YANCEY COUNTY, NC - LETTERS - Isaac M. Byrd to Myra Byrd Hensley
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                         BURNSVILLE N.C.
                              May 5---1890

My dear Aunt Miry:  I will write you the second time
to let you know that I am well and that I received
your letter a month ago or longer.  I should be
ashamed for not writing before now.  I have no
apologies to make except I have hardly had time, and
yet this is hardly reasonable excuse.  Well as I said
above I am well and I do hope this letter will find
you and all of your family well for there is nothing I
love so well as good health and nothing so despisable
as bad health.  I have been and am now attending
school at Burnsville.  I have been here two months and
intend to continue in school for three months.  I can
say that I would like to see you very much.  I have a
strong love for and a curiosity to see relatives in
far away countries whom I have never seen.  Tell your
sons and daughters who I am.  Tell them I have a
strong love for them and if we never have the
opportinity of meeting on earth I hope we may all meet
on the other shore.  You and the others of your family
would be gladly welcomed to Yancey County if you were
so minded to come.  I have no prospects of coming to
see you though it would be a trip of the greatest of
pleasure to me if it were possible for me to come. 
Your Father and Mother are tolerably well now.  Their
health is some better now than it has been.  Uncle
Charley say to tell you he has not forgotten you now
he would not do so but that he has been confined to
business so closely that he has not had time to write.
 He is Register of Deeds of Yancy County, an office
which he has held for 14 years or longer.  He has 6
children living.  All girls except one who is a boy
about 7 years of age.  His eldest girl is almost grown
to womanhood.  The Youngest two are twin girls.  He
says he will write you again by and by and for you not
to forget him.  I believe most all the people in this
country are well now.  I am boarding with Uncle and
Aunt Jane Byrd at Burnesville and I enjoy staying with
them very much.  You said you wished me to send you
your brother's and sister's pictires; and I have seen
several of them and they said they would get them but
they have not yet but I hope they will.  You said for
me to write you all some Sunday instead of going to
see the girls but I will say I have been going to
Sunday School every Sunday.  I attend two Sunday
schools one in the morning and the other in the
evening and then I leave Jacks Creek for Burnsville
where I arrive about dark, So I hardly have time to
write on Sunday.  As to the girls I have not a great
deal of inclinations for them.  But you want to know
who mine is I will say I have no special claime on any
bit I like all that are good looking as well as those
that are not so pretty.  Now if you get tired of
reading this long and badly written letter just write
me and tell me so.  If not tired please write soon any
way when you write to me write to Wilhite Yancey Co.,
N.C.

                   Your Nephew.   I. M. Byrd


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