[Background - I believe the writer is John Lee Robinson who never went to
Erskine to my knowledge.  He is 22 at the time (b. 5 Dec 1855).  He is writing
his younger sister Sallie Hope Robinson who is at Erskine University in Due
West, SC at the time. I keep the line endings the same as the original.]


Fairfield Oct 14th 1877
Miss Sallie Robinson   *1*
         Dear Sister
		 
		 I received your kind
and affectionate letter Monday, and have not 
had time to answer it.  We are all well 
at this time.  Brother Bob was here last    *2*
night.  he said that they were all well.
Brother J. P. is going to start to the      *3*
penitentiary tomorrow, he is going to 
carry sister Fanny and Miss Laura           *4,5*
and Mrs. McCracken over to Jackson-         *6*
ville.  I was up to uncle William last      *7*
week and I saw Carry.  She received         *8*
a letter from you on Monday it
was dated the twenty ninth of Octo-
ber , I went out to Ward Prairie to-
day.  the house was full of ladies and  
the men had to stay out doors.
Tell Janie that I heard that Miss           *9*
Rosa Gallis[?] was to be married            *10*
shortly to Mr. George Kent[?]  Tell Tom     *11,12*
that I have gathered three bales of
cottons    Sister you must
excuse this short note. 
      Your affectionately
	    J L Robinson                       *13*

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[envelope]             [Green three cent stamp]
Thomas H. } Robinson                       *12*
Sally H.  }                                *1*

          { Due West
		  ( South Carolina 
Care of J. I. Bonner D.D.}                 *14*

*1* = "Sister Sallie/Sally H. Robinson" is Sarah Hope Robinson who is known to
be at Erskine in 1876.
*2* = "Brother Bob" is William Wirt Bonner Robinson
*3* = "Brother J. P." is James Pressly Robinson, sheriff of Freestone County at
the time. 
*4* = "sister Fanny" is believed to be JP's wife Mary Fannie McCracken
Robinson.
*5* = "Miss Laura" is unknown
*6* = "Mrs. McCracken" is Catherine Roark McCracken mother of Fannie.
*7* = "uncle William" is William Bonner, Sr.
*8* = "Carry" is Carolina Calhoun Bonner who graduated Due West Female College
in 1877.  So she must have graduated in May to be back in Texas.
*9* = "Janie" is Eliza Jane Davidson age 18 1/2 (b 11 May 1859) who later
marries Angus Tyson McGilvary.  She graduates Due West Womens College in 1878.
*10* = "Miss Anna Gallis?" marriage to "Mr. George Kent?" is unknown.  Sorted 
marriages by date in Freestone Co TX and no matches.  No George marries after
Sept till at least next year.  Closest match is Elkins, Mr. G. C.	m Young, M.
A.	1878/02/07.
*12* =  "Tom", "Thomas H. Robinson" is Thomas Harvey Robinson Sr age 17 (b. 23
May 1860) who is at Erskine University in Due West, SC. He graduates in 1879
from Erskine.
*13* = "J L Robinson" is John Lee Robinson who never went to Erskine to my
knowledge.  He is 22 at the time (b. 5 Dec 1855).  
*14* = "J. I. Bonner D.D." is Rev. John Irwin Bonner, D.D.