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I feel uneasy about the upper windows being up and the children.
I feel uneasy about the condition I left the Cellar
& fear the rats will injure the walls I wish you
to use every means to prevent them and when
I return I will take up the Kitchen floor and
flag the entire bottom. I have not time to write
to Br [Brother] Oatman [J. C. Oatman], by this mail you can write to
him for me. The proposal I make it is un-
-necessary for me to advise him. You must
take good care of your health and be verry [very]
particular about the health of the family
see that they all have comfortable warm
cloths [clothes] and good Shoes and not suffer them to
be exposed. When I return home I shall be more
particular about diet I have seen so much
evil resulting from imprudent eating. I eat
just what I think most condusive [conducive] to my
health. I have potatoes -- 9 cts. pr. pound, ham
25 -- pork 16 -- Golden Syrup Molasses 1.75 pr. gall. [gallon]
vinegar one dollar pr. gall. -- Sugar 14 cts. dryed [dried] apples
25 cts. dryed [dried] Chilean peaches (that would be a
luxury at home) 30 cts. We can buy pickles &
preserved fruits of all Kinds in the market
also Sweet potatoes, yams, all Kinds of South-
ren fruits chees [cheese] is shiped [shipped] from the east put up
in tin boxes air tight pice [price] from 25 to 30 cts.
every thing [everything] is put up in the best possible manner
every thing [everything] sold by the pound even to hay and barley
flower [flour] is worth 8 to 9 cts. adieu my dear wife
I must write some to the children

R J Boylan