (it?) gives him a peaceful end (illegible) (illegible) may he wealth his life (into?) sweetly there. Oh my (illegible) O God (slept?) then help (I?) Les the (illegible) both they are (parting?) & lead them in the streight (folk?) (hot?) (illegible) to there (&? I?) has a (fairly?) high temper hope the will find his power that (illegible) all there things Sam is like the old (illegible) all in all Sallie looks just a young as when she left my a little (thing?) not much (through?) got (her?) things all (illegible) up Saterday Evening Saturday (today?), this evening, there was a knock the door when I opened the door there was quite a Gentleman at the entrance stept in the house, came in the house, I am (illegible) ( Sgent?) (Soiffin?) is my name. Ah yes I reached out my hand (to?) did Father worked, Mothers today all night. Well I (tell?) you, (Y-something) & my daughter has come home & I am afraid I cant keep you
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Sept 14 Today has been (illegible) & rainy drippling (illegible) foot sometimes. This eve it (illegible) (more?) rain but (little?) cloudy. Hope we will not have any rain more. O dear (illegible) (illegible) I thank you that Fathers health is better O (illegible) (illegible) will Spare him (lung?) yet it (illegible) thy will. O God help him give him that sweet peace of (illegible) (illegible) go (illegible) him though life (it?) gives him a peaceful end (illegible) (illegible) may he wealth his life (into?) sweetly there. Oh my (illegible) O God (slept?) then help (I?) Les the (illegible) both they are (parting?) & lead them in the streight (folk?) (hot?) (illegible) to there (&? I?) has a (fairly?) high temper hope the will find his power that (illegible) all there things Sam is like the old (illegible) all in all Sallie looks just a young as when she left my a little (thing?) not much (through?) got (her?) things all (illegible) up Saterday Evening Saturday (today?), this evening, there was a knock the door when I opened the door there was quite a Gentleman at the entrance stept in the house, came in the house, I am (illegible) ( Sgent?) (Soiffin?) is my name. Ah yes I reached out my hand (to?) did Father worked, Mothers today all night. Well I (tell?) you, (Y-something) & my daughter has come home & I am afraid I cant keep you
Iowa Women’s Lives: Letters and Diaries
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