FROM: Bluebank Farm Will N. Calhoun, owner Berkshire Swine and Farm Products First and Grand Champion Carcass 1925 International, Chicago, (all breeds competing) Freight and Express Office, Wynnburg, Tennessee Post Office, Ridgely, Tennessee Miss Georgia Calhoun Glenmora, Louisiana April 1, 1929 Dear Cousin: Since the pleasant hour spent with you in Pineville I have been thinking of writing you and renewing the invitation that you spend a few month with Nora and me. February was such an inclement month I did not write and March was not much better.  But as the trees are so beautiful, the flowers so fragrant and spring seems to have come to stay, I now renew my invitation. We hear regularly from our boy at Alexandria. The cyclone scared him but thanks to Almighty God he and his lovable wife were unhurt.  I trust you have met him and learned to love him for I think I have a noble boy.  I wrote Cousins John and Cassie.   I love them both.   John for his intrinsic worth and Cousin Cassie for her domestic virtues and her hospitality and unselfishness.  Will N, their son, is an interesting man and such a lovely wife. Old Aunt Lucinda named my father's favorite sister and her daughters were so nice to us that we will never forget them. Now Cousin Georgia, we live on the farm six miles from the towns of Tiptonville and Ridgely (half-way between them), 30 miles from Dyersburg and 25 from Union City, Tennessee,  two and one-half miles from Reelfoot Lake (the playground of Tennessee), four miles from Mississippi river. We are in the extreme northwest corner of Tennessee. Our home is extremely plain but so cool and comfortable in spring and summer. Can't you come and spend the late spring and the summer months with us.  We would love so much to have you.  Write us when you can start and I will write you a way-guide.   Trusting that your heart has been good since I saw you last and that your cares have been light. Your loving cousin, Will Newton Calhoun

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