Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882)

Lt 58a, 1878

White, Mary

Denison, Texas

December 6, 1878

Previously unpublished.

Dear Daughter Mary:

Will you please get at Griswold’s one pair of blankets such as he sold me for three dollars per pair. Also one pair for four dollars per pair. 3LtMs, Lt 58a, 1878, par. 1

We are just going in search of a carriage. We have a good little span of horses we shall purchase for about sixty or seventy-five for the two. 3LtMs, Lt 58a, 1878, par. 2

We shall move into our new house next week; then shall be settled to commence work. But we want Mary Smith Abbey if we cannot have Sister Booth. Will you see how this matter stands? Have they made me a cloak such as I ordered—plain or like Emma’s? I would rather have a fur cloak if some one could select one for me of the largest size in Chicago, if it were only of the cheaper fur, black, which costs twenty-five dollars. But I leave this to your judgment. We have fully decided not to have Willie Cornell come to Texas. We have three good copyists, but no caretaker or one to fit the matter for printer. We have Sister Daniells to cook for us. She does well. This saves the expense of transportation. 3LtMs, Lt 58a, 1878, par. 3

Father says this must go now. 3LtMs, Lt 58a, 1878, par. 4

Mother.