Letter from Eliza Graves Webb to her daughter, Anna Webb Griffith University of South Florida Tampa Library still image eng Letter from Eliza Graves Webb to her daughter, Anna Webb Griffith. Continued in photographs: 03271-A, 03273-A, and 03274-A. The text reads: "Antoine went down to the Mangroves for Oysters but found them ? Poor because of the fresh water and has gone to White beach oyster bar to see if they are better there. He said he would go home tomorrow afternoon and would take a line to you for me. I wrote you a letter about a fortnight ago when Nelson was down to big Sarasota bay. he said you would be down here about the middle of this month. Your father thought he would not send the letter and so brought it home with him. Since the war commenced our folks have been to the ? every week and we could have heard from each other quite often if we had taken the trouble to write. Nanni and Friman are ? this week. Hamlin was..." Letter from Eliza Graves Webb to her daughter, Anna Webb Griffith. Continued in photographs: 03271-A, 03273-A, and 03274-A. The text reads: "Antoine went down to the Mangroves for Oysters but found them ? Poor because of the fresh water and has gone to White beach oyster bar to see if they are better there. He said he would go home tomorrow afternoon and would take a line to you for me. I wrote you a letter about a fortnight ago when Nelson was down to big Sarasota bay. he said you would be down here about the middle of this month. Your father thought he would not send the letter and so brought it home with him. Since the war commenced our folks have been to the ? every week and we could have heard from each other quite often if we had taken the trouble to write. Nanni and Friman are ? this week. Hamlin was..." Griffith, Anna Webb (Mrs. Robert S.) Sarasota Bay Webb, Eliza Graves (Mrs. John G.) United States Florida--Sarasota County--Osprey Manatee County Public Library Historic Photograph Collection
Letter from Eliza Graves Webb to her daughter, Anna Webb Griffith
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Letter from Eliza Graves Webb to her daughter, Anna Webb Griffith. Continued in photographs: 03271-A, 03273-A, and 03274-A. The text reads: "Antoine went down to the Mangroves for Oysters but found them ? Poor because of the fresh water and has gone to White beach oyster bar to see if they are better there. He said he would go home tomorrow afternoon and would take a line to you for me. I wrote you a letter about a fortnight ago when Nelson was down to big Sarasota bay. he said you would be down here about the middle of this month. Your father thought he would not send the letter and so brought it home with him. Since the war commenced our folks have been to the ? every week and we could have heard from each other quite often if we had taken the trouble to write. Nanni and Friman are ? this week. Hamlin was..."
Letter from Eliza Graves Webb to her daughter, Anna Webb Griffith. Continued in photographs: 03271-A, 03273-A, and 03274-A. The text reads: "Antoine went down to the Mangroves for Oysters but found them ? Poor because of the fresh water and has gone to White beach oyster bar to see if they are better there. He said he would go home tomorrow afternoon and would take a line to you for me. I wrote you a letter about a fortnight ago when Nelson was down to big Sarasota bay. he said you would be down here about the middle of this month. Your father thought he would not send the letter and so brought it home with him. Since the war commenced our folks have been to the ? every week and we could have heard from each other quite often if we had taken the trouble to write. Nanni and Friman are ? this week. Hamlin was..."
Griffith, Anna Webb (Mrs. Robert S.)
Sarasota Bay
Webb, Eliza Graves (Mrs. John G.)
United States
Florida--Sarasota County--Osprey
Manatee County Public Library Historic Photograph Collection