Muscotah,
Kansas June
27, 1898
Dear
Uncle and Family
As Father is verry busy and cant find time to
write he wishes me to
answer
your kind letter which was rec long enough ago to diserve an
apology
for his negligence. He is now going over
his corn the second time
it
has been so verry wet here that the farmers are verry much behind with
there
work! We had a verry nice rain here
yesterday but we had begin to
need
it for having so verry much rain and then comeing off dry it soon
bakes
the ground. Father wants to come to the
reunion but I don’t
know
wheather he will get to or not his crop being a part failure I don’t
know
wheather he can or not I would love to have him go. Ma is not well
I
had to come home this summer and help her out
I had a real nice place
to
work but wages are poor here for girls who hafta work. boys get
pretty
fair wages Joe gets $18 per month and
David gets $16 but they
hafta
work terriable hard. Dave don’t like
farming one bit and the 19 of
this
month was his birthday he was 22 How
time flys How sad to think
of
Uncle dieing and to think of Aunt being blind.
I am so sorry Pa did
not
get to go back while he lived Well fate
seems all against him I
wish
it was so I could help him more but I have got my hands full to
help
myself Well I am going to send you one
of those pictures will
also
send one of Bro Joes alone He had them
taken a long time ago and
told
Pa to send one to you These pictures are
not verry good of Ma
Nor
of Mollie but they are verry good of the rest but the picture of Joe
alone
looks just like him. Mollie sits between
Ma and Pa Joe stands
back
of Ma and I Wilma stand between the boys
David back of his Father
I
think they are splendid of Pa. Well I
must write to Dot let us know
wheather
you get this or not Love from all to the
family Good by from
Joe
Andrews and Family
[Samuel
Andrews was living in Newville, Ohio]
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