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Hill Country Living
By Coulter Fussell
Welcome back from Thanksgiving Week, everyone! I completely lost track of the order of the days last week, mainly due to the Ole Miss game being on Friday. Thursday was a holiday so it felt like a Saturday and then Friday had a game on it so it also felt like a Saturday. Then Saturday felt like yet another Saturday because we still had a Sunday. Anyway, you get my point.
I’m still full from the copious amounts of dressing and gravy I ate last week so, yet again, I am thankful for the Wagner’s to fill in for me in the column-writing department.
nsofar as this letter goes, I think Jessie Wagner is a little harsh in her critique of the Hervey’s new house. Can there be too much gingerbreading? Young Mabry and Dudley’s chicken pox outbreak seems miserable – there’s nothing like a Victorian/Edwardian-era virus. And, according to what I looked up in Oak Hill Cemetery, Ms. Ohlson did in fact die – the day after Jessie wrote this letter. She was only 37 years old.
Dear Georgie,
My letter of last week has been delayed because I have been variously busy. Sorry because I had reckoned to send you one.
We are also glad you had such a nice visit to Philadelphia. The Army and Navy game must have been very interesting. I’m so glad you and Gene saw it. I’m sorry that you will not get to see Kalista. She asked Papa to let her spend Christmas with you, but Papa thought we were going to miss numbers enough from this family, I suppose, without allowing Kalista to room away from home then, too.
I hope your exams have come out all right. I know you all must be awfully busy about this time. I believe everybody is. Sure I am! I just finished one mincemeat and a fruit cake. I did not make them so much for us at house as for you three who are away from the house. Do hope they will both be fine.
Evelyn is still in bed, though she expects to be up by Christmas. Mabry is still staying at house, I think, with the chicken-pox. Dudley had them, too, last week, so we had a great time in the family.
Papa went to Memphis Sunday morning and we are looking for him back tonight. Dudley went down to meet him, but the train was late. I hear it coming now.
Did you hear that Lutie Jones is married — had quite a small wedding. Also, your old friend Fanny McKie of Holly Springs. Mary Malloy is awfully married — has even organized a “married ladies club!”
The Herveys are going to have a very nice house when it is finished although it has most too much gingerbread trimming on it.
There isn’t any news really. Professor Preston married on the 18th of this month — a girl from Natchez. Ms. Ohlson is dying with consumption. Isn’t that sad!
Goodbye. Write when you can. We all send you lots of love, especially…
Jess
Monday night, 10:30.
Dec 9th, 1902
