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dc.creatorClark, Addison, Sr., 1842-1911
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dc.date.available2020-11-11T20:22:07Z
dc.date.issued1879-08-28
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/42451
dc.descriptionPersonal and Travel update, letter about seeing Sallie the first time
dc.format.medium5x8 paper
dc.relationClark Family Letters
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dc.sourceBox 1, Folder 2, Item 6
dc.subjectClark, Sally McQuigg (Mrs. Addison)
dc.subjectClark, Addison, Sr.
dc.titleLetter to Sallie Clark
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dc.description.transcriptionKy. Town, Texas. Aug. 28, 1879. My dear Sallie: I promised you a fuller letter, but have felt but little like writing. I have felt more like one in a dream since my arrival in fact since leaving home – than one awake. My preaching has been of the poorest kind, and in the intentions Bro. Horn has actually talked me to death. R.C.H. generally the topic. He is a good man, however, and everybody in this country thinks a great deal of him. Nothing done yet. We are having to preach out of doors, and I am hoarse. Congregations are good and attention is good. Your old friends are anxious to see you. Uncle Ben is keeping back_ has plenty of good things. Mary and Aura Dyer are still single. Do you remember the Parish girls? Ella Parish is teaching school. I staid last night at Sister Viditon’s. She was not a member of the church when you lived here. I have staid at half a dozen places since I came. Bro. Horn must take me to a different place every day. There is one spot in this little old village more sacred to me than all others – none on earth more sacred – the place where I first saw Sallie, and where her hand so often placed the beautiful flowers. Did I tell you that Jesse and Jack came down Saturday evening? Jesse heard my first discourse. Quite a delegation came down from Bonham. They came to capture me for Bonham. I am pressed to go to Dallas, but after a most urgent letter from Jesse after his return on Monday, I consent to go there next Monday and remain till our L.D. the 1st, Jesse will be down again Sunday. I have had no word from home since my arrival. I did not think to tell you to write to me at this place, but suppose you will. Be sure to write to me at B. Would give a small fortune if you could be with me there. Ed & Mollie have not yet arrived. They thought of coming down during the meeting. A letter to Bro. Horn from his wife states that she had been to hear Randolph preach a few miles from there. I suppose by this that he is holding a meeting in that country. I have made some blunders in my meetings this summer, Just because I have listened too much to the direction of others. I ought to have gone to Whitesboro rather than to have come here. I am not sure that I am doing the very best in going to Bonham, but they are so urgent that I can’t refuse. I wonder where the doctor is. Did he go below? I expect but little pay here. Love to all, A. Clark. Did I leave my pen at home? I have lost it if I did not. AC


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