From Amy Cairns Mulligan to her sister Janet Cairns Dickey (February, 1900)

[No envelope. Elizabeth Dickey Evans, who transcribed these letters, continued this one on the same page as the letter from Alice Cairns, dated Dec. 15, 1899. However, the reference to Valentine’s Eve suggests it probably was written in Feb. 1900.]

Dear Janet I am going to send you 20 cents to get me a nice purse if you can Mamma got your purse we went to J. W. McKenzies on valentines eve and opend the porch door and threw in 2 valentines (one to Libbie and Maggie) and yelled valentines. They did not find the valentines till the next afternoon. They were very frightened till they found them. Libbie would not get up in the morning till James got up. They thought when we called valentines that we said dying and the others thought we said House on fire. The girls did not no who it was till the day before yesterday and then we found out.

from Amy

Libbie says she wished we were caught in the cloes [clothes] line and Hung. She was telling all about it in prayer meeting on Thursday she did not no who sent it then.

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