University of Virginia Library

Dec. 14-20

A rainy Sunday. Divide the week between Uncle Bob's, Kinloch and Music Hall. Talk politics with Uncle B

and Miss V. The excitement on the goose questions (insurrections among the darkeys) continues. Brother Jim has some horrible stories to tell me of Mad Dogs, Bears and Wolves. Thinks I will be frightened from the neighborhood. While at Kinloch, Sue, Charlotte and I lodge in "Nebraska." Cousin Tom [Dr. Thomas Nelson Meriwether] interests me in his...letter. Wishes me to find out who Mildred Thompson was. There is an air of mystery about the letter which I do not like. I fear the young lady is trying to play off some prank on the old Dr.