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Dear Mary - I thought of writing to you great many times before this but we were so busy with the Cenhadur and Cofiant that I did not have any time to do it, or else I would have done it long before. Henry and your Mother reached home about half past Nine o'clock Tuesday Night. Gwen Prichard, wanted them to come home very much Day. The Old Mare drew, and I, drove up to Glyn, Wednesday Morning. She sent Sarah Your pumpkins. And told me to tell John, after she got home, that he was welcome to the Pumpkin Pie. She told me to tell Sarah, to get well as soon as she could, and hurry to come up there as soon as she could. That She would fix up the New House like Palace for her. they had just got through painting it that Day. Old Mr Prichard, Gwen's Father was the Painter. It is painted Red out side and the corners and Cornice White. The Roof is unpainted. Lewis & Margaret have moved, to Humphrey Robert's New House by Mary, Catharine & Laura Thomas's Sarah about the same. Dr Guiteau was here last Tuesday. He said, that she did not expect her to recover soon, seeing that she could 'nt bear strong Medicine. We received your Letter Night before last. Henry found a letter for him the Night he came home, from June it came Monday Evening. William I. Lewis's wife that lives in the stone house below the Farm died last Saturday and was buried last Monday in Prospect Village burying ground Mr. Ray, the Post Master in Remsen, acted very mean to your Father He sent a letter to the Post-Master-General wanting a leave to charge postage for the Magazines. He told John, that he did not want charge such Postage. This makes your Fathers postage 8 or 10 dollars more every year. Henry, Cynthia & Anna say that little John Henry, is no longer than from their elbow joints to the end of their fingers! There is a Mill in the Village that goes by steam and grinds one cob at a time. Henry got some corn ground there last Saturday. It grinds nothing but corn.