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PF2.2.11
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7-7-1839
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Kenyon College July, 7. 1839
Dear Brother
I was extremely glad to hear that you have [arrived] “safe and sound” at Middletown. For I was afraid that you would meet with trouble in some shape or another. Did you not find it rather hard to select good [lines] of stages or steamboats or good [?]. I hope it was a pleasant trip. how do you like to be off alone having no one to depend upon but yourself?
We have all been [?] guilt [?] [?] [?] since you last heard from me. Only Jerome has got the piles, The Bowel complaint. the toothache [headache], and has become [?] beside these little distempers he is quite well. The fourth of July was a few days ago and such jolly times we did have. A procession was formed in front of the college [when] we marched to the [chapel] and [heard] the [declaration] of [Independence] [read] by [Charley] [Gibbs] and an oration by Lightner from thence we went to a [lower] [where] we [had] a few [?] pigs, [ten] [Kris], chickens, meat of all rinds, [?] of all rinds. [?] [owe] [having] the home of “Hedgehog” a mighty queer looking fellow I [?] you [?] with his [?] [sticking] out at all corners, [I’ve] [?] [and] [Lerman] [will] [?] [?] [?] in the best style. then came [toasts] and [an] [ode] by one of the students. after [words] we [?] to he chapel [steps] [when] st[?] [speeches]. then we [marched] all around the hill a dozen times. This [ended] the fourth of July 1839. [?] a rather sad [catastrophe]. [?] [?] and [marking] and my [?] [produced] an effect [?] to that [produced] by [?] I am sorry to say that I lost my dinner in this [?] way.
I [finished] my [?]tion [on] the fourth of July and have [handed] it in to the [criticism] by the [faculty]. To [when] [?] is six weeks fro[?] [?] day. My subject is “The states of Society [?] [?] for the [editors] [?] of [the] [fine Arts] [“] A subject that I cannot [?] [?] [off]. I [have] [heard] that it is probable [there] [will] be more [?] next [commencement] [than] there ever was before, I hope [?] will, the more the merrier
I shall [?] in six short weeks the last [four] years have gone so quickly that I [hardly] [?] [?] of them.
I shall probably go to Cincinnati in ten or [twelve] [week] and begin a new life or at least one very different from the one I have been accustomed to lead.
We have had a very cold summer this far but [?] day It seems to me that it will make [up] all deficiencies [in] [that] [line]. But I must [?] off.
[Your] [?]
E. S. Lane
Recommended Citation
Lane, Ebenezer S., "Letter from Ebenezer S. Lane to William G. Lane" (1839). 19th Century Correspondence. 27.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/correspondence_19thc/27