It has been a long time since he has heard from Susan; health is somewhat better than it was; folks are well; Mother is going to Vermont and wants to start a week from tomorrow; traded his oxen for a horse; bargained the horse for money from Uncle Richard; Aunt Lucretia is going with Mother; needs to go to Whitney this afternoon; Albert, Aunt Harriet Fisk, and Mary Caughson have just come; cannot think of anything else to write.