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Ann Aug. 22. 1849. clear skies: vegetation looks beautifully now. Mrs. H.'s garden is very fine, tall dahlias - a variety of pretty flowers, several weeping willows small, but bending their graceful boughs to the ground, almost touching - fine locust trees all round the fence outside, but at the house and Seminary. There are two little camerack trees a species of evergreen I had not seen. tomato plants are most as high as my head, the fruit already turning yellow - we have had some cooked ones we have had green corn, squashes, beats, cucumbers; and new potatoes this long time. It has been remarkably healthy here all the season very few cases of cholera and those among the intemperate or those of filthy habits: it however prevails to some extent around us, and we may yet be visited. there have been many deaths at Chicago: - 30 at a small Norwegian Settlement back of Milwaukie, in the latter place 10 died from cholera in the two days I was there. You have seen by the papers I suppose of the great mortality at Sandusky; a family visiting here from that place, state that such was the panic that in some instances they fled leaving unburied dead in their houses: Physicians went from Cleveland to attend upon the sick. On every boat there are more or less cases: a neighbor just returned from Buffalo said there were four deaths on the passage, two bodies were thorn overboard. There is much rivalry between the boats round the lakes and the railroad company through Michigan: by the latter route one can go from here to Buffalo in 36 hours for five dollars and board. In some cases the boats round the lakes have carried for three even two dollars. -

Written up the left side: Do write me Mother. Joseph, Almeda, Charles, Albina: much love to all the chicks and children and babies.