, Letter, , Sangamon Co., IL, to JS, , Hancock Co., IL, 27 Apr. 1843; handwriting of ; docket in handwriting of ; one page; Helen Vilate Bourne Fleming, Collection, CHL.
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27th Apl 1843
Brother Joseph
I am anxiously waiting a better state of the roads to enable me to travel to your place but we have yet almost daily falls of rain which makes it difficult to get about the neighbourhood much less to travel a Journey with a sick companion The state of Mrs Adams [Harriet Denton Adams’s], health is very bad I shall however be at as soon as it appears— even half way tolerable traveling The badness of the weather is such that our farmers are not able to prepare for their spring crops—