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                                                                                                                                Milo Oct. 26th 1847.

Very dear Brother Issac

                                A good large Package of letters was rec'd last Sat. eve by S.W. Furber , which did make us glad. We had been confidently expecting letters from you for some mails. You are a dear good brother to write so particularly and long. We yearn to know all about you - your business every day etc. if you are so far away from us. Hope you will continue good in that as every other respect. We shall feel very anxious about you through this long cold winter. Shall think of you often while we are warm and comfortable around the fire, and you away so far from us, exposed to so much cold and wind and storms. 
          Nevertheless we are glad for you- because you seem to feel that you have succeeded beyond your expectations in obtaining a good situation. You did not write what are to be your wages, nor anything about it. You complain that it was a long time before you heard from home after you went away, and so it was. But you reccollect in your first letter from Mass. you did not tell us where to direct letters to you, and we knew not where you might be. I wanted to write, and should had I known where. Am glad your shirts, bosoms etc. suited you. We found another pair of pants after the things were sent to Bangor which ought to have been put in. Your Geology I thought of intended should have sent - also Magnet, shaving box, and some other things, but Mother thought you would not wish to have your trunk encumbered with many books etc. 
   It is very cold - squally - today. Charles is at work on Hoxie hill - joined drives, he said. Hiram digging potatoes - most done, sorted considerable. Mother spatting butter down cellar -- has been writing letters to Bangor brethren to go by Samuel tomorrow. Albina baking cake, because her mother and Mrs. Smith are coming here