Georgia Academy for the Blind

May 20^th 1866

 

Mrs Smith

                        The exercises of the present term of this Institution will close on Wednesday June 27^th. I wish you to have some one to meet your daughter in Atlanta on the next day at the arrival of the train there which is about 3 or 4 O'clock in the afternoon. I will probably be there with her in company with several other pupils to be distributed at that place.

 

            Her health is not now very good. She is feeble and has a cough, but she is able to be about. In fact during the past spring she has not had stout health and consequently has not been able to do much. I hope a change of scene and a stay at home a few months will restore her.

 

She is the same dutiful, good girl that she has always been, and I can say nothing about her that is not good. Remember that the place and time meet her is Atlanta Thursday June 28^th 3 or 4 O'clock in the afternoon, and in order that I may know that this reaches you, please answer it immediately.

 

Yours in haste—

 

P.S.      Since writing the above Melinda suggests, that perhaps it might be as convenient and on some accounts desirable for you to meet her at Calhoun Gordon Co. If this is the case, I can without trouble take her to Calhoun on the next day (June 29^th) and you can meet her there. I shall go from Atlanta to Calhoun. About this you will write me when you write—

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