Dear Cousins:-

Cousin Will’s Correspondence Plan is great. I feel I must make an effort to write a little. I have missed going to the Cousins Dinners for the last two years so that I do not see any of you very often.

All of you have been to the dear old home on Briar Hill [near Osceola] in your younger days. Pa and Ma both went away in 1916, thirteen weeks apart.

The Lord is merciful to me. I have my health; Dellie [husband Oscar Adelbert Van Dusen] is in bed all the time; he has not been dressed in six weeks so you can see I am home all alone; cannot leave for even an hour at a time.

I have a grandboy [Hugh Van Dusen] who has been here during the school year.

I shall enjoy getting the quarterly reports; I cannot write three sheets, but the next letter will be easier.

I hope everyone will respond.

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