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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 snaps 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 places but newly settled in this region but how it might be with privileges society &c. I do not know. Every thing goes on as usual with us; I miss Susan: 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' too for the first time; we had a pig just after Susan left us. I am by no means out of sewing yet not so hurried as at some times. Do write more frequently to your distant but affectionate daughter Anne D,W,