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PF2.2.11
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2-10-1839
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Kenyon College Feb 10 1839
Dear Brother
I received your interesting letter week before last. I have enjoyed my self pretty well lately if I could only get some good things to eat. I have to [?] [?] to [?] [?] life itself provide myself with [crackers]. we have nothing but [?] and salt fish and the like. so that when you order some of the “goodies” at home dont forget poor [?] But my poor food a [f]olly & will not last much longer twenty seven weeks. more and I shall be a self styled A.B. you may give the initials any meaning you please. Jerome Charley & I go to Legal reading room, which is in a little house by itself every Wednesday evening after Society and cook and eat just as [?] and just as long as we please although it is against the Laws for the tutor never mentions so far [?]. I have not had a letter from home this long time Father had to go down to Columbus about ten weeks ago as a [?] on [?] Hitchcocks case of impeachment. He went to Putnam to see [?] who has [?] th[?] when mentions very [?] and per Charles he would take her home. He passed through Vernon the other evening on his road home I did not know whether she was with him or not - I have not received a letter from her for a long time in [?] [?] [?] how only one si[?] she was at Putnam. You know that Parson P[?]derson is in trouble about church [?]. he was [?] here a while ago he showed himself to no one then but the Bishop and Charles Je[?] Mr P.B Je[?] and [Erlen] Boult were also down here on the same business. I do not know how it was settled I suppose that Mr P[?]derson will have to leave the church at Norwalk. The [?] & the me[?] a[?] have been having great meetings then. Cha[?] and Sq[?] have entered into Partnership in the book establishment. [?] The great female P[rimary] in N. has exploded and the [?] going to return to the east. I am sorry if this [?]ly be so. For Norwalk will meet [tomorrow] much more I am afraid of good schools [?] not [?] [?] The Methodist College is go[?]ing it at a great [?] the[m] is a professional endowed with ten thousand [dollars]. there h[?]w [?] been other m[?] [?] I hope that these schools will thrive for things are much needed Norwalk has grown a good deal since you last saw it. I think you will [?] your [wrist] very well. My [narration] [comm?] on the twentieth of March [and] continues three weeks [.] so that it is probable that we should meet at home -- but I hope you will see Gambier. I wish that you would collect [mine] [?] specimen for me and [?] them home in the [opening] -- Ruthe[?] tells me this is on [?] [?] mine somewhere written your [?] always same any thing you get [?] [n]will you you ask [concerning] Mary Higgens she is in Norwalk [over] [?] [?] go to the [Noorcest] [?] -- That nearly [?] cousin of ours Miss F. A. Boult is a perfect beauty -- [the] [grieves] is [dead] that good old man --
I [no] but see why you should [ask] [him] to write to your cousins so much if they [?] [use] your letters [=] turn about is fair [play] Our [?] will not come out while next session the reason I do not know probably some foolish one though I [?] [?] [Cat] -- a while since. Why [?] Mr. Wells [?] it out [and] you [send] one home. [?] & [?] got theirs the same time I got mine. I hope you will answer this as soon as you receive it [?] perhaps I will have time to write you again this [semester]
Your Affectionate Brother
E. S. Lane
Recommended Citation
Lane, Ebenezer S., "Letter from Ebenezer S. Lane to William G. Lane" (1839). 19th Century Correspondence. 28.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/correspondence_19thc/28