CORRESPONDENCE:  Edna Parrish to Mrs. Mintor, 1899

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Transcribed by:  Marabeth Plowman (maraedplow@earthlink.net)
Submitted:       10 May 2003
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Letter from Edna PARRISH, d/o Lucian and Mary Elizabeth SHOPTAUGH 
PARRISH to a Mrs. MINTOR, on the eve of Edna's marriage to W. L. 
"Barley" HALL.

823 E. Washington Street
August 28, 1899

Mrs. Mintor my dear friend
	You asked me to send you a piece of my wedding dress - and I told 
you I would. Having just got it today and I am so proud of it. I will send 
it right away - and the silk is like the yoke and like the cape will be 
lived with. Hope you will admire the rig - and don't you wish that you 
was going to take such a man to the alter so soon? Only three weeks 
from Wednesday, I will soon be an old married woman, but I trust that I 
will not regret the step that I am about to take. I am in hopes that I 
will be happier than I have ever been before.

	How are you getting along with your house? I hope very nicely. Mr. 
Hall asked about you when I seen him last. He admired you very much and 
if I had not had the first claim on him I might have lost him when he 
met you - so you see it was a good thing he did not meet you last 
winter when I asked you so often to come in the parlor.  But hoping 
that your match will come along pretty soon. I will quit for this time. 
Write to me some time - I believe we all feel better than Mrs. Perkins 
does - she had a real bad headache. Love from all your friend  Edna

Submitted by Marabeth Porter Plowman