[Letter to Ruby Lee Farmer from Carroll Ruse]
[transcribed by and in possession of Mark A. Murphy, 10/13/2000]

Myra Texas
Feb. 26 1923
Ruby Lee:-
When you were up here the other day I didn't won't to go and speak to
you I don't know why I guess because I hand not wrote to you.  Polly
told some girls that I was trying my best to get her.  If ever there was a 
girl crazy over a boy Evelyn is sure crazy over Peck.  Geralds mother
is sick and he is cook.  We call him bread maker at school.  Crip went
home this evening from school.  I guess he has got the flu  othel was
sick all evening.
     I am have me some fun out of Lola Whyte and Evelyn.  This evening
in agriculture we had a test and Peck made 17 1/2  I did not beat him
very much I just made 82.  Jewell Miser told me that you all were going
to move back out here when school was out.  are you hope so
     Gerald took Jewel H. home from church last Sunday night.  he said
that he had to walk all over town they took another girl home.  He said
that he felt like when he got home that he had walked to Gainesville he
said he didn't won't to walk all over town.
     I have'nt went with but two or three girls since you were out here
chritimas Just seems like I don't want to.
Your lover	Carroll Ruse
[envelope addressed:]
Miss Ruby Lee Farmer
910 South Denton Street
Gainesville Texas