[Letter from Emma Davis to John C. Brewer, March 16, 1879] Page: 4 of 6 (Transcription)

perfectly right. I could write a great deal more but wait and see whether you can read what I have written. Write very soon. I send lots of love to Johnie.

Affectionately and truly, Emma

I will be ready for any questions when I come, and hope I will be able to answer them all without any trouble. If I think I will, I shall bring a supply of paper and a good pencil. Please do not let any one know where you got that valentine from, not even any member of the family, and you will please your friend very much.
Still the same friend, Emma

Sister says Good Morning! but I think she ought to have said Good Evening as it is nearly night. I didn't get to finish this letter until this evening.

I declare Bettie beats me. If she does not make haste and get clear of some of that brain I am really afraid she will have some (swell I started to say) kind of disease, but I reckon I ought not to speak that way about her.

I can deeply sympathize with you in your headache as I have had it a great deal since I came back from School. I haven't been well now in nearly two months, and you may guess I will know how to appreciate health if I am so lucky as to have mine restored once more. I have not heard a sermon in the same length of time. Preaching to-night, but I'm not well enough to go. There's a Cambelite going to preach to- night, by the name of Cotton. I would like to hear him as I never heard but one of that denomination.