Papers of the Benjamin Franklin Yancey Family

Benjamin Franklin Yancey to Harriet Anna Yancey, May 31 1911

Community life | Home/Farm life | Place--Esmont, VA | Seasons and the weather

This is an unfinished letter.

Writing from the Lexington hotel in Richmond, Virginia Benjamin Franklin Yancey tells his wife of the heat and dry weather plaguing Richmond. He is planning to come home soon and take the boys to Yellow Sulphur.

Hotel Lexington Lexington Hotel Co. Props
Felix Keegan, President
J. E. Dohahue, Sec'y-Treas
Twelfth and Main Streets

May 31 1911

Dear wife & c.

Your letter received 30 inst. Very glad to hear from you & c glad to know your finger better & c all well I am very well just the heat

We have not had any rain for 4 wks. It is so dusty in city. I know garden is suffering for rain. How is your potatoes & snaps have the corn I planted come up I shall try & get home the 2dSunday Can't tell date yet for I have got to fix things so I can return to get the boys together for

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Yellow Sulphur.

James Johnson will be home next wk or 1st part of wk after.

I can take Howard Isaac, Herbert Sauce, but if two go that will be all ok- Tell Howard that he can get ready because I will depend on him.

James will be through Esmont.

Well I have not heard from Jon since Hattie died. Hattie's daughter came back also one of the smaller children & their father in Buckingham have not written to them

Published by: Virginia Center for Digital History

Source copy consulted: Papers of the Benjamin Franklin Yancey Family (MSS 11599), Alderman Library, University of Virginia

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