- To Nancy Wheat from Henry James
- January the 18 1884
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- address to Henry James
- Grays Hill, Roane Co. tenn
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- Dear Sister,
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- i take the opertunity of dropping you a few lines to let you
- know that i am well and hope these few lines will find you the same nancy
- we have had a bad winter here wee have had a snow 8 inches deep laying on
- the ground for to weeks and now it is reining and ice froze[?] so that we
- cant hardly get out of the house with out falling money is scace here corn
- is worth 50 cts pork is worth 6 1/2 cts pear lb they was a good crop
- raised here of most ever thing when you write tell me all a bout texa I
- dont know if i could sell my farm but what i would come out there if
- everthing sutes me wright a bout the water and a bout the sickness whether
- is is a helthy country or not Dear nancy i would like to have your
- lightness am setting twist tobacco as usal rebeca Dougty has bin sick but
- she is getting well very fast and the rest of the Doughtys are well as far
- as i know Nancy you must excuse me for not wrighting sooner it has bin a long
time
- since i have wrote to you. Wright soon i will not write any more for this time
- respecttively
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- yours
- Henry James
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