Isabel, Kan
5-24-90

Dear Cousin Blanche & Ross

I will try and answer your kind and welcome letter which I received some time ago. we are all well. Papa has come home and gone to work on the railroad about 26 miles east of here. Uncle Late has gone up to town to get him some tobacco. and Grandpa is setting here sleeping. We have got 19 little chickens how many have you got? I have got a new hat. it is a sailor with streamers. it has red watered ribbon on it. Jennie has a new hat. I have got a little garden but havent any thing planted but onions and peas. and they are coming up. I am sleepy and I must go to bed. Write soon if not sooner. I haven't had a letter from you for a long time. I am running barefooted every day.

Goodbye, your cousin Mabel

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Well, as Mabel has left some paper I will try and fill it. Well I wonder what you are doing this nice evening. Setting in the parlor I suppose. We are sitting in the room and I am by the stand chatting to the people up in Missouri. We are needing rain pretty bad now. it has been looking like rain all this week but it has not come yet. Crops look well for this time of year. have you had any frost up there this spring or summer it is rather. We have had one little frost. not enough to hurt anything much I guess. did not hurt my beans that were up anyhow. but nipped the "taters" some. Late has been hoeing the weeds out of them the "taters" I mean today. Have you had any garden luck yet? if you haven't just step over and I will "whack” up with you, we have had two messes of Greens to eat. I dont mean Billie Greens. I mean wild greens. Nona has been suffering with a catarrh on her hand and I tell you it makes her look awful pekid. and after her hand begun to get better she all broke out in great welts all over like flea bites. Aunt Helen I wish I could see you all. it would do me lots of good. I know it would. Mabel is most everyday saying something about Jennie Overman telling me how she wears her hair and how she looks and what she looks like. Aunt Helen, do you get any more letters from Mrs. Cooley. her and I are corresponding now, by the tone of her letters she writes I believe I would like her. she said as soon as she could she would send me her picture. Uncle Marshall Wolfs thinks Mabel is up there with you yet. well I must close. hoping to hear from you soon. I remain as ever your affectionate niece.

Jennie White

Good bye, excuse poor writing