Papers of the Benjamin Franklin Yancey Family

H. Shelton to Harriet Anna Yancey, September 2, 1934

Family | Health, illness and death | Home/Farm life | Place--Esmont, VA | Place--Pennsylvania | Work and employment

The handwriting in this letter is nearly illegible.

Cousin H. Shelton tells Harriet Yancey about his new roof, and asks Harriet to tell Aunt Clara to look after his mother.

?Sep? 2 -1934

My Dear harriet

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I received yr letter a few day ago and ?was? more then glade to here from you this leave me well but Very tired out as my work is very hard Now I know that you need a rest becouse any one got a job this days you has got to do ?law? people work to whole it and that is Just what I am doying Now- I am glad that you are goying home to rest you Self I am sory that I cant go this Summer because I has

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got to put a tine roof one my house this fall and it will cost a round a bout $200 Dollars So this days that kind of money is hard to get to gether this day I Just had that roof fix wont long a go and it cost me $35 Dollars So the money that I keep one having to fix it will pay better to have a ten roof put one then I wont have any more trubl you must excouse me for waiting long befor writing to you but it has ben

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So hot when I get home at night I am So tired I am not able to do any ?thing? So you must Excouse me this time harret I has never seen tin as it is Now it is not getting any better [missing text] at my place we put one a few this Summer and the has laid them all of a ready I will be glad when my time is up after you Serve 30 years then your time is up and you can [missing text] retire that is the [missing text] Now So I have got 4 more years to go after 1935

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then I am goiyng home for good to live I show wold like to See [missing text] you and the Children gave my love to them for mee harriet I want you to asked my mother to tell you how many bottl of medicin [missing text] are in that box that I sent ?here and? one Box of writing paper it ?were? ten bottles of Medicin and one bottle of ?Camperrated? Oil to Rub here leg with tell the letter She sent [missing text] me no one could read it at all it did not have my

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name one the letter at all it had Mrs Shaw name the way I know it was for mee I Saw Esmont post mark the [missing text] that I got it it hade ?the? No [missing text] one it ?offer? it had ben all over Phila you tell Mother that Say if Shee cant write me no better letters then that dont write at all I has ?told? here bout getting [missing text] that come a long the ?Road? a bout writing letter for here to me because I cant read them and no one else

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Mother dont care wether Shee writ to me or not I Just So Shee get what Shee want when Shee want it You asked here is the Midicin did here any good that I send here harriet you tell Aunt Clara I say that Shee better Cone home and stay with mother becouse Shee is getting to old to work Now it is No more then two of then left now and I think the ought to be to gether just as long as I got a roof over my head Shee got ?one? [missing text]

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Harriet you must tak good Care of you Self and dont work y Self down Im Comming to See you befor Christmas if [missing text] ?lost? I got to lott to tell you when I see you you tell Mother Just what I Say I ?now? goying to Send Mother a Stove but Sice I got to have a roof put on So Shee will hafle wait for it till I get the [missing text] roof on write me al the news when you get home

good by from yr Coson Couson

the best of love

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

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