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- GLC#
- GLC02429.44-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 5 June 1878
- Author/Creator
- Hemans, Nancy A., 1843-?
- Title
- to Frances B. Shiras
- Place Written
- Nebraska
- Pagination
- 6 p. : Height: 16.8 cm, Width: 11.1 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- Native Americans
Discusses all she has had to do since her husband's death and reveals that she is pregnant since three months before his death. Comments on her hope to be a good mother but willingness to die, if it is God's will. Discusses money problems with the Insurance League the, distribution of clothes, and supplies sent. Notes plans to get her son's picture taken and that he does not look like his father. Explains her son's reaction to the death and her inability to leave to live with a sister.
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