THESE NOTES ARE TAKEN FROM BITS OF PAPER, LETTERS AND JOURNAL ENTRIES FOUND IN AN OLD CHEST BELONGING TO WILLIAM G. ROBBINS (1840-1919) THEY ARE THE PERSONAL PAPERS OF WILLIAM AND HIS SONS ELISHA, MERLE, WILLIE & ORA

LETTER

September 10, 1936

Mr. Walker Williams,

Mima, KY

dear sir and friend

I am writing you a gain a bout the notes you owe me. I wrote you some time a go but got no reply. Walker it has bin a levin years sence I sold you the store and it has bin six years sence you gave me the mortgage. and I think I should have some pay on them now I am informed you have a job on the road, and a boy in the forest so it looks like you could pay me some easy now if you can not do any better you must pay me the interst any way are I will haft to doe somethin a bout it I want to be fair with you but I want to be treated the same way and I am shure you no I am intitled to collect for they are both honest notes so dont fail to ansure me this time and send me a pay ment on the interest any way dont write me a hard luck story for I sure need to collect some bad and I have wated a long time on it I think if I owed it to you you would a bin like me you would want it so write me a long letter and tell me als the news up there. I have a sick girl that is costing me a lot and I will haft to collect some some way so hoping you a long hapy life and a prospers one so you and dellie & kids al come and se us when you can yours as ever

T.H. Bradley

Route 2 box 158

Ashland, KY

They were transcribed in May, 1997 by

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