Thank you ever so much for the apples, Lang. says they are perfectly bully—& I endorse it & so does Livy.

Please tell Charley to send me a pair of those suspenders from Covell, Fay & Co.’s1explanatory note that require only 4 buttons,—2 on each side & two behind—send ’em CODⒶemendation.

Now mother, you must hurry & get strong enough to be here on Thanksgiving Day2explanatory note—& sooner if you can, for Livy is very lonely. She lets me go up to the study & work, (which I ought not to do & yet I am so dreadfully behind hand that I get blue as soon as I am idle)—I go up there & Livy sits lonely all day, for the room is dark & she cannot read—& most Ⓐemendationof the time Mrs. Smith is out in the kitchen with the baby.

Got Hattie’s letter & soap.3explanatory note Thanks.

We will wait a while & if that letter to Grandma don’t come back to me I will copy & send it again. Could Charley ask the p Postmaster at Elmira to help trace it? I will drop the Buffalo P.M. a line. I sometimes misdirect letters, but I can almost swear that this was distinctly directed to “Mrs. Eunice Ford, Elmira, N. Y.”4explanatory note