Postmarked Crutchfield KY
Feb 27 1913

To: Mrs Hattie Emery
Brookings Ark.

Dear sister, I will anser your kind and welcome letter I received some time ago. Hattie I would ansered be fore now but I have bin down sick. I am up some but not well. I hope this ma find you and your family well. I was sure glad to hear from you one time more. Hattie I am sick so much and see so much trouble. I can’t write like I ust to. I wish you would come to see me. Hattie come and we will go see Ed. I am goen before long, about June or July. It wont take but two dollars to take us from here to where he lives. It looks like you could come. Could you to see him last summer but got damn sick and did not get to go. Hattie I get to studdien sometimes about we are all cutten. I am alone without a brother or sister. Just a pen and my friends to ever write and me when I get sick. I have all ways done the best I could and I still am to do the best I can. Hattie if you can’t come to see me have you a picture mad and send to me. I look at your children picture and wish I could see you together. I will have some mad soon as I can send one. I want your children to see me if my pictures a stander up. If they don’t never get to see me. I will have some mad rite away if I can get the munney. End go to go to (turn?) well anser soon

Your sister
Fannie Jackson
Byby