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PF2.1.122
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12-9-1833
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Kenyon College December 9th 1833
My Dear Mary
There is certainly nothing which gives me more pleasure, than writing to you and although you undoubtedly see that I am not so prompt in writing, as you are in answering my letters, yet you will pardon me, for I never was so much confined in my life, as I am now. How much, dear Mary, like the changing vicitudes[sic] of human life are the effects which the changing seasons produce on all things around us. But this is especially verified in rude scenery, such as here may be seen. At this place surrounding nature, seems now beginning to put on a melancholy, though grand appearance. The distant hills, and small river which really surrounds the little village of Gambier presents a more, and more sublime prospect, as the beautiful virdure[sic] of summer departs-- O, how I delight to take a lonely walk that I may give some relaxation to my mind by contemplating the grandeur of nature and thinking of her though absent, yet so near my heart. Oh, how similar to these wild scenes, to these desolate hills and dales, over which the cold and cheerless blasts of winter now begins[sic] to pass. would be the few fleeting years that may be alloted[sic] me were they to be spent at distance from you!
But I delight to reverse the thought. How much like the smiling, cheerful spring, will every season be, when in all my future undertakings, I shall enjoy the company, the counsel, and the well wishes of my dear Mary, and shall be permited[sic] to bestow every affection of my heart upon her, who is worthy of them all.
I intend to pay you a visit, before I leave Kenyon College for good, for although as I wrote you so some time ago, I shall be here a much shorter time than what I expected when I left the city, yet this is too long for me to remain without seeing you. If you wish me to do so, mention it in your next letter, and when I write again I will tell you when you may expect me. There is a vacation of three month and return again. Write again as soon as you receive this my -----. and believe me to be Yours most cincerely[sic]
Hiram L. White
O amoenum cogitatum! [quum] [?]neminiscar horarum
in quibus ambulabum, cum mea dulcea Maria
et sedebam ad latus ejus; ita, speo esse, in quartuo mensibus
Recommended Citation
White, Hiram L., "Letter from Hiram L. White to Mary Jane Davis" (1833). 19th Century Correspondence. 19.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/correspondence_19thc/19