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TWO LETTERS FROM SWEDISH ANCESTORS, MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN (1910)

1. How the journey was (Marie)

I will let you know that I have come to a new land.

I will tell you now how the journey was.

Dear you can imagine it was terrible.

There was a war boat that drove into us

so there was a big hole in the boat

and our trunks stood in water.

We thought we were gone.

But we were not so far out.

Then we went with a smaller boat called St. Louis,

a little terrible boat.

We were real glad when we came to land.

We were in Muskegon Tuesday, October 3rd, at night.

They were nice people that Nels lives with.

Just young people.

He was so glad when he saw his little Svea.

You can’t imagine how fat he is. He thrives good here.

I have only my man and little Svea

and it is of course at first I feel alone.

I don’t think we will ever come to like America

as good as Sweden.

I wonder how it is with you. Well,

you are probably busy with the harvesting.

Is it a nice fall there at home?

Here it is changeable.

One day it rains,

the next day the sun shines.