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ALS signed twice as “Jim,” one page both sides, 9 x 12, no date. Handwritten letter to his former girlfriend, Cora Lee McNeill, directing the letter to her brother, George, in full: “There is no appeal. With love his heart is enlarged. And I give him bright days. Is what the court says. For the verdict is ‘guilty as charged.’ I concluded to and did write the above from what you said of Brother George in Cole’s letter. And right here will add that love and trust are twins and go hand in hand and cannot be separated. No soul has ever lost a friend for love can never die. And friendship true can never end. Is just the reason why.” Younger adds a short poem on the reverse and signs his name at the conclusion: “With verbs and adverbs I get mixed / And grammer [sic] I don’t know / And when dots and – ? – marks are fixed / I let my letters go. Jim.” In fine condition, with partial separations to folds. Undoubtedly written from jail, the content of this letter suggests that it dates to the Younger brothers’ guilty plea in November 1876, when they were both sentenced to life terms in the Minnesota Territorial Prison at Stillwater.
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