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I regret you did not call on Mr\r\nRaymonds family Mrs Walker her sister\r\nMrs Johnson both are sister[s] of Mrs R.\r\nI am glad for too you have had some rest\r\nfrom study \u0026amp; business, and that your health\r\nhas been benefited\r\n\r\nNo doubt you have done\r\nwell to sell out the Clear Creek interest if\r\nyou retained our interest in sales alre\r\nady made which will be paid some day\r\nand our share will save some of the \r\nsacrifice we have had to bear in this\r\nunfortunate investment Mr Sydnor\r\ntold me to retain these interests as as\r\nhe had done so he had done so in the sale of his inter\r\nest.  I wrote you on the substance of a conver\r\nsation I had with him at the Burg after\r\nI saw you last January \u0026amp; beside left\r\na message with Jennie fearing the \r\nletter might not reach you in time\r\n------------------------------------------------------\r\nor perhaps not at all.  I think as you do the sale\r\nto Coning is the thing that could be done\r\nglad however you did not sell the 738 acre\r\ntract for $250 and too we may keep it an\r\nother thirty years \u0026amp; not get more Mr Rund\r\nerwood told me that it was a poor low prairie\r\ntract of land \u0026amp; but little timber upon it I do\r\nnot remember whether he said he had seen it himself\r\n\r\nWell of course you have heard of the little stranger\r\nthough not from a Grandmothers pen, but I\r\nwill not venture a description but leave you to\r\njudge for yourself.  Sallie was getting along\r\nfinely until today week, had an attack some\r\nthing like Bilious Cholic \u0026amp; for several days was\r\nquite sick, now however she is rapidly im\r\nproving Baby keeps well.  I have had a bu\r\nsy time and not through yet.  At this time\r\nmy health is quite good, but I am awfully\r\ntired when night comes.  The “Age” comes to\r\nme regularly, beside other papers which are\r\nvery acceptable I assure you in this dead\r\nregion of the earth.  I have not had time to\r\neven write you particularly as I wish to, will\r\nhave the more to tell you I hope soon.  I hear a bright\r\nfuture is predicted for you.  My heart bounds with\r\njoy when I hear you so highly spoken of. You\r\nwill never know dear child how high my\r\n---------------------------------------------------------------\r\nhopes are for you, now the depth\r\nof love pride \u0026amp; anxiety I feel\r\nrealy I am too impatient too anx\r\nious yet I manage to keep all \r\nmy feelings pretty much to\r\nmyself.  Years ago when you\r\nwere young \u0026amp; after your fathers\r\ndecease my constant anxiety\r\nwas fear that I might die \u0026amp; \r\nleave you to the care of no\r\none knows who, and that you \r\nmight be neglected and mistrea\r\nted, this was a bitter source of anxiety\r\nto me then, and now that you\r\nare grown, and I find myself still\r\nlooking around for some cause\r\nof anxiety on your account I\r\ncheck the feeling and try to\r\nfeel thankful that I was spared\r\nto protect \u0026amp; care for you while\r\nunable to take care of yourself\r\nThe more so is this my duty\r\n----------------------------------------------\r\nwhen my aching heart is made\r\nto beat with joy at hearing your\r\npraise so universally spoken of \r\nall seem to hold you in very high\r\nestimation.  I am compensated if \r\nI can continue to see you advance\r\nsuccessfully in your business. \r\nwe have a good garden milk \u0026amp;\r\nbutter \u0026amp; Gaston has a crop of ten\r\nacres mostly in corn \u0026amp; other “Truck”\r\n\r\ncome to see me when you can all\r\nwant to see you\r\n\r\nAs ever you loving\r\nMother\r\nMary Jones\r\n\r\ngive much move to Mrs Bryan Mollie\r\nEddie \u0026amp; the little girls Mrs Scranton\r\nDitto.  We will have Grapes Peaches\r\n\u0026amp; some plums do write me some occ\r\nasionally  Forgive all errors as I\r\nam entertained while writing\r\nby Baby fretting"],"sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","@id":"https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/concern/texts/6d56zw85w/manifest/sequence/normal","rendering":[],"canvases":[{"@type":"sc:Canvas","@id":"https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/concern/texts/6d56zw85w/manifest/canvas/9s1616449","label":"uhlib_1970_003_do24579s825_0001.tif","width":640,"height":480,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@type":"dctypes:Image","@id":"https://media.lib.uh.edu/images/9s1616449%2Ffiles%2F465e01e3-a729-4e90-945f-777b9052e8c1/full/600,/0/default.jpg","height":480,"width":640,"format":null,"service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://media.lib.uh.edu/images/9s1616449%2Ffiles%2F465e01e3-a729-4e90-945f-777b9052e8c1","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/concern/texts/6d56zw85w/manifest/canvas/9s1616449"}]},{"@type":"sc:Canvas","@id":"https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/concern/texts/6d56zw85w/manifest/canvas/xp68kg46g","label":"uhlib_1970_003_do24579s825_0002.tif","width":640,"height":480,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@type":"dctypes:Image","@id":"https://media.lib.uh.edu/images/xp68kg46g%2Ffiles%2Fc4f52587-a353-46aa-8a4c-0ae0591239f8/full/600,/0/default.jpg","height":480,"width":640,"format":null,"service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://media.lib.uh.edu/images/xp68kg46g%2Ffiles%2Fc4f52587-a353-46aa-8a4c-0ae0591239f8","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/concern/texts/6d56zw85w/manifest/canvas/xp68kg46g"}]},{"@type":"sc:Canvas","@id":"https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/concern/texts/6d56zw85w/manifest/canvas/5425k991k","label":"uhlib_1970_003_do24579s825_0003.tif","width":640,"height":480,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@type":"dctypes:Image","@id":"https://media.lib.uh.edu/images/5425k991k%2Ffiles%2Ffba1139c-d099-42df-b3e7-d5d377705249/full/600,/0/default.jpg","height":480,"width":640,"format":null,"service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://media.lib.uh.edu/images/5425k991k%2Ffiles%2Ffba1139c-d099-42df-b3e7-d5d377705249","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/concern/texts/6d56zw85w/manifest/canvas/5425k991k"}]},{"@type":"sc:Canvas","@id":"https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/concern/texts/6d56zw85w/manifest/canvas/44558d60x","label":"uhlib_1970_003_do24579s825_0004.tif","width":640,"height":480,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@type":"dctypes:Image","@id":"https://media.lib.uh.edu/images/44558d60x%2Ffiles%2Fe286e09f-1797-4c53-941c-71868f19a2df/full/600,/0/default.jpg","height":480,"width":640,"format":null,"service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://media.lib.uh.edu/images/44558d60x%2Ffiles%2Fe286e09f-1797-4c53-941c-71868f19a2df","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/concern/texts/6d56zw85w/manifest/canvas/44558d60x"}]}]}]}