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PF2.2.11
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6-5-1837
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Kenyon College June 5 1837
Friend T…
I have waited in vain, for a letter from you or some one else of the boys untill last evening when I received one from W. Gallup. When I left home, some six weeks ago, I was in hopes that we should correspond oftener than we have done. I arrived on the hill the day after leaving home having hopes of [?] and have now commensed[sic] studying in good earnest.
[Id] suppose you are now enjoying yourself to any extention[sic] seeing how the world wages, about specie/money +C.DC. the fact is I have not seen any specie at all for six weeks or [since] the post office order come on I do not believe there is a single [lip] on the hill out of the post office.
Shall “[shim] plasters” have been made out by the College & [tho] to answer the purpose of change.
Sunday June 11
There is no news here except what we get in the papers one of the subjects for conversation is that Mexico, France, & England here about to declare war against us, and another that the lower house of parliament in Lower Canada had been disolved[sic] you cannot conceive what a display of oratory have been made about these subject especially the last as there are some Canadians here that think it a great imposition but enough of this stuf[sic], will you tell Jerome to write me as answer to a letter I wrote him some time since & to [Gallass] I will write him in a few days I wish you would write me in short order tell William Baker I hope he will [?] to come here in the fall. When C. Gibbs gets home I should like to see you & him and two or three more boys here just that you may take a look at the Lord of Canaan I have not heard from C. this session have you
Your friend &c
ES Lane
I could not have time to finish this before now Sunday noon ESL
Give my respects to all the folks and tell them to write I expect an answer from you on return mail
Recommended Citation
Lane, Ebenezer S., "Letter from Ebenezer S. Lane to Theodore Williams" (1837). 19th Century Correspondence. 35.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/correspondence_19thc/35