Notes about letter:
Written soon after moving to Kansas
Elizabeth A. KLINEFELTER age 23 & John Walters marriage
Tells of Joseph Klinefelters death
Geneva is teething & (sick her daughter)
White Cloud-a place mentioned on page 19 of Gerry Klinefelters book
Tells of Sarah and Susanna as school teachers (Elizabeths sisters)
September 26, A.D. 1858

Hiawatha

Dear Parents. Sisters & Brother it is with pleasure I take my pen in hand to write to you we receive tow letters from you and was happy to here from you I had wrote to you about the Death of Uncle Joseph. I supposed you had not received that letter yet when you wrote aunt & the rest of the family are well & getting along first rate we are well excepting Geneva she is teething she was quite sick yesterday but is better today she has three teeth through now & another almost through. She has been dreadful sick since I wrote last we did not expect her to ever recover he had the feaver she took sick the first of August & was sick four weeks she is very poor & pale yet,
Sarah I am very glad you thought it worthwhile to write & do hope you will write more I am glad to hear that you & Susanna are teaching school I think it much better than doing house work I only wish you all  was out hear school teaching will not be very good hear for a year or two the Country is not thick enough settled yet crops are generally very good here this year wheat crops was very good corn is very good I had a good garden plenty of everything cabbage beets, tomatoes  cowcumbers Irish potatoes & sweet potatoe & water melons in abundance & the largest ones you ever saw some that will weigh fifty pound I only wish you was herer to help eat some of them I put up a keg of cowcumbers & would have plenty of them to let you have if you only lived near enough to get them Mother & other vegetables to., I put up tow jugs of tomatoes air tight to use next winter & made two gallon of tomato preserves & one gallon of blackberry jeley and one of preserves & have a gallon of dried elderburies John gathered the buries for me Mother you wrote me about snakes they say there are almost all kinds her I have not scene but three yet one was what is called the bull snak one was a black runner the other was a small one I do not no what kinde they are not very numeras here & I do not go out much I am afraid of the nasty things John often laughs at me for being so cowardly I have never sene any since we live out here I always tell him I am a fraid I will for the grass is so tall, about White Cloud there is a grate many along the river among the Rocks and Bluffs there is wheair I saw them Mother I do not no wether I ever tolde you I was making a peace of carpet or t not I have it finished now a home from the weavers I have thirty one yards of nice good homade carpet I want to make another peace to carpet  my bed rooms this winter if I can & then I will have my house carpted from one end to the other.  I must bring my writing to a close for it is getting late John waited for me to finish writing until he got tierd and took the baby & went to bed they are both fast asleep this long atimne write soon all of you if you please nomore at present but remain you 
Affectionate Daughter 
EA Walters

Father & Mother  
Sister & brother
Direct your letter to 
Hiawatha Brown Co. K.F.

	Dear friend I will conclude by teling you that we are all well and are satisfied with the country & still hoping that we may se you all here before long I think this would be the place for you I planted sod corn the first of June & it is as good corn as I ever saw in Ohio and is all hard we have 18 acres in corn 5 in wheat we raised 25 bn of potato we have a fine lot of hay made and people are making yet prairie chickens are numerous Joh you should be here to shoot them the weather is fine and we have had no sine of frost no more rite son  John Walters