L. L. Meggs,
General Store and Real Estate.
Marion County.
Orange Springs, Fla.,
June 7, 189[9]
My Dear Nelly
Am truly glad you came up for I wanted to see you & it would have been impossible for me to come as I don’t know when Bro will be here. Don’t know how the Missippi Riv club tour got started though from disposition I guess as I don’t think I’ll ever see [illegible] soon again. Then too be is coming sure to be here on time. You can express my appreciations to our Sister for her thoughtfulness in inviting me up while you are there. I am sure I’ll be glad to come at most any time convenient to you both.
Do write me as soon as I [illegible] & I’ll write every day too. Hope your ring will come today but guess it can’t get here now. I’m truly sorry I neglected it so long as I did.
I sent my long coat this a.m. to have cut.
Lovingly & with best wishes for a good trip.
Love your own
Glas
[postscript] I didn’t think anything more of Mr. L. C. Then too I am sure I could take your word for what you had written him.
[postscript – on envelope] If Bro is here Friday and I can get off I’ll try to go over to Egar and back with you all to show you the way that is if you have room enough & can come this way.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
Postmark June 6, 1899
Tuesday am
My Dear Nelly,
I truly hope before this reaches you I will have seen you & then I’l know what day you leave.
I guess I can never write & get a reply to my letter because it takes a week & I’ve always seen you & got the answer.
I guess Mr. Brinson will come Thursday.
He wrote he would.
Sold Nelly yesterday. I did hate it too but guess Bro will get a better one or at least he’ll try.
I wish Bullet was ok then I’d know you could come when you wanted too to see me.
There is a young man & his mother in the Old Globe for a few weeks. Came from Hawthorn.
Came to go in Spring.
Nellie if you have to go to Ga do go & come back & get the trip off my mind as I have always rather looked forward to it with dread. Then too I know you have to go.
Bro is gone this week to. I can’t see you before you leave don’t know what day he’ll come home.
But remember to write to me on first mail if it’s early & ok arrival notice.
Mrs. E two daughters will be here this week (today).
Ha Ha I sold my white vest yesterday now how about it!! Well it was to large for me any way.
Do write to me often because you are all now.
Lovingly
Glass
My Dear Nelly,
I truly hope before this reaches you I will have seen you & then I’l know what day you leave.
I guess I can never write & get a reply to my letter because it takes a week & I’ve always seen you & got the answer.
I guess Mr. Brinson will come Thursday.
He wrote he would.
Sold Nelly yesterday. I did hate it too but guess Bro will get a better one or at least he’ll try.
I wish Bullet was ok then I’d know you could come when you wanted too to see me.
There is a young man & his mother in the Old Globe for a few weeks. Came from Hawthorn.
Came to go in Spring.
Nellie if you have to go to Ga do go & come back & get the trip off my mind as I have always rather looked forward to it with dread. Then too I know you have to go.
Bro is gone this week to. I can’t see you before you leave don’t know what day he’ll come home.
But remember to write to me on first mail if it’s early & ok arrival notice.
Mrs. E two daughters will be here this week (today).
Ha Ha I sold my white vest yesterday now how about it!! Well it was to large for me any way.
Do write to me often because you are all now.
Lovingly
Glass
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Postmark June 2, 1899
L.L. Meggs
General Store and Real Estate
Marion County.
Orange Springs, Fla., June 1, 1899
Dear Nelly,
Yours recd. To busy to write much any way you’l be here this week & I’l tell you all.
Nelly Nelly Nelly you must have had the blues when you wrote to me . No matter how many girls come here I mean to see you if I have to go to Ga.
Yes I’l get you a ring & a good one. The other rings I gave were of cheap construction was why I was so free with them. I’l bring ring gage Sunday & will have it time you go to Ga.
I’l get you any thing & you know it.
Excuse haste. Hope you come this week.
G
General Store and Real Estate
Marion County.
Orange Springs, Fla., June 1, 1899
Dear Nelly,
Yours recd. To busy to write much any way you’l be here this week & I’l tell you all.
Nelly Nelly Nelly you must have had the blues when you wrote to me . No matter how many girls come here I mean to see you if I have to go to Ga.
Yes I’l get you a ring & a good one. The other rings I gave were of cheap construction was why I was so free with them. I’l bring ring gage Sunday & will have it time you go to Ga.
I’l get you any thing & you know it.
Excuse haste. Hope you come this week.
G
Friday, January 27, 2012
Postmark: May 30, 1899
[Note: I missed this letter in my list of files and so it is out of order, but just by one!]
Tuesday
My Own Darling
No one will ever know how I love you & were something to cause me to loose you I would soon grow miserable for I could never find another Nellie.
Were you to go to Ga & not write to me I’d go crazy. Nellie I truly hope your trip will prove a pleasant trip because I know you must get lonely where you are.
Pleasant as well as profitable because you must get your dress & have it ready by July.
I think that in that time Mr. Brinson will be well. He & I can easily get off to come to see you & most any time that suits you. You always say that there will be girls here & for to stay home. [Illegible] them if I want to.
Well Nellie there will be more than the [illegible] I told you of. Yet when you write me to come I’ll board the next train to see you. Of course there will be plenty of girls here the whole summer but there won’t be plenty of Nellies.
Mrs. McBride had a letter from Miss Cora stating she was going North 15th June & she wanted to come spend a week with her before she left. Then too in a few week there will be a very good crowd.
I have been hoping you ask me to Ga & propose to pay my way to have me drive you about & wait on you in general but you haven’t done so yet. So I have done spoken to borrow the money on my own face to go on & have already asked my Boss if I could get off to go. So if Nellie goes Glass means to go if not Glass will not.
Strange how people change. When I came to Fla I had a train ticket to Jaxville via of Waycross. When I struck west Fla thinking I never had & would never love anything in Ga & that my whole fortune would be in Fla & of course wanted to see it all.
I had my ticket transferred to F.C. & P. & came across the northern part of Fla. I don’t know whether it was so much to see Fla or to keep from having to see Ga.
Ha”Ha” how the wind blows these days. Now my whole life is in a Ga girl & so yes I’ll gladly go to Ga or anywhere else to see you & I know the trip will not only be a pleasant one but will be a good rest for me. I think maybe I can come anytime but can tell you Sunday.
Honey don’t stay long.
Lovingly your boy
Glass
Tuesday
My Own Darling
No one will ever know how I love you & were something to cause me to loose you I would soon grow miserable for I could never find another Nellie.
Were you to go to Ga & not write to me I’d go crazy. Nellie I truly hope your trip will prove a pleasant trip because I know you must get lonely where you are.
Pleasant as well as profitable because you must get your dress & have it ready by July.
I think that in that time Mr. Brinson will be well. He & I can easily get off to come to see you & most any time that suits you. You always say that there will be girls here & for to stay home. [Illegible] them if I want to.
Well Nellie there will be more than the [illegible] I told you of. Yet when you write me to come I’ll board the next train to see you. Of course there will be plenty of girls here the whole summer but there won’t be plenty of Nellies.
Mrs. McBride had a letter from Miss Cora stating she was going North 15th June & she wanted to come spend a week with her before she left. Then too in a few week there will be a very good crowd.
I have been hoping you ask me to Ga & propose to pay my way to have me drive you about & wait on you in general but you haven’t done so yet. So I have done spoken to borrow the money on my own face to go on & have already asked my Boss if I could get off to go. So if Nellie goes Glass means to go if not Glass will not.
Strange how people change. When I came to Fla I had a train ticket to Jaxville via of Waycross. When I struck west Fla thinking I never had & would never love anything in Ga & that my whole fortune would be in Fla & of course wanted to see it all.
I had my ticket transferred to F.C. & P. & came across the northern part of Fla. I don’t know whether it was so much to see Fla or to keep from having to see Ga.
Ha”Ha” how the wind blows these days. Now my whole life is in a Ga girl & so yes I’ll gladly go to Ga or anywhere else to see you & I know the trip will not only be a pleasant one but will be a good rest for me. I think maybe I can come anytime but can tell you Sunday.
Honey don’t stay long.
Lovingly your boy
Glass
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Julia Eleanor Lang, 1899
Maybe this photo was taken on one of Nellie and Glass's Sunday outings.
The inscription reads: "In the Shadow of the Pines".Thursday, December 22, 2011
Postmark May 31, 1899
Dear Nelly,
I enclose schedule from Edgar Sta (One mile East of Johnson) to Folkston Ga. Changees sect.
Thought maybe it would be some advantage to you in planning your trip as you spoke of coming this way. Hope you can as Il get to see you. If you don’t let me know Sunday & Il come out the night before you leave.
Lovingly
Glass
Il see you Sunday
I enclose schedule from Edgar Sta (One mile East of Johnson) to Folkston Ga. Changees sect.
Thought maybe it would be some advantage to you in planning your trip as you spoke of coming this way. Hope you can as Il get to see you. If you don’t let me know Sunday & Il come out the night before you leave.
Lovingly
Glass
Il see you Sunday
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Postmark May 25, 1899
Thursday
My own Dear Nelly,
Your letter didn’t arrive yesterday but guess it will come in today.
Sleepy!! Don’t talk about how sleepy. I did get [Carriey?] home & it was real much late too.
Had some rain yesterday & I think it will help the people as much as the crops. I know I feel better already.
I had some fun yesterday with the Old Globe (our mansion).
The colored man was over there Hoeing Corn. I took my sling shot & would shoot shot on top of it & he didn’t know what it was. I had him hoeing backwards part of the time as he was afraid to turn his back to the House. He said he thought something was in it.
I went over yesterday to make a close examination of it & found 2 chairs one table & a bench. We’ll be in luck won’t we with all that much furniture.
Did Guy hear anything more!! We must tell him to go easy that he may want to court some time & we will tell on him.
I wish you all could come up here this week but guess no use to look for you.
Sunday seems a long time away but we’ll make good use of it when it gets here won’t we?
Lovingly your own boy
Glass
5/25
My own Dear Nelly,
Your letter didn’t arrive yesterday but guess it will come in today.
Sleepy!! Don’t talk about how sleepy. I did get [Carriey?] home & it was real much late too.
Had some rain yesterday & I think it will help the people as much as the crops. I know I feel better already.
I had some fun yesterday with the Old Globe (our mansion).
The colored man was over there Hoeing Corn. I took my sling shot & would shoot shot on top of it & he didn’t know what it was. I had him hoeing backwards part of the time as he was afraid to turn his back to the House. He said he thought something was in it.
I went over yesterday to make a close examination of it & found 2 chairs one table & a bench. We’ll be in luck won’t we with all that much furniture.
Did Guy hear anything more!! We must tell him to go easy that he may want to court some time & we will tell on him.
I wish you all could come up here this week but guess no use to look for you.
Sunday seems a long time away but we’ll make good use of it when it gets here won’t we?
Lovingly your own boy
Glass
5/25
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