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more to you & the children than we have lost. I shall probably get 500 dollars out of our corn, but I have got to stay here at least 3 weeks longer & oh! dear me! I am so homesick. It is about the first time I was ever homesick in my life. I am not well. If I could get such food as I need I think I could get along. It does not seem to me as if I can stand it any longer, but I suppose I shall have to. There is but one corn sheller in the country & I cannot get that till two weeks from to-morrow & it will take till that time to get the corn picked over. It will take a week to shell it & haul it away. You say there will be property enough left to make us comfortable. Of course there is. There is more left than you thought we had when we went into Kankakee to live. We thought then we should be satisfied if we could have 13000 dollars left. We now have saved over 5000 dol. from old farm & those lots in Kankakee 2000 & this farm is worth 7000, the old corn about 500, our share of when all sold about 300, we have 4 horses worth at least 500 dollars, 2 buggies, Reaper, Rake, old Wagon, 3 plows, a con cultivator, corn planter, harnesses, saddle, etc. all worth 500. Martin owes for old horses 125, & for feed for them about 40. Mr. Vain owes something on account for feed for teams & also corn got by his wife's father, & corn sold by him. These all make $16465. but we owe back taxes on farm, which must be paid this fall 170 Richmond for agricultural tools 95, Abalan of about 32 dollars here for farm material to Michael's. That note in Bradley's hands amount to about six hundred dollars but it has to be paid in gold which will make it about 700 dollars & I owe at Kankakee Bank $125. This all makes 1122 dollars but Shully owes $50 & [Declaims 11 = 1061 & there is about 20 dollars of lumber of that old corn crib at Kankakee. Erasmus you know has my note for 350 dol. next Feb. but he has had of me 1 corn drill 1. & 127 Bush. corn at 60 cts. = 76.20 + 10 = 86.20 to come out of note, & then I owe Cram & Hannah of La Porte but Cram has my cutter so that there is probably about 75 dollars due them. After taking out the cutter