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PF2.2.11
Date
7-1838
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Kenyon College July 1838
Hurra for Will Lane a pact, a real pact, a “bona fide” pact: Now for the land of [?]: a little more says I says he--as he cracked his thumb but how are you how do you flourish or dont you belong to the [order]. It seems to me that it took your letter a long tome to reach me. I heard from father the other day I expect he will get home in two or three days from this time & stay a week then for the Black Swamp he [?]] to have a fourth of July celebration here, an oration & dinner &c. My squirrel is on the first-rate order this morning after another fellows squirrel came in my room I left my [?] loose & he put after the other & ran it round the room fifty times or more. The way they [?] it was not slow work and toil and now while I am writing it is as much as I could to keep him from eating up the cork of my inkstand or my pen he is a real mischievous fellow the other day I let him loose he jumped on the bed when I was not looking & cut all the buttons from a nest, he [?] me so I cannot write then [?] were made by him. Our session was half out yesterday. I want you to write longer than this. Jerome says he will write in a few days
ES Lane
Recommended Citation
Lane, Ebenezer S., "Letter from Ebenezer S. Lane to William G. Lane" (1838). 19th Century Correspondence. 30.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/correspondence_19thc/30