Letter 2020.102.37

August 17, 1899

Mr darling sister, Your sweet dear appreciated epistle came yesterday and I hasten to reply.

You naughty girl, though for sending me back that money, for I know you need it, dear. But thank you many times and that many kisses. Well, I guess I might as well begin to answer your many questions. As for Mr. Head and I have quit entirely. I left several of his letters unanswered and he took the hint and I am

- 2 - indeed glad. He is a thing of the past, gone and forgotten. We could never marry, so what's the use of wasting time in writing. "There is others." Thanks, dear, for your cordial invitation to visit you about the 28th. I certainly would be delighted. I trust there will be excursions, but Chas says I can never leave Cleveland again without him.

Now, I will tell you some of my secrets again. He, Chas Minor, is my old true sweetheart that I broke my heart over two years ago when I left him. "Oh, such a parting."

-3Well, I told you in my last how we had accidently met again and were now going together now and now, he don't allow me to go with anyone but him, [whew gee?]. But he gave me a lecture, the other night, for trifling while he was out of the city for a day or two and there is one more fellow, Nate, dear boy, "but 34 years old," big boy, isn't he? That I think too much of and he of me. I meet him yesterday on the QT, in the afternoon, and he said he was beginning to wish that he had never met me, and that as he

=4= says is saying a good deal. He is an ideal man, without a doubt, and he is determined that I shall not leave the city and he don't want me to marry. He, [ ? ? ]. If you marry Jennie for God's sake, leave the city. He offered me a fine position. His, [chum ?], friend is the owner of the millinery department at, [Parmeller ?], Johnston & Whitney store on Euclid Ave, and that friend has seen me and very anxious to meet me and Nate says he would be delighted if I would only accept a position as sales lady in his department, not trimmer, and he would pay me well to about $8.00, at first, and then later, more.

=5= and, of course, I would board and no car fare, and Nate says he would pay my board, in spite of any thing I said or done. Said he would go to the landlady himself, and all I made would be for myself. He is perfectly lovely, and he is always asking me to go somewhere. In fact, we take in everything, the 9th Carnival even, but no more can I go with him. For Chas lays claims on me and, before many weeks, I may be his wife, understand and he has threatened me if he ever sees or hears of any fling with another man and he knows there is one, but