Home Sept 29th 1867

	My Dear Janie
			 we received yours
of the 22nd yesterday and was glad
to hear from you now I think you
must certainly be better or the perfect
rest must Keep you from having those
sick spells, now please do not think
that I am worrying for I think I
worry less than I thought I should of
[illegible] I [illegible] you, but if you can get
as well by staying for months longer
why stay & I will promise not to fret
I did not think I had written in 
such a way as to make you think
that I worrying about you we are
all well and all our friends
I have not been to Laporte for 2 weeks
will go this week I thought I would
wait for rain it is so very dusty but
there is no prospect for rain we have
had but two or three slight showers

   since you left home. the wind
is blowing a hurricane almost to day
 				      flowers
we have not had frost enough to kill the ^
				          &
Ellen and John Allen came over last ^
night the first time she has been
here since you went away. they
escaped [Ross?] there to make his last vis-
it to day he starts for Kansas on Tues
you speak of having peaches for
dinner we have had none till
last night A man came
along with some had been to wes
_tville and could not sell out and
offered his for a dollar a bushel
they are rather green though they
will do to can so we will have
some when you come home we have
been trying to get some good ones but
could not the [crossed out word] boys went to the
City yesterday I sent them to get some
but [illegible] could get no good ones
		Affectionately your Mother
				Josephine Cathcart