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Tatum
March the 30 - 1913

Dear Sister Tilda,

I will answer your dear and ever welcome letter. I was sorry you was puny hope you are well before now. I was waiting and looking for an answer from a letter I written some time ago in response to your last letter. Long ago you wanted to know about our father's land. He gave it to brother Douglas and he never kept the taxes paid and it was sold for taxes, so sister Emma told me. Cousin Ben Briggs bought it and is living on it. I never got nothing only Mother's thimble. Sister Emma gave it to me. She a--ed to send me a trunk with some things but it got burned up. They had no room for some things and put them in a loft of some house or drug store and burnt up.

No, I haven't got nothing in the garden yet to eat but soon will have greens and lettuce, and I haven't got no hen setting yet. I don't think they know how. They are all over the woods, layers was, where Gussie's wife has 2 sitting. Frank is still - - - -

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(Letter was sent to Matilda Mitchell, Serena Briggs Nichols Adams' sister. Letter obtained from Matilda's granddaughter, Ona Rimola. Ona indicated that part of the letter is missinq.)

Note: "Gussie" is Serena's son Samuel Augustus Adams and "Frank" is her son Lewis Franklin Nichols.

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