[Note- Letter written on embossed stationary.]
[Ann Eliza Robinson Davidson age 37 writing to her younger brother Thomas
Harvey Robinson age 17.  Thomas is at Erskine College in Due West, SC.]

Fairfield Texas
Tuesday Nov the 13, 1877

Mr. Tom Robinson  *1*
Dear Brother
   
  Yours of the 
third of Nov. came to hand yes-
terday and would have answered
it last night but did not have
any paper convenient.  I am glad
you are satisfied to remain.
I am really sorry that Andrew    *2*
is so ["sorry" marked out] much dissatisfied.
Cousin Jonnie sent him money   *3*
last Sabbath to come home.
John has [been] very busy with his cotton  *4*
He thinks he will have nearly
two bales more.  I am glad 
that the Texas boys were not in
the crowd that went to the Fair.

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Tom I send Sallie a composition     *5*
Please send convey it to her as soon
as possible and oblige, &c., &c., goodbye.
Papa returned home tonight       *6*
He has been gone over a week.   
Dr. Looney to dinner here today  *7*
He asked very particularily about
you boy.  he seemed to be very
much interested in you welfare.
Tell Sallie he asked after her   *5*
especially.  There was several fights
in town last week.  The[re] was a 
marriage out at Mr. Chancelors   *8, 9*
place.  The groom was drunk and 
nearly all the men were drunk.
Fairfield turned out in general
I am sorry to say the place seems
to be getting worse instead of 
better.  ["I am" marked out] Sallie Belle has had  *10*
her piano tuned. I have not heard
it since it was tuned as I
have not been down there since.
I will close as I have nothing
of importance to write.  All join
in much love.  Yours aff[ectionately]
      Sister Lizzie  *11*

[Editor's notes:
*1* = Brother Tom Robinson was Thomas Harvey Robinson age 17.  Thomas is at
Erskine College in Due West, SC.
*2* = "Andrew" could be Andrew Samuel Bonner or William Andrew Bonner.  Mike
tends to lean to Andrew Samuel Bonner son of John Laird Bonner.
*3* = "Cousin Jonnie" might be John Laird Bonner.
*4* = "John" might be "John Lee Robinson" age 22 who stayed in Texas.
*5* = "Sallie" is Sarah Hope Robinson age 17 who is also at Due West but at the
Due West Womens College.  She later marries O. Y. Bonner.
*6* = "Papa" is James Robinson age 70.
*7* = "Dr. Looney" is unknown
*8* = The wedding referred to might be the W. W. Pickett and Emma Worsham
marriage of Nov 9, 1877.  
*9* = "Mr. Chancelors" is unknown.
*10* = "Sallie Belle" was Sallie Belle Bonner age 17.  She later marries
William Walter Brice Robinson.
*11* = "Sister Lizzie" was Elizabeth Boggs Robinson age 25, who later marries
John Laird Bonner.  
]