The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 87, July 1983 - April, 1984 Page: 188
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
I wanted to Sea & that lies North East of heare on Red river a bout
80 miles below heare & if I like that sexion it will be in about 70 miles
of Jefferson [Marion County] & a bout 30 miles of the pine mills. I am
toled the land is as rich there as heare but not quite as healthy. The
hog range is better there than heare; the cow & horse range not So
good as this. It is an older country & better Society. As soon as the
weather moderats I shal gow &e look & then I will be able to make a
Sealection.
Rachel Send her respects to you all &c says if Prassie holds on as she
has commenced & you remain in Whigham by the time you are old
you will have to Set up a mercantile business to keepe the family in
clothing besids bed &g Bord &8 also to be remembered to your parents.
Frank keeps he[r] run down in flesh nursing so often. He has got large
enough to pull her down & Suck at his pleasure. I have wrote all I
think that will interrest you at this time.
I have not wrote you a bout the mule yeard Rabbits. We traveled
in a belt of country whare they are numerous. We Saw Several & Gus
Shot &c killed one &c we Et it. It was the first animal caled rabit I ever
tasted. It et Sorter like the read bone squirrell. They do not favor the
molly cotton tail. They are nearer the coller of a deer & ther ears are
a bout 8 inches in lenght & in Size a bout as large as a half grown
goat & out runs Evry boddy els & you cant run one in to a thicket.
They run when chaised on the open parie. The deer grow larger hear
than they do East. Lawson killed a 4 snag buck the other day the largest
deer I ever saw killed in my lif & you know I have killed & Sean quite
anumber killed.
I am tired writeing & will Close.
I remain as Ever
H. H. McElvy
Send this letter to your farther.
It will Save me a long letter to him.
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