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Yatsville Cayell County [ Texas ]
April the 7 鈥�78
Miss [Mollie] Sarbough
Dear Sister this being [arany (a rainy)] [sobauth (sabbath?)] I pen you Afiew lines which will in form you of my good health I hope when you reve this it will find mother and famly well and doing well I have no noos [news] to Wright Mr Wilby and famly ar well I live in six hundred yards of him [with] agood family I have buin [with] the family two months and ar well pleased and have not had across wo warde I am well pleas ed with this [section] of Country We have good socity have preaching ever Sunday tho I have only attended on two ocations and had Miss Sally one trip with me Since I laned In Texas I learned to be a good silver smith which costs me Fifteen Dollars I can do any work that is nessary in reparing [mother] ar clocks brestpins finger rings are in [fact] [juldry] of any kind my condition es verry good her Tell mother note to be uneasy about me and note look for me until I am able to go hame wright with money aplenty I wish you to wright to me verry soon I would like to hear from you ever month lete me no what has become of Mr [N]eethhammer I will close
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[Transcribed by Stacy Bryant, June 2005]
[Edited by Tina Bernath, June 2006]