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From:
Frances ("Fanny") Sims (née Wallace)
To:
Wallace, Alfred Russel & Wallace, John
Date:
21 July 1845
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/93/6
Summary:

Discusses life choices and circumstances. Ponders going to Texas, but is pleased with current situation. Detailed descriptions of the countryside, fresh produce, social life. In separate note to ARW and Jim (Repeat of WCP 170) begs them to consider emigrating to Georgia, where they would surely prosper. Describes light-skinned “yellow” Negro couple who had a very light-skinned infant with “blue eyes and flaxen hair.” Both blacks and whites grieved when the “beautiful child” sickened and died; but “it would have been sad to see a white boy [be raised as] a slave.”

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