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PF2.2.82
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6-18-1839
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Kenyon College June 18th 1839
My Dear Father and Mother
Wm French has just called at my room and says he will carry a letter to you if I have it written in time— which is about 10 minutes— I read a letter from you containing 20 dols which I paid for tuition— I am still pursuing my studies with vigor and although I do not expect to go ahead of the others in the class that I am in now as much as I did in the [previous] school. Yet I think you will be satisfied at the end of the session. [?] you [write] to me I should like to have you send me money to pay off my board for it costs 1.75 a week and if I had it paid off [it] and a very little money on hand I should be able to board myself for from 75 cts to 100 a week as some do now— but not having the money to pay down for what [?] I should want to [ask] if I did so I am obliged to keep on. There was some last spring endeavored to form a club and theseall settle off at the end of the session but it fell through— this session ends on the 1st Wednesday of [?]— Now do you think it expedient that I should leave then or that I should remain longer. For my share I think I had better stay through the next winter and no longer. For if I succeed as well as I have done in my studies at that time my leaving will be as good as I wish it to be at present. And I wish heartily to turn the tables and earn [?] of pay out. Please write and let me know these things and also what you think about my paying a visit to Uncle Edward Perkins’ family in the vacation it is only 60 miles so the cost [?] be a trifle and I should like very much to go away a few weeks in vacation.
As for clothes I find not the least want of anything yet. I have only bought a summer hat and necessary things in the shoe line. My account of expenses I [would] send you as usual but [?] [compelled] to be in so much of a hurry that I cannot have time to copy it.
M French says he intends to come out again [in] the fall so that I have no doubt if there is any thing you wish to send me you could get [him] to take charge of it I shall need some books what [ones] you will see by [referring] to the Catalogue I sent you [Sophomore] Year 1st [?]
M French is a Son of [?] French [?] for the [daine] one [mentioned] to you [once] before in my letters
Please let me know when you [?] [whether] you will send any thing by [M F] for he will not be here probably before the close of the vacation
By the way it had [rained] here every day ([no] stretching in this) since the middle of april it is raining now that I am writing this [measly] as we used to say east [?] but [to] cross in [their] 100 acre [lots] about here look glorious—and Kenyon is as pleasant a place in the summer time as [?] is in any [state] [write] soon or at least let me know as soon as possible what you would wish and I should of course like to stop my present way of boarding which I could easily do if I could pay as I go [?] Please not forget to add to the bottom of your letter a P.S. stating that you are willing should board [may] [left] as the faculty [require] it before giving permission [so] to do—Yesterday all the students over 21 had to [?] go out to work on highways or pay taxes about 3 [?] [?] I just put my age on the Collegebook 19 this month and leaped the whole This I could do easy as no one takes me to be older and saying I am 19 is not saying I am no more
I am afraid French is off before now so I [?] [?] myself
Yours [?]
Luc G Peck
Recommended Citation
Peck, Lucius G., "Letter from Lucius G. Peck to Levi Peck" (1839). 19th Century Correspondence. 81.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/correspondence_19thc/81