one dollar or one dollar & fifty cts
 $1.00 or $1.50 cts, from what others have sent I think it will cost more.  I suppose you will have to pay what they charge, but they should not use deception.  I sent you forty three dollars by Dr. Hull to St. Louis, he bought a draft on N. York, & sent to your address  You will know how to use it.  We have had quit a disagreeable storm here, not severe, but wet & damp, considerable rain some snow & a good deal of mud.  There is one thing about the mud here which makes it not so bad as in Iowa in the winter.  I may rain ever so much & you can walk about with shoes on & not mire unless you get where stock have tramped it up.  The same as in California.  You know that in Iowa in winter when we have mud it is so very unpleasant.  Yesterday I had a long talk with a verry inteligent man living at this place.  He says that the "oldest inhabitant" has never seen such a wet & cold winter & so backward a spring
