Description Letter To Elizabeth McCulloch

My Dear Children,

I have sent you a kind of history of the old Indian Wars. You will find a great deal of curious things in it, and if you feel as I did when you read of the treatment the Indians met with from their unjust invaders you will be apt to suppose that what were called uncivilized and savage creatures, were in many respects far superior to the educated men who were cruelly cutting them down, for defending themselves and their property. 

  Your letter Elizabeth was a great relief to me for the weather continued so stormy for sometime after you left us that I was afraid you would be all exposed to the cold again. As I suspected your father would not wish to have the school vacant any longer than he could probably avoid, and how thankful ought you my Dear Children and everyone of us to be, that your father faithfulness in the discharge of his duty as a teacher, has a witness in the heart of his bitterest opposes that they cannot deny.

  I was Sorry I did not see I.W Hatton when she called, I had some hope she would be kind enough to call and expected her yesterday. To day I was very busy with Fridays work and did not know till she was gone I hope she will excuse me, and not forget to come and see an ole well wishes of her family when he comes to Town.

I have written for some flowers to a lady that I think will send me some roots and seeds and I hope to send you some to fell up your vacant corners of the garden.

I shall try and send you some seeds as soon as they arrive. The walking is so very bad that I have been able to get out only once and the streets were in steams the snow is leaving us now and I am very Glad of it for I was never so snow blind since I came to their country, the snow we had after you left us banked my bedroom windows halfway up and I was glad to keep the blinds down, there was so much of it I was afraid the flower pot frame would be broke down with the weight but its all gone now.

I hope Thomas is Filling up his copy book try and encourage him as much as you can some people will get on a great deal better by a little encouragement than otherwise and it will be a sweet recollection for you in after days to think that by your kind and affectionate advice and assistance your dear bother got more rapidly forward in his education perhaps this may be a consoling recollection to your own mind when years and mountains are separating. Be wise for the present and that will prepare you for the future write me *** all are if you have all got rid of your colds, Kart the dyer’s died last week he died of *** sore throat. there was a pair of needles and about an inch of pattern and a peel left in the lining room closet was it what you began for me? Or is it what your mother was knitting? I will put the number in the book at any rate for I do not think I will over be able to use the shorts Love to all and to Eliza and all her change.

*** Grandma I.W. McCulloch

Grandfather is pretty well just now.