Excerpt from The Letters of Jennie Allen to Her Friend Miss. Musgrove I guess you remember me. I am short and stout and light complected. I talked with you quite a spell about the sufferers and said wan't it awful about that earth quake. I shouldn't wonder if they had another one right off seeing the general con dition of the country is kind of explosive. I hate to take that black dress away from the sufferers but I will hunt round and see if I can get another one. I will call to the armerry for the other one if you will jest lay it aside so no more at pressant from your true freind, Jennie Allen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.