Letter 18920219B

Weldon, Iowa
February 19, 1892
Mr. E. E. Delk
Dear Uncle, I will try and answer your kind and welcome letter which I received a few weeks ago and was very glad to hear from you. Well it look very much like rain today. But I hope it will not rain for I want it to get nice roads so I can go out buggy riding.
I will hafta tell you what I got my birthday, a new dress, scrape book and a ring. They are all nice as they can be but of course the ring was the nicest. I was seventeen don’t you think. But I wish I was a bout seven years older.
Well I will haft to tell you how many dances I have went to. I went to a dance week from today and at one Monday night and I am going next Friday night if nothing happens.
I was over Wednesday night and sit up with Martha. She is very low. She is expected to die any minute and aunt is sick to. Uncle is about crazy and is as cross as an old bare.
Well Florence is going home next week. I don’t know what Frank will do. Well I will miss her to because she has been to our house so much.
Your Strong girls is married. You had better come back or they will all get married. But perhaps you have one there. You think more of them you think of these girls.
Willie Conor is to our house now. He came up this week.
Well I guess I will close for this time. Hoping you will write soon.
By By
Yours sincerely,
Meda Worden