Title: Letter from Clarissa Belle Evans to Maud (Tyson) Smith

Identifier: 1118-b1-fa-i5   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/37605)

Description: Letter from Clarissa Belle Evans to Maud (Tyson) Smith. The information in this letter pertains to Littleton Female College, mutual friends, and various illnesses such as typhoid fever, capillary bronchitis, and malaria. Also written about are topics including the death of Clarissa's siblings, a picnic at Ballard's Bridge with a talk delivered by the Hon. J. C. Scarborough, President of the Baptist Institute at Murfreesboro, mosquitoes, food, and a fire at the water mill owned by Clarissa's father, Z. W. Evans. This letter also mentions the names of various people, including Ethel Briedlove, Eleanor Evans, Zacharia Evans, and Janie Henderson. Letter is written on letterhead from the "Office of Z. W. Evans . . . Cisco, N.C."