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PF2.2.82
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7-17-1839
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Kenyon College July 17th 1839
Dear Father,
I [reed] a paper from you this night and upon the wrapper part of description of [serake] which [Euos] it seemed has made out to get into, and from the way it begins I conclude you commenced upon the wrapper to another paper which has not yet arrived. I sent a double letter to you by Mr. [French] of Milford which I was anxiously awaiting an answer for and which I suppose from the [fact] of your not mentioning it at all you have not as yet [received]. As Mr. [French] may have left the letter at some place in N.H. for you where it is now lying you can please make some [eugences] and find out with regard to it.
I now send this as it is necessary that I should hear from you soon. The session ends the 21st of aug and at that time or before it if possible I wish you to please send me money for any expenses this session. It is for Board 20 weeks at 1.75 for those and mending 4.50 for books 4.50 washing 3.00 - together with a [trifle] more for society taxes - and if as I stated in my letter you wish me to remain here another session (which will be the very best thing for me in my opinion) you can send money for me to commence [aucthe] session after a while - Had I have had money as I stated in my letter [by Mr. French]) in advance - even if it was but a very little I could have boarded myself this session as I shall do next for about 1.50 or 1.00 a week. But in order to enable me to do this I shall be obliged to pay as I go along for everything I buy in the way of [eatables]. I hope when you get this you will answer it immediately as I shall commence boarding myself the momentI receive the means to enable me to do so. I will also be [neseu] sorry that you should write a like which I can cut off from the letter and shew it to the faculty stating that are willing I should do it for they will not grant me the permission if you do not. My expenses are subjourned to this in a list so that you precisely how to much to send me for them and you can send me whatever you please for me to board upon - I mentioned to you in a former letter how far Mr. Edward Peckins lived from here. Now if you are willing I should like very much indeed to pay him a visit of a week or so this vacation if you think it best for I feel that in the [?] - which we are confined here it would be best for me to [ust] a few days - but just as you please.
I enjoy very good health and there is not has there been a student in the institution sick for any length of time since I have been here. However it is truly a hard case to get up every morning as we do now at ¼ past 4 - I [reed] a letter last week from Mr. Rousse in which he says ny progress in study has been unparalleled and that he could scarcely have believed it had not have had the catalogues before him - now just say to him that I will do double that in a year to come if I have any health for study and hardest Kind of Study comes as easy enough now.
I also [reed] a letter from Wales 2 or 3 weeks since in which among other items he state Enois Serape. It is no more than I always expected of him - he never was proud enough that is he chose the meanest Kind of company - I stated more on this sub in the letter by Mr F. which I hope you will get. Alfred is in St. Louis he has been very sick is now much better and he thinks he will spend his life there as it is the pleasantest place he ever was in. By the way there was a celebration among the students here on the 4th. In the afternoon there was a meeting of the students at the chapel and few were called upon to make orations among others myself. I have habituated myself to public speaking by Society and other duties since I came here until I can now get up and speak easily and they [sag] well before the largest crowd that assembled in the chapel to hear us.
Crops in this state are much earlier than in Con. We have had new potatoes, peas, and beans this month or more. Corn is up now [ready] and in some places quite in the [How] - Wheat is ready to cut and there is a most abundant crops of it - such lots as there are here would make the farmers in old Con. stare. Within a mile of the Col. there is one field of wheat of abundance here and another of corn nearly as large. Potatoes are not so good and more scarce than here [?] shy cut the crop [?] some weeks since.
By the way - I sade [Thourpsen] the reader of New Haven [whomorkid] for you when he was a berg is here in Gambier stay my at the same place I board [?] the plans for the new Theological Seminary which I knew him instantly when I meet him he goes to Michigan soon I believe.
Tell Mr. Rouse I thank him much for his very flattering letter - Tell my neighbours that there is not a day but the whole place around there uses upon my view as plainly as it did a year ago when I was there - Sometimes I almost think I can hear the water pouring over the dam -
My expenses - Board for the whole session ending 20th aug.- 3.50
Books 3.50, [Palmleof] hat .75- Washing 3.00 7.25
1 pr. Shoes 1.50 fixing boots 3.00 4.00
# Society admissions for together with taxes and library taxes 3.00
Postage - 1.25 in all- 1.25
[Simdries] such as catalogues, pins, oil, [?] 2.50
$53.50
#When any joins a society connected with a college which all do rich and poor who are at college the pay a certain entrance fee and then so much a year. It is so here in all 3.00 as you see above. A person learns half as much in the soc. As he does in the college [?] - some say more -
I have written this letter in much haste as I have a lesson to get and composition to write the soc. Before 7 o’clock and I wish these to go out in the morning’s mail so please excuse mistakes I think very much for the papers you send and by means of [capperas] can easily read the mappers - Give my respects to all inquiring friends - To Uncles and Aunts in particular
Recommended Citation
Peck, Lucius G., "Letter from Lucius G. Peck to Levi Peck" (1839). 19th Century Correspondence. 80.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/correspondence_19thc/80