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(AMERICAN RACISM)

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(AMERICAN RACISM)
"Disturbing late nineteenth-century letter on letterhead of The Galveston Harrison & San Antonio Railway Co., written by a young girl named ""Emily"", 3pp. 8vo., [n.p., n.d. but ca. 1890s] to her grandmother, in part: ""...I received...pretty valentine...I w[ould] have liked to see the...parade...We went to see the soldiers on the house & the old church. Carne...got his leg cut off by the train. He shouldn't have gone on the tracks....I am a boy sometimes now. Auntie Lowen dresses me in her little Allen's clothes & calls me Jimmy. Allen was just my age when he died. I am sending you my picture & a Snapper Mose rides me on him every day. Mose is a 'nigger'. He said he was colored. I told him he was a 'nigger' & Mamma said I mustn't call Mose a nigger & Julia said it was 'alright' to call him a 'nigger'. He was a 'nigger' and she was a nigger. I was taking Odie for a little walk when Papa took our picture..."". Top right corner missing with some loss of text, folds, overall very good." 2459 Disturbing late nineteenth-century letter on letterhead of The Galveston Harrison & San Antonio Railway Co., written by a young girl named ""Emily"", 3pp. 8vo., [n.p., n.d. but ca. 1890s] to her grandmother, in part: ""...I received...pretty valentine...I w[ould] have liked to see the...parade...We went to see the soldiers on the house & the old church. Carne...got his leg cut off by the train. He shouldn't have gone on the tracks....I am a boy sometimes now. Auntie Lowen dresses me in her little Allen's clothes & calls me Jimmy. Allen was just my age when he died. I am sending you my picture & a Snapper Mose rides me on him every day. Mose is a 'nigger'. He said he was colored. I told him he was a 'nigger' & Mamma said I mustn't call Mose a nigger & Julia said it was 'alright' to call him a 'nigger'. He was a 'nigger' and she was a nigger. I was taking Odie for a little walk when Papa took our picture..."". Top right corner missing with some loss of text, folds, overall very good.