Redick M. Wylie, Bloomington, IN to Andrew Wylie, Jr

              Bloomington, Feb 24th 1857, Dear Brother, Yours of the 15th of Jan was received in due time. Intend to have complied with your requests immediately, but Mother wished me to wait until she could have her ambrotype taken to send to Anderson in the same box (He having several times requested her to send it to him by the first opportunity). The weather here has been remarkable in its behavior. From the 1st of Dec to about the 1st of February we had one uninterrupted freeze, the ground not having thawed through once, the thermometer often going down to 20 below zero. Since which time the wind has turned to the south, and we have had warm weather, part of the time too warm to have a fire. During the first week of Feb the wind blew a perfect gale, on Friday night of which, it almost blew a hurricane. Yesterday was the first day for about a month sufficiently clear to copy Father's daguerreotype, which Mother wished to send along with her own. Which accounts for the long delay. The copy is not a good one, but it is the best we could get in this place. I collected all the printed speeches of Father's in the