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I AM A LONG TIME IN WRITING BUT THERE HAS BEEN NOTHING TO WRITE  AND I WANT TO SEE YOU SO BAD THAT WRITING SEEMS LIKE A FARCE. I WANTED TO SEE YOU SO ALL BEFORE I LEFT BUT KNEW IT WOULD DO ME NO GOOD. I DON’T LIKE TO SAY GOOD BYE AND I FELT IN LEAVING THEN I WAS LEAVING THE BEST FRIENDS I HAD ON EARTH. THOUGHT MY MIND WOULD BE IN A BETTER CONDITION TO CONTEND WITH AND HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THE SHADOW WILL NEVER BE LIFTED FROM MY LIFE .

WELL ISABELL WE ARE ALL HERE TOGETHER YET. MOLLIE WAS INTENDING TO GO ON TO MAGGIES BUT FELIX WAS IN TOWN WHEN WE GOT HERE AND HE SAID IT WOULD NEVER DO FOR HER TO KEEP ON THEM  , AS SHE WOULD BE WATCHED .HENRY GREEN AND TY JONES CAME UP ON SAME TRAIN AS WE DID, AND NEXT DAY JHON ? ALLEN CAME UP. THERE IS NO TELLING WHAT ALLEN WANTED . HE ACTED IN A SUSPICIOUS MANNER. WE SAW FELIX A DAY OR TWO AGO . HE WAS INTENDING TO GO DOWN HOME, BUT WAS ADVISED NOT TO. I KNOW THAT SOMETHING  IS ON THE LIST REGARDING HIM AND KNOW HIS LIFE WOULD NOT BE WORTH MUCH IF HE WAS DOWN THERE. HE IS STAYING OUT WITH MARION OLIVER NOW. HE SPOKE ABOUT VISITING TO HAVE YOU COME UP HERE TO SEE HIM AND I WISH YOU WOULD. IT WOULD BE BETTER THAN FOR HIM TO GO DOWN THERE. WE HAVE HAD A FEARFUL TIME EVER SINCE WE BEEN UP HERE. IT HAS BEEN RAINING AND MISTING ALL THE WHILE . THE TOWN IS DULL AND GLOOMY AND NOTHING DOING. WE HAVE HAD NO WORK YET BUT EVERYBODY SAYS AFTER A WHILE TIMES WILL BE BETTER. I GUESS THEY WILL IF NOT I WILL BACK AWAY FROM THIS REGION. I WILL GO SLAP CRAZY IF I DON’T GET SOMETHING TO DO PRETTY SOON .

I WISH I COULD SEE YOU AND THE CHILDREN . DON’T LET THEM FORGET ME . I KNOW BABY WILL BUT THE OTHERS MAY NOT. GOD KNOWS WHEN WE WILL MEET AGAIN OR HOW WE WILL ALL COME OUT. IF I HAD KNOWN WHAT I KNOW NOW , I WOULD OF NEVER HAVE LEFT THERE OR WOULD OF NEVER STOPPED HERE . I ONLY STOPPED HERE TO BE NEARER TO YOU ALL , THOUGHT FROM THE WAY THINGS WERE REPRESENTED I COULD GET PLENTY OF WORK HERE AND MAY AFTER A WHILE  BUT I WILL HAVE TO LIVE ON IN THE MEAN TIME. I WANT YOU ALL TO WRITE  TO ME SOON. THIS LETTER IS TO GRANDMOTHER AND ALL. GIVE MY LOVE TO BLANCHE AND TELL HER TO WRITE.    MY BEST  LOVE TO YOU ALL ,

YOUR AFF’ SISTER_____

 A _ MCLEMORE

  TRANSCRIBED FROM PHOTO COPY FROM FILES OF JIMMY R. MCLEMORE

  DENVER , COLORADO 

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