The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-06-21
JUST A YEAR.
MISS FANNIE HOWARD TO JAMES Full
JERTnN

MISS FANNIE HOWARD TO JAMES Full
LERTON.
NEW YORK, May 2, 18Sl.-Dear Jim:
When you were here last year you were
kind enough to say that if / would
make you and Mary visit you would
be real glad, and would show me lots
of nice hings-mountains, waterfalls,
Indians, and so on; and do you know,
Jim, that am thinking of accepting
your invitation l have great desire
to see real live Indian, and l would
rather go down in one of the mines you
told me about than do anything else in
the world. am tired of going to the
places where everybody goes-where it
is just dress, and dress, and dress; be-
sides, have hardly anything to wear,
and papa always grumbles when l ask
him for money. Why, he isgetting to be
regular bear; only gave me $500 last
winter when had to have new dress
for the charity ball! Now, Jim, if you
and Mary are willing to be bothered with
the company of your suffering cousin,
she will spend the summer with you.
Papa says may; he thinks it will give
me some sense, so he says. Charlie is
going to Chicago in June, and will see
me safely started from there.
Now, please say may come, for l
am just dying to see you. Your affec-
tomato cousin, FAN.
JAMES FULLERTON TO MISS FANNIE
HOWARD.
WIDEAwAKE, Colo, May IL, 1881
MY Dear Fan: Come, by all means.
We will be delighted to have you stay
with us as long as you can stand.it. As
for the Indians and other .'nice things"
l will d my best to crafty your de-
sires. If you can plan to reach Denver
about June IL may be able to meet
yousthere. Telegraph me from Chi
cago when you leave there. Mary is
already planning trips for you, and says
''be sure and come" Yours as ever,
JAMES FULLERTON.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, June 9, 1S81.-To
James Fullerton, Wideawake, Colo.-
Fan leaves this morning via Omaha.
&. w. HOWARD.
DENVER, Colo,, June IL, 1S81.-To d.
L. Howard, No. 1916 Fifty-ninth Street,
New York-Dear Pa: / reached here
safely this morning. We start for Wide
awake tomorrow. FAN.
MISS FANNIE HOWARD TO MISS MABEL
GORDON.
WDEAwAKE, Colo, Aug. 9, 1884,
My Sscect May: Don't you think am
just horrid not to have written sooner?
1 know You do, and know, too, that
you will forgive me like the angel that
you are for having treated you so badly.
Have you wondered il 1 had got lost in
the wilderness? II you were to see all
the wild pleasures | have been in YOU
would wonder that l hadn't been lost.
o, May! if you were here we would
have jolly times. Hardly . day passes
that don't have a walk or q ride, and
often we have had little picnic parties
to some lovely spot in the mountains.
Just enjoy myself all the time, and am
ont of doors SO much that Jim says lam
acquiring the complexion of the former
inhabitants-the Utes. At first ]
thought wouldn't like it here. Even
before l left home began to wish
hadn't promised to come, and almost
changed my mind at the last moment;
for | couldn't help thinking of the
lovely times you and the rest of the
girls would have at the beach. But you
may be sure did not let pa know how
badly l felt, for he would never have for
gotten it. After reached here felt real
blue for few days. Of course Jim and
his wife were as kind as could be; but
everything was so new and so different
from what was. accustomed to that l
couldn't enjoy it as do now. Why,
Mary actually does all her own work;
hasn't even a kitchen girl; and the
house is so small. But now ] like it
here, and do you know, May, that I
haye begun TO take lessons in house