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Today I shall mail a paper to Father in which I shall enclose a couple of heads of rye, which are considered a fair average of the field. My papers do not come very regularly. Last week we had a wet mail: your letters came all right, but there were some so defaced that the address could not be read. I wonder if any of them were for me. Besides your letters I have had two from Perry a double one from the Havers - one from Father at Madison and one from Doctor Lieb; except official letters, that is my stock since coming here as near as I can recollect - and so perhaps the wet mail was mostly for me. I should like to see it rain in Denver once! If the weather will cool off, I will write a letter for the Tribune. Haven't seen my two last to the Advocate yet. Perhaps I shall get another letter from you today: by that time it will be too hot to write more, but you shall hear again soon - From your Affectionate Husband Simeon Whiteley.