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Isaac Jonesboro Union Co. Ill. Jan 16 1852 Jonesboro, Union Co. Illinois Wednesday Jan 14. 1852 Dear Antoinette Your kind letter of Dec. 19, I received on my arrival in Town last night. It had been here two or three days I suppose. I have been away for a week, up in the Prairies, at Mt Hawkins my last summer's home, and out to Murphysboro, Pinkneyville, and Nashville, the County - Shire Towns, to obtain certain land records from the County offices. I have got so that I enjoy riding horseback very much, even in the cold weather. The past week has been quite cold and stormy, unusually so for this Country, more snow has fallen than often in whole winters, and all the Suckers are very much curled up by the cold. But I have enjoyed it very much, it has seemed almost like New England weather, though the Cold weather here would be warm for winter weather there. I have not been up at Mt Hawkins since I left there last September, and the visit was quite pleasant. Mrs Roots called me rather a bad boy for not coming to see my "Mother" oftener. I believe she was as kind to me when sick as a Mother could be. The prairies I find look rather dreary in winter, especially when a cold wintry wind is blowing the snow across them. Even the quails and prairie chickens hardly seem to enjoy it.