Otego July 3d (after 1879)

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Dear Brother

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I have been sadly negligent about answering your letter. I am a thousand times obliged for the money you sent me. I think I shall take it and go to Chicago to see Adeline. I have all the weaving I can do through the spring and fore part of summer. Through the fall and winter I don’t have so much. I want to see you ever so much. I wish you would think you could sell out there and come a little nearer home. We should all be so glad. Elvira has had a bad felon on her right thumb and how do you suppose she sews. Orrin Houghton died last winter. I don’t know but I have told you we are passing away. Last winter the measles prevailed and were quite fatal. A good many died with and they left a good many in a poorer state of health. Lucius is not very well, he looks about as poor and scrawny as ma used to. There has been a good deal of cold rainy weather this spring but things are growing nicely now. There were late frosts that injured the currants some. There is going to be apples and pears some but not as plenty as some years. Raspberries and blackberries are going to be plenty where there is briars now. There is one thing I would like to ask you about. I have read about hull berries but have never formed an idea what they are like but think they are good to eat for I have read about the indian children gathering them. Not where you are but in the region west of lake Superior. Now if you know any thing about them please tell me something about them. I was down to Scranton last summer, brother George’s health is not very good. Well we are all wearing out. I hope we shall so live that when we are called to pass over to the other side we may be received where there is no more sorrow nor parting of friends.

Good bye

T Chase