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Eno family letters, October 1843-February 1858
1848-12-28 Page 1
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Fort Madison Dec 28 1848 William Eno Esqr Dear Mother - I have just received your letter dated at Pine Plains Dec 10th postmarked at Poughkeepsie & assure you was very much pleased to hear once more from home & that Father was enjoying a comfortable state of health considering his advanced age, he is a living exemplification of the benefit of temperance - It gives one also much satisfaction to hear from the children. I only wish you had been more minute & particular in your account of them. I am in very good health but Elizabeth is still unwell and nothing that she has done has appeared to do any good - the past season has been a very bountiful one for the farmer, crops never were better in Iowa, prices of produce are however low - pork $2 - wheat 55 cents - corn 12 1/2 - beef $2 per hand, I can buy a saddle of venison weighing 40 lb or upwards for one dollar - prairie chickens can be had in great abundance for the shooting - I was much interested in your account of the code of [Brochure?]. Iowa will probably have a very similar code. Commissioners to [illegible] our [illegible] were appointed & will report next year. The profession of law is overdone here, lawyers swarm like the Locusts of Egypt - there is over 40 in this County & not one who makes a living by his profession - You inquire about my real estate. In all I have including what is in your name 184 acres, for thirty acres which you have title to I was offered a year ago $50 per acre - the rest of the land his adjoining the town & is
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Fort Madison Dec 28 1848 William Eno Esqr Dear Mother - I have just received your letter dated at Pine Plains Dec 10th postmarked at Poughkeepsie & assure you was very much pleased to hear once more from home & that Father was enjoying a comfortable state of health considering his advanced age, he is a living exemplification of the benefit of temperance - It gives one also much satisfaction to hear from the children. I only wish you had been more minute & particular in your account of them. I am in very good health but Elizabeth is still unwell and nothing that she has done has appeared to do any good - the past season has been a very bountiful one for the farmer, crops never were better in Iowa, prices of produce are however low - pork $2 - wheat 55 cents - corn 12 1/2 - beef $2 per hand, I can buy a saddle of venison weighing 40 lb or upwards for one dollar - prairie chickens can be had in great abundance for the shooting - I was much interested in your account of the code of [Brochure?]. Iowa will probably have a very similar code. Commissioners to [illegible] our [illegible] were appointed & will report next year. The profession of law is overdone here, lawyers swarm like the Locusts of Egypt - there is over 40 in this County & not one who makes a living by his profession - You inquire about my real estate. In all I have including what is in your name 184 acres, for thirty acres which you have title to I was offered a year ago $50 per acre - the rest of the land his adjoining the town & is
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