Letter from Susan M. FitzSimons to Mr. Osborne — page 3 (sale of stove & pans; advice on the cow and calves; corn money)

Third leaf of Susan M. FitzSimons’s letter to Mr. Osborne, numbered ‘3’ at the top. Continues from p. 284 and concludes on p. 286. She itemises the kitchen things she does and does not wish to sell with the stove (the tin ham pot bought separately stays with her; the saucepans with handles she keeps), names $5 as the price for the things named first with the piping, and asks Mr. Osborne’s advice on whether the old cow had not better be sold this fall, on the calves she may have to sell this year, and asks him to send her any corn money he has and let her know what is not sold, as she will have taxes to pay. The location is the Mills River, N.C. farm Osborne managed for the FitzSimonses (later sold outright to Osborne by Ellen in 1918 — see pp. 287–288). [text was already accurate; refined notes to identify Osborne as the Mills River farm manager and to flag the corn-money / taxes line as evidence the writer was the proprietor of the farm-stock at Mills River, consistent with Susan owning the farm before Ellen.]

Letter continues on p. 286.