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Dear General, | Dear General, | ||
Again I have neglected yr. letter for weeks and it is little apology to say that I am getting to treat all my correspondents in that way of late. | Again I have neglected yr. letter for weeks and it is little apology to say that I am getting to treat all my correspondents in that way of late. | ||
With an average of full seven hours of confining labor instruction [strike] daily, at the Seminary most all of it Drawing & Penmanship, besides being obliged to prepare for this work out [underline] of hours, you may imagine that I get about enough of my pencil and pen officially, [underline] and so when my hours for recreation and rest do come Sundays especially which | With an average of full seven hours of confining labor instruction [strike] daily, at the Seminary most all of it Drawing & Penmanship, besides being obliged to prepare for this work out [underline] of hours, you may imagine that I get about enough of my pencil and pen officially, [underline] and so when my hours for recreation and rest do come Sundays especially which I have so long given to friendly letter writing,- I find myself, or rather my hand, very little inclined that way. | ||
Both Mrs. Alvord and myself were pleased to learn from your October letter that you, with your whole family, had had during the summer such a satisfactory trip to Ohio, Penn 'a and "The Falls" | |||
Latest revision as of 18:29, 22 June 2019
Easthampton, Mass. January 19, 1874.
Dear General,
Again I have neglected yr. letter for weeks and it is little apology to say that I am getting to treat all my correspondents in that way of late.
With an average of full seven hours of confining labor instruction [strike] daily, at the Seminary most all of it Drawing & Penmanship, besides being obliged to prepare for this work out [underline] of hours, you may imagine that I get about enough of my pencil and pen officially, [underline] and so when my hours for recreation and rest do come Sundays especially which I have so long given to friendly letter writing,- I find myself, or rather my hand, very little inclined that way.
Both Mrs. Alvord and myself were pleased to learn from your October letter that you, with your whole family, had had during the summer such a satisfactory trip to Ohio, Penn 'a and "The Falls"