Edward C. Smith to Catherine Smith, 1876 October 29
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Your very Kind letter was received in due time and glad were we to
again to learn of your wellfare &.c. Marilla has
been very sick but is now geting better her complaint was inflamation of the Kidneys & bladder she had a
very severe time aside from this we are all well except Frank and I think it a
chance if she lives until Spring going as did her sister Sue with consumption
she Keep about the house and takes care of the children but she coughfs
fearfully The chldren are tough as bears and how I wish
you could see
them as they are playing around me to night as I sit writing to you and make
noise enough to craze a [nation] we are having the most
delightfull Fall I ever saw our rain having set in in earnest and the hill sides
and valleys are once more clothed in green during the last week wild oats have
grown from 2 to 3 inches and this morning I picked in our yard as fine a double
rose as you ever saw and there are plenty left for another month this must be
quite a contrast with your surroundings for I see by the N.Y. papers that snow
has fallen in many places I was glad to hear that Bent had gone to the Centenial
and I can but regret that I was
to wait until
the next and then I hope we will be united in that great city the New Jeruselaam
with God for our King never more to part we have had very exciting times here
during the Presidential canvass and I am glad it is about over but I am fearfull
of the result but it will depend very much on the way New York goes I was in
hopes to have paid you a visit another year but yet I cant tell for it is a
great undertaking and the cost is enormous when a fellow has to work by the
month for his bread and close how I wish I had rich relations that wanted to see
me bad enough to pay freight on me
one way I think I would try and get
shiped I am still in the store working hard as ever but while I have more work
than I want there are plenty that can find none but this is the case the world
over I hope to hear from Bent before he returns but if not before soon after and
all the particulars in to the big show we all join in sending
love to you all and I hope to hear from you oftener than we have Give my best
love to grandma and tell the good old Love that I think of her daily and how
glad I would be to see her and hope to some time
God bless you all is the prayer of your Aff sonE.C. Smith