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PF2.2.53
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4-6-1840
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Gambier Ohio April 6th 1840
Dear Buck;
Your kind letter was [not] some days since [I] arriving to my great prep of [pressings] I have [?] to write you and soon. I have sent off since the [commencement] of the vacation between eighty and a hundred letters and have many more to write for the Collegian. I hope this will be sufficient excuse for my long delay, and more patient only when I tell you that you are excusable for the same offence, one [?] you do so no more. I send you a bill of the Junior Exhibition it is decidedly the best that has ever been held here since I have been a member of the Institution and it has [fun] and aid to have [fun] the best ha[?] ever “came off” here. Kane and Buttles I thought were the best. Buttles was most excellent and in my opinion the best that was delivered. Kane’s was very good, indeed, Elliott’s was good and sound— [?]’s was very good plain and unvarnished, but good. I.D. French was pretty good— W.C. French was very good. So was Calhoun, and [?] was Howard, and [?]— Dewalt did much better than expected—so did Ridgely— Long’s so so.
Having got through with [?] [?] I will turn my attention to other subjects, First, you would like to know how I spend my vacation, I spent it in the following manner, Sleep till eight— in the morning break-fast, write till sun down walk about—after movements, I then [?] pen again, [?] till one or two at night. Sometimes I will [?], hunting fishing very seldom neither—read some—write a great deal and [sleep] much more, such is the history of my present life. I am tired with vacation. [?] F[?] old times. Bring my solitude to a close. Peck left— on last Wednesday for [Com]— I do not think I will return. Excuse this hasty se[?].
In haste, Your friend
Guy M. Bryan
Recommended Citation
Bryan, Guy M., "Letter from Guy M. Bryan to Jerome Buckingham" (1840). 19th Century Correspondence. 66.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/correspondence_19thc/66