that have stronger claims on your affection than even I have. I want to tell you about them but I cannot write. Say, Brother mine, that you will come. Perhaps you would like to know something about the family. Pa's health is very poor he ought to quit farming, but I hardly think he will. Four little" toe-heads" have taken their places here since you left. I pity them. I am at home now, have been all winter am going to teach this summer. Hillie is at Morseville working at his trade. I have not seen him since July. Mary is still in Ohio. I suppose you knew she was married? Married a Widower. Pa visited them last fall, he said they were as happy as happy could be and they have a little "Georgie" that reminds him of Nate. Sarah ( of whose past life you need no account) is living in Lena. She married a shallow minded man -- as his marrying her proves him to be -- & "domestic felicity" does not reign supreme in their household. Will you tell me, when you write, where Zach. Shed is? I want to write to him. The last I heard of him he was in Sabula, but that was some time ago. Nate, do you remember that Mary Harding who went to live at Mr. Spencers? four years ago, when I was in Carroll, I was going to the Depot one night to meet some friends. I noticed in the omnibus a girl whom I had seen at the Seminary -- though she had not seen me-- I noticed, too, that she watched me as tho I needed watching. While we were waiting at the Depot she came to me and said "Isn't your name Hattie Fuller," I told her it was. Then she said " Aint you the Hattie Fuller that Mr. Spencer used to call Blackeyes and everybody else called "Dolly". I said yes. Says she "I knew it, I remembered your eyes. I then asked for her name as I did not remember her eyes & her name was Mary Harding. her next question was about Nate.

Please do not disappoint me again in regard to coming to see me. You would be welcomed by all. Come prepared to make a long visit, for, to me, it will be your last. I wish you would come this spring so that we could visit the Cemetery (at Freeport) together. Pa went there a year ago, just in time to prevent the removal of Grandma's remains to the Potter's field. He claimed his lots and had a new monument erected but I want something more done. I shall direct this in the A.C. Beck's care, thinking he would be as like to know where you are as any one.

With all the love of a Sisters heart,
Dolly alias Hattie
(Two notes across top of page)

Please come directly here from Lena. You will come, won't you?

I perceive that in drying the ink I've burned this paper &
I'm too tired (or lazy) which ever you please to call it,
to rewrite it.

Berlin Dec 5th 1868

Dear Dear Brother,

Your ever welcome letter was received nearly a week ago and should have been answered before but I was waiting and getting ready to come here and I thought I would postpone writing until I got here. I will forgive your long delay on "one condition" which is that you will "neber" (?) do so no more. I have been well since you last wrote me. Nate, you speak of having poor health. Now I am afraid that you are not as careful as you should be, and tell me truly now are not your lungs affected and if they are please let your profession rest awhile and come and see Mary and I wont you? Yes Mary and I for I am at her house. Mary, her husband & little boy came to Pa's the 19th of November and I came home with them and am going to spend the winter, may stay long, for I'm determined never to go to Pa's to make it my home again. We started from Pa's Tuesday morning staid at Sarah's 'till night, then took the cars for Chicago staid there all day Wednesday, came to Toledo that night and staid there at Uncle Thomas' 'till Saturday when we came here. Mary said she thought of stopping in Chicago on the way out & trying to find you but concluded to wait 'till she had seen me and found out certainly where you was.

Pa is fifty six years old and I cannot tell you exactly what he is worth enough I guess to keep him & his six children from starvation. he has sold his farm.

In regard to the picture of our mother, I can not send you one now but think I can the next time I write, Pa had a picture and several years ago I took it to McHenry in Freport and had 2 copies taken from it and kept & the other I sent to our Uncle John in Athens in this state. At that time I did not know where you were or I should have sent you one. I have but the one now & should hate to part with it but will try & get it copied for you before I write again. Does that suit you Brother mine? No; I did not go to hear Overtons and Watters Troupe I knew of their being in Winston but Pa & Ma were both sick at the time & I was their only Bridget. Several of my acquaintances went & said it was about such a Theater as Winston was Town, & the town has not grown any. I have got some pictures of myself & if you will send me a good one of yourself I will send you one. & Mary wants you to send her one she wants to exchange her little boy's for it. Please send them. Mary sends her love and says come & see us. Yes Nate you can come & see me now I am not at Pa's now. I am tired & sleepy now so you must excuse a short letter Write soon to your

loving sister

Hattie

Direct to Berlin Heights
Erie Co.
Ohio

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Rocheseter Apr. 1st

Dear Brother mine.

If you will accept it I will scribble
a short note to you now & answer your letter at some other
time when I feel more like it. I am half sick with a cold
and my hand trembles so that I can scarcely write. As you
see from the heading of this, I am still at Cousin Sadie's
but I am going to Berlin as soon as the roads will permit.
I have some Photos which I am told are very good, will send
you one. Will send you one of Ma's which I have and try
to get another that is at home. Now, Nate please do not
be displeased with this for I cannot write this afternoon.
have got the "blues" with everything else. As soon as I
get to Berlin I will write you a good long letter. Sade is
going with me & she will speak for herself when I write
from there. But please do not wait to get that but write
& tell me if you get the letters.

With much love and
many good wishes
I am as ever
Your own sister
Hattie

Be sure to send me a good picture of yourself. Send to
Berlin Heights and send, if possible so that I may get
it while Sadi is at Berlin with me so that she may see it.
Will you, mine dear brother?