Author: Eva Thomas and Charles R. Thomas
Title: Letter to “Father” of North Dorr [George S. Thomas]
Date: 16 October 1889
Curator: Christine Fisher
Note:
Oct. 16, 1889
North Dorr
Dear Father:
I now sit down to answer your kind and welcome letter received yesterday. We was awful glad to hear why you didn’t come home because we was so disappointed and worried too that we could hardly rest till we got a letter from you. Ma says she don’t see how you catched such an awful cold and to write and tell her how you caught it. Aunt Fanny is awful sick. Hant expected to live. The matter is typhoid malaria fever and they wrote that she wanted to see ma very bad and ma thought she wouldn’t go till she herd what you thought about it and if you thought best why she would go. There isn’t any news around particular only that old man ford is dead it is very dry shaint had only one shower since you went away and feed is all dried up.
Well pa old Elick Spears is up here every three or four days and ma wants two know what she shall do about it well pa the clover is cut and in the barn and the boys says it wont pay two thrash but makes five loads of good hay. We want to be sure and write so we can get it Saturday to be sure so good by from your daughter Eva. Ma sends her best love and all of the rest of us.
Well, pa, i will pen you a few lines. i was treed by the bull on top of old san. There is no news this pen is so poor i cant write with it. I am a going up to crooked lake next week. I will write when i get there. From Charles