James Maxwell
Company D, 127th Illinois Infantry
“I got have got tired of living where it takes two nights and one day to get to town and back. It is harder to get the grain to market than it is to raise it. …” James Maxwell, September 30, 1873
September 30, 1873
— Dear Brother and Sister—
I received your letter last Saturday night and will be a little more prompt about answering it. The young man that I spoke to you about renting the place wants to know how you will let him have the place and he put the hedge around it and culivate it. He will take it on your terms if he don’t hedge it.
The frost killed about 15 acres of my corn—that is, hurt it so part of it is good for nothing. It was in the milk when the frost come. Some of it will do for pig feed. I am snapping my part of it for the hogs. What shall I do with your part of the stuff?
I got have got tired of living where it takes two nights and one day to get to town and back. It is harder to get the grain to market than it is to raise it. I don’t know as I will make anything and I know I can’t lose anything. I can’t be much worse off. Frona has never been satisfied since we have lived here. I want to come down to Ottawa next winter if nothing happens. I think if we get away from here we can get some one to do our chores long enough to come and make you a visit. I have been tied down ever since we have lived here. We are all well at present.
Love to all…J. R. Maxwell.
Read more letters in the Maxwell Collection: Biography | undated | 5 June 1863 | February 15, 1863 | 24 March 1863 | 29 May 1871 | 30 Sept. 1873