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Colby Purdy, Acca L.

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University of Texas Rio Grande Valley ScholarWorks @ UTRGV Acca L. Colby Purdy Correspondence (Brownsville, Matamoros) Special Collections and Archives 5-6-1866 Acca L Colby Purdy Correspondence, 1866-05-06 Acca L. Colby Purdy Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/accacolbypurdy Recommended Citation Acca L. Colby Purdy Correspondence (BLIBR-0004), UTRGV Digital Library, The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley. Access via https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/accacolbypurdy This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections and Archives at ScholarWorks @ UTRGV. It has been accepted for inclusion in Acca L. Colby Purdy Correspondence (Brownsville, Matamoros) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ UTRGV. For more information, please contact justin.white@utrgv.edu, william.flores01@utrgv.edu. Brownsville Texas May 6th (1866) Dear Father, We received by the last steamer two letters from you and one from Sully. Both of your letters speak of Mother getting ready to go East and by this time suppose she has gone. I am so glad and I hope I shall be able to meet her there sometime during the summer. I do not know what to do about writing her to Malden but think I will as there can be no doubt but that she is there. You spoke of what was to become of you all during her absence except the little ones so conclude that they all three go with Mother it will be hard for her to travel with them all but she will be more contented to stay if they are with her. I hope you will be able to build while she is gone. This eternal rent paying is enough to kill anyone. You stored thef goods of course somewhere I will get all the particulars in the next letter I suppose and will then know just how you are all fixed hope you will get a good place to board. Fannie will be nearer her school and will have a jolly time with Cousin Laura. When we go North we expect to go through Chicago but will not be able to stay more than two or three days if we do that long - I hope, and we some expect to be able to leave here in about six weeks or two months. Warren will probably go to Washington with the Major if his business keeps him there a great while I'm going to elope and go up toN.H. We are getting along finely here have been very well ever since our arrival, the only thing that worries me is our moving around so much. We moved back into the town tomorrow, we go to boarding in a private family at $80 dollars a month. Mr. and Mrs. Plato have a very nice little Cottage House with two rooms just large enough for them. You must excuse me from writing more tonight but I'm eat up with fleas mill add more to this if I have time before the steamer goes. (unsigned but written by Acea) 

Acca L Colby Purdy Correspondence, 1866-05-06

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Acca L Colby Purdy Correspondence, 1866-05-06

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