Letter to Mary Bruce from Charles Squier

SQUIER, BRUCE

Posted By: Rebecca Stewart (email)
Date: 7/30/2005 at 16:30:09

**Mary Bruce and Charles Squier married and settled in Floyd County Iowa

Tipton Iowa June 17th 1855

Dear Friend,

I take this opportunity to write you a few lines to let you know that youre not forgotten yet by me but I suffer that you begin to think you are …. to here and I suppose you don’t care whether you do or not. I have been very busy ever since I was at your place. I had a few lines from you and was sorry to here that your Grand Father was drown. I had a letter from ? mother and she said that they had found him down by the Red? mills about three weeks after he was mist. Hariet Stoddard? is a going to ? the doctor had ? her up. I had a leter from Jane and she said that she was tired of waiting for that man that she wanted me to find for her there is one that will do I think but he thinks that it is a good ways to go for a wife. I was glad to think that you ? better since you got in your house you think the best famely has gone to Iowa this is one of the ? you say that you get lonesome once in a while that will never do to get lonesome. What do you think of me out here a lone I do not have time to get lonesome. The children are making such a racket that I can’t tell what I am a doing hardly there has been a thunder shower today and the mud sticks like tar. I went a strawberring? ? yesterday and got about a pint they are very scarce here I have not seen only one girl? to speak to since I have been here. I think that I am getting steady? as a man can be. The folks in Arlington think that I will be home this fall but they will be mistaken about? a feet? there is no use of a mans trying to live there and make anything . oh you spoke of me going to Wisconsin or Michigan you did not know which place I should like to know what you meant by it. if you will be so kind as to write and I do not know the first thingabout it there is nothin that I can think of I have bought eighty acres of land the land is riseing up very fast the land that was sold for five dollars they ask ? I should like to be and to your house a little while I think it must seem? more like home since you have got in your house. I think that I have scribbeld about enough for this time. If you can read this I should think it a wonder. This is from your ? until death. To M E Bruce. C H Squier