Old Notes From a Box 1 of 2

[dooble68]

I found these letters looking through my grandfathers things. Is anyone able to translate what they are saying? Thanks!
Rob

[bbivona]

This is a tough one for me. No one else has responded so I'll give it a crack. The handwriting is poor and the spelling and grammar poor. (Or it's in a dialect.)

The letter is addressed to Giuseppe Coniglio on Cleveland Ave. in Fredonia NJ

11 November 1918
Dear brother, I received your sweet letter and am pleased that you and your wife, children, my brother, sisters, and nephews and nieces are in good health. I can assure you that my wife and children and ____ my children. Dear brother I will send it on to the address of my son Giuseppe Coniglio. Here it’s just my wife and I to call you and your wife and all your children. Give my greetings to our brother Francesco? and his wife and children. Give our greetings to our brother in law and our sister and their children.

Give a hug to all our dear _____ to you and brother, brother-in-law, and sisters and their husbands, and my nieces and nephews. My wife and I give a heartfelt hug to everyone. Give my best to my aunt and uncle and ___ the ___________________________/
My ___ we send kisses to all. So my brother, my daughter and her children send _______ greetings to everyone. Stay ___ and that I am well.
All the best to all of you and I am
Your brother Leonardo Coniglio and bid you good bye.

[PippoM]

11 November 1918
Dear brother, I received your sweet letter and am pleased that you and your wife, children, my brother, sisters, and nephews and nieces are in good health. I can assure you that my wife and children and ____ my children. Dear brother I will send it on to the address of my son Giuseppe Coniglio. Now I stop, my wife and I hug you and your wife and children with their spouses. Give my greetings to our brother Francesco? and his wife and children. Give our greetings to our brother in law and our sister and their children.

[PippoM]

I give a heartfelt hug to all of you, with you and brother, brother-in-law, and sisters and their husbands, and my nieces and nephews. My wife and I give a heartfelt hug to everyone. Give my best to my aunt Maria and relatives. I'm your brother Coniglio Leonardo. "Addio addio"/
My son-in-law sends kisses to all. My daughter and her children send _______ greetings to everyone. Stay happy and read that I am well.
All the best to all of you and I am
Your brother Leonardo Coniglio and bid you good bye.

[bbivona]

Thanks Pippo. Your eye on the old handwriting is much better than mine. I wasn't sure I should even respond, but after 10 days figured I would take a crack at it and see if the real experts would clean it up.

[PippoM]

Well...being mother tongue helps, expecially if, as you said, the letter is a sort of "written as spoken"