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Jolley family letters, 1866 and 1882-1886
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fun i am very sory now i did not tell you about my father takeing the first letter you sent me out of the ofice and reading it before i ought to have told you when i wrote you the first letter when you was in lester I hope you will forgive me for not telling you before if i had only staid a week longer it never would have hapened it always seems to be just my luck that other people must know more about my buisness than i do my self we had a very nice fall here we did not have any frost hard enough to kill pumpkin vines till the 21st of this month corn is good in quality but not so good in quanity as was expected please write as soon as you can for i have not heard from you for so long with all my love to you i close R Sidney Jolley <in margin> remember me and dont forget thare is one out here that loves you yet forget me not forget me never till yonder sun shall set forever say you love me Mary darling say you love none else but me oh i love thee Mary darling oh you are all the world to me please write soon thare is a good girl
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fun i am very sory now i did not tell you about my father takeing the first letter you sent me out of the ofice and reading it before i ought to have told you when i wrote you the first letter when you was in lester I hope you will forgive me for not telling you before if i had only staid a week longer it never would have hapened it always seems to be just my luck that other people must know more about my buisness than i do my self we had a very nice fall here we did not have any frost hard enough to kill pumpkin vines till the 21st of this month corn is good in quality but not so good in quanity as was expected please write as soon as you can for i have not heard from you for so long with all my love to you i close R Sidney Jolley
remember me and dont forget thare is one out here that loves you yet forget me not forget me never till yonder sun shall set forever say you love me Mary darling say you love none else but me oh i love thee Mary darling oh you are all the world to me please write soon thare is a good girl
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