Dear Carrie:I suppose you have been home a week now, and I can imagine you were very glad to get back. Ihope your health is still improving, by the way are you still walking twenty miles a day? I sincerely believe that pleanty [sic] of out door life is beneficial to the health of everyone. Hope you had a pleasant Christmass [sic], my mother's sister spent Christmass [sic] with us and we had a very pleasant time, my sister and her husband also took dinner with us.
I heard last evening that Arvilla Thompson was to be married next June. I hope she never will have any reason to regret the step.
I suppose today is the day Mr. Chandler's party surprises Alice Marsh, for Miss Haskell came up on the train last night, she is teaching in a kindergarten down in Augusta Maine.
I put an ad in the Derry Enterprise this week as being ready to make all kinds of legal papers, and give other legal advice, since this must be done evenings I do not expect to be flooded with work at present, however if you know of any one who is in trouble you now know who can relieve them.
What very peculiar weather we are having, the weatherman cannot really make up his mind to have an open winter, nor does he think we can get along, with out considerable snow and rainy weather.
I saw by this mornings [sic] paper that Charles M. Floyd was elected Governor of New Hampshire, by the legslature [sic]. Isn't it a very foolish law, that when a man receives three or four thousand votes more than any other candidate that he shall not be elected until he has a majority of all votes cast. Hoping to here [sic] from you that your health is still improving, I remain your friend,