Dear Brother, you said that I did not write that letter that you got 
said from Macon with my name signed to it/ But I did write and to 
prove it I bought the paper to the house to write this one so mother 
and all the rest might see that I did write this letter/ I have been 
to school more than you think.?  For you said that you would like to 
have me with you/ But I don't think Father can spare me as I am all 
the help he has got/ Dir Brother you must write to me as soon as you 
get this and tell me when you think you are coming to see us/ We want 
to see you worse than ever/ I have got one of the smartest brothers 
ever saw/ It is little Frank/ He goest to school every day to Miss 
Lucretia Cunningham?  I think that he is learning fast/ Brother James 
is sickly/ He goest to school/ To tell your little boy "howdy" for 
us/ Mrs.  C. family is all well at present/ I may try come to see 
you if I can get the chance/ You must write me (us) soon as you get 
this/ Write to Pa for he says that he can't write yet now/ They all 
send best respects to you/ Isaac G. Hollingsworth/ Macon, June the 
29th, 1840./ Addressed to Mr. John M.  Hollingsworth/ Mississippi 
Lexington P.0. 3 Holmes County.
    Thanks - in 1965 - to Mrs.  Byron W. Frizzell of Johnson City, 
Tennessee.  Your editor typed out a copy from which this is again a 
copy, and sent the original back. (Xerox was not easily available in 
those days.) it was on one sheet, folded like todays aerogrammes, 
sealed with red wax and the Hollingworth crest (stag) impressed in it. 
The writer, Isaac Gordon Hollingsworth, was 15 years old, son of 
James and Elizabeth (Newberry) Hollingsworth of Macon, Georgia.  The 
parentage and siblings of James have never been satisfactorily set-
tled.  Stewart or his contributors have the lineage dead wrong, as the 
Jesse he chooses was born about six years after his supposed son! 
The 1884 Memoranda book, p. 137, shows John M. Hollingsworth went to 
Mississippi from Macon, and afterward lived at Mobile, Alabama.  He 
was married to a Cunningham.  Their brother, David Marshall Hollings-
worth, was a soldier under Capt. Jefferson Davis in the War with Mex-
ico and a friend of his as well; named a son Jefferson Davis Hollings-
worth.  Davis signed David's application for a pension, as long ago 
published in H.R.
    Why can't we solve James's lineage? (Say that like Andy Rooney, 
in a whining way.)

     (1) Late again, and thanks for not sending urgent messages of 
worry. Usually, new subscribers write. Last time one letter arrived
the day after I finally mailed out the pile of magazines! (Murphy's
Law?)  This may be mailed out with the Sept 1990 issues, or another 
slighter delay will be necessary for the latter issue.
    (2) The old workhorse typewriter which types HR stencils has had 
a bad shock, and I am typing it as usual, but have to "baby" it quite 
a bit.  Caps are out of sync with small case keys (as if you can't 
tell!) but have not yet had time to fix it.  At this time it is strip-
ped of its casings and looks like an old 1870s model, open key stems 
and raw metal moving. (Sounds like Walt Whitman, or Edwin Markham.) 
    (3) Stencils, purchased here from our old standby company are 
holding up and not punching out the circles!  A miracle.  I sealed 'em 
in their packages, air tite!