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Letter to Lily

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Letter from Laura to Lily, regarding people and events in Utica, Mississippi. The accompanying envelope is addressed to Mrs. J. S. Turcotte in West Jackson, Mississippi.Local identification number: \\ContentDM\CHARM_Original_TIF_Storage\Williams (Daniel)\Folder 5\20-074\Utica Miss-- May-26-1913 Dear Lily-- Your letter received Saturday and would have written you Sunday night but had sick headache to "be at the band." I went to Dry Grove and came back almost done up from wearing a hat that was a little heavier than I usually wear. I was to go the Sunday before and Hattie saved me some nice [page 2] eggs to set but Mamma was complaining some and I gave it out, and as she seemed better last week, wrote Hattie on Friday that would come up Sunday, but she didn't get my letter and didn't have any eggs for me. So she is coming down the last of this week and bring me some. Mr. Williams is looking very well, but is still taking his same diet--toast, eggs oatmeal and apple float--he is so much [page 3] afraid of being sick again that he is afraid to eat any thing else. Hattie's children have been told, and read so much about the little Dunbar being kidnapped that when Mary gets out of sight they just fly to hunt her. Bettie is at home now, she hardly thinks she will have to go back. I am so glad can get her to stay with Mamma some times when I want to go off. She sent...

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