[Envelope has green three cent stamp with left profile.] [Postmark has only Texas visible] Miss Sallie H. Robinson Abbeville {Due West County {S. C. [letter] Fairfield Texas Decr 2nd 1877 Miss Sallie Robinson *1* Dear Sister I received your letter the other day and was very glad to hear from you and to learned that you was satis- fied. Study hard and ["and" crossed out] try and get one of the honers [honors] it will be of great benefit to you in after years and make Par & Mar proud of you in their *2, 3* old day[s]. All well at present Miss Fannie Huckaby is gone at last *4* there was only four people there ought[out] side of the Huckaby fami- ly and I dont think any one car- ed much. Jackson Childes marries *5* on the 16st tenth of this month [page 2] Cousin James is here now he *6* came tonight with about twe- nty head of horses some right good ones. he did not bring any of his children with him. Mr. Mayes *7* was with us last night he says all of his family is well. Mr. Patisan & McCarley was dow- *8, 9* n here last week & a Mr. Nes- bet from N. Carolina one of *10* Brices old friends they was *11* very much pleased with the country going to have a camp hunt down on the cr- eek below Cousin J L Bonner *12* this week. There was some bear meat in town last Sunday and it went like hot cake. There is a crowd from this place & Butler going to a Pigeonsrust [roost] four miles *A* from Oakwood left Friday night there was a croud [crowd] went last [page 3] week or the week before and caught about five hundred that is all they could carry a- way it is a treat to go on such trips as that. Dr. Cochran has left *13* Stewards Mill and gone to Avant Prai- rie & Mr. Gulelette is to start to *14* Ala on the 10 tenth of this month no other news of important let Body read this as I have *15* not time to wright [write] to both. We have sent you & Body some money to John Bonner you can go to him and get such as you want Your Brother J. P. Robinson [Editor's Notes: *A* = "Catching five hundred" at "Pigeon's Roost" could be a fishing trip, but is thought to be catching passenger pigeons. 500 must have been quite a haul and load. I understand from Forrest Wood, Jr. that there was a old large passenger pigeon roost across the Trinity River in the river bottom in the direction of Palestine. Passenger pigeons migrated in to the south in the fall similar to ducks and geese. The pigeons feasted on the acorns the acorns that were mature in the fall. The passenger pigeons would have been mature in December and not squabs (baby pigeons). *1* = "Sister Sallie H. Robinson" is Sarah Hope Robinson *2, 3* = "Par & Mar" are their parents. *4* = "Fannie Huckaby" is Mary Francis Huckaby. *5* = "Jackson Childes" is M. J. Childs who marries Sallie Acuff on 16 Dec 1877. *6* = "Cousin James" is unknown *7* = "Mr. Mayes" is unknown *8* = "Mr. Patisan" is unknown *9* = "MR. McCarley" is unknown *10* = "Mr. Nesbet of N. Carolina" is unknown *11* = "Brice" is Walter Brice Robinson *12* = "Cousin J L Bonner" is John Laird Bonner. *13* = "Dr. Cochran" is unknown *14* = "Mr. Gulelette" is unknown *15* = "Body" is unknown *16* = "John Bonner" is John Irwin Bonner *17* = "J. P. Robinson" is James Pressley Robinson ]