not had a letter from you for
a bout three weeks and I do
not know where you are
some say that you are on your
way home and others say that
you are going farther a way
so that we do not know where
you are but I hope that you
are on the road home before
this time. Well William
I must tell you that our
little Margaret can crawl and
climb up by the chairs on
any thing that she can get
a holt of, and can walk
after a chair, she will be
nine months old tomorrow. I
hope you may soon be at
home to see her and the
rest of us. I know I should
be very glad to see you coming
any day now please answer this
as soon as you get this and let me
know where you are and wheather there
is any prospect of your getting home soon.
I must close for this time, good night
Wm. J Strieby from your wife Mary E. Strieby