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Thayer, Sarah E. Letter to Amy Kirby Post. (1870-02-01)
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of the RR and then took a waggon to the [the] | of the RR and then took a waggon to the [the] | ||
place where she is now cooking under difficulties | place where she is now cooking under difficulties | ||
| − | * Nellies thing did not arrive in 3 | + | * Nellies thing did not arrive in 3 or 4 weeks |
as her mother writes us from Poplar Ridge where | as her mother writes us from Poplar Ridge where | ||
she is spending the winter with ETJ and enjoying | she is spending the winter with ETJ and enjoying | ||
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The climate is very genial and is quite healthy ^.^ I believe that state is called so justly and I know thy dear boy (now I suppose a large man) used to enjoy the country air and the variety of such a life ^.^ These remarks are from thy old friend whose latter days are full of new experiences [Hollings] is now in Indianapolis peddling some sort of patented thing and writes cheerfully his daughter Nellie Curtis has left her husband to earn a little more money and then to join her in Tenn^essee^. She with her 3 little ones travelled the whole distance to the terminus of the RR and then took a waggon to the [the] place where she is now cooking under difficulties
* Nellies thing did not arrive in 3 or 4 weeks
as her mother writes us from Poplar Ridge where she is spending the winter with ETJ and enjoying the society of "old [Lupio]". Doras enjoys better health than she has for several years and bears up under her repeated disappointments pretty well ^.^ she came here from [] 2 months since and left here at New Years