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Gowanda Jan 27, 1853

Dear Bob
I received your's of the '16, yeasterday.
I don't think your excuse for not answering
my letter, before, a verry good one. I had made
up my mind, that the letter had miscarried
or that you, had concluded that the letter
was not worth, answering. I think that your
letters are first rate ones, and I certainly like
to receive them, as often, as possible, now sir
Hunter; if you neglect, to answer this letter
more than a month, may you neaver see
a deer or bear again.

I hope the next Christmas "time" you have,
that our folks will be with you, if we all get
together once more, on old Christmas or any
other day, won't we have a time? that is a time!
we would not kiss the girls or nothing o no! as
for the danse, and oysters, where would they be?
who can tell? can you?

I have not received letters, from eather Belle
or Hellen, in a long time, the last one, I received
was from Belle, I thought that one, was a
little toutched with sentimentalism, and it
did, seem to me, that it came ^not from Cousin
Belle, but from some fashionable letter writer, or
young ladies help on entering society;