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Jolley family letters, 1866 and 1882-1886

you raise nothing to sell how do you think you are going to pay your Debts you must Break up your Land and get something of it  you know [illegible] home My life is misery to me have cost me $25 Doctor Bill 25 for [Beef?] 20 for Blacksmith 15 for Colt 20 for Bull 5 for insureing many other do Littel things had to pay Delbert think of going to Colorado when his time is up [Bert?] and [Ann?] Sweet is gone to the Norman school At Cedar Falls for [4?] years We have done pictin Corn Last Saterday poor Crop about 7 hundreds bushels Oats 5 hundreds 22 Cattel is very Low 5 years old 20 Calves 7 to 8 [Hoys?] 5 Dollars $ 10 c I am going to put up A Calves House 50 feet Long 12 feet wide all the potatoes 20 bushels I have got [Civin Hallot?] Hay wich was burnt up is not setted He will Leave in February

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you raise nothing to sell how do you think you are going to pay your Debts you must Break up your Land and get something of it you know [illegible] home My life is misery to me have cost me $25 Doctor Bill 25 for [Beef?] 20 for Blacksmith 15 for Colt 20 for Bull 5 for insureing many other do Littel things had to pay Delbert think of going to Colorado when his time is up [Bert?] and [Ann?] Sweet is gone to the Norman school At Cedar Falls for [4?] years We have done pictin Corn Last Saterday poor Crop about 7 hundreds bushels Oats 5 hundreds 22 Cattel is very Low 5 years old 20 Calves 7 to 8 [Hoys?] 5 Dollars $ 10 c I am going to put up A Calves House 50 feet Long 12 feet wide all the potatoes 20 bushels I have got [Civin Hallot?] Hay wich was burnt up is not setted He will Leave in February