Letter, William Gleason to Kate Gleason

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Genesee Foundry Company,
Office: 10 Brown’s Race.

Rochester, N.Y. San Antonio, Oct 8, 1895

Dear Daughter—–Eleanor has started
going to school she says the
studys are the same but she had
to get an entire new outfit in
boocks. Ellen and my self toock
a ride around the city this forenoon
the day was cool and she had
on the same clothes as she had on
the morning we left. She weighed
88# this morning as against 85 I weighed
on the same scales 188# as against
184# I dont think I have either gained
or lost. So that it is safe to say
she has gained 2 ½# I will weigh her
again on next Monday. before
starting for home when I hope for
a further gain the weather here
at present is very fine. this morning
it was 64 at the present 3 p.m.
74 the family of the house were shivery
with the cold this morning they call it

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a Norther any person that says
the climate here is uniform the year
round the difference not being mutch
between winter & summer &c is very
mutch in error they have it from
12 above zero in winter to 104 [^] in the shade in
summer the above are the extremes but
both have occurred within the year
the changes are very subtle and the
natives say when going out for a walk
you should take a sun shade an umbrela
and an over coat. my estimate of the
climates virtue is that it is dry the night
being free from all dampness we have
had one thunder storm the only rain
we have seen since we left Rochester
it was what the boys would call a dandy
it shoock the hills. Ellen has a cough
that she says she contracted at New Orleans
but it is nearly better she dont
cough nearly as mutch as she used to
in Rochester and she dont have any
of them fits of coughfing that lasted
a minute or more. there is just one thing
that is discouraging. Every person that I have

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met here tells me that they cannot go
to there Northern homes for more than
a couple of months in summer. I am
sure that being the case she will
prefer to stay to home and take
her chances next winter She talks
that way at present. but may change
her mind. I dont expect a letter from
home before Sunday and perhaps not
untill I reach New Orleans. I hope Jas
has got along in the shop all right
he must have had his hands full.
part of the time. I have not done
any worrying. about the shop but
I done some about Ellen. I was not
sure that we were going to get here.
I could only guess her condition as
she carefully concealed it but now
she admits that she herself did not
expect to reach here alive and [illegible]
she wanted to see Andrew. We would have

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returned from Cincinnatti the time
in the Cumberland Mountains made
her feel so good that she toock new
courage and came on here full of hope
and every day strenthens that hope. they
are gradualy making acquaintances
among the neighbors and the people
here one and all are never too
buzy to stop and chat so that I dont
believe they will be lonesome. the
nights are cool and the heat
of the day weakens so that you can
sleep. it was 94 Sunday and Monday but
the people here insist that is about
right and call it delightful weather
but I call it hot. I am glad we didnt
get here sooner that hot wave we
had in September was the hottest of the
season here 104 up here on the hills
and hotter in the city
Love to all
William Gleason