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Stoughton March 24th 1936 

Dear Doris,
This is a very nice spring day I go out to rake off leaves away from my flower beds everything is coming up. more crocus than ever in the garden next to the pasture. Georgie Perkins & Doris came last evening they were telling all about Maude & Ralphs sickness & said she was liable to go with a shock anytime & advised her to have that eye removed before it contaminated the good one. Ewing told her this last so Georgie said. Poor Maude has not much to look forward to. she goes to Henrys to stay nights & home there day times. she was there all day alone Sunday. no one came to see her, a lonesome gloomy day, I know for I was alone also all day myself. there is not much fun in it either. I did not have the water removed from the cellar most of it soaked in the truck got stuck in the mud over to Ballentines & Sheean got crazy drunk meanwhile he came in to our house late to tellephone after I went up to bed. she put him out by pushing him out & locking the door he finally went away then the next day he was drunk & finally came up with someone who with another truck hauled him away. 

Transcription Notes:
The doctor's name is Ewing, not Erving. Has been confirmed in other letters despite the unclear handwriting here. --Correction noted; marking as complete.