This is a letter written by one of the my grandmother Wissner's cousins.  Apparently, the son or daughter of Agnes Tyron/Bufka/Duda/Dutkovick.  Author could have been Raymond, Ann, or Eleanore.  I'm not positive about that either; I'll have to ask sometime.

This letter appears as it was written.  Aaron Wissner, 1999-11-20
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	Grandma's folks owned a farm in the province of Posen and it was under Germany at that time.  The oldest son got the farm, but Grandma never talked about the farm except she had to work hard.
	She and Grandpa came to the U.S. when Aunt Kate was two years old and my mother just a baby.  They planned to earn money, go back and buy a farm but it never materialized.  Why, I don't know.
	My folks rented a house from a Mrs. Doba, who lived next door.  Mrs. Doba knew Grandma -- they came from the same village.  Grandma came to see my mother one night, who was at Mrs. Doba's, so Grandma went there and started to complain how hard she had to work on the farm, she kept right on and on until Mrs. Doba lit into her -- you were considered somebody -- your folks owned their own farm, while we were peasants and worked for the lord.  If he didn't like you, out you went.  That was the first my mother knew about the farm, that it was a good one and the family considered somebody.
	It seems that the peasants always got Sunday off, but Grandma has to watch the geese so they would not go into the lord's yard.  There were no fences in those days.  Grandma resented the fact that she had to work on Sunday.
	The farm must have been a very good one because each girl, when she got married, received a dowry of $500.00, which was a lot of money in those days.  Also a person married into his or her own class.  A marriage to a peasant in Grandma's class was unthinkable.
	Don't know if Mrs. Kubiak was married when she came to the U.S.  After she was here, the oldest brother wrote and asked for money for the farm.  She wrote back and as she never received her dowry, he could have it.  She never heard from him again.
	Grandma and Aunt Kate were to go to Poland in the 1920's, but Kate kept putting if off each year until Grandma wasn't able to go because of a heart condition.
	In the 1930's, Kate received a letter from a man in Poland who was related to the sister who went back.  Just what the relationship was, don't know.  This man (let's call him Stan) wanted to come to the U.S. and wanted Kate to sponser him.  When she found out that she would be responsible for him, she started to back out.  My mother told her to forget it as we were in a depression and our own people could not find a job.  Kate wrote back that it was not a good time to come.  How he got Kate's name and address, don't know unless Grandma kept in touch with her sister and gave Kate's name and address.
	After the war, Kate received a letter from a man (let's call him John) that he found her name and address in Stan's possession after he was killed in the Warsaw uprising.  He was related to Stan how I don't know.  John wanted to know what relation Kate was to Stan.  Also, the terrible conditions in Poland, they needed clothes and food.  Kate sent a package with an old suit of her son's, plus coffee, sugar, flour, and what have you.  He received the package and thanked her for it.
	Shortly after that, Kate received a letter from a woman, a relative, of Stan's, that she should have received the package, Stan didn't need it.