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Hillsdale. Dec. 21/ [76?]

Dear Sister Anna,

I wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, and I wish you could be with us for we are going to have a turkey. Mr. B. went downtown and bought two ducks yesterday and they were the fatest [sic] I ever saw; we had one before and it was good and we had a turkey thanksgiving. [da iwan you wyr.?] So you see that they treat us too good altogether and I think it would be hard to coax us back to [Stenben?] if I only breathed firstrate [sic]: but I do not breathe as well as most. Elizabeth is almost the same. It is very hard for her to walk around, that is, she has to go slowly and be careful not to fall. She does not [beg?] to go up and down stairs now. I think she is lamer than when we came though she is some better than she was two or three weeks ago.

We have a little sleighing. They have had more already here this winter than they had all last winter. We are much interested in hearing how the road and weather are with you. Let us hear from Mother is as after [Passihle?]