Gambier Knox Co.
Jan 6th 1892

My dear Fannie,

Nannie sent me your postal card and wished me to write to you as she has not recovered yet from an attack of influenza. She has been several weeks confined to the house yet nothing unduly alarming to us in her case except her age which makes us all dreading slight illness with her. I was happy to be mentioned by you and it pleases me to write to you. Mr Cinnamon is better now (well) than he has ever been, a great weight lifted off our minds. He was heroic in being treated. He never gave up courage. Nannie has been under the influence of influenza for more than three weeks. She is still in the hands of the physician, has a cough at night and her breakfast in bed but on the whole well for her age, active and interested in every body and everything. I should love my dear Fannie to have special accounts of your and yours. Postal cards are better than nothing but the only whet the appetite for more detail of your dear children. I hear sometimes from the dear Parkinsons and have an occasional paper from them. Willie and his wife spent two weeks in the Fall with me. Josie (Johnnie's wife) sent me a picture of the two lads, my nephews. The eldest who is 17 attend the manual training school in Chicago. He is steady and a great comfort to his parents. He will go to the Polytechnic school in Boston when he has finished his course in Chicago. The youngest Rogan is yet in the graded schools of the city. The eldest boy is a great reader. Neither of them inclined to classics. They are intended for business and all their education has been directed to that point. It is marvellous to read the Chicago papers with the accounts of balls and parties for children. Our boys had a most enjoyable Xmas vacation. Their parents indulge them greatly. This is the American way and it seems to develop fine men and women. How many children has you brother? I am glad to hear they are well. There is a great deal of sickness everywhere. The present state of the weather I hope will improve every one. We have cold deep snow. the sleighs and sleigh bells sound sweetly in the stillness.

For more than two years I have a god daughter living with me. I am very happy with her. She is a lovely girl, kind and good to me as any daughter. She is a beam of sunshine let into my life. I was so desolate and lonely for many a year after John left me. She has given a fresh impetus to existence. Will you remember me very kindly to your brother and his family. I hope that I have not wearied you telling so much of ourselves. I hope this note will induce you to write as long as one and give me all the little details of you and the children that I long to her. It is not too late, I hope, to wish you all a happy new year and many of them. Will your son remain at home after finishing his course in T.C.D. hoping to hear from you an with the warmest wishes I am my dear Fannie with unabated affection yours.

C.K. Trimble