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Friday 27th, The mail will leave tomorrow and I must close this today we set up our cook - stove yesterday, our log kitchen looks quite nice and comfortable. I don't know the rain may affect it - believe it - leaks sometimes - O dear the mosquitoes have swarmed here for the last - three days it does seem as though we should be eat up alive. I thought I knew something about them before I came here but find I was mistaken they just spoil the country in my way of thinking. Mother seems quite disappointed I am afraid she repents of coming, she said to me since I began to write - "I suppose you wont advise Samuel to come here." I told her of course I shouldn't, well "I wouldn't either" she replied, I don't know much about the society here Hellen says there is some very good, Theodore drove over a cow and calf the other day and made a present of it - to mother, we bought one of Haskell paid $30 are obliged to let the calves have part of the milk all summer to bring the cows home at night - IT seems as though I ought to fill this sheet - but the children are in here turning the books, topsy-turvy and the flies bite so I am about half crazy, do write often I want to hear from Lucy, how does the damsel Frances get along? and how does the steam mill prosper? and the vessels? I want to hear all about it. Father has from Lizzie Doe? She left us at Buffalo I should like to know how she got along. I think I shall go over to Olive's next week and stay two or three weeks perhaps if I don't get homesick, she calls her baby Mary Elizabeth she is a very good child, Warren calls his boy William Henry, Olive says she wrote to you soon as she got your letter after Lucy was taken is very kind and pleasant and a great talker says he should not have known me, Theodore did not know John, well good by - don't imagine me homesick all the time only and in awhile when the fit comes over me. Your affect sister

Mehitabel