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Rochester Feb. 24^th 67

Dear Father

Your last letter was duly received. I wrote to you a long letter directing it to Olivet Mich. as I saw by your list of appointments that you would lecture there on the evening of the 14^th inst. I mailed the letter two days in advance. We are all as well as usual. we have had a great deal of snow this winter banking up the roads as it used to eight or nine years ago. we had a flood here also but not as bad as it was two years ago. We hear from the boys very seldom, the last letter was from Lewis. I have not been able to accomplish much this winter owing mostly to the state of the roads, every body complains of the dullness of the times. The horse and cow are well provided for but neither of them are making anything. We cannot even drive out to Nathans without being in danger of breaking the sleigh. Nathan has had to walk in for the last two weeks. the farmer turned out and cleaned off the roads about a week ago but the
same night it snowed and blew so that the roads