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2022.070.001 A - Letter to Carrie ButlerDescription
A letter written on brown paper. Page one is 15 3/4 in long with writing front and back. The second page is 8 in long with writing front and back.
"Lookout Mt. Tenn. Aug 25th 1891
My Dear Carrie, don't think you
were forgotten for a single day since
last I heard from you. Which was
the 26th of June.
I have wanted so much to write
to you, but felt my inability to
say the acceptable thing. Words are
so jarring sometimes. But on read-
ing your letter over I find it comforts
me, so make bold to simply answer
your letter. I have wondered so
much where you are. I saw by the
Republican, which comes twice a
week like very sunlight, that you
had gone with your father to Ind.
Since that I have seen nothing of
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your movements. I hope you have quite
regained your health and strengths.
It seems like your positions & Emma's are much alike. I mean, of course in
the case of your father & the home.
Carrie dear, I think yours was a
blessed privlege that you were per-
mitted to care so tenderly for your
mother as you did. My heart just
breaks to think I could not even
know of my loss until she had been
laid away forever. I sometimes
plan to ho home next spring, then
I think I could not bear it, for
home is always pictured with
ma there. I do become very
homesick for a talk with Emma.
Jennie has been with me all sum
-mer until the 14th of Aug. she
went to visit Mattie. I suppose
she will go on home early in
Sep. Frank only spent a month
down here. then about a month
on the upper lakes and is now
nack at work in Muncie. I fear
he has done a very unwise thing
in going into the telegraph office.
I am baking bread today and
have been coaxing it since nine
o'clock this morning. it is now
after noon. and it is almost ready
to take out of the oven. contrary
to all expectation it seems to be
VERY nice. I baked five loaves
one day last weel and when they
were cold I threw them out into
the woods. A few days after as
Frank came home he saw some
men burying a cow. He thinks
I'd better be mum.
I thought when we came down
here I would find yhour cousins
, Mr. & Mrs. Hull; but we came on the
mountain & Frank has been too
busy to go about much. It is such
a bug bear to me to go down to
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strange places. When Jennie was
here I was not feeling well and we
were only down into the city three
or four times. We went to the un-
veiling of the "Andrews Monument,"
and saw Miss Clara Williams there.
she said she and Mrs. Clem Kalb
would call on us when they came
back from Atlanta: but I don't know
whether they came on the Mt. again
or not. I did not get to see Mrs. Kalb.
We want to go into the city some day
soon and select a carpet for the sitting
room. I have but one carpet. a rag one.
We have only three rooms. Not much
room to be sure but it is not so
very hard when all ones neighbors
live in the same way. I am becom-
ing more reconciled and only fret
because we have no church. It is
better to stay at home than to go
away into the city with the cars
over loaded. they are crammed in
until it maked me think og the
stock cars I used to see on Sabbath
morning going to the easterns market
for Monday's trade.
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I have been hoping we would move
down in St. Elmo, just at the foot
of the mountain, for winter. but it
seems to be best for Frank to be
up here. He has been very busy all
summer and wages are better here
thank in the valley. And not as
much corruption.
The Mt. is beautiful. and the view
over the valley to the different ranges
eastward, grand. But, Carrie, I LOVE
Ohio. It is to me the very center of
the universe.
I am not going to make myself
unhappy nor am I going to fret
Frank about going north. but when
it seems expedient I will suggest
Ohio.
How is Alfred Colton? This cool sum-
mer has been welcome to that fam-
ily surely. We have only had a very
few hot days. The flies are about
all done now; and I look forward to
a long bright autumn without any
thing to bother. We have no mosquitoes
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or almost none. They stay down in
the city. Folk are almost eaten up bu
them at night. I have to enclose the
beds with netting.
Carrie, I never hear anything about
your sister, Bessie, since I saw you. how
is she? Did they move into your house
when you went away? Or perhaps
they have bought property in B before
this time. If I have been asking
LEADING questions, excuse me & do
not answer them. I only feel an in-
terest in you & yours but don't intend
to be too inquisitive.
I will close and write to Eva before
going to the post-office.
My regards to Mr. Butler and a
great deal of love to you.
Hoping your plan for February
may be carried out and your
"few days" extended to weeks
I am yours Belle B.G.
P.S. Write soon & often. I love your
letters. I love to talk with you even
on paper"Date(s) of Creation
8/1891Container
Folder 2022.070Title
2022.070.001 B - EnvelopeDescription
Brown paper envelope addressed:
Miss Carrie Butler,
Bellefontaine
Logan Co.
Ohio"
The envelope has no stamp but has two postmarks:
1 - Lookout Mountain Tenn, Aug 2[5] 1891 (on front)
2 - Bellefontain Co, Aug 27 1891 (on rear)
Someone at some point has used the rear of the envelope to write figures in pencil from top to bottom.Container
Folder 1
