This letter is address to Mrs. John Dewell/Demell? Swain, 5 Promenadeplakez, Miinchen?, % H. Gaze & Son, dated Jul 23, 1895.

Dear Sister

Received your letter last week upon my return from Norfolk you mentioned receiving Charles' letter dated I think some time last of May & sent to Paris but did not mention receiving one from me which I mailed the next day directed to the same place I am sorry you did not get it. As it is so seldom that I find time to sit down to write to anybody you having received it most? well I suppose you would rather hear about Babe than myself well Sis everybody things he is a fine little fellow. Just as good as he can be & he looks like his Aunt Edith & a great many think like Grandma he hasn't got so he creeps a great deal yet but will pull himself around considerable & gets hold of chairs & lifts himself up. He has got two ? teeth & his mother writes me tonight that he has two ? it she also wrote that she expected to spend the vacation at Cottage City this summer I suppose Charles has written you of her trip to the ? I went in there a few moments at noon yesterday & found her sick fever sick ever since her return two weeks ago I had just been to see the doctor she had her brother there to do the work & Lewis there so she could get plenty of exercise running up stairs to ? ? pretty hot for him to day he is getting ? up there ? up after church & took Charlie back to dinner with ? Grace has been in New Haven for the ? ? ? ? did not. let Charlie know when she returned they in one of their usual spells she is about as big as a ? as I ever ? to ? pull him around by the nose if it was me I would appear to her in the shape of a drag? some times & drag her eye teeth right ? to write this time will write again soon as I can get the time & ? is going to write but if take pretty much all her time to take care of Babe I wonder if you would not like to see him I guess he will not ? ? on before you get here at last - I hope to see you sooner than that. I felt pretty disappointed to hear that you were not coming home until fall I kept wondering if you were.

Your loving bro

Frank

Farmington Ct

July 22, 1893

"I am 31 tomorrow"

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