Stanley, Tenn.
Feb. the 18th 1890
Miss Mary My Dear
Beloved I attempt to pen you a few lines to inform you that I am well at
present hoping when these few lines come to hand they may find you well.
I haven't got much to write but I thought I would write you a few lines being
as I have a good chance to send it to you. I would have wrote sooner but
the mail dident reach Stanley on account of high water.
Oh Mary you ought to be over here now to see old Tennessee River.
Us boys is catching plenty of logs on this rise. I did aim to come over there
to day but I got into the log business and couldent get to come. . .
Please excuse bad writing as I am so nervious I caint hardly write at all.
I wouldent to have wrote now but Joe is over and I thought I would send you a
few lines to let you know why I aint coming over this Friday. As soon as the
river goes down I will certainly come.
So good by Dearest Love.
M.L.H.
T.H.R.
I am almost ashamed to send this letter but I will write you a better one
the next time.
(The following letter is the next one he wrote to Mary.)
Stanley, Tenn.
March the 30th 1890
Howdy, Miss. Mary,
My Darling One, as I am sitting here on this raft of logs this lonely
Sunday eve, I thought I would try to write you a few lines to let you know
that I am well at the present, hoping these few lines may come safe to hand
and find you all well. . . .
(This letter postmarked at South Pittsburg, Tennessee, because the river
was still high.)
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