Murphy N.C.
Oct 18th 1883
My Darling Lulu
Thinking every day now for three days that I would certainly start home the next morning and having only to stop for one day in Swain I have not written expecting a letter could not reach you but a few hours before I would get home myself. I have been hindered from time to time. I now think I will get off tomorrow but the prospect is just as it was yesterday and day before I was in ten minutes of starting yesterday but an unexpected turn stoped me. I have now determined to write every day till I get home let me be wherever I may - even if I think I will beat the letter home, I am having only tolerable success with business Money is very very hard to get. The crops are better here than in Jackson I thought last night that it was cool enough for frost but it was
Murphy N.C.
Oct 18th 1883
My Darling Lulu
Thinking every day now for three days that I would certainly start home the next morning and having only to stop for one day in Swain I have not written expecting a letter could not reach you but a few hours before I would get home myself. I have been hindered from time to time. I now think I will get off tomorrow but the prospect is just as it was yesterday and day before I was in ten minutes of starting yesterday but an unexpected turn stoped me. I have now determined to write every day till I get home let me be wherever I may - even if I think I will beat the letter home, I am having only tolerable success with business Money is very very hard to get. The crops are better here than in Jackson I thought last night that it was cool enough for frost but it was
