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Dorminy's Mills Ga

June 30th, 1877

Miss Catherine

Dear Girl

It is with great pleasure that I have the opportunity of replying to your very highly appreciated missive which came safe to hand today. Dear Little Girl it is the greatest of pleasure to me to read a letter from you for the feelings of my heart is tender toward you. I long for the happy hour to come when I shall see you and talk with you to my own satisfaction, for it would be great satisfaction to me to talk with you for just a few moments.

Dear Girl I hope you appreciate my presence as much as I do yours, for I love thee and love to be with thee. Oh! Sweet girl do you think of me often. Do you look forward to the day when we shall meet and have the pleasure of chating with each other. I hope to meet you at yearly meeting for I think I shall visit the yearly meeting this year and I hope to meet you there. I think I shall go to your Fathers House Friday night before meeting and hpe to meet a sweet smile on your face. So I will close for this time hoping to hear from you soon.

I will ascribe myself yours most affectionately.

Willie B. Fussell

To Miss Catherine

Time may change and friends may pass, But absence cannot change the heart.

Willie B. Fussell

Sweet Little Girl

Irwin County Geo

July 7th, 177

Miss Catherine

Dear Girl

With great pleasure I seat myself to reply to your very highly appreciated missive which came safe to hand a few days ago and gave great satisfaction to read one more letter from you. Dear Girl I am almost at a loss what to write for as I have expressed my feelings to your heart before. I am satisfied that you know that I love you as well as a man can love a girl. Writing to you does not satisfy me like talking with you would.

I expect to go to the yearly meeting this year and hope to meet you there. It gives me great pleasure to know that I am thought as much of by a girl as you say you think of me. You cannot think anymore of me than I do of you.

Hoping I hear from you soon, I am ever your devoted W.B. Fussell.

No joy for me but loving of thee

No rest for me but when with thee

No life of fame but in thy name

No home but in thy heart. Dear Girl

Willie B. Fussell

Dorminy's Mills Georgia

July 23rd, 1877

To My Dear Little Girl

This lonely evening feeling so lonesome. I seat myself to drop you a few lines of fond respects.

Dear girl bring with thee last Saturday and Sunday just prove to me that I love thee better than I had any idea that man could love a woman. It is no satisfaction to me to be with any body but thee. It seems now like I want to see thee worse than I ever did in my life. It would be more satisfaction to me to be with thee tonight than any thing in this world.

I had not left your house one hour Sunday evening before I wished that I was back there.

Oh! Dear little girl can you not imagine my feelings. For it is unhappiness to me to be away from thee. I cannot enjoy any thing away from thee. But to the reverse I gain pleasure when I look forward to the happy day when we shall meet. To part no more until death with its unmerciful hand shall shroud us with the robe of silence. Oh! Dear little girl do you look forward to this happy day and feel that it will be a time of happiness to thee.

Oh! That I could be with thee tonight to enjoy the presence of thy sweet smiles that does ever bring pleasure to my heart and wakens a new ansasion in my feeling that nothing but that sweet smiles will do.

I will be out the fourth Sunday in next month if not before, but I do not think that I can stay away that long for I wish I could be with thee everyday.

Direct your letter to Dominys Mills the same place you sent the other one. Write soon to your ever devoted love,

Willie B. Fussell

To Miss Catherine My Dear Little Girl

Aug 4th, 1877

To my dear little girl.

No joy for me but loving of thee

No rest for me but when with thee

No life of fame but in thy name

No home but in thy heart.

Times may change and friends may pass

But absence cannot change the heart

Oh! think not that I doubt thee

Know thy truth remains

I would not live without thee

For all the world contains.

In deserted plains or happy scenes

In crowded halls or lonely bowess

The business of my heart shall be

Forever to remember thee.

Devotedly yours

Willie B. Fussell

Dorminy's Mills Irwin Co. Geo

Aug 6th 1877

To my darling little girl

I seat myself this morning to write to you, but scarsely know how to commence for as my heart is so full. I know not which to write, for my dear one tongue cannot express neither can pen duplicate the love and fond devotion that is cherished in my heart for thee. Were I to write enough in detailing my love to thee to satisfy my heat, it would take volumns to hold it.

But, you must excuse my not writing any more than I do for the reason is this. I cannot compose my mind on anything else but thee and thee alone. Oh! My dear girl could you look into my heart and watch your image there. You would own the sunny lovliness affection makes it wear.

I had quite a gay time coming home yesterday evening for I got good wet. The rain caught me before I got to the Mill and it rained on me nearly all the way home.

Oh! How I wish that I could see you this morning. It is great consolation to me to think of the day when we shall meet to part no more until we shall be evened by deaths unmerciful hand.

I'm hoping to hear from you at the earliest opportunity. I will ascribe myself your most devoted friend.

Willie B. Fussell

Oh! Dearest you have won my heart

Of life its self you form apart

I live I obey I dream for thee

Just as I hope you do for me

Willie B. Fussell

Dorminy's Mills Irwin Co Ga

Aug 8th 1877

My darling little girl

Sweet Catherine

The sound of thy name is sweet and dear to me. I cannot love the sound of any thing else half as well. I came not to talk to no one else for it is no pleasure to me to be with no body else but thee.

When I am in thy presence I wish no other bliss to know dear one. I have commenced this letter but I hardly know what to write for this reason is this, that I cannot compose my heart or mind on anything else but thee. Tongue cannot express love and fond devotion that is cherished in my heart for thee. Were I to write enough to thee in expressing my love to thee to satisfy my feelings it would take volumns to hold it. Oh! My dear girl could you look into my heart and watch your image there you would own the sunny lovliness affection makes it wear.

Dear girl I will be sure to come out to see you the third Sunday if nothing happens that will prevent, and it will have to be something mighty bad to keep me from coming.

Be sure to write if it is so you can for nothing gives me more satisfaction than to read a letter from you when I cannot see you. It is more satisfaction to me to be with thee than any thing else in this world and to read a letter from thee is the next best satisfaction.

Hoping to hear from you soon I am as ever your loving,

Willie B. Fussell

I expect you will be tired of getting so many letters from me.

To Miss Catherine M. Paulk

Dorminys Mills Georgia

Aug 22nd 1877

To my darlling Sweet little girl

With kind respects dear one I seat my self to drop you a few lines to let you know that I am well. Dear Catherine I fail to get the letter by todays mail that you had writin to me. I went to the post office this evening to meet the mail and read a sweet letter from thy dear hand but failed to get it, as it did not come. I cannot imagine what is the matter. With out it has been broke open at this bad post office below here. I was sadly disappointed by not getting it for I always appreciate the pleasure of reading a letter from you. But my dear one if they have broke it open and stopped me from getting it, they cannot stop us from seeing each other, for I will be out to see you the first Sunday in September without something badly happens.

I shall mail this letter at Bowens Mills tomorrow and see that it goes off. Dear one it seems that I want to see you worse than I ever did in my life. I wish the time was now here that we was to meet in one sweet union for life, for I am never satisfied without I am with you. Nothing will cheer my mind but thy sweet presence.

So hoping to hear from you soon I will ascribe my self thine own until death.

Willie B. Fussell

Oh! Think not that I doubt thee

I know thy truth remains

I would not live without thee

For all the world contains

Willie

At Home Sept 26th 1877

To the one I love best

Is it necessary dear one to tell you that my heart is wholly yours and on you alone my happiness depends. Without you or when away from you life has no chance for thy sweet smiles are like sunshine to my heart. No words can tell how fondly I love thee. Dearest one does not your own heart tell you that. I love thee more dearest than any thing in this round world. Do not my eyes speak more than I can write, more than tongue can utter. Oh! Dearest one how long and dreary the days have seemed since I left you. But oh! What joy it is to look forward to our meeting when I shall be by your side and your dear sweet voice will once more gladen my ears like sweet music. This thought cheers me in my loneliness.

Thy sweet face is ever before my eyes. Thy gentle voice rings like music continually in my ears. I think of the last happy day when I was by thy side with thy little hand in mine and thy friendly loving eyes look into mine and seem to say dear one. When away from thee life has no chances for me. When I am sick at heart I have only to read one of thy dear sweet letters and it forms a renewel of life and that gives consolation.

I can look up to the heaven at night, at the stars and wonder if you are looking at them too and this brings a thought of thy presence to my mind.

I hope nothing will prevent our being together soon. With hopes of an early reply from you, I am thine now,

Willie B. Fussell

To Miss Catherine M. Paulk

Dorminy's Mills

Irwin County Geo

Oct 1877

To her my heart loves best

Once more I am honored with the pleasure of offering to you dear one a composed number of my unworthy assentions. For I do consider it an honor to me to be blessed with the pleasure of writing to one that I love so well. For oh! Dearest one, thy presence in sweet visions is ever before me for be where I will. The sweet rejoyfullness that travels the landscape over brings in pleasant thought. The sound of thy dear sweet voice and even thy name will ring like music in my ears. And while musing over the happy theme that is winding its way to our new jubial bowess I can but say oh! Sweet recollections of the past. Why cannot life be always served with unfading flowers.

Why cannot I be always as happy as I am when I am with thee. Why should gloom ever darken my pathway. Dear one one thought of thee will banish all unhappy thoughts for I cannot be unhappy while thinking of thee.

It is thee alone that can claim a home in my heart for thou art the folas star of my affections and the day star of my existence. Thou are the lights that lead me through life. I wish no other bliss to know than to live with thee forever more.

To say more is impossible not withstanding my heart is full and running over for thee. But to express it with either tongue or pen is out of my power for I am over come with ecstasy by being allowed to call so pure a gem as thou, my own. For oh! Dear girl how I do love thee.

Write soon and give me all the news.

Loving and devotedly yours,

Willie B. Fussell

To Miss Catherine M. Paulk