Osawatomie, K. T., Feb. 6, 1856.
Dear Wife And Children, Every One, — . . . Thermometer on Sunday
and Monday at twenty-eight to twenty-nine below zero. Ice in the river, in the timber,
and under the snow, eighteen inches thick this week. On our return to where the
boys live we found Jason again down with the ague, but he was some better
yesterday. . Oliver was also laid up by freezing his toes, —one great toe so
badly frozen that the nail has come off. He will be crippled for some days yet.
Owen has one foot some frozen. We have middling tough times (as some would call
them), but have enough to eat, and abundant reasons for the most unfeigned
gratitude. It is likely that when the snow goes off, such high water will
prevail as will render it difficult for Missouri to invade the Territory; so
that God by his elements may protect Kansas for some time yet. . . . Write me as to all your wants for the
coming spring and summer. I hope you will all be led to seek God “with your
whole heart;” and I pray him, in his mercy, to be found of you. All mail
communications are entirely cut off by the snowdrifts, so that we get no news
whatever this week. . . .
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of
John Brown, p. 222-3
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