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2. I spent the winter in Peoria. We gave up mothers apartment shortly after her death. Maud remained there too, rooming a few doors from where they had been. I had roomed at 1000 Perry and continued so to do till the family gave up the house when I got a room at 911 Perry opposite the little Modern? Park. I usually went down town for breakfast and dinner and went to Maud's for supper, and then visited and read to her during the evening. We went to a good many lectures especially Sunday evenings at the Rev. B. E. Carpenter's Universalist church. They still give a most excellent series of instructive lectures and generally well attended. Nora McCulloch and her cousin Mr. Henry often came. She is very fond of Maud and I often saw her. She loves Peoria and tried Biloxi the winter before for a change and it proved rather an unhappy one she being in the hospital part of the time. She is anxious Maud should come back. I wish she would too as she is the pleasantest of company and I will have to be there the coming winter. But I do not know what she will do. She likes Peoria but most of her friends and acquaintances are in Iowa. She is there now and will soon go to Oregon to visit her mother's sister. I have not heard from Geo lately. We had both life- unclear shortly before the last big flood. I'm still farming away here. Have a larger engine outfit and get along well with it: Would have had a good crop last year but for a hard storm that