nbhips-l327 Letter from Nettie Oblinger and Laura I. Oblinger to Uriah W. Oblinger, October 13, 1893: a machine-readable transcription. Oblinger, Uriah Wesley, 1842-1901 Collection RG1346 Selected and converted. Nebraska State Historical Society Library Archives

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 1999/12/21

[Letter from Nettie Oblinger and Laura I. Oblinger to Uriah W. Oblinger, October 13, 1893]

Wheatland Mo1Otc 13 1893Dear Papa

You have bin gon nearly too weeks well the first thing I must tell you a bout Prince he jist leds rite up I have led him out to watter and have fed hin we have geathered 30 ros of corn.

Papa I have not stord to scholl yet on the cont of my eyes but I will start Monday the little pigs are groing and ome of the yonges sows pigs clan I named it Tena when I call It it will com and lay down and I will scratch it and I can cary it in my arms it will bite my fingers and when I stand still wher it can get to me it will lay down wy my bet well I gess I most close my bett beletter for this time

Your child

Nettie Oblinger

2Sat Morn just sunrise.

Maggie is getting ready to go to town to mail this letter, so I must add a few words. I seen by the last Quinter paper that Will Boyd had sold the furniture store to M J Frantz & Will with his family had started for Mo. where he would make his future home. there has been no mail come from him to us so I dont know if it is this part of the State or not. Sadie told you in her letter that Maggie was mad last night I will tell you what about. The night before Dick Shoemaker was to come to take her to church & it was a bad night & so she did not look for him much, but thought he would come last night it was a pretty night & he was in the neighborhood & never came near, & she was all ready to go to church & it made her so mad. she said she would make baskets & cut her spite out on the switches. I was glad it turned out just as it did for she did not much want to go with him nor I did not want her to & now she has such a good excuse to mitten him3 he bears such a hard name I dont want her to go with him. well Maggie is waiting so I must close. To my loving & ever true husband

Lillie thinks she is slighted that she did not get to write to you too.

1. Nettie and Laura Oblinger share this letter to Uriah. Nettie writes first.

2. Laura Oblinger begins writing here.

3. A rejection or dismissal, usually by a woman of a man's invitation or proposal. To give or get the mitten. Frederic G. Cassidy, ed., Dictionary of American Regional English, 3 vols. (Cambridge: The Belknap Press, 1991), 3:621.