Mrs Noddins Dear Friend
		  It is a long
time since I have heard from
you the last time I wrote
I did not receive an answer but
I often think of you & make
up my mind to write but go
no farther. I have had a very
busy summer we have the
school house close by our house
& I had to board the teacher
& it made me extra work &
the children are not very much
help yet the oldest is now 10
years old we have no school
in winter so I have to teach
the children at home.  I suppose
your children are all growing
up ever Willie must be quite
a large boy our little boy is 
4 years old to look back it

hardly seems possible it is nearly
7 years since we left Michigan
How are all our old friends there
do you ever see any of the Honoemans [?]
how are they all getting on.  How
does the white church over in 
that neighborhood prosper.  I dare
say some of the old neighbors
in your part have passed away
since you last wrote me.  I am
so glad we are having such a 
revival here some who at first
would not attend have since been
brought in and are happy Jamestown
has so many saloons & so much
drinking going on here it has been
a great discouragement to those who
were working but now since then
meetings of 10 weeks have been
going on the whole town seems
to be stirred up & they will
continue I expect as long as Bro
Taylor is here write soon Remember me
to all my friends.  Yours H [?] katharine Kemp