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Letter of Mary Cotter (nee Sullivan) wife of William Cotter to her daughter Anne Cotter of Indianola, Texas.
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Meenygorman, August 22nd, 1858.

My dear Child:

I take my pen in hand to inform you that I received your most affectionate and welcome letter which gave us the greatest consolation that could have been.

I am glad to learn you are all well as this leaves us at present, thanks be to God for his mercy to us all.

My Dear Child excuse me for not having answered your letter ere now. Uncle John is in a dying way which caused my delay.

Dear Child we were all much troubled for you not having written ere now and I hope my child for future you will fulfill your promise that in your future correspondence would compensate your negligence.

I am glad to hear my Dear Brothers are all well and doing well, thanks be to God, Especially my Dear brother Daniel. May the great God of Heaven and his Blessed Mother guide and guard him day and night, shall be my constant prayer and direct my Child that is without a Mother far away.

Attached to above letter was a continuation addressed to her brother at Indianola, Texas, as follows:
August the 29th Sunday - Daniel Sullivan -
Dear Brother:

I received a letter dated August 5 and a letter before it from my child. I wrote a part of it last Sunday and did not finish it. Whatever caused my delay at that time not knowing Anny's death.

Dear Brother, I pray to you in honor of God and his Blessed Mother to send an account as speedy as possible which is it? Anny Cotter or Anne Sullivan died? I ask it in honour of God and your Father and Mother's soul.

Dear Brother send me a lock of my child's hair if she is not dead and a lock of yours. I am dead from crying all this day a Sunday. Thinking it is my Anny died. O God help me if it is.
There was not any surname mentioned in the writing. Also she mentioned Anny getting first Communion in the last letter the 23rd of May and Ann Cotter mentioned in the second last letter, she got her first Communion the 23rd of May also.

Dear Brother don't deny the truth of me, I would not deny it of you. If it is Anny Sullivan, God help her dear mother. She wrote me the most heart-rending letter I ever saw wanting to know where her children were. I gave her the address.

Dear Brother send me a strict account how you are situated, also brother John and Dennis, how they are getting on.

Good evening Dear Brother and my Blessing and God's blessing be with you.

(signed) Mary

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