Raynors HCA 2014-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2014
Autograph Letter Signed by a missionary settler named Sophia Byington in the Choctaw Indian Territory, September 19, 1851, 8pp. quarto, and reads in part: “...It is indeed lonely here in the wilderness...We have been pretty well. ...I have never expereinced such a summer before. A great deal of the time the thermometer has been up to a hundred and no rain for weeks and weeks...Many of the poor Choctaws have no corn now. I don’t know what they will subsist on in the winter...We have been getting out drinking water nearly a half mile from home for two months. If we had a good cistern we could drink the water from that...This has been a hard summer for me...Some of the time I have had no help, and the weather being so hot; it has been just as much as I could do to keep up...” Very good condition.
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