Letter from W. G. Lane to Jerome Buckingham

Authors

W. G. Lane

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Description

PF2.2.26

Date

8-5-1838

Transcript

Middletown August 5, 1838

I received your letter last Tuesday but it being very warme wether I have delayed answering it unto the present time. To give you a proofe of the extreme heat of the weather the sheete which we sleepe has to be shaken to find us as we evaporate during the night. I expect that the next thing I shall hear that you have turned a Methodist clergyman by being so “sober steady &c.” I hope that you will tell me about the girls which you meete with next vacation at Norwalk I intende to take my share of them next summer as I shall be home. As for the girls here they are utterly abominable. When does Bill Hedgro expect to enter coledg. What sor of a looking fellow is he is he like a beanpole or not. Hayes intends to enter colledge this fall I believe. When does your examination come on as you qyoted some poetry I will take the same liberty

“High in the midst, surrounded by his peers,

Magnus his ample front sublime uprears;

Plac’d on his chair of state, he seems a god,

While Sophs, and Freshmen tremble at his nod;

As all arounde sit wrapt in speechless gloom,

His voice, in thunder, shakes the sounding dome:

Denouncing dire reproach to luckless fools,

Unskill’d to plod in mathematic rules.”

I can assure you that the second verse of your quotation is not at all applicable no more than the two last lines of mine are to you. I am very sorry that sketching words do not agree with you as it does with me. I should not think there was any keeping Charley G- when he found that Dear Maggy Higgins so near pleas tell him that I go in for an invitation to the wedding. Do you know if any body in Norwalk has heard from Suky Moulton sence I have been away. Last Wensday was commencement at this colledge it was a great displayof talent and genus. What will the Kenyon folke say & do for a commencement as there is only 4 in the senior class? Pleas tell Charly (or more propper Mr) Gibbs that he owe’s me a letter and pleas tell him that I should not be sorry to receive an answer. When you go to Norwalk pleas give to all the my best respect love &c. Do you know what has becom of Ed Chaplin and Bill Baker? Good Bye. Be a good boy and keep your nose clean.

Recommended Citation

Lane, W. G., "Letter from W. G. Lane to Jerome Buckingham" (1838). 19th Century Correspondence. 54.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/correspondence_19thc/54