MOORE COUNTY, NC - MISC - W W Sears Letter - Aug. 6, 1876

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NAMES MENTIONED
Sears, W H

Bailey Springs Lauderdale Co Ala
August the 6 1876
I write you a few lines to inform
you that I am well at present
and hoping these few lines
reach you in good health
I want to heard from you all very
bad it may bee along time for
Even I get back home maby nevr
in the world I cant tell I dont
know I got hurt alittle the other
and I went up to the hotle and
they got a skating Rink in ?
and I got on a pair of skates
and I fell and skinned my knee verry
bad but it dident lay me up
the work I am at ? it very
well.  I stay at thase Springs
and keep them Swept out and
waits on the ladies and sitts up
Tenn pinns I make from $1 to 2 and 1/2 
per day 

I Bords at the hotell where bord
is worth from 40 to 50 dollars per 
month thare is a bout one hundred
??????
? Springs in September and
then expect to go to Memphis tenn
Will D Martin he wants me
? his store he says he is
? price 50 dollars per month
If I will go and I told him I
wouldnt go I can go to Memphis
????   It is about
one hundred miles from florence
I expect to start in October if
nothing hapens  But I am doing
very well at this time I made
2 1/2 today I have been here three 
weaks to morrow, and has made
Seventeen dollars and if nothing
hapens I want to make as much mone
the next three weaks 

Baily Springs Ala
here is where I live at this place
here is ware they all come to for
thire health it cures nearly all diseases
there is five sorts of water  soda water
Free Stone water Chalebyate water
Alinsn water Rock water  This
the large building in the middle
that you see is the ball room
it is about one hundred and
fifty feet long  this picture
was taken in the Spring
that row you see to the rite is
the Mississippi where the one
? that little sharp top
you see is the sistern
where they get water 

The row on the left of the 
Cistern next to the Ball room
is the Florence Row and next
row where the two is the 
Mempis Row the house between
the Memphis row and the Bal
room is the skating rink
where you see those three
windows and the steps I
walk up those steps evry
morning that comes
you only see a part of the building
you dont see the dyning
room at all and a grate many
many moor buildings
     W H Sears
I have nothing moor to write
at present only that I am
well and ll Right
Pleas write to me son
  Post Office Lauderdale Co Ala
    pos Baily Springs
W H Sears