Box 15: Short Collection
Contains 51 Results:
Annie Lewis to Fr____ (fragment) (no location) (undated)
Weather. Farming.
C.W. Lewis to Frankie Plant (no location) (undated)
Crops. Children.
Mollie Wright to Frankie Plant (Forest Home?) (undated)
Visitors. Family. "Mollie is ... again and cuts up worse than ever before. I think she is a fit subject for the Asylum." Miss Emma Galoway in business in Selma. Forest Home picnic at the Grist Mill on 2nd Saturday. "slim crowd" because of alliance meeting. Dance at Archie Davis' house afterwards. next to the "negro church." "Several Methodists participated in the dance. Mrs. Shanks at the head." Steam gin to be operating by fall. Sick baby.
Mollie Wright to Franklin Plant (fragment) (no location) (undated)
Family. Clothes. "Nannie ... got a $3.00 hat and a dress costing $8.00 green trimmed in selk velvet." Mother unhappy, sick.
Sue to Brother and Sister, Forest Home (undated)
"Saturday Night." Family visits. "Cousin Sallie is a whizzer and Cousin Mollie has talked me nearly to death." Sickness. I went to Baptist Church to Sunday School then to the Methodist to preaching." Saw Sister Ansley, the Wall girls. Going to Butler Springs. "Cousin Mollie hasn't forgot how to sit and dip snuff.
Clara to Frankie (no location) (undated)
"Dear Sister." Family Visits.
Mollie Wright to Frankie Plant (Forest Home?) (undated)
The other Mollie (cousin?) visited. "Mollie will kill herself sometime with morphine or chloroform. She is a morphine eater and has such little judgement about taking it." Mattie is post mistress, gets $15 a month. "She was to marry this month, but no news of it,
Clara to Frankie (no location) (undated)
Cousin Lula to visit Eclectic.
L.E. Vernon to Brother and Sister from Reagan, Texas (July)
no news. Weather dry. "No fruit, no vegtables in the gradens." water bad, so he is putting in a cistern. Family.
Mollie to _____ (fragment) (no location) (July)
Family visits. "C. Wilson down last week ... reackon to see /how/ the widow was managing her business." Illness, "Willie Coleman is dead. Died with consumption." Asks about new baby. "I know you are one of Gumbo's dunces over that babie (sic)."
