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Anne Elyria May 29, 54 Elyria May 29th/54. Dear Mother Yours of 10th Inst. was received just one week after date. I had begun to wonder why you did not write- was very glad to hear from you. I felt some anxiety about the storms & [freshets?] reading so much of them all over the country. we have had no experience of cold or storms more than usual; have had spring these two months, It sounds odd to read in your letter of snow drifts when here vegetation is out in all its beauty and budding [luxuriance?] cherries currants & strawberries of considerable size showing promise of ripening eve long and grass thick & high and all tasseled out ripe enough to gather for