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1854-06-18 Page 1
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Carlisle Iowa / June 18th 1854 Dear Sister / Yours [elated?] some two months back came to hand and by it we learn that you are all well.. we got a letter evry once in a while [illegible] us because we do not write.. I will acknowlede our negligence yet we try to answer all the Letters that we got from our friends.. we are both in good Health no sickness in the country.. [Dona?] is full of strangers looking at the soil from all parts of the world and I do not suppose that there ever was a State with the exception of California that there is such a tide of emigration to for some two month past we have been allmost daly saluted with the whistle of the steamboat. Yesterday one of the first class Missippi steamers passed up the [Pines?] and all [loaded?] to the [gaurd?] the price of Land is allmost beyond the reach of a poor man: & hardly [illegible] why it is that you & [Duet?] B. do not come out and look at the Country and [illegible] many your selves to death about a few dimes. that can only rais a mess among your children when you are both [illegible] on if you want land why you do not come and get it so that the raise of land will be yours from
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Carlisle Iowa / June 18th 1854 Dear Sister / Yours [elated?] some two months back came to hand and by it we learn that you are all well.. we got a letter evry once in a while [illegible] us because we do not write.. I will acknowlede our negligence yet we try to answer all the Letters that we got from our friends.. we are both in good Health no sickness in the country.. [Dona?] is full of strangers looking at the soil from all parts of the world and I do not suppose that there ever was a State with the exception of California that there is such a tide of emigration to for some two month past we have been allmost daly saluted with the whistle of the steamboat. Yesterday one of the first class Missippi steamers passed up the [Pines?] and all [loaded?] to the [gaurd?] the price of Land is allmost beyond the reach of a poor man: & hardly [illegible] why it is that you & [Duet?] B. do not come out and look at the Country and [illegible] many your selves to death about a few dimes. that can only rais a mess among your children when you are both [illegible] on if you want land why you do not come and get it so that the raise of land will be yours from
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