Isabel, Kan,
Jan. 1-30-1890

Dear Aunt, Uncle, & Cousins,

This beautiful eve I will Cry and write you a few lines to let you know how we are getting along. Well Dick & Mabel got home last Friday. I was not at home was at Bill Sellers I did not look for them until Saturday. Mabel is well, she had the ear-ache sunday night & Monday but is all right now. Well I must tell you the reason I am writing is because Dick Late & Billy Green have gone to Oklahoma started this morning and Dick wanted I should write to you, & tell you why he had not written to you. well it is this. he has not had time for the next day after he got home I was taken with the “La grippe" & was sick, and them going down there. nearly everybody around here is grunting with the grippe. Grandpa says tell you he is well. we are having the warmest weather here . it is just like summer. Blanche has the grippe now. she had the thrash before Dick came home but is over it now. Well Mabel is in bed & a sleeping away like a good fellow, she went to school today. the first time she went since she came home. it just about played her out to walk there & back again. if you see Uncle Ed I wish you would tell him to answer my letter if you please. those apples were ever so nice. I was to a musical concert a week ago tonight. I tell you it was good. It was a man & his wife. the man was blind but he could make a violin get just the same as if he could of seen. his wife played the organ. the admission was free. they had jewelry they sold to. they would get to young ladies and the men would vote on them and the one that got the most votes got it. they got $8.20 cents down here. but the oldest woman in the house got it down here. It was a nice one it ought to be for that money. what kind of weather are you having back there now? well my paper is about full and it is most bed time. guess I had better quit this scribbling. for I know you will have to get your specs to read it now. let alone a hole lot more wrote onto it. write soon. I remain as ever your neice.

Jennie White