To RH Milroy From Mary Milroy Jan 29 1862

              Jan 29th 1862 
 
Rensselaer, Ind. 
 
 
 
My Dear Robert, 
 
 
 
	We have been having a drenching  
rainstorm last night. Yesterday and night  
before last, and no mail last night.  
 
 
 
I always feel lonesome without a daily paper  
or letter from you.  The water raised a foot or  
more in our cellar, I had Ben take up the  
potatoes and other things out of the water this  
morning. It is considerably colder this morning  
and the ground is a glair of ice. Our little  
ones are about through with the measles. Ella is  
still in bed but feels much better this morning  
they were out on her very sick on Sabbath and  
Monday. They made her very sick, she suffered  
from severe pain in her head, sore throat and  
lungs, they did not make Walter or baby  
so sick as to confine them long to bed.  
 
 
 
Val has not received his voice yet, it tired of being  
confined in the house and anxious to go back to school.  
 
 
 
Cicero is now well enough to attend to business  
in the office. Ben sawed 3 cord of wood for