E. C. Oxford Geo.July 18 1857My own Dearest Mary, I never received your letter till this morning, but Oh! how glad I was to get it, you have no conception. But I can’t dwell now upon emotion. I heard from Bob Freeman this morning…
[Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston, June 15, 1857]
E. C. Oxford Geo.June 15th 1857My own Dear One, I should have answered your letter gladly long before now, but I wished when I wrote to accompany the letter with a Catalogue, designating the Speakers &c for Commencement, and so have been delayed till…
[Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston, May 22, 1857]
E.C. Oxford Geo. May 22d 1857My own Dear One. It is now just one month since I received your last letter, and although I am exceedingly anxious to hear from you now, yet I am willing to wait your pleasure to write, for I…
[Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston, May 7, 1857]
E. C. Oxford Geo.May 7th 1857 My own Dear “Mary,” I have a few minutes of leisure to night that I desire to spend in communion with my the absent beloved one.– I have been unusually cheerful this evening and to night I…
[Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston, May 1857]
My Dear One, I have again a few minutes of opportunity leisure which I will employ in fulfillment of my promise the other night- Mollie, I know not of what to write, I have nothing that would be interesting as news or information; so…
[Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston, April 13, 1857]
E.C. Oxford Geo. Apr. 13 1857My own Dearest Mollie, I do thank God, and praise God, that he hath dealt so kindly, so mercifully, and so graciously with our souls. Yes, My Own Mollie, I do bless God that in his Providence I…
[Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston, March 31, 1857]
E. C. Oxford Geo.March 31st 1857My Dearest Mollie– I would gladly…
[Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie houston, March 24, 1857]
Oxford Geo.March 24th 1857My Dearest “Mary”– I fondly anticipated a letter from you this morning, but as none came, I have thought, perhaps, that you were expecting one from me too, in reply to your last, before you would write.– I do not Dearest,…
[Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston, March 22, 1857]
Oxford Geo.March 22/57Dear Father & Mother; On the above date I commenced to write this letter but thinking I a might be gone to Tenn. and from some other considerations I postponed it until now. The object of this letter is to speak…
[Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston, March 11, 1857]
E. C. Oxford Geo. March 11th 1857 My Dearest Mollie You received my note a few days since, I suppose, acquainting you, that I should be necessarily detained or delayed in answering your last letter. I reckon too, you begin to feel or…