Fragnteur of letter 1/0 James Christie from his wife, Elizabeth 1 FOR REFERENCE USE ONLY: Reproduced from the original Minnesota Historical Society, Per- mission necessary for reproduction publication. Harth February the 1847 My Dear Husband sit downto write to you once Wellcome - letter data? February which i azi hopping letting you know that received your kind and in this work gives me so much happy mays ad a letter from to hear of your wellfure My Dear James their is nothing you & thank god little Sarah Jane is get quite well and last letter that invote you i think it was wrote story hagden d doring hour any Fabruary i hope you have got it you say you have just Received Duby2 letters from me now Believe ine this is the the for Mu towend you and it veres me very much that the went to many astray for it was Robert Directed them and it was cursous that you got the Papers and Dri not get them Dear James Tom is a fine stout boy 9" c dont know who i will do with him for their is none of his cloths fits him he has grown them so much the says to Sarah that he wile bye her a mice just like Mr loterys the All wondered that she couto little Ag to day and she says Bach to him yes Jam mindso long but she in very you k Tom bids mine tale Willie to make from a whip and he wile high hina to Drive the Orcu he has curren notions he sometimes Ach the if you are dead and when will i take time to you he is very much afraid of me baking can't get going out without henhe watchy to sarah that he has 3 fathers and she annual his unite Tom took thing but on sunday to ahous hero aguinted in the Country 2 miles arwary and Tom that his tonny went the whole time thing suggestions wanting to know how the on watter and wanting to -knowief he will water gets into the snow and stays him a Pair of shate and so on you see hislop with him and he in rei should of him