Lauretta     ( August 24, 1892 )

Lauretta

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Envelope Front and Back

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Letter: One page, both sides

Paper: Lined paper, 10” wide by 8” high

Envelope: 5-1/2” wide by 3-1/8” high, stamped with a 2-cent stamp

The envelope is addressed to Miss Lizzie Golden, Dennison, Ottawa, Co., Mich.

The front is postmarked Wright, Mich., Aug 25,1892

The back is postmarked conklin, Mich., Aug 25, 1892

The back is also postmarked Dennison, Mich., Aug 26, 1892

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Wright, Mich.

Aug 24, 1892

 

Dear Lizzie,

 

Did you reach home safe and sound?

 

How about our house keeping.  Shall I bring a bed or have you one there already?  I can bring a stand and a bed too, if necessary.  So I wish you would write and tell me what to bring.  I don’t want to take a lot of things down there and then not need them.

 

You aught to have been to the dance last Friday.  I had a lovely time.  There was about sixty two numbers out.

 

Did you have a nice time to Muskegon?  Say you aught to have seen me yesterday.  I rode the plough all day.  I can hardly sit down now.

 

I will add a couple of dozen of bottles to your drug store when I come to live with you.

 

Ed is waiting for this, so good bye,

From Lauretta

 

Write and let me know all I asked for.

 

 

 

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Wright is a tiny unincorporated community in the northeast corner of Wright township of Ottawa County, Michigan.  The community was named after the Wright Family, which owned land in the area, and for whom the township is named. The community had a post office from 1848 until 1864 and again from 1877 until 1903.

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