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Joint letter to their parents. Newborn baby boy. Description of their children. Prosperous farm.

Her first letter to her husband since their marriage. Comments on social visits, winning a bet about whether or not an acquaintance would come, and missing her husband while he is away.

Santa Claus filled Frank’s “bathing tub” with toys on Christmas eve. Christmas gifts and celebrations. Preparations for an upcoming musical party.

Death of her daughter, Huldah. Mr. Crego’s health. Family updates.

Had an unpleasant time at a party and determined to not continue courting a woman, blaming her age and sensitivity to gossip about him. Social gatherings with young men heading to California. Disgusted with how another woman seeks to be courted. Comments on other eligible women and upcoming marriages. Mentions "immense immigration" westward. References a great fire at Paducah, Kentucky.

Glad her sister is "tending school." Gives advice on exercise regime to counter consumption, believing it plagues women "because they are shut up in the house inhaleing impure air and what is worse is they shut the lungs up between sticks or a substitute whalebones and then have thier [sic] dresses so tight… their lungs are so contracted that they can get in little bit of air enough for a mouse and then they will faint & wonder what is the mater is. It is nothing less than suicide and when they die their friends will lay it to God." Visited Boston and provides description of the city, touring a Man-of-War ship that served in the Mexican-American War, seeing the Medical College and where Dr. George Parkman was murdered, meeting a mathematician, and attending the General Conference and seeing "all the great men of God." Advocates for children playing outside and getting dirty.

Will be “putting on a quilt.” Returned recently from Athens, Ohio, travelling through Circleville, Ohio, to Buffalo, New York. Illustrated letterhead: “Ohio University.”

Anecdote regarding an Irish woman stealing ribbon from Jackman & Smiths. His store handles female thieves by offering them a choice between providing sexual services or being taken before a magistrate.

Family news. Recounts dreams, including one where George was unwell and another where Mary returned from the West and George received her coldly. Finishing "a work-bag of melon seeds and steel beads - quite pretty to be sure - have made one new dress have one to make &c."

Writing to their brother and son who is away at college. News of family and friends, with comments on health, those taking up housekeeping, siblings' attitudes about school, and matters relating to the farm. "We had Episcopal preaching yesterday. A Mr. Wiggins from the British Provinces, who has been in Ohio for a few months, preached in the afternoon at the methodist house and in the evening at our schoolhouse..." Inquiries about his Christmas and New Year celebrations.