Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 7 July 1881 Page: 1 of 3 (Transcription)

Sour Lake
July 7th, /81

My Dear Son

Yesterday I got off a few lines
to you & L this morning received a welcome
postal & newspapers from you. This
is the busiest place you ever saw, one meets
with something new all the time. Then too
bathing sleeping drinking & eating helps to fill
up the day & when night comes one feels
sufficiently fatigued to sleep. And you
must be tired to sleep in this old shell
of a house where you can hear every sound
that is made all day & all night too. But I
am comparatively comfortable. PJ Willis is here
and doubtless you have heard of his having bought
out all the claimants some of 40 years standing
some needed improvements have been commenced
already, such as cleaning up & filling up
filthy hog holes round the kitchen. A new
cook, and more & some better servants. I can
see quite a change already – Miss Carree Bryan
and Mrs. Hardenbrook came yesterday and were
glad to find me here – as there was no room
empty Mrs Goodnight took one & I the other
for one night & day. Each of us had a bed
& a cot in our rooms, so it was little inconvin
-ience to us – People are sociable, meeting and
enquiring after each other’s health like
old acquaintances An old old Texian has asked
to be introduced to me today I don’t remember
his name; he had heard that I was an old Texian
Oh these wonderful waters, and the many different
diseases being cured by them all the time, you would