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Letter to Miss Anna NashEntry/Object ID
2021.2.702Scope and Content
A single page letter, folded in half and written on both sides to Miss Anna E. Nash, Care of D. W. C. Rowland, Louisville, Kentucky. The letter is inside one envelope with a 3¢ stamp, there is another envelope with a 3¢ stamp inside the envelope also. The handwriting on the two envelopes do not match. The handwriting on the outer envelope seems to match that of the letter written by her Mother on Aug 4th and postmarked Aug. 6 1874. The letter is folded several times in order to fit into a 3" x 5" envelope The letter begins a third of the way down on the first page and ends on the top of that page.Context
St Joseph Missouri
Aug 4th 1974
My Dear Daughter
I write you this morning not because I feel like writing or that I have anything
of interest to communicate but merely to let you hear from home a good sound to many weary
worn wonderers. My heart was filled with sadness last Saturday night over the fate of a young man
a stranger in our midst scarcely twenty-three years of age who you will see from the paper Mr. Marlow
sent you committed suicide at the house Mrs. Logue. He was put in a rough box without even the
blood being washed off his face and buried in the city cemetery about three hours after he committed
the rash act. God forbid that any of mine shall ever give way to anything of this kind or if thrown among
strangers shall ever meet with such treatment.
The young men boarding there offered to raise $100 to give him a decent burial but did not accomplish
it as the undertaker said he did not have time.
I have just returned from market. Called at Mrs. Nicholson and had my white dress cut out. Will make it
next week . She (Mrs. N) ? ? ? today over a ninth street apostle Mrs. Harris
I think I told you that we had to draw all the water out of the cistern and now the well has failed, can
hardly get water enough to cook with and wash our hands. have to send our washing out and have for the
last three weeks. Clouds fly around us every day and it thunders some but we get no rain. Suppose we are
neither the just or unjust. It does not become us to complain for God orders all things right.
I suppose you have heard ere this of the departure of Dr. Sebastian he asked me to write him a note
letting him know something about the ? ? ? trips but I told him I guess he could get all needed information
from Mr. Ned Rowland as he was getting the party up. I promised to drop him a note but have forgotten
his address, guess he does not expect it any way. Give my love to Mrs. Rowland I and all the family how
muck will.
I am so glad you enjoyed your visit to Nashville fear you have not given yourself sufficient time for your
visit to Cousin Phoebe.
I am satisfied she will not put up with a short one.
I hardly know what to say about your ? ? suit if you ? ? ? will make it and send by express perhaps you
think I do not know but you can tell me what ? ? ? Mays and Gerties are. My ? ? ? is this a short skirt Sailor
waist close drawers ? ? ? at the ??? to a hand. write me if that is anything like the girls perhaps theirs are
made with a long sash to belt in at the waist instead of the short skirt and waist.
I will not write any more will wait and hear from you.
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