Letter from Sarah E. Andrews to James A. Andrews, April 30, 1865
Hudson, Wis.
April 30th, 1865
No. 75
Dear Brother,
Agreeable to my custom I sit me down to write you a few lines upon the first day of the week. It is somewhat later than I usually commence my Sunday letters. I have made it a practice to write immediately after Sabbath school.
Today at two o'clock we went down to the water. Mr. K[e]eley baptized four -- Miss [Charlotte] Mann, Eunice Jones, Sarah Scott, and Beda Mackin. The wind blew quite hard when we first went to the water, but at the time of the baptism it seemed to cease blowing and the sun came out bright, which made it all pass off very pleasantly.
The church this morning was crowded. There is to be a meeting Tuesday evening (to which the church, congregation and citizens are invited) to see about building a new church. I hope they will be successful in their efforts. We need one very much. I heard today that Mr. Thorp was going to preach his farewell sermon next Sabbath.
Kittie [Ismon] says that she has had letters from you and Ira lately; and that neither of you said anything about your own health; but you said in yours that Ira was not well and Ira said you were not, you were troubled a great deal with the headache. I suppose you did not mention it to us for fear we would worry about you. You ought to let us know when you are not well. I wish we could do something for you. We sent you some things yesterday which if you get I hope they will do you a great deal of good. They were sent in a box with some to Ira, Frank, the Hugh[e]s boys and I think some to Theodore [Young]. We would liked to have sent more but we had only a short time to get anything ready.
We did not know until they commenced to pack the box that they were going to send as large a one. I made you some ginger snaps, and took a great deal of
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pains with them. I wanted to have them as nice as they could be. I made two quantities, the first I did not feel satisfied with so I made some more which were a little better, but not as good as usual. We thought the fault was in the sirup, as we wished them to be so good we made them of sirup instead of molasses. Probably the common molasses would have been better. Miss [Charlotte] Mann is going to keep house this summer in that house this side of Oscar Brown's. Miss Barron and Miss Butler live in the same house, but each one does their own cooking. I should not think there would be much pleasure living so.
Emory [Andrews] is over today. He says that Ada has been trying to clean house. We received a letter from you yesterday and one Friday. We also had one from Charlie Friday. He said he had not had but five letters from home and three from you. It is too bad he does not get his letters. I must leave you to write to him.
From your sister,
Sarah