Mis116TN-X

TENNESSEE, MISC

July 21, 1872

Written to

S. P. Draper

Yorkville

Gibson Co., Tenn.

Dear Cosin

Murphysboro, Ill.

After along Silence I write a few lines to let you as that we air all well at present hoping this will

find you enjoying the same blessing. We have good crops of oats & wheat the farmers air thrashing

at this time of the year. We had a fine rain last nite enough to make good corn of all crops that

was planted early times is hard here for the farmer hands is Scars and wages high there is so much

publick work going on in county that farm hands can get any price they ask. You Should come up

this fall & see the coal works in this county the Cairo & St. Louis railroad running thru here has stird

up a great coal fever amongst the capatilist of St. Louis So far as I no the rest of the connection

air all well tel onkel & Aunt that if they would come & See us this fall it would bee a great pleasure

for us to meat them at the Depo RAVENNA sais to tel Alie that she has got her Spider quilt nearly

quilten She wants you to tel the girls that She would like to See them once moar tell Jack & Dan

to write us a few lines once in awhile you will find enclosed Some of mother HOLLIDAYS hair that she

wanted onkel PHILLIP to have withit RAVENNA sends Some of his pappys So he can Some of boath

of there hair well I will close for this time write when you can

Wm Richards

N.B. when you write let us no if yo have herd from James since we saw you.