Files
Download Full Text (3.6 MB)
Description
PF2.2.11
Date
5-6-1838
Transcript
May 6 1838 Kenyon College
I received your letter two or three days after I returned from home & should have written to you before but I have kept putting it off. I spent a very pleasant vacation at home Mother & I went to Ashtabula & spent two or three days & I found some very pretty cousins there & had a “jam up” little trip. The rest of my time I either rode on horseback & during the evenings I was frequently out--the last week I was at home Mother & Liz had a “grand secret” as they styled it which after a while I discirned[sic] & they became “awfull[sic] mad” it was that Loretta Smith & Charles Morse were about to be married which happen[ed] on Monday after I left I believe If ever you want to know anything about Weddings just ask Miss Lane When I got here I found all things as I left, we have [?] studying Logic, Chemistry, Nat Philosophy [Demosthenes] &co. We got through exhibition tolerable well considering who we were without any failures what kind of boarding have you. We have most dolesome stuff. Sassafras tea & the like. I have got a little pet a young Squirrel which is now on my table cutting up his anticks running over the paper eating my fingers & pen he is as tame as any cat you ever see he runs about the floor jumps on the woodbox hides on my bed so that I can hardly find him he has just now got the stopper of my inkstand eating it up now, he sticks his nose in the inkstand he is a real curious fellow & has got a pretty tail wish I had a wheel for him he would make it buzz I [snore]. It is such cold weather now adays that we keep fire as much as in winter
I received a letter from home last night they are all well no one left at home except Mother & Liz. Liz cooks for two shillings a week [& sent] [?] she has I expect she says there is a singular disease at [?] called Matrimonial disease everybody is go getting married [Mr EM Storm] has entered the holy lands of wedlock with Miss Parks I do not know whether you know her she is rather a newcomer there have been seven marriages in two weeks & more expected. “Glory to the brood have ful success to all such folks [?] one in a good [?] &c. Why did you not go to [Bosting] a real super fine jam up place you are a good but the dream the dream “wonderfull[sic]”!!!!!!! You ought to have went there & seen the Boston Ladies & Mrs. W[?] call them. Write on the receit[sic] of this Eben
Recommended Citation
Lane, Ebenezer S., "Letter from Ebenezer S. Lane to William G. Lane" (1838). 19th Century Correspondence. 31.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/correspondence_19thc/31