Encoded for for the Veterans History Project, January 30, 2017.
All letters in the McNutt collection were digitized.
The following letters were transcribed from the handwritten originals by the donor. No alterations to this transcription has been made, although spelling errors are indicated with [sic]. Any special emphasis (i.e. underlining) is presented *between asterisks*.
I received your letter the other day and will ans. Not for if I put it off very long I won�t get at it for a week.
Do you really think there are very many good looking boys in Knoxville. I didn�t notice that there was so very many. Yes that friend of mine was in Knoxville going to school, but he didn�t live there. He is
a N.C. "Tar Heel". I am afraid when you go to Knoxville, that so many nice looking fellows will show you such a good time that you will forget to write to may away off up here in Va. But I hope not.
I sure wish I could have went with you on that picnic to High Cliff, and I believe I would have enjoyed going in the river about as well as anything. I sure hope I will get to go in the Pigeon River this summer it sure is fine. If the Y.P.S. have many picnics I should say it does pay to be a member.
If your cooking is so nourishing as to put a pound a week on I would like to eat your cooking a month or so. Get fat wouldn�t I? I�ll bet you have lots of good things to eat. I believe if I were you I would send cousin Vola of(f?) again.
I would like to have been at Jellico the fifth, but no thanks, I don�t believe I care
for any of your *burgoo*. Tell Harold I heard the most charming and beautiful music I ever heard in my life the fifth and wondered where it came from and that it sounded very faint and far away and knew it was coming from some distance but couldn�t imagine where. That when I heard from you and you told me he was going to play I knew at once that it had come from Jellico.
I sure sympathize with poor Haynes that he has to live on milk. Just to think poor fellow that he can�t
I sure sympathize with poor Haynes that he has to live on milk. Just to think poor fellow that he can�t eat a whole fried chicken by himself and then get up from the table and eat a gallon and a half of ice cream. I know it is going hard with him, and hope he will be well in a few days. Have you heard from Robert since he got home? I sure would like to see him. Do you know when his friends from Atlanta are coming up? When do you think you will go up to cousin Mollie�s and how long do you
intend to stay up there? I sure hope I will get to go up there while you are there. My brothers, Bob and Billy are coming home about the first of Aug. and you see I can�t leave while they are here. They are talking about running down from N.Y. in a car. I don�t guess they will stay over a week or at least Bob. I guess Billy will stay and farm. Believe me I will make his car live hard while he is here.
And you think you wouldn�t like farming if it was very far from Jellico. Now if you could see this mountainous country in here you would be crazy about it. You would think you was in the garden of Eden. I haven�t had any large pictures made yet but hope to get some made right away and will send one to you just as soon as I get them. I hope to
be back in Tenn. By the seventh or eight of Aug. if not sooner.
P.S. be sure and let me know when you go to Knoxville.
Ans. real soon with much love