LETTER #6 - NO ENVELOPE

MARCH 6, 1886
JACKSBORO, JACK CO. TEXAS

MISS. L.B. STARNES,

ESTEEMED AND NEVER TO BE FORGOTEN DARLING, THIS EVE BRINGS AT LEISURE AN IN MEDITATION. MY MIND WANDERS OVER THE MANY HILLS AND VALLIES, UNTIL IT RESTED ON YOU IN THE BIG I. T. I WILL ANSWER YOUR WHICH CAME IN DUE TIME. I INDEED WAS GLAD TO READ A LETTER FROM YOU MY DEAR. I INDEED GAVE MY TIME AND MIND TO IT, UNTIL I HAD READ THE CONTENTCE. AND THEN I SAID TO MY SELF HOW PRECIOUS AND SWEET IS THIS LETTER, BUT OH THE DEAR AUTHOR IS SWEETER AND DEARER TO ME THAN ANYONE ON THIS EARTH. YES I CAN TRUELY SAY AND REALISE ITS TRUE SENTIMENCE THAT THE GREAT LOVE FOR MY DEAR L.B. IS GROWING STRONGER EVERYDAY. YES I CAN NEVER LOVE ANOTHER AS DEAR AS YOU. YES MY DEAR YOU ARE THE PRIDE OF MY HEART. THE ONLY ONE IN THIS WHOLE WIDE WORLD THAT I CAN TRUST AND WORSHIP AS AN ANGLE. YES I MIGHT ADD THAT YOU ARE THE STAR OF MY FUTURE LIFE. AND OH I LONG TO SEE THAT LOVELY FACE ONCE MORE AND HEAR YOU TALK OF LOVERS DREAMS.

YES MANY TIMES MY MIND WANDERED TO THE SPOT WHERE WE PARTED, AND THOUGHT OVER THE SUBJECT THAT WE CONVERSED ON. AND SEEMED TO BE ALL SMILES TO MY, BUT ALAS OUR PARTING CAME, AND OH HOW SAD IT SEEMED TO ME. BUT YET I TRIED TO CHEER UP AND BE AS LIVELY AS EVER, BUT I FEEL AS THOUGH I WAS LEAVING THE DEAREST FRIEND ON EARTH. THIS MADE ME SAD, BUT I CHEERED UP WHEN I THOUGHT I WOULD HAVE THE HIGH AND HONORED PRIVILEGE OF WRITING.

DIDENT YOU SAY YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE SOME SONG BALLAD, WHEN I WAS AT MONTAGUE. IF SO WRITE WHAT ONE YOU WANT, AND I WILL SEND IT TO YOU.

MY TRUE SENTANCE, YES I LONG TO SEE THE TIME COME WHEN I CAN CALL YOU MINE. WHEN OUR HEARTS WILL BE MADE ONE, AND MAY THE KIND HAND OF GOD WATCH OVER YOU AND BLESS YOU THROUGH THIS LIFE. SO HOPING THIS LIFE WILL BE A GRAND SUCCESS TO YOU.

I REMAIN YOUR TRUE AND LOVING FRIEND TIL DEATH. SO LOOK OVER ALL MISTAKES MY DEAR, AND WRITE SOON.

I AM YOURS TRUELY,

L.L. MC COMB

GOOD BY MY LOVER GOOD BY.