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1

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12

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Letter, June 9, 1883, J. T. S. (?), Jacksonville, to Ellen Call Long, 8 pp., regarding a smallpox epidemic in Jacksonville and various personal and family matters: ''. . . your letter dear friend was a . . . sad pleasure, for it bore the impress of a suffering and proud heart . . . Your disappointment has indeed been grievous, although it would be unwise in me to combat your prejudices, yet the young people have so many to take them by the hand and bid them a God speed in their new life, and without knowing it you must be glad that he is regarded by men and those who know him as trustworthy and energetic, and may develop even to you something that is admirable, and possibly there may come a time when you may feel differently. . . I have heard of Nonie saying that to regain her Mothers love and confidence was all that she needed now to be happy. . . I am preaching you a homily . . . try and be more at rest and put all that cannot be remedied away from you. . . My earliest admiration for you was in the care and devotion you gave to your little children . . . You ask me what I think of your book . . . of earlier Florida life, in the old Territorial times, when all men . . . were true and chivalric gentlemen, and their women tender and true gentlewomen. . . I fear your young publishers would disappoint you. They are so new in their work . . . they are not very clever . . . You are wrong in thinking they have not fully advertised . . . they are just now bitter enemies in a newspaper war with their stronger rival `The Times Union,' therefore the latter give them no favor whatever, and ungenerously ridicule their little `Herald' all over . . . The exodus of those people who are afraid of [smallpox] has been immense. The disease has been principally among the colored race . . . Julia is getting ready to summer in Asheville . . . and Mary and the Bishop leave the middle of July for Sewannee . . . I do not expect to leave Florida. John after many disappointments will be married . . . and I must see it through. . .''

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CALL FAMILY PAPERS

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Correspondence, 1877-1883