Dear James,
We were glad to get your letters Monday and the package came yesterday just in time for your clothes to get in the wash. Last night we had a nice little shower and it looks like showers all day today. It will be a blessing if it does rain as everything is terribly dry. The vines are still green tho’ and the tomatoes are growing good, but so many of them get a big rotten spot on the bottom just as they get ready to ripen. It is good that I set out so many plants, just a few would have yielded nothing. I found 2 small ripe ones yesterday and gave them to the children. I found the library card and am sending it along.
I haven’t seen any plowing yet but the corn is all cut and nearly every one is thru threshing and silo filling. They’ll probably get out after the rain. I’ll send you your clothes tomorrow. We won’t go to town this week as I have all the supplies we really need but am sending you a little list. How would you like to have us drive down and get you and we could take a few things back with us? We would come right back and you could drive all the way home. School starts here on the 5th of September and we’d have to come down before that as I don’t want the children to miss a single day if things go right. They can start here anyway and if we decide that it is best to move back to Minneapolis later it will be all right.
We are all well. Let us know about the fishing trip.
Lots of love from us all, Martha, Ruth and John