Letter from Peter Lysne to Anders ROE (27 Jun 1874)

Letter. Peter H. Lysne to Andres H. [sic] Raae (27 Jun 1874). Images courtesy of Verla Williams.

Albert Lea
June 27, 1874

Good friend and cousin when I got home I saw the letter that you had written to father and me. I read in your letter that it looks bad regarding the grasshoppers. I also read that you are all healthy and hardy and I can report the same about us down here.

I also read that you have thought about going out to work and if you come down here I will have a job for you right away and pay you good wages for this area. I work as a carpenter and I have a place with hay and need help harvesting and I will not hire anyone until I hear from you. The yield looks very good.

I have to stop for now with friendly greetings to you and your family from your cousin Peter H. Lysne. Father and mother send their greetings to you and family, and Haagen and Kari sends greetings to you and family. Write as soon as you can, there is work here for as long as you want and a house for your family so they will live well.

from Peter H. Lysne to you Andres H. Raae

Letter from Peter Hysen [Lysne] to Anders ROE (1875)

Letter. Peter Hysen [Lysne] to Andres RAAE. (1875). Images courtesy of Verla Williams.

Risland
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Good friend Andres Raae,

It has been a long time since we have been in contact with each other and I have been very ill since I last talked to you. So today I want see if I can write a few words to let you know how I am. I can thank God that I can at least sit up for a while during the day so that the day does not seem so long. It has now been over five weeks that I have been bedridden. I have had three (doctors?) see me but there has been little improvement. My illness affects my liver and kidney and also arthritis so I am now as weak as a baby because it has now been over three weeks since I have eaten other than enough to keep me alive. I must tell you that the rest of the people are hale and hardy. (The wheat looks better than it has for many years.) Write back and tell me how you are doing up there at your place. I have to end because my hand is shaking so from your friend Peter to you Andres Raae.

Father and mother send a friendly greeting to you and family.

I will give you more information when I get a little stronger. I think that you won't be able to read this scribble so what you can't understand you will have to guess.

So good night from your friend Peter Hysen I almost forgot to tell you that Peter Overgaard and young Johanes's wife died and now old Johanes has sold some land and bought a farm Steel Count.

Translation: Solveig Quinney, Norwegian American Genealogical Center & Naeseth Library.