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6-21-1837
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Kenyon College June 21st
Dear Sister[s],
I received your last letter and you may [depend] it was some gratifycation[sic] to me for I had not received one for [2] weeks.
I am glad that you have moved into our new house at last. You may have you[r] party now for all I care now for I intend to neither touch, [tast][sic], or [handle] any of the fair sex when I come home as I have lost all respect towards them. I belong to the Bachelor’s [club]. [which] [say] [as] I have [sayed] al[o]w neither touch taste or handle and I must live up to its laws or be expelled and I can assure you I would not like to be expelled for we have so much fun [there] we meet saturday -- night, and all of us give in [our] [experience] of the trouble[s] of a [married] [life] and the pleasure[s] of an [unmarried] [life] you may defend there are as many odd [speeches] as odd fellows and we have no small quantity of them but you must remember their oddities [exact] [alone] of Kenyon. We are alou[t] receiving a Gymnasium here, and [we] are going to have a Buckeye celebration. I wish you could be here we will have lots of [fun]. [We] got into the new [church] yesterday and had a splendid [?] [bench] in it but it is not there now last night [some] of the fellows thought they would have a little fun and [tar] it up and throw it in the creek. all of the students were up before the faculty. and we were all asked whether [?] or [no] we had any thing to do with it. all answered no but there was lots of [?] told for some of the fellows asked me to go, but I was mighty clear of any such [?] and always will be as long as I stay h[?] for I am in the good graces of the Faculty again and I will keep so if I can. [Squ?] was up to [?] [?] [?] me all about how I liked my new [change] sayed he was glad to hear such good reports from [?] Williams to the Faculty about my studies in the last month, the Faculty [bench] was maid of [?] and [mehog?] in front cost about 60 dollars. I know who [all] of the fellows was, but if any of the faculty was to know that they would eather make me tell or [de?] and this would be a great hautt between the [?] the fellow told me themselves. I shall not have so much to do with them hereafter.
I am [?ing] away at my old studys, Latin and Greek. [?]ast thee[?] and the German that teaches us is going to cam[?] meeting and will be gone a week or more and we will not have any [?]iations during that time, I am glad that he is gone for I have had to study so that that I might get along with a [chap] that has been in the grammar school 2 years and thy will be well prepared for [?]elly. I am up with them and I can assure you I do not go down if study will prevent it. I receive the paper regullarly and I am glad to see you come out so well in your [?] but I must tell you both D. [?]. [?] about Peliei[?] an [?]. You may defend the last part of your letter [?] me more them all. I am so glad that it is made [?] and I hope no person new that you and [?] make a good husband, but how has this change in his mind been made so sudden, was it because the thought he would loose you by it. I think that he was very honest [?] he told you about what his religious views were, you know that many a fellow would have told a different tale. This honesty therefore shurely must have a [?] if to know that he is [?] in what he now says and if [?] the whole I am [?] to the very heart that it had happened as it has, he gained the love and [affection?] of all during the short time he was there. And I think if he continues to act as he has he is worthy of such a [?] as yourself, this is the opinion of your brother.
What “[?]” of whom your [?] get a good lot of letters from Henry and I [?] you think that they come from me but you are mistaken in th[is] [however], he finds he [the] Gambier Observer Occasionally in the [?]. [?] to my [?] hous and always take his and my letters but some times he won’t let me do it. I seen a letter that he had writer to her it fell out of his hat and I picked it up and the way he blushed was not slow.
I should like to be at home as aunt and his young ones are there.
[?] going to stay in Dayton this summer or not if [?] I will go home though there. Both is well but a [?] home wich like myself when I do not get any letters you must write [?] (i will not come home at all in the fall) And divide it, he’ll make a good [?]. I think don’t laugh for I did not [?] or take [?] which I was writing the third time, Joseph
Give my best respect [?] to all the sisters and aunts alike, and most to mother . Then tell the girls I think about them a [assemally] but dare not the ventures as far as to write to them. wel[l] this is all [?] I know you will agree.
Your affectionate brother Love who is after [?]
Recommended Citation
McCorkle, Joseph W., "Letter from Joseph W. McCorkle to Nancy B. McCorkle" (1837). 19th Century Correspondence. 45.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/correspondence_19thc/45