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Charles has pull'd up a tall dead cedar tree & with much labor has set it up in four different places successively for a liberty pole he is all the time driving at something but without much stability or design Albina has a letter partly written to Charles but is not intending to send it till she has one from him which she is expecting next wednesday mail do write often and particularly I fear I shant know not much about Charles after I go from home as he will send all his letters here

Written sideways:' Mother Milo July 9 1854 July 29, 1854