Letter from Mulberry, Thursday, to 'Dear Tho.' — page 2

Scanned page 198 of Book 1 — Scan of original. Open full size →

A single-page handwritten letter in brown ink, the second leaf of the letter beginning on page 197. The final sentence turns the corner and continues vertically up the right margin in the same brown ink.

Tell Mary I dont think the bodies will serve more than just in case of needs but I put on some missing buttons — I can make any thing for any of your party tele me, I have time & the machine & I dont feel so entirely cut off when I’m doing small comforts & helps by the way. Uncle Adam asked me in the most sprightly way, how M*[r]* Carter & Dawson were getting on now in their business! He is very anxious to see you & your party & asks me daily about you. He has just come over from S*[°]* Mulberry with the mail. Will you ask the price of thin boards suitable for bracket saws. I suppose at Timmsbrincks in King just below Broad S*[t]* will be a good place to enquire. He ^Uncle A.^ thought he could saw out pieces of cedar for himself but he finds he cant. If Jody has empty cigar boxes that he does not want they would do I suppose. He is so anxious

[continuing sideways up the right margin in the same brown ink:] to do something — it is pitiful actually—

AI Notes

Second leaf of the ‘Mulberry Thursday’ letter. Tells Mary the bodies will not serve more than ‘just in case of needs’ but the writer ‘put on some missing buttons,’ and offers to make anything for the recipient’s party with her sewing machine. Uncle Adam asks ‘sprightly’ after how Mr. Carter & Dawson are getting on in their business; he has just come over from S° Mulberry with the mail. Asks the recipient to enquire at Timmsbrincks in King just below Broad St. about thin boards suitable for bracket saws — Uncle A. thought he could saw out cedar himself but finds he can’t, and if Jody has empty cigar boxes he doesn’t want, they would do. The sentence ‘He is so anxious’ continues sideways up the right margin: ‘to do something — it is pitiful actually—’ and runs on to the next page.

Letter continues on next page.