Rachel Stout, Thorntown, Indiana, February 27, 1896 to Blanchard and Augusta Pettengill, Worcester, Massachusetts.

The medicine that Blanchard requested has been sent by the drug store in Indianapolis, where Rachel spent three weeks, because Mattie was not well enough to travel to visit her. Cousin Mary Wolf fell from the cellar steps, breaking her ankle. She writes of their Gard cousins, the Shirk boys, Charlie Goodwin who died suddenly, Miss McCurdy, her sister’s ill brother in-law. She is proud of Annie Pettengill’s success in a recent contest. She eats shredded wheat biscuits everywhere she goes. She went to her sister’s in November to help them through a spell of typhoid fever. She asks Augusta for the name of a plant, wants the picture of Annie when it is taken, her attendance at conventions and Mattie Moncrief.