Item 5

Letter [indicates these are Mr. Cole’s abstracts of the following letters]
 
Indianola In - 6-9-1881
 
My Dear Old girl Nannie
    Delighted to receive your last letter
pleasant lines while - St Joe.
Aunt Sue and Cha__[?]
Understand Capt. and wife are going to Colo
Guess Jimmie Maxwell and his
girl have flaged [played?] out
 
I am as ever
Love
 
 
St Joseph Mo. 2-24-61
Mr Josiah D. Beatie
Dear Uncle.  Many changes
about a week after Pa started to Texas
with Uncle Jim and Mr Pomeroy
Uncle Jim came in ___p___dly [unexpectedly?]
I was at Baptist Ch - Rev Mr. Fulle_, [Fuller or Fullen]
only 20 years old.  Pa says Texas
assumes __ [quite?] a war [was?] like a___ [aphearance?]
this time.
Uncle Joe, - (probably Josiah).
___ [niece?] Sallie

[in bottom corner, separated by line:]
Mrs. W.H. Clem
Trenton Nebr