Isabel Kans
Jan 11th 1891

Dear Sister & Family,

This cold Sabbath eave I will try & talk a while with you. We received your Letter a weeke ago last night. I was at Medicine Lodge that day. got our Photos that day & as I came home I stoped to the Alliance & did not get home till 10 o'clock & here it has been one weeke & no picture sent to you yet. but dont you blame the Alliance for it for it has just been our own fault. well all I have to say about the Pictures is this. they are just as homley as we are & dont you show them to any one for I know that you will be ashamed of such ugley homley relitives. All that I hate is the artest made a mistake in not setting Blanch up hier. If we had have knowing of it at the time we would have sat again. Well we are having quite awinter since New Year day it has not been so cold but we have had lots of snow. I wish you would keep your Mo snows at home & not send them down here where we have no Sleds to Sleigh rides on. for we have so little snow down here as a general thing that sleds are no good. the Snow is now one ft deepe on a level.

Oh yes forgot to tell you we wer all well. never had better health than now. Pa is feeling as well as comin. he sits and reads the Papers all the time. only what time he spends up at town. Town comes verry handey for him to go to & spend his time talking to People. they call him Uncle Luther & every body knows him. He came down on New Years day to help eat our Turkey & was talking of how happy he was in his Old days. he says he has all he wants & often thanks God that he is so well fixed as he is. he says he is happy & ready to go when the time comes for him to leave this world. The Bad spel he had at church after he came out of it he almost shouted & said Thank God I am ready to go at any time. We could hardly Keep him quiet. he wanted to tell Every body of how happy he was. I dont hardley think it is hart disease for when he takes those spels the misery seems to be in his stomach than to his hart. he has not had one since the one at church. he thinks that when he goes it will be by one of those spels. Dont wory about him suffering for anything for he has pleanty to eat & wair & is well fixed. but I do wish you could come and see him. it would do him so much good to see you once more. he takes great comfort with the children. Blanch & Mabel seem to be his only cair and they think so much of him.

Blanch is such a sweete little girl & so good. Sue says we just cant ever give her up & says I think more of her than I do of my oan children. she has just now come up & asked me what I was doing. she says “me shake me". she looks like Nettie when she laughs. Mable goes to school every day & is learning verry fast. well Ill declair. my paper is full. Ill half to get more or quit but I haint ready to quit so get some more. I must put some more coal in the stove or the fire will go out. I got a load of coal for I was afraid the R.Road would get blocked again & then we would be out of coal. I want your pictures as soon as you can get them. No.2. Yes I supose there is quite a change in Mo since we left there & Hellen there is quite a change here since you left here. if you wer to com back here now you would not know that you ever saw this country. Indeede I am quite anxious for you to come back for I know you look at this country now as you saw it then and think we are away off from any one. Ill wager you a cookie that the People in this country enjoy themselves much more than those there. Every Body is so Pleasant and Social here & enjoy themselves so well. you spoke of Wills dream. If you lived here and Will got home sick it wouldnt be for the want of fun. fore there is some plase to go all the time. we are contented here & like the country. One can do as well here as there. all the difference is the fruit & I think the climate here makes up for that difference. but It would not do for this country to suit everybody for they could not all live here. Well I will let Sue finish this letter as she can ans yor questions better than I can. I hope you will write soone & tell us all the news

As Every your Bro, L