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This is an incomplete letter from Emma Baker Martin to her aunt Betty Kirby Eller. The letter focuses on butter and how much is being paid for it and other goods.

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This is a letter from Emma Baker Martin to her aunt Betty Kirby Eller. The letter mentions a photo that Emma says she includes in the envelope, but said photo is not present. Emma talks about butter, when she received her regular package of butter, how much money she made off of it, and then moves on to other subjects. Emma talks about her African American help, how working makes her feet hurt, and how her husband sees her working habits.

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This is a letter from Emma Baker Martin to her aunt Betty Kirby Eller. This brief letter discusses how Betty does not need to send any butter to Emma because she already is being sent some from someone else. Emma writes that she is about to go to church, and that she can hear the church bell ringing to call people in, but she thought she should write her aunt as soon as possible in case she sent the butter.

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This is a letter from Emma Baker Martin to her aunt Betty Kirby Eller. Emma writes that she would like her aunt to send her more butter, and that she enjoyed her recent trip. She is sad that she was not able to see more of her sickly mother and uncle, and that she missed many other family members, but she was homesick and needed to return. She finished the letter writing of Laura, a relative. The letter is signed on the first page.

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