[Letter from Vica Watts to Kenner K. Rector, August 4, 1869]

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Letter from Vica Watts to Kenner K. Rector discussing the flooding that occurred in Texas. She is happy no one's life was lost and all were safe. But as the weather is bad down there so it is in Virginia. Crops have been burnt to a crisp and no rain in sight. Having that bit of rain would be most helpful indeed.

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Watts, Vica August 4, 1869.

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Letter from Vica Watts to Kenner K. Rector discussing the flooding that occurred in Texas. She is happy no one's life was lost and all were safe. But as the weather is bad down there so it is in Virginia. Crops have been burnt to a crisp and no rain in sight. Having that bit of rain would be most helpful indeed.

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Donated by H. Leldon Clifton and Kenna Clifton to the McWhiney History Education Group, previously known as the Grady McWhiney Research Foundation, the K. K. Rector Letter Collection is housed at McMurry University’s Jay-Rollins Library in Abilene, Texas. Comprised of correspondence from the early 1850s through 1914, letters center around the Rector family in Texas and the Virginia based Watts family.

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Transcript of letter from Vica Watts to Kenner K. Rector discussing the flooding that occurred in Texas. She is happy no one's life was lost and all were safe. But as the weather is bad down there so it is in Virginia. Crops have been burnt to a crisp and no rain in sight. Having that bit of rain would be most helpful indeed.

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Watts, Vica. [Letter from Vica Watts to Kenner K. Rector, August 4, 1869], letter, August 4, 1869; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1297960/: accessed May 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting McWhiney History Education Group.

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