MY DARLING, YOUR OF THE 29 IS AT HAND. I WAS INDEED GLAD TO HEAR FROM YOU ONCE MORE. YES, THERE IS NOTHING ON EARTH THAT AFFORDS ME MORE PLEASURE THAN TO READ A LETTER FROM MY DARLING (THAT IS YOU). I AM SORRY I WAS NOT HERE WHEN YOUR LETTER CAME TO JACKSBORO, I WAS IN GRAYSON. JUST GOT HOME SUNDAY EVE. I STOPED WITH YOUR SISTER HATTIE, AND TAKEN DINNER AS I WENT DOWN TO SHERMAN IN GRAYSON CO.
IT SEEMED LIKE YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE: BUT ALAS I NEW YOU WAS NOT ON THE PLACE: WHEN I SEE THE PLACE WE PARTED, IT CALLED MY MIND BACK TO THE PAST. I THOUGHT OF THE HAPPY MEETING, AND WHAT NICE TIME WE HAD. BUT ALAS HOW SAD IT WAS TO PART. INDEED I DID NOT THINK WE WOULD BE PARTED SO LONG, BUT ALAS WE ARE MANY MILES APART THIS EVE. BUT WORK WILL SOON END, AND THEN I'LL COME AND SEE YOU AND WE WILL HAVE A PICNIC AND SEE A HEEP OF FUN.
YOU MUST NOT THINK THE TIME TOO LONG MY DARLING: OUR SISTER HATTIE SAID SHE HAD A LETTER FROM YOU, AND YOU WROTE ABOUT YOUR LITTLE PETS THAT YOU WAS KEEPING FOR HER. I AM GLAD YOU LOVE PETS, FOR I WAS RAISED A PET. YOU CAN HAVE ME FOR YOUR LITTLE PET. SO LOOK OUT I'LL COME UP AND SEE HOW THEY ARE GETTING ALONG, AND THEN YOU CAN ME! ME:
WE HAVE A BIG PICNIC FRIDAY: THAT IS OUR COUNCLE OF UNITED FRIENDS OF TEMPORANCE. I WISH YOU WAS HERE TO GO WITH ME. I WILL THINK OF YOU. IT WILL BE THE FIRST PICNIC I HAVE BEEN TO FOR THREE YEARS. WE WILL MARCH FROM JACKSBORO TO THE GROUND WITH OUR REGALIA ON: AN THEN WE WILL HAVE OUT DINNER: IT WILL BE QUITE A TREAT TO SOME.
WELL, I WILL LOOK OVER YOUR LETTER AND ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS. YES I CAN RELIZE THE SENTAMENT OF YOUR WORDS OF THE POET.
I INDEED CARE FOR YOUR HEART, AND FEEL IT AN HONOR TO CALL IT MINE. YOU CERTAINLY HAVE MY HEART IN RETURN, ALSO MY HAND. YEA THE COMBINED POWERS OF THIS WORLD CANT KEEP ME FROM LOVING YOU, AND I WILL PROVE IT TO YOU. THAT I AM INDEED EARNEST WHEN I MEET YOU.
TILL WE MEET IN A FEW WEEKS. YOU WILL LOOK OVER ALL MISTAKES AND REMEMBER YOUR TRUE AND DEVOTED LOVER.
LEWIS
