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4 to do work very nicely, she used to be a slave and talks about my misses in Tennessee Jefferson is just twenty four miles
southeast of Little Rock and sixteen mi. north of Pine Bluff. When we came here there was only one little white house, and
a large open dancing and preaching hall and refreshment stand which the R.R. Co. had arranged for excursionists who come it
is said on every train during the warm season, because of the beauty and healthfulness of the place, there are now six little
houses on one St. two on another, a boarding house and store the Negro quarters and will besides many other houses just
1 in margin: Father talked of writing to you and I think he intends to soon. Walter says that he and I shall visit you and
yours and the beautiful Yosemite as soon as he can afford the time and money to do so. I think it would make me glad soul
and body. We will pray that it may not be many years. Jefferson, Jefferson Co. Ark. March 24. 1882 Dear John: - I have
just been looking at your picture and wishing that you could take a ramble with me this morning all about our new home and
have a long long long talk together instead of being obliged to take my pen again. I suppose I ought to have written before
for we have been in Ark. two months now and you said you would be anxious to hear from us, but I never felt so little like
writing. Since coming here we have had some of the most