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Stoughton January 31st 1932.

Dear Doris,

a very disagreeable wind has been blowing all night & to day, since our storm of Friday & Saturday, & its a Northwest one at that. I have kept cosy & warm, the thermometer is 30˚ or so but unless you go out in the wind, one doesn't realize the cold.

Drakes rent came in today & I gave him the receipt. Pa won't write another, he has taken a freak over Bruces check. 

I managed to get his clothes changed this morning, but it was pretty hard work, he says he is crazy & so he is most of the time now & obstinate he is hard to manage. one has to fight to get his medicine down or food. he had a good clearing out this morning. I am making bran muffins & think they are good for us both. he finds fault every time I start to cook or get a meal of victuals & he dont [[don't]] have much love for sitting down to the table to eat any meal but his breakfast. I don't know what freak he will take up next. he is quieter than usual for the last three days & wants to be by himself more. but when he does talk its pretty bugbearish. I dont [[don't]] feel but what its safe to leave him here while I go down town as I have to. he is afraid to stir & usually I find the drafts shut in the stove on reaching home. 

PS Mr Whiting said that Emerson Wilkins' sickness left him with a troubled mind similar to this. he thought he was coming to want. 

The thermometer this morning is 10˚ above, The wind kept up all night.

Ma

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