Letter from W. W. Burgiss to Etta Bailey, September 4, 1886 · Greer Heritage Museum collection

Title: Letter from W. W. Burgiss to Etta Bailey, September 4, 1886
Accession Number: 2022.1.4.16
Accession Date: February 4, 2023
Accession Creator: David Lovegrove
Depositor: Shuman B. Gerald, III
Description: This letterhead has an engraving of the hotel — a three-story mansion with pillars — and reads: “One Minute’s Walk from the Depot. The Brainard House. The House has been refitted and refurnished throughout, and is replete with all Modern Improvements, including an Electric Annunciator, Two Fine Sample Rooms for Commercial Travelers and is under the management of S.C. Hooker, Late of the Hooker House, Colchester.”
Date: September 4, 1886
Storage Location: General Archive Box #7 Folder #8
Text: Willimantic, Conn., Sept 4 1886
My Darling
I am in this little old town and cant get away until 825 this “AM” and I arrived here at 5 oclock this “A.M” Just think of it 3 hours to stay here and do not move a man in 2 hundred [wries ?] of this place and dont want to move any I meet a man this A.M who said he was in S.C in 76 under Chamberlain and that was all I wanted to know about him. My darling I will start to see you this PM at about 4 o’clock and will come as fast as I can – think I will be home about Tuesday or Wednesday I am now on my way to “Providence” this is the place where the “Willimatic” Spool Cotton is made I would not live in the north for anything Im almost crazzy to see you Im your own devoted Will
Do Excuse haste — its breakfast time
Love to all

Item sets: GHM: archive; Etta Bailey Burgiss papers