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PF2.2.11
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11-3-1837
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Kenyon College Nov 3, 1837
Dear Brother
I received your letter about three weeks since and should have answered it before but I have been sick. On the evening of the sixteenth I went to bed early, and during the night I woke up and found myself shaking as hard as I could. I shook an hour or so and then had a high fever. In the morning I took some pills and other stuff & broke up the fever in four or five days wh[ich] left me in a very weak state. I kept my room about ten days. I have not yet got as fat as I was nor so much strength but am improving every day and shall no doubt in two or three days be as well as ever. I spent a very pleasant vacation, we all went to Detroit, we started one Teusday[sic] in the morning and reached Huron about noon we spent the afternoon there went to Judge Wrights & got some [?] at evening got on board the “Michegan”[sic] & found ourselves at Detroit the next morning, spent the day looking about the city, went over to Canada &c, next Day at nine got on board the “Comadore[sic] Perry” & reached Perrysburg at evening, [having] a little race & got beat. The next morning ogt on board the prettiest little steam boat you ever saw (the same that beat us) & came to Toledo then onto the railroad & went to Adriana having the heaviest load that ever it had so much so that men had to shove it along. On the road back the Locomotive & tender unhitched & left us in the woods, it soon came back after us then we got into the “Tom Jefferson” & reached Huron at 2 oclock at night the next/Saturday morn we got home in the stage. I also went to Elyria and spent a day with [Sleman], had a pleasant visit. Norwalk has improved a good deal since spring the Courthouse and jail the Seminary & some new dwelling houses the Presbyterian church &c &c we have now two horses one for father the other for the family Peter by name I had lots of fun riding them. Fathers term of office expires on the 18th of this month & I hope he will not get elected again as soon as I receive a paper concerning the election I will send it on to you. Charley Gibbs wrote a letter to you yesterday which will go in the same mail as this. Dan Tilden, Nat Kimball & D[?] Patrick are down here to school. If you can get a catalogue of the College at Middletown will you send it on to me. In your next letter tell me whether you can or not. On the receit[sic] of this write me a long letter tell me of your studies, playmates plays, everything you do, what kind of a town your is, what you did your vacation, what kind of a College you have opposite your shanty, how you spend your time, Describe your house & [grown] what you see that new and add how you spent your time in New London. I have many other things to tell you but I have got to the bottom Yours Eben.
Dont forget to send me a catalogue if you can get one. I got a letter from father & from home the other day all well. Write a longer letter next time to me
Recommended Citation
Lane, Ebenezer S., "Letter from Ebenezer S. Lane to William G. Lane" (1837). 19th Century Correspondence. 33.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/correspondence_19thc/33