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Letter from Jesusita Baros Torres to Unknown

Original

  2. page

para el Estado de Texas, con una familia que se fue para aya;

pues yo ya tenía mucho tiempo que prometi ir á vesitar á la virgensita de San Juan Texas es una Yglesia tan bonita; que aqui te mando una targeta y asi esta como esta aquí; un lugar muy caliente, muchas Huertas de narangas; y tambien bide muchas, pues plantas ó arboles, de Bananas; y pasamos para mex; en el car fuiemos en la mañana bolbimos en la tarde, un día ase lugar que le disen Reynoza mex bueno pues ese lugar Reynoza no se me iso tan bonito, la jente muy pobre, las casitas de adobe; muy chiquitas;

  Ramsey $1.00
Thompson 2.75
Ramsey 11.20
Church. 1.50
Total by Dec 1st: $16.45
Thompson- $ 1.25
Ramsey- - - 15.75
Thompson 1.50
Church- - - 2/.50
Dec 8 - - - $20.00

Translation

  2. page

to the state of Texas, with a family that went there;

Well I had promised to visit the virgin of San Juan Texas a long time ago. It’s such a pretty church; I’m sending you a card and it’s just like it appears here. It’s a very hot place, lots of orange orchards. And I also saw of a lot of, well, banana plants or banana trees. And we crossed to Mexico in the car. We went in the morning and returned in the afternoon, for a day, to that place they call Reynosa, Mexico. Well, that place, Reynosa, didn’t seem so pretty to me, the people were very poor, the little adobe houses, very small

  Ramsey $1.00
Thompson 2.75
Ramsey 11.20
Church. 1.50
Total by Dec 1st: $16.45
Thompson- $ 1.25
Ramsey- - - 15.75
Thompson 1.50
Church- - - 2/.50
Dec 8 - - - $20.00