Ogorje 23rd of March 1924.
Dear brother,
I can tell you that we are all well thank God and I wish you the same. Now my dear brother why are you not writing I wrote you two letters around Christmas then I received your letter and 30 dollars, this is my third letter and no letter from you. Now my dear brother you asked to see if there is a house available, I wrote to you about that in the last letter if you didn’t receive that letter I will tell you again. I have half of the new house a lawn and (this word is not possible to translate because English language does not have this word but it is connected to grain – it belonged to Sime as he describes in letter) I took also a part of olive-grow and we agreed on price lower then 6000 dinars. Now my dear brother don’t be mad as I write to you that I will not be able to pay for it by myself because harvest was not that good this year, I bought 300 kilos of corn for the household because as you know we separated and now we have to buy everything. Now my dear brother I have to ask you if it’s possible I will pay as much as I can and you send me for the rest and then it will be ours for eternity and if you can send it as soon as possible. You asked what I have of animals, I have 2 oxen and a donkey and 27 sheep’s. You asked what is new Kata Lacinkina got married to Mate Cirin and they live in Pribude, and Cvija daughter of Luka Jalin will get married to son of Marjan Pukin, Iva daughter of Luka Zekic will marry Anton Petrovic, Marija daughter of Vranic will get married to Vico Javin, Butkusa died. Nothing else is new and when there will be something new I will write to you. Now my dear brother your sister Jandra and son in law Nikola and his family are greeting you, your sister Marta son in law Ivan and his family also, and also Joso Pestica and his family. Now receive a greeting from your mother and she thanks you and she blesses you because since you left she always has coffee and sugar. Now receive a greeting from your sister and daughter in law and three nephews, Grga, Mate and Jakov. And receive a greeting from me your brother Josip
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Jim Radja
Vienna, Virginia, US of A
