Lyng March 23, 1881
Norwich, March 23,1881
Bright Ap 6, 1881

Lyng Mar 23, 1881

My Dear Sister & Brother

I hope these few lines will find you all well as thank God it leaves us all at present I was glad to heare from you again I hope you will excuse my neglect of righting our poor Brother Charles is dead he died with a bleeding cancer on his lounge we went to see him once we could hardly know know what he said for his poor lounge was in such a state he could take nothing but thin food poor fellow he was starving that was last March & he died last June we went to his funeral he was buried very respectfully his oldest daughter buried him she is in serves his wife was a bad old woman and allways was she behaved bad to our poor Mother and by all accounts so she did to poor Charles the old woman is maried again in less than six months after his death it was no one that new her carecter I am sure no man never would have had her now I heare that her husband use her bat and they say sarve her right for how she used to treat poor Charles she is living in Norwich she is much older than he was now this is his likeness he had taken in his Blacksmiths days not long before he was taken with that deseas send me word if you new him poor fellow I hope he is gone to rest I hope we shall meet him in heaven were parting will be no more what a happy meeting that will be now I am sorrow to tell you that our sister Hannah & husband is faild in business they lived in a small farm then they took a larger one in the same place about two years ago they had to borrow money of different people and I am sorrow to tell you that he had forty pounds of my oldest daughters I am afraid she will not get half of it there oction was last Wednesday 16 of Mar they had a good oction but the lawyers expences are so much that I am afraid the credeters will come short now I must tell you that I wish I was neare your apples the sider I don’t care about but the appels I am very fond of we have no appels in our place the last three years I have had only one tart this year I do wish it was not so far that you could send a hamper full I was glad to hear that you are doing so well I cannot boast of the times but thank God we live this have been a very triing winter we have had a grat deel of snow that the roads had to be cut and it lasted so long and biterley cold we had a storm of snow this week and it is very cold I hope we shall get warm wether soon how have it been in amarice I cant get my husband to have his likeness taken that I can send it I will try him again this sumer my grandchildren keep increasing I think I have 22 I must come to a close hoping to heare from you again our love to all we remain your loving sister & brother M J Burton