Informant38

I take my Pen In hand to let you know that we are Starving to death It is Pretty hard to do without any thing to Eat hear in this God forsaken country we would of had Plenty to Eat if the hail hadent cut our rye down and ruined our corn and Potatoes I had the Prettiest Garden that you Ever seen and the hail ruined It and I have nothing to look at My Husband went a way to find work and came home last night and told me that we would have to Starve he has bin in ten countys and did not Get no work It is Pretty hard for a woman to do with out any thing to Eat when She dosent no what minute She will be confined to bed If I was In Iowa I would be all right I was born there and raised there I havent had nothing to Eat to day and It is three oclock.

Susan Orcutt to Lorenzo D. Lewelling, June 29, 1894
Lewelling Papers
Kansas State Historical Society
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Historical Documents
Social Science Department
Torrey Pines High School