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May the 28 1854
Dear brother I have taken the oportunity to wright a few lines to you to let you know that we are all well and enjoying good helth and hope that you are enjoying the same blessing. Eliza is well. We have not received a leter from you but Eliza did. I am still going to shool. Crops do not look very well here. Mother has got her crop work tolerable well. Mr. Wallus came home two weeks a goe. he is doing tolerable well since that. I did kill a grate many squirls time of the vacation. I have not sole your gun yet. I went afishing yesterday and caut a very good mess. There has been a good deal of talk about mad dogs but I have not seen any There was two killed in Rockariver last week. There has been some very hot wether this season. I wold have ritten before this time but Mother wrote and I was waiting for you to answer it. Mr. Lindsley says for you to remember him. Mother and the rest of the Children send their best respects to you. But pleas write to me as soon as you receive this letter, how you are satisfide and when you think you will return. I have nothing more to say at present. Your affectionate brother J.P. McCombs
Hornets Nest NC 5c 28th May 1854 Mr R.W. McCombs Red Banks P.O. Marshall Cty, Mississippi
From: DC0117s (Finding Aid)
Cite as:
McCombs, James P., Letter to Brother. 28 May 1854. DC0117s, McCombs, James Parks, 1836-1902 (1859) Letters, 1854-1885 and Undated. Available: https://davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org/archives/digital-collections/james-p-mccombs-letter-may-28-1854/.
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