Katie (McNulty) Chapin - August 31, unknown - KS

[NOTE: This letter from Katie Chapin has no year or location, but it is reasonable to assume that it was written from Kansas after she and her husband Oscar moved their family west to homestead in the 1870s.]

Aug the Last

Dear Mother

it has been a long time since we have writen to you I suppose you are ancious to know how we are geting along all well but the Baby he is having a hard time with his teeath

has been prety sick we think is is some better he looks bad is very cross I can not write much this time when he gets well I write you a long letter

do not wory about us we are geting along prety well concidering the bad luck we had have got one we had our wheat Trashed [thrashed] Thursday had one hundred and Three bushh bushels corn is good we have Pleanty of Potatoes and evry thing in the [illegible] table line.

Marcia said [illegible] would send four pacages of Papers we did not get but two Oscar is going to town to day

I will write a longer letter soon

Alice and Lewis wants to see you very much talks about all the time I wish you could come and see us if we did not have to Pay for the Oxen we would send for you to come out this fall

I will have to close the Baby is worrying so I will have to take him write often

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Katie Chapin