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<placeName>Reading</placeName> <date>Septbr</date>

My Dear

<personName> Mary</personName> and <personName>Jonathan</personName> have just departed after taking dinner.__ They declined staying to tea, so I shall write now, that I may have a little time to devote to reading.

They went up street, to look at some contrivance for smoky chimneys; it is getting uncomfortable now without a little fire, mornings and evenings at least __ Our coal has not made its appearance yet; I do not know what <personName>Mr Morris</personName> is about, delaying so long. He told <personName>Hiester</personName> immediately after you left home, in about two weeks he exported it, and it is more than three now, and it has not made its appearance yet. It is an easy matter to tell me to send to Bells for coal and I suppose I must if it does not soon come, but I must husband my money, as I have but 100, and 10 Dollars left, and 50 of that will go for coal. I have spent a great deal, but I had to get flannel for <personName>Rosa</personName>, and some little matters for <personName>Henry</personName>, and paying for groceries &c requires constant running to your purse. However if you come home in little better than two weeks, I shall reach with what I have __ The fence is now made, and paid, <personName>Katzenmeyer</personName> received of <personName>Hiester</personName> $32,80 cents I gave him 2,50, and you 5 Dollrs and after all our meadow is spoil'd __ a mere strip of a meadow. They have fill'd the holes with ground, and are going to haul the manure to morrow, but <personName>Hiester</personName> has hired <personName>Krause</personName> to haul it out on his wagon, as <personName>George</personName> thought it would take too long with the cart, there being a good deal of work

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