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991 West Jackson street, now Centre Avenue | 991 West Jackson street, now Centre Avenue | ||
Chicago, January | Chicago, January [[23d?]] 1879 | ||
My dear daughter | |||
Your letter of January 4th I received this morning | |||
at my office where I had had to wade | |||
my way through heavy drifts of snow and whence | |||
I returned this evening wet up to the knees and | |||
[[steaming?]] from [[perspiration?]]. For this, really, is the | |||
most trying winter season I have yet gone through | |||
out West here. And, [[unclear]], we are comparatively | |||
lucky in a large city where even the heaviest | |||
snowfall cannot, for longer than a day, withstand | |||
the head of hundreds of thousands of feet. Terrible, | |||
beyond all power of imagination, have been the | |||
sufferings of the poor settlers upon the vleak | |||
parries of Minnesota, | |||
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991 West Jackson street, now Centre Avenue Chicago, January 23d? 1879
My dear daughter Your letter of January 4th I received this morning at my office where I had had to wade my way through heavy drifts of snow and whence I returned this evening wet up to the knees and steaming? from perspiration?. For this, really, is the most trying winter season I have yet gone through out West here. And, unclear, we are comparatively lucky in a large city where even the heaviest snowfall cannot, for longer than a day, withstand the head of hundreds of thousands of feet. Terrible, beyond all power of imagination, have been the sufferings of the poor settlers upon the vleak parries of Minnesota,