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Long Beach, Miss.
Sept 9 [18]95
Dear Cammie,
Your very interesting letter of date the 5th ins't to hand. I never in my life had a more lively interest in a friend than at this time I have for you, knowing as I do the pityable [sic] state of celibacy you are in, it is out of pure sympathy that I speak, the
[end of letter written at top]
Ollie C & the ballance [sic] of the dears. Give me a history of the times & the names of the prettiest girls around you[.] I wish to start a matrimonial agency.
Yours truly
C. V. Hill.
Object Description
| Rating | |
| Title | Letter to Cammie Williams |
| Description | Letter to Cammie Williams from C. V. Hill in Long Beach, Mississippi, regarding courtship, crops, and families from Honduras. |
| Digital ID# | 20-209 |
| Physical ID | 20-209 |
| Object Type | Letter |
| Creator | Hill, C. V. |
| Subject |
Courtship--Mississippi--History. Wit and humor--History. Hill & Wilson, Drugists (Long Beach, Miss.) |
| Geographic location | Long Beach (Miss.) |
| Date (original) | 1895-09-09 |
| Time period | 1890-1899 |
| Original Collection | Williams (Daniel) Papers |
| Publisher | Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version). |
| Rights | Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required. |
| Format (original) |
2-page letter 20.4 x 12.5 cm. |
| Format (digital) | 200 dpi JPEG image |
| Repository | Manuscripts Division, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University Libraries. |
| Location of Original | Williams (Daniel) Papers/Box 1/Good personal letters-society-politics-etc 1888-1896 |
| Related materials | A digitization project sponsored by the Consortium for the History of Agricultural and Rural Mississippi (CHARM). |
| Language | en |
| Contact information | For more information send email to sp_coll@library.msstate.edu or call 662-325-7679. |
| facet format | correspondence |
| Transcript | Long Beach, Miss. Sept 9 [18]95 Dear Cammie, Your very interesting letter of date the 5th ins't to hand. I never in my life had a more lively interest in a friend than at this time I have for you, knowing as I do the pityable [sic] state of celibacy you are in, it is out of pure sympathy that I speak, the [page 2] day is near brother when our hopes will have vanished like the bloom of the rose & never more to return, like the autumn leaf, then we can exclaim with the poet-"The sadest [sic] words of tongue or pen the sadest [sic] are these, it might have been" The up to date woman is unaproachable [sic] & altogether unlovely[,] exceedingly masculine in her instincts & a bycicle [sic] rider of a most pronounced type[.] "Ah grevous [sic] state! Ah! fatal age, [page 3] With many evils fraught when clubs & social life engage a womans [sic] every thought" I was glad to hear that the crops were fine ("corn") as for cotton it should be a thing of the past buried in the gloom of oblivion for ever, & ever, future generations should profit by the experiences of their forefathers & leave such an unprofitable crop alone. Truck farming here is far ahead of cotton raising in y'r section. My Uncle [page 4] & Aunt who resided in Honduras so long have moved & made their home at this place, in fact we have called a part of this town "Hon' Quarter" for there is Mr Wilson & Wife, Mrs Watrons & F'ly[,] Lewis Hill & F'ly all living quite close to one another. Then there are others from there who contemplate building here. At present I am one of the firm of Hill & Wilson, Drugists, Lo Beach[.] we have quite a nice building & stock. There is Miss Laura Charmichael[,] Annie Hollingsworth [page 5 (written in top margin of page 1)] Ollie C & the ballance [sic] of the dears. Give me a history of the times & the names of the prettiest girls around you[.] I wish to start a matrimonial agency. Yours truly C. V. Hill. |
| Collection Title | Daniel Williams family papers |
Description
| Digital ID# | 20-209-p01.jpg |
| Physical ID | 20- |
| Original Collection | Williams (Daniel) Papers |
| Publisher | Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version). |
| Rights | Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required. |
| Format (digital) | 200 dpi jpeg image |
| Repository | Manuscripts Division, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University Libraries. |
| Location of Original | Daniel Williams Papers/Folder 20 |
| Related materials | A digitization project sponsored by the Consortium for the History of Agricultural and Rural Mississippi (CHARM). |
| Language | en |
| Contact information | For more information send email to sp_coll@library.msstate.edu or call 662-325-7679. |
| Transcript | Long Beach, Miss. Sept 9 [18]95 Dear Cammie, Your very interesting letter of date the 5th ins't to hand. I never in my life had a more lively interest in a friend than at this time I have for you, knowing as I do the pityable [sic] state of celibacy you are in, it is out of pure sympathy that I speak, the [end of letter written at top] Ollie C & the ballance [sic] of the dears. Give me a history of the times & the names of the prettiest girls around you[.] I wish to start a matrimonial agency. Yours truly C. V. Hill. |
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