Christie Family Letters (3:4). Minnesota Historical Society. Elizabeth Reid Christie, Hartford, Connecticut, to her husband, James Christie, Clyman, Dodge Co., Wisconsin, Feb. 24, 1847. /Fragment Hartford Febuary 24 th 1847 My Dear Husband i sit down to write to you once more letting you know that i recieved your kind and Wellcomed letter dated Febuary which i am happy to hear of your wellfare My Dear James their is nothing in this world gives me so much happyness as a letter from you thank god little Sarah Jane is got quite well and strong again i wrote you word of her illness in my last letter that i wrote you i think it was wrote 3 Febuary i hope you have got it you say you have just Recived Only 2 letters from me now Believe me this is the 6th for me to send you and it vexes me very much that the went so many astray for it was Robert Directed them and it was curious that you got the Papers and did not get them Dear James Tom is a fine stout boy Lyet? i dont know what i will do with him for their is none r of his cloths fits him he has grown ? them so much he says to Sarah that he will bye here a nice little Ass to day and she says Back to him yes Tom just like Mr Cherys the wondered that she could mind so long but she is very quick Tom bids me tell Willie to make him a whip and he will help him to Drive the Oxen he has curies notions he sometimes Asks me if you are dead and when will i take him to you he is very much afraid of me leaving him i cant get going out without him he watches /me? he says to sarah that he has 3 fathers meaning his uncles and she Zdenies it? his uncle Tom took him out on sunday to a house he is aquinted in the Country 2 miles away and Tom says that his toung went the whole time Asking Questions wanting to know how the water gets into the snow and how the ice stays on watter and wanting to know if he will buy him a Pair of skates and so on you see he sleeps with him and he is very fond of him he does not know how he will Part with him Robert has Bought little Sarah a Pair of Boots you see he does not make any thing but mens Boots Dear James times is very hard with Robert you see he has a great family to keep up and if he could get Plenty of work he would not care, the flour is 7 dollers and 60 cents Per Barrell and every thing is up here on acount that they are sending Provisions? to Scotland and ireland and he Pays 40 Dollers Per year for house rent and 2 Dollers a fortnight for Coal and charcoal for fire so it keeps him Buisey to keep every thing straight so you see we have greatly imbarised him but he never exclaims only i am letting you know how things stand he is very generous he gives the Children the Best Bit on his Plate Now i hope Dear James that you will Allways Put William in mind of these things for indeed i would not like to write to him about it Dear James you speak about me coming to you in April o that that day was arived i th/ought? think? i would cry for joy not that i am tired of my People for the are very vexed when the see me fretting But i long to see you Dear James i can not stay to sandy comes i would like wm to send me by Buffloe and then 1 could manage the rest on watter Dear James you must rite for my Mother as well as me for i /think she? could not Part with me or the children now my Dear see and manage so as to Bring her she will be very usefull she knows so much about a farm that it will be /telling? me she is with me let me know Dear James how you are off for Books if you fecthed all yours from Boston or if i will bring them with me i recieved your one Doller which i am very thankfull to you for 1 Bought some shirts for Tom and the making of some slips for them and some paper /letter ends