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PF2.2.11
Date
1-6-1838
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Jan 6 1838
I received your short letter a week or two ago. I wish you would fill out your letters more, you dont write more than half a page, you surely are not in want of what to write about, tell me what I asked you in my last letter. Last Chrismas[sic] I did not have much fun Ive had to go to meeting in the morning. We had a vacation from the Saturday noon before till the next Thursday and New years. On the day after Chrismas[sic] I walked to town with Jerome and staid there an hour or two & came ome again after dinner a gentleman old me that [father] had started to come to Gambier from town but had found out that I had been in town and had gone back. So I went to town again and met him on the road walking that day 15 miles, he was returning home for Court in bank to stay there untill after my spring vacation. Next Wednesday I read a Publick Forensic in the chapel with Charley Gibbs and at the end of this session deliver an oration. Our catalogue will be out in a week or two I will send you one. I hope you will come to Kenyon when you enter College where had you rather go? William Baker has gone to Granvill[sic] to School All the Norwalk fellows are well and upper contended. If you can get me a catalogue of the College at Middletown send it or write to me on the receit[sic] of this
Eben
Jan 11
As I did not fill this sheet last Sunday so I open this again. Last evening I received a letter from home (father) saying all well &c yesterday we were to read our forensicks[sic] but our Professor got mad and made us put it off for a week. Our Session is out in 10 weeks from yesterday at which time we come out with orations. Glory to Sam Patch and the broad [?] bull of Texas I have no news Charley and Jerome and the rest of the fellows are all well
Write to me soon will you
ES Lane
Gambier
Ohio
Jerome said he would write to you he has begun a letter to you
Recommended Citation
Lane, Ebenezer S., "Letter from Ebenezer S. Lane to William G. Lane" (1838). 19th Century Correspondence. 32.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/correspondence_19thc/32