Kellogg Oct. 21st 1878. My dear brother Horace When I have written you I do not know [?] Letter I have acknowledged I [?] I received a picture of yourself or not. I was very happy to receive it I cannot say that it looked entirely like yourself though. You have a very venerable look in that picture and you can judge whether you look more so than I do in the picture of myself which I enclose. Our [?] are better suited with my picture which I now send you than any I have ever before [?] taken. I enclose also as you will see in invitation to a wedding. It is something over two years since the death of [?] first wife. He has in some time [?] [?] with Miss [?] and now weds her. They expect to go to keeping house a place in [?]. Wife is now absent from home and is with our daughter Mary. She is at [?] City keeping house. She has been there now since [?] 1st Our daughter Katy has been with her since that time attending school. She is with her to keep her company in the absence of her husband E[?] H. Harvey. You knew probably that they have a little boy more than two years old. He is a bright little button. A[?] has also a son by his first wife now a little more than two years old. But I was about to say that wife left home about Aug. 1st I went to visit Mary and partly to see if a [?] [?] change would not improve her health. I also visited Mary about September 1st and remained there [?] a little over a week. While [?] I visited St. Paul and Minneapolis - heard Senator Blaine speak at the [?] in Minneapolis and President Hayes in the fair at St. Paul's. Both [?] were excellent. I also visited my brother in Law Henry M. Lyman + his sister Adelle at [?] on the shore of Lake Minnetonka. My trip was on the whole a very good one. Wife will not return now till Nov. and will be absent from home at least three months, so that I am quite a widower for the present time and can better sympathize with you in your loneliness than when my other half and better is with me. I am lonely though and no mistake. How is it with you? so the [?] to you [?] still remain up or anything unmoved? I hope [?] in that respect will turn out as shall he in the highest degree best for your self and for your family. We are unfortunate again in regard to our wheat crop. It was splendid last year. We had 1200 and sold for another [?] bushel. And am [?] was reduced some [?] but this year I can wish. It not make the ends meet. Our wheat is but about 400 bushels, and the price is not [?] some 60 an 60 cents per bushel. We are disposed living [?] 'the will of the Lord be [?]'. If we were not so deeply in debt it would not trouble me so much to have a poor crop. We were thankful however for an abundance of small fruit We picked over 2500 quarts of strawberries and [?] [?] were $250. We had a good hay crop. but the price is low. May the Lord bless you and all your children I am all [?] A. Lyman Are you in the college this year; or is your place [?] by Willie in your anticipated when you last wrote? Love to all your family. I hope [?] will be prompt in paying in [?] pay men [?] I am [?] you will wish me to forward the money to you soon after it is recieved I could [?] it [?] [?] awhile if you do not need it Lauren

Kellogg Oct. 21st 1878.

My dear brother Horace

When I have written you I do not know [?] Letter I have acknowledged I [?] I received a picture of yourself or not. I was very happy to receive it I cannot say that it looked entirely like yourself though. You have a very venerable look in that picture and you can judge whether you look more so than I do in the picture of myself which I enclose. Our [?] are better suited with my picture which I now send you than any I have ever before [?] taken. I enclose also as you will see in invitation to a wedding. It is something over two years since the death of [?] first wife. He has in some time [?] [?] with Miss [?] and now weds her. They expect to go to keeping house a place in [?].

Wife is now absent from home and is with our daughter Mary. She is at [?] City keeping house. She has been there now since [?] 1st Our daughter Katy has been with her since that time attending school. She is with her to keep her company in the absence of her husband E[?] H. Harvey.

You knew probably that they have a little boy more than two years old. He is a bright little button. A[?] has also a son by his first wife now a little more than two years old. But I was about to say that wife left home about Aug. 1st I went to visit Mary and partly to see if a [?] [?] change would not improve her health. I also visited Mary about September 1st and remained there [?] a little over a week. While [?] I visited St. Paul and Minneapolis - heard Senator Blaine speak at the [?] in Minneapolis and President Hayes in the fair at St. Paul's. Both [?] were excellent. I also visited my brother in Law Henry M. Lyman + his sister Adelle at [?] on the shore of Lake Minnetonka.

My trip was on the whole a very good one. Wife will not return now till Nov. and will be absent from home at least three months, so that I am quite a widower for the present time and can better sympathize with you in your loneliness than when my other half and better is with me. I am lonely though and no mistake. How is it with you? so the [?] to you [?] still remain up or anything unmoved? I hope [?] in that respect will turn out as shall he in the highest degree best for your self and for your family.

We are unfortunate again in regard to our wheat crop. It was splendid last year. We had 1200 and sold for another [?] bushel. And am [?] was reduced some [?] but this year I can wish. It not make the ends meet. Our wheat is but about 400 bushels, and the price is not [?] some 60 an 60 cents per bushel. We are disposed living [?] 'the will of the Lord be [?]'. If we were not so deeply in debt it would not trouble me so much to have a poor crop. We were thankful however for an abundance of small fruit We picked over 2500 quarts of strawberries and [?] [?] were $250. We had a good hay crop. but the price is low. May the Lord bless you and all your children

I am all [?] A. Lyman

Are you in the college this year; or is your place [?] by Willie in your anticipated when you last wrote?

Love to all your family. I hope [?] will be prompt in paying in [?] pay men [?] I am [?] you will wish me to forward the money to you soon after it is recieved I could [?] it [?] [?] awhile if you do not need it Lauren

Part of Letter from Addison Lyman on his absent wife, crops, and a trip to Minnesota