Peterson April 18 1925:

Dear Tjamme and Atje:

It is Saturday afternoon, I finished my work that this may be the same at yours. We were very pleased with your letter and we expect that you will write one again [to us] soon. We like it very much to get a letter from the old fatherland, for we haven't forgotten it! How is your mother Attje, is she getting better? We sincerly hope, for one can miss mom the least of all. How are mother and grandmother doing, is it finally getting better with Jan's mother? We hope for the best, but it seems horrible to me when you are in a condition like hers. You should visit them often [I stress]. Well Atje is your house clean, [did you finished springcleaning], no need for me for we moved in just recently, so it isn't that dirty yet. They are all busy [springcleaning], I helped out another women. Ther'e Dutch too

Houses over here are bigger, so one has more cleaning to do. These people I helped they have three big bedrooms and a bathroom and still trhee more rooms, I do not know how they call them. And than a long stair downwards nicley covered with carpet, and than you have downstairs a livingroom, a middleroom, two siderooms and a hallway, a kitchen and a large utilityroom with big closets, and than a big courtyard where you can store all kinds. So there are lots of things to clean, but luckily just one more day left, then I am done. Now, Tj and At we congratulay you with your nephews and nieces [oom en tantezegger, those who call you uncle and aunt] and we hope that one day you may share that priviledge Attje. Jan says we have to get organized here first [he uses a expression in Bildts] But that a labouror is far better off here, that is quite clear to us. We get lots of things that otherwise were deprived of. Now I will end this letter for I run out of paper, os until next time. Recieve these letters in good health and with the blessings of the Lord.

J. [an] and T.[rijntje]