Monday, October 26, 2015

A. V. Toby to Mrs. Mackall, Wednesday Evening, November 2, 1864

Dear Mrs. Mackall:

The young gentlemen are more particular about the weather than I am — and having notified me that I was not to be “surprised” tonight have greatly disappointed me. If the young ladies partake of my annoyance, I hope they will also partake of the pleasure I anticipate of seeing them some early evening under more auspicious circumstances. I would even now beg your family and friends to come, but am afraid the gumbo would be a poor inducement.

Truly yours,
A. V. Toby.

SOURCE: Louise Wigfall Wright, A Southern Girl in ’61, p. 197-8

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