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Elyria Feb. 10 1855 Elyria Feb, 10th/55 My Dear Mother As you say to me in your letter I feel inclined to write a little though not much to say, and I can very properly add "not much faculty to say it" for I am stupid & dull enough to day from the effect of a real old fashioned cold which keeps me coughing and using my handkerchief most of the time; it is fast getting better however. I shall be well again in a day or two, I believe I am making myself too tender by so little exposure to cold sleeping in a warm room and frequently I do not go out of doors for several days together. I mean to go out every day without fail when I get well of my cold. Not withstanding the general mildness of the winters here, there are frequent sudden [unclear] of cold which coming unawares, our needs to be still more grounded than in steady weather, extremely cold, There is quite a respectable quantity of snow on the ground & it is again gently falling this morning. Our winter for the past two or three weeks has been just such as I like, brisk clean weather yet mild, only two or three days lower than zero generally from 10 to twenty above. it is fine sleighing, well improved. I think you would enjoy our mild winter climate wish you were here with us trust another year will find you enjoying yourself in this. We shall be
[up left side] he would do well to come to this region perhaps take a farm, for a year or two till he could find a chance to buy to quiet him somewhere perhaps within half a dozen miles of this village; here the farms are held high; facilities for farming are doubtless good in [unclear] but newly settled in this region but how it might be with privileges society &c. I do not know. [unclear] thing goes on as usual with us; I miss [unclear]; we have a young lady boarder for the winter. I have been making and filling a feather bed, at which time I should have been glad of your experience and counsel; I have prepared sausage meat & brown [unclear] for the first time; just after Susan left us. [ I can by no means our of sewing yet need to hurried as at I some times.?] Do write more frequently to your distant but affectionate daughter Anne D,W,