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Chicago Aug 1st 1869
Dearest Jennie
I arrived here last evening weary and dusty. Stoped two hours at Joliet Mina absent she left yesterday morning and expects to return early in the week.
All well at home wheat harvested, fair crop. Hay very [?]. Good yeald Oats never better. Corn a failure. The whole country passed through east of Missouri river looks as though it had resently been raised from the botm of the sea.
As I came through Omaha I collected of [?] on
[OK in pencil on top of page]
Chicago Aug 1st 1869
Dearest Jennie
I arrived here last evening weary and dusty. Stoped two hours at Joliet Mina absent she left yesterday morning and expects to return early in the week.
All well at home wheat harvested, fair crop. Hay very [?]. Good yeald Oats never better. Corn a failure. The whole country passed through east of Missouri river looks as though it had resently been raised from the botm of the sea.
As I came through Omaha I collected of [?] on
