Girls, we love for what they are
Young men for what they promise to be
Verty trulyyour friend
Clara M. Smith
Chelsea, Iowa June 16th 1884
Don't forget our trip to Vining or
what came of it. also remember
that letter on green tissue paper and
the one who helped write it
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"From the autograph album of Martha M. "Mattie" Roach of Chelsea, daughter of Fred and Eliza J. (Hutchins) Roach. She married Samuel T. May in Toledo, Tama County, in 1891."

Submitted by: Bob Hutchins tecxas@earthlink.net