Dear brother
I received your letter and was so glad to no that some one thinks of me. The
reason that I did not write sooner I was waiting to see what she would do when
papa came home she went to him about me again. You said in your letter that
you were the only boy in our family for a long time which was true but you were
not treated like me by your own mother much less by one who is not any kin to
you at all. Do not understand me to say that I don’t like to work for I do when I
am not quarreled at all the time. And you said that a great many boys my age
have a great deal more work to do than I, which may be true but they do not
have some one to say as soon as they get don that is not wright. I will tell your
father on you. I want you to write to Mrs. V. N. Parsons Chilhowie, Va. and see
what she says about me being treated she lives at Chilhowie she used to no
mama but she has been in Washington territory and has had a great deal of
experience her husband left hur and she cooked for us three months but she
would not have stayed with us as long as that but she said she had to have some
money she is educated I hope that you will write to hur and ask hur how I am
treated and she will tell you the truth, or any body in the country that no’s
anything about hur.
Your brother John S A Jr.