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Letter from Amy Nesbitt to Elizabeth W. BramanEntry/Object ID
2024.02.66Scope and Content
2024.02.66A
Letter from Amy Nesbitt to Elizabeth W. Braman
Blue Letter Head:
Office of
J.W. Nesbitt,
Proprietor of
Cash Boot and Show Store
Grafton Ohio,.....1886
Front:
Saturday 22, 1888
Well my dear sister I'll try and seold because you do not write often I have had my photograph taken lately Daniel wants me to ask you if you will exchange photographs he has his baby,s the baby is 10 months old when he spoke about it I thought he meant one of me but I guess he meant his baby I have none of my own John was coming from Nebraska and my children me to have mine taken all I had to do was to set has the pictures and they would pay for them so you can give him yours and I can look at
Back:
now Elizabeth
your are mistaken if you think I do not love for I have tried so much to raise. Jerainions and other plant to keep through the winter but even Id not because they would freeze in spite of me I had an Oleander that was in ??? I set up until one o clock at night and kept a hot fire for it and put my large woolen shawl around it and their the frost or cold niped it. I went to bed with a resolution that I nether would try to rais house plants again and I must have but like to rais outdoor plants and am taking seeds now have got the promise of some moss rose and asters, and trophies seeds for next spring most kinds of foliage plants go to seeds in the fall and I am going to try and raise them out of doores we have a hot bed if I can raise a Calladium I shall be so glad
2024.02.64B
Red Letter Head:
Office of
J.W. Nesbitt,
Proprietor of
Cash Boot and Show Store
Grafton Ohio,.....1886
Front:
Sept 22
now I do not have to wish as hard as I did and could not if I would I make my own bed but do not sweep my own room I crochet out time and do fancy work in the garden for exercise my yes are a good deal better than they when I was young you remember when I had so much work to do that I told you how many letters to write my one, now you must do the same by me and I will comply with your request if possible When you write tell me how near you are to a Rail Rail Road and how you get to
Back one I hope some day that I may meet you is Davids health like his Fathers it seems to me as though he is fleshy like his Father Elizabeth I wish you would save me some flower seed, if out door plants and I will make you a present of any kind you choos I can crochet a nice should cape but do not know what color you would like but please save me your choicest flower seds and I will do my best to make you a present that will recompenes you and pay the express charges on what I make for you.
?Lues? your age make you sickly I worry in mind about you Lizzie has a divorce from her husband and has the custody of her children her oldest boy likes me very much calls me his big grandma they both of them nice children Dannie and Millie Amy Nesbett to Elizabeth W. BramanCollection
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Braman, Elizabeth W.Person or Organization
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Nesbitt, Amy
