{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","@id":"https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/concern/texts/c247ds26v/manifest","label":"Letter from Mary Jones to Cromwell Anson Jones, 1878 May 28","description":["Transcript: Willis\nMay 28th 1878\n\nDear Son\n\nYour favor of the 26th reached me yesterday\nwas glad to hear from you by letter.  I had intended\nwriting you last week but felt unwell, conseque\n-ntly not in a humor to write.  True enough\nwe are on the move again, will begin this\nweek toward the last of the week, so as not\nto stop Sallies school, and to give me time\nto recuperate \u0026amp;c \u0026amp;c.  Gaston has purchased the\nIrving place, the one he wanted so bad in\nhis first coming here.  And you would be sur\nprised to see how the thing has come about.\nIt appears that Sandall was at the bottom of the\npurchase to keep Gas, out \u0026amp; for the laudable \npurpose of driving him away perhaps, rn for some mo\n-tive.  But after Gas. purchased lots, got his mill up\nand they saw he could not be driven off, Then\nit was they (he and Tomison joint partners in the \nbusiness) it seems found out they had the lion by the\ntail and if they sold to any one else, a third \nmill \u0026amp; Gin would be bound to starve some one\nout.  Consequently Sandall come to Gas, and offer\ned to sell him the Irving place for $800 dol\n$250 to be paid the first of January \u0026amp; the balance one\n--------------------------------------------------------------------\nyear from that payment, he said to Gaston “two mills\ncan make a good living here, but a third one\nwont do.”  So after all his management he had\nto give Gas the Club to knock his own brains\nour with.  Gaston has worked it old - not only\non Sandall but Sams good friend Caldwell\nwho has sent me a message to come back \u0026amp; I should\nhave anything I wanted on Sams account, I believe\nI told you he had refused me anything more while\nyou were up, for it was at that time I sent for an\nother monthly supply as before, about six dollars worth\nwas all pr. Month I was getting there on Sams\naccount\n\nThe Irving house has four rooms, two front\nones 16” feet square with shed rooms back some\nlength, ten or twelve feet wide, with an 8 foot\n[    ] \u0026amp; gallery six or seven feet wide the \nwhole length fronting South. No kitchen, ex\ncept one of the shed rooms, there is a smoke -\nhouse, and a splendid well of water, some \nfruit trees tho young but they have fruit on\nthem this year.  Dunn was the party who\nwanted to purchase the Irving place \u0026amp; he is\nbroke up to smashes so say the knowing\nones \u0026amp; is making trips to Austin with\nhis Lawyer Boon trying to settle up his \naccounts with the Government\n-----------------------------------------------------------\n   Gaston is strongly talked of as the candidate\nfor Sheriff as it seems people are beginning\nto come to the conclusion that the present\nincumbent has had it about long enough\nfor the good of the County - so [    ] it be\n\nLast Saturday Gaston\nground about seventy bushels of corn.  Almost\nall the custom[ers] he lost by the failure when\nyou were here has come back, and but for the\nscarcity of corn he would get more grinding \nAnd if he was able to buy corn \u0026amp; keep meal\ncould find sale for it every day.  Gaston says\nthat he feels like things were working round\nfavorable for him in all respects, that is if\nhis purchasing a place \u0026amp;c \u0026amp;c don’t bring on a\nEuropean war \u0026amp; cause cotton to be almost\nworthless by fall\n\nI have had no letters from\nSam later than the one you mention tho\nhe has sent me papers of a later date\n\nHow I dread\nmoving this hot weather.  I shall want my bed -\nstead when we move, but will let you know\nwhen to send it up.  could that large spring\nmattress be sold for anything like its value  I\nwill not have room for it \u0026amp; what other bed\n-ing I have here, but would like to keep it\n---------------------------------------------------------\nfor summer use if I could have room so as to\ntake care of it during the winter, when I would\nprefer a feather bed to sleep on.  I shall be glad\nto see you at any time you can come up \u0026amp; hope\nwe will be somewhat better situated.  Sallie and\nI regret having to leave our little garden, as it\nis just now producing beans Tomatoes cucumbers \u0026amp;\nand some other vegetables which we will have\nto buy.  Today we had four kinds of vegetables from it\n\nI feel impatient to hear you have effected\nthat land sale.\n\nNo news here except two deaths in\nthe last week.  Mr. McClouds wife \u0026amp; a child two\nyears old of Mr. Fulinuidors\n\nWith best wishes and much\nlove from your affectionate\nMother\nMary Jones.\n\nI see that I have not told you where the Irving\nplace is after all  it is the place opposite to\nwhere Gastons Mill now stands, by the way\nGas is moving over his mill today.  Every one\nsays he has the best place for his business any-\nwhere to be found, the Tank is splendid, lots of fish\nin it"],"sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","@id":"https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/concern/texts/c247ds26v/manifest/sequence/normal","rendering":[],"canvases":[{"@type":"sc:Canvas","@id":"https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/concern/texts/c247ds26v/manifest/canvas/5m60qs23q","label":"uhlib_1970_003_do55634308t_0001.tif","width":640,"height":480,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@type":"dctypes:Image","@id":"https://media.lib.uh.edu/images/5m60qs23q%2Ffiles%2F6b5fd355-a2ca-426d-9db0-e460547a4c6c/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/5m60qs23q%2Ffiles%2F6b5fd355-a2ca-426d-9db0-e460547a4c6c","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/concern/texts/c247ds26v/manifest/canvas/5m60qs23q"}]},{"@type":"sc:Canvas","@id":"https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/concern/texts/c247ds26v/manifest/canvas/rv042t26g","label":"uhlib_1970_003_do55634308t_0002.tif","width":640,"height":480,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@type":"dctypes:Image","@id":"https://media.lib.uh.edu/images/rv042t26g%2Ffiles%2Facef9ab6-803a-4196-86e9-d8b730be2dfe/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/rv042t26g%2Ffiles%2Facef9ab6-803a-4196-86e9-d8b730be2dfe","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/concern/texts/c247ds26v/manifest/canvas/rv042t26g"}]},{"@type":"sc:Canvas","@id":"https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/concern/texts/c247ds26v/manifest/canvas/5q47rp00x","label":"uhlib_1970_003_do55634308t_0003.tif","width":640,"height":480,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@type":"dctypes:Image","@id":"https://media.lib.uh.edu/images/5q47rp00x%2Ffiles%2Fd4add7e4-067f-4775-ad3d-b8e20eaddd28/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/5q47rp00x%2Ffiles%2Fd4add7e4-067f-4775-ad3d-b8e20eaddd28","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/concern/texts/c247ds26v/manifest/canvas/5q47rp00x"}]},{"@type":"sc:Canvas","@id":"https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/concern/texts/c247ds26v/manifest/canvas/j098zb374","label":"uhlib_1970_003_do55634308t_0004.tif","width":640,"height":480,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@type":"dctypes:Image","@id":"https://media.lib.uh.edu/images/j098zb374%2Ffiles%2F1a9a5e99-4180-4c6d-81a6-77904b88e9de/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/j098zb374%2Ffiles%2F1a9a5e99-4180-4c6d-81a6-77904b88e9de","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/concern/texts/c247ds26v/manifest/canvas/j098zb374"}]}]}]}