I am so happy to night to hear how your children are improving   Jerome is so pleased too, I have not been very well for a few days but am feeling some better   have done my washing to day and am feeling a little tired   was sure glad Jerome got hom to night   I am sure glad your getting along so well and the Lord will continue to bless you and young Fannie had quite a sick spell   came very near having pneumonia   She wnet up to Juarez and hasent come back yet   She may be staying for Allies tea party.

I thank you very much for the paper and envelopes   I have any amount of paper but no envelopes and stamps    I have been wild to write to you but could not   I sent you a letter by Fenley and told him to tell I could not write untill I got some money and I thought by the way you wrote you had not got my letter   I dont know whether I am going to et any divedan or not  havent heard any thing about it if I get any   So I can I am coming out there to see you  I will be glad when I am free  I have been tied righ here so long and now I have so trashy  I cant walk so I get as far as Hettie   I am just starved to see her and she is misserable and if she wasent she couldent take time to come down here   She was down to Agies   Thus beat (?) to a rag be yesterday.

Minie Adams stays with Nephis children and is doing   She has sobered down   She is not like the same girl   well I have managed to fill this little sheet   So good by   Mama

How are you all   I am so very anxious to hear from you   I have written three letters but it Seems like you don’t get them.   Well you have one of the happiest Brothers in the world   we went up yesterday and they got married but Oh my we had the darnedst time from begining to finish that any body ever had.   but I wont try to tell you until I come out there and that wont be long   it wont be over two weeks if it is that   I am just wild to come and see you and the children   Jeromes wife is a sweet little thing   Just as clean and neat as a pin and pleasant as can be   they worship each other   if she could only Speek English She would be alright but she will learn Soon I think but we dont any more of the family   when I come out there I will tell you all about it   Hettie is poorly with her stoma-acke again   Aunt Eliza is going to Utah soon to Stay with her Father and Auntie as long as the live if they dont live to long    it is very hard on her   She has to be shut up in the house all the time and it is So confining   She is So used to being in the open air all the time at home   She is on the all the time from morning until night...[whole sentence missing]...her Father is off to work all day and her Aunt is no company atall.   Will is up and around again   I Suppose you heard Chris Jergensen is dead

Well daughter I cant think of anything more will  hoping to hear from you Soon   we all Join in love to you all   my hand is Shaking so I cant

goodby and God bless you     Mother

It is with pleasure that I seat my self to pen you a few lines to let you know that I am still in the land of the living and doing very well   Sister and Clay leave in the morning for Cannada and I will visit among the children until just before the Temple opens  I will go back to Manti and see what I can do working in the temple.   I do hope I will be able to stand it for it is a grand work   there is such a lovely spirit there.   I fell all over the door yard night before last and have been on the bed the most of the day to day but I am feeling better   will be alright soon   it shook me up pretty badly  I went out of the door and my foot caught on a rug and I fell sprawling but I will be alright in the morning   I pieced a quilt since I came and got two dollars for it   I hope I can get some more to do   if I can help my self a little I will feel better   Kate came to day   she is going to stay here while Hettie is gone   she has a sweet little child a little girl   the children are all so glad to see me.   they are all so nice and are so good to their mother   one sent her $23 and another 13 and another 10 and Clay keeps her in honey   they certainly are good children   well I thought I would get a letter to day but no letter   I am writing letters all the time and get very few   there 8 or 9 due me write now but I dont know when they will come but I hope my dear ones havent all gone back on me   I love them all and want to hear from them   I wish Verona and Lula would write when I write you all   I cant separate letters to each one   I cant afford stamps when I am not making anything    Jerome is in Nevada   he wrote me such a pittyfull letter   he is so discouraged   he traveled so far to get to work and got a job at $2 dollars a day   he has a good outfit and is so anxious to on his feet and have something to keep his children

well I will close with much love from us all to all of you   good bye and God bless you all

lovingly   Mother and grand mother

It is some time since I received your letter but I have been quite buisy piecing baba quilts and quilting quilts for Miel to take on his mission    we have quilted one and have another on the frames and partly quilted    your name quilted on it and Matties Fans and Hetties   we are quilting names in all the plain blocks

have you heard Libbies baba got drowned   it is two weeks last Sunday   isent it strang two sisters having accidents so near to gether and such sad ones too   I sure feel sorry for them   sister Lilliy Young was buried last Monday and Walker on Sunday and Bro Riggs working on the bridge at Teasson (?) and fell and mashed his shoulder and hurt him so they think he will hardly recover   I it is terrible Walker was murderd   Mexicans beat him to death with hoe handles    got $15 fifteen dollars

Well we was at Martins and Elnas wedding yesterday evening   had a nice time   Louis and Lizzie furnished and cooked the supper so they would not have to dance in the pig trough   they got a lovely lot of presents    a wash tub a bed spread a clock   three nice pictures and dishes   did you say piles of them   well I cant think anything

yes Heber James is dead and Orpha was not expected to live   the other day Sarah has gone up there    how are you and the children geting a long   I am so anxious about the children   Will said last night he wished you would come home   he dont believe that the doctor will do them any good

good bye and God bless you

lovingly, mamma we all join with love to you all

Your namesake yesterday morning just in time for breakfast and she is a little beauty to the fatest little thing you ever saw   Hettie is just fine   never did better in her life   Bro Tenney is nearly out of his head   I dont know whether we will have to send to insane assilam or not   you never saw as pleased a family in your life Fan said there is enough cow punchers and not enough dish washers and he thought it was all right for girl to come

good by   love to all

lovingly     Ma

How are this morning   I hope you are well and happy as this leaves us we are happy because our George is with and he is happy because he is with us   he has been here two weeks next Monday    he is sorry he did not know that you folks were down there   he laid over in Juarez on Sunday   he is a fine looking young man   large and has such a sweet face   he is quite and bashful like your Pa    I have never been so glad but once in my life before and that was when Pa came that time   he had been gone so long and was just as pleased as I was we huged and kissed each other a plenty.   I was up to Hetties the other and stayed all day   She is geting a long fine and the baba is growing nicely   She has got up bettie time than she did before   I the treatment the doctor gave her helped her out very much   She worked like a turk all the time up to the very last   She looks better than she has for years   Fan renched her back about a week ago and has been laid up with that but I was down there yester eve and she is better   her side or wrist doesent hurt her anymore   she can work like a turk all the time   washes irons and cooks and everything els   I dont what   she dont do.

Well the boys are talking of coming down there to get work   if they we may come with them   I dont know yet what we will do or go a fishing   well I am about run out of any news   the diptheria has broke out in town   Seven casses and School has closed   I don<’t know what next will come but hope we will be able to stand what ever comes the Lord knows best.   I want to see you and the children so bad I am almost sick and hope I will see some time before I die

Well give our love to our dear Fenley and the dear girles and accept a goodly portion your own dear selves