Letter from J. C. Mitchell

Title

Letter from J. C. Mitchell

Accession Number

2023.58.1.62

Accession Date

April 15, 2023

Accession Creator

Samantha Mora

Depositor

Found in collection

Description

A letter from J. C. Mitchell. The first page of the letter is missing. We don't have immediate indication as to who the letter was written to or when the letter is written.

Creator

J. C. Mitchell

Storage Location

Archives: collection case

Text

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Superintendent of both the Greenville New and Peidmont [sic] and Lill is overseer of about 200 girls at the s_oing shots(?) and I am still on my job doing nothing and exfeat(?) to seen it on I dont [sic] know how much my boys salaries are been I guess several hundred dollars per month I shure [sic] are proud of my boys aint you [sic]
Anthony Hart has nigalates as pap used to say marrying a woman with a gang of children and a mother in law Ill guess he cant [sic] run his business at home like tried to run the 3 Church and Sunday school he dont [sic] want to be a Deacon unless he has the lead I think it is time to stop Campbell and Hart from running the Churches unless they want to ruin it Sister Lon is better I have just heard from her best She is liable to be suarse [sic] any minute there shells with her heart is liable to attact [sic] her any moment I take dinner at Doras [sic] nearly every day so I am still boarding among the Scollars [sic] and have plenty to eat Dora and Bob dont [sic] kiok [sic] so I dont [sic]either
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Lill is still dancing in the hog trough which suits me exactly I have not been up home for several weeks sorry to hear of Bob_(?) being sick I mean Mrs Clayton, Jim Bates was convicted and I think it was a just verdict the Judge talked nice a bout [sic] the case when the sentenced him I guess mears will be given the same sentence and Joe Faster also I do think that Creeikshanks caught to be with them in prison and somebody else in his place dont[sic] you - Alice we are in the same house we 5 moord(?) in when we come here seven years ago and we are with good people just like home folks and kin folks I have been to naces [sic] I like his wife fine she is a good cook I am a judge of good things to eat Alice I housed a niece living I love better than you now dont [sic] get mad at the truth for how quit lieing [sic] long ago
Hope you are all well
Lovingly
JC Mitchell
PS over
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Alice I love pleasant hill and will long as I live it is a dear spot to me I wish it was possible for me to be there every Sunday Oh how I would enjoy it
Write me all the news tell John to write me the Church news and any thing else I shure [sic] would like to hear about everything going on up there
J.C. Mitchell.

Relation

Hawkins family collection