![Transcription Center logo](/themes/custom/tc_theme/assets/image/logo.png)
This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
on bread & water; then I should not be "longing for the flesh-pots of Egypt"! I fear the quotation is lost on you. Would it not be well to tell your mother & the rest that there may be a grandchild in the case & this is a principal reason why I wish they might learn to speak English or else hold to German? -- That is, in case they would like to have the young one with them at all. I should be glad of it has something of your mother's physique. She struck me as a fine type of peasant woman & it was a pleasure to see her strong