To: Sophronia Troupe – Fostoria, Ohio
From: Susana Hutchins [Susannah Hutchins] – Kendallville, IN
Envelope – yes
November 22, no year
Well Sophronia, I will now try to answer your kind letter and kindly ask you to excuse me for not answering it sooner. For I do not get much time for such work, but this Sabath morning it is raining and sleeting and we can’t go to prayer meeting and my Lord has been with you all morning. For I would like to be there to home with all the rest today. Well Fronia [ Sophronia Troupe], tell Mother [Sarah Hampshire Stahl] that we are all well at present and hoping that these few lines may find you all enjoying the same good blessing.
Well Fronia [Sophronia Troupe], we have quite a noise here just now. Jonas [Jonas Michael Hutchins] is playing his accordion and Aunt Lydia [Lydia Stahl Hanas] is singing out of a service book, she has got here. Pa [Roscoe Gustavis Hutchins] is sitting here listening to the noise. Jerome [Jerome Douglas Hutchins] is gathering up his slate and books for our school will commence in the morning and he is (unreadable) for it school.
Cena [Sarah Delcena Hutchins] and Annaliza [Lydia Ann Eliza Hutchins] went over to coax Henry [Henry Hutchins] to fetch Louisa [Louisa Shipe Hutchins] and the baby over. They think there never was such a baby as Henry’s. They call him Albert Nelson [Albert Nelson Hutchins]. He is quite a boy. Well we have had same enough weather already, but it was nice and warm yesterday. I [Susannah Stahl Hutchins] and Jerome [Jerome Douglas Hutchins] husked corn yesterday on Lydia’s place for five cents a shock and Jona’s [Jonas Michael Hutchins] is chopping out her swamp. We finished Fred’s corn yesterday. She got about fifty or sixty bushel for her share. We got our corn husked long ago, but lots of folks hant done yet. Well the neighbors are all well as far as I know. The times is getting hard here. Everything is down and Nancy Searce, Lydia and Jonas [ Jonas Michael Hutchins] talks of coming out there before (unreadable).
Well Fronia [Sophronia Troupe], I milk four cows now, but I won’t brag on the butter I make. Butter is 22 cents per pound. Eggs 20 cents a dozen. I thought some of you would come out to see us this fall. Fronia [Sophronia Troupe], when are you and Louisa coming to see us? Write soon. Now I must bring my scribbling to a close by sending my love and respects to you all.
From Susana Hutchins [Susannah Stahl Hutchins]
To Sophronia Troupe