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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