Mollie Wright to Cousin [Frankie] from Forest Home, 1887-03-22

Health bad. Sending frankie a prescription that has worked hopes it will "build up" Frankie. Scandal in Forest Home. Ella Robinson had lived with Frank B. and wife Em since they were married. Ella suddenly left town. Word is she since had a child, in Texas. "She had an heir a girl and doing well". Frank B. sends her money. Em "is grieving to death." Another scandal: "the other side of Smith Hill." Mary Martin "took up with a negro". "The negro disappeared some think he run off but the negroes say he has been killed and hid away. No one knows but the negroes are hostile and are making heavy threats." She wished her girls were boys. "A mother can't be too particular with girls."