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Mrs. May Walden 420 West Bell Street, Box 853 Avon Park, Fla.

June 18, 1944 -

Darling Tafern:

Your letter acknowledging the $50. reached me this morning. I didn't go in town yesterday as it was so hot, but Lucille Wells brought it when she came home from breakfast. I seem to have anticipated your wish in my last letter, but I didn't write anything of your father's early life. Perhaps you may not recall that his parents were both teachers who zealously favored education for the Negroes, so after their marriage they came to Georgia and were teaching when the Civil War broke out. I forge the name of the town where he was born, but he was very young when his parents had to escape to the North and were the last people to get through the lines before communications ceased. They then taught in different towns near Rockford, in Ill and Wisc. finally settling in Madison - I can't recall where Jamie was born, nor do I know the year he died. Maybe you do. I think your father graduated at 19, but I believe there was some hitch about it, and he didn't get his degree

Wasn't there some stock, so you won't have to bear the expense of the $150? I'd be sorry to not have helped you out. I do not question your judgement, Dearie, but I hate to think that came out of your earnings.