Dear Father and Mother.
I have taken my pen in hand to write you a few lines. Semer(sp) received a letter from you last nite which gave us real pleasure to know that you were well. We are all well and in tolerable good health at present. I have got purty stout again, Daddy, you better believe I was mitty glad to get a few lines from you. I had begun to think you never would rite me, though Semer said he knowed that you would write to him. Yes, I will continue to write to you as long as I live. You must write to us again. Mama you must rite to us. I would like to be with you on New Year's Day and me and Hessie was wondering what you were doing on Christmas. Tell Emily we would like to see her the best in the world. Arvilla is just as fat as a hog. She is about as much as I want to lift anymore. Well I must close with my love too you all. So farewell daddy and mama. Dorothy
Dear father and mother,
I have undertaken to write you a few lines to tell you how we are getting along we are well at this time hoping that these lines will find you all well. I received your letter today that you rote the l6th of November and was glad to hear that you was both well and that your health was better than hit used to be. The health of the country here hasn't been very good this fall. There has been rite smart of sickness here and so many deaths. You stated that you wanted to know whether I was coming back or not. I expect that I will if you will have some corn and oats tended. I will satisfy you for it and as for that two hundred dollars I don't want it and the four hundred. I will have it when I come ready for you if I don't have mity bad luck. I have had some bad luck already but I think I will watch a little closer after this. I will tell you more about hit some other time. Tell Lewis Rhode to keep that timber for me if he hant sold it for I want it. I must tell you something about the weather here. It has been the prettiest weather I have seen for this time of the year. There hant been many days but what a fella could go without a coat. There hant been any snow this month. Semer and the boys hant fed their cattle any yet only the milk cows. The others are in the bottom. They look well and if there don't come snow they will do well for a long time. I will tell you about the crops here. There hant much sound corn here at all. Corn sells here for 25 or 30 cents a bushel. Oats 30 cents, potatoes and wheat 60 cents per bushel. Pork four dollars per hundred. There hant many a buying. something of it. I guess I had better quit for hit pears like I cant rite atoll. I send my love to you both and all of my brothers and sisters.
From Semer and Esther Gray to their father and mother, Wm Gray and Sarah Gray.
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