Letter and envelope from Nellie Harrison, Mt. Carmel to Mary Etta Syphus, Panaca, Nevada

Letter and envelope (no. stamp) from Nellie Harrison, Mt. Carmel, , to Mary Etta Syphus, Panaca, Nevada,
dated March 8, 1895.
Envelope addressed:
Mary Syphus
Panaca
Lincoln County
Nevada
as I am so changable.
Mt. Carmel Mar. 8,
"95
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Miss Mary Syphus
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Panaca
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My Dear Mary Etta.
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It is impossible
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for me to tell you how pleased I
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was to again hear from you, but
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was, indeed, sorry to hear of so
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much sickness in your family - but
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glad that all were better when you
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wrote to me.
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I thank you very much for the sweet
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present you sent me. It is lovely
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indeed, and I shall prize it very
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much, both because it is so nice
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and because it is a present from
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a very dear friend.
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I was not surprised at the statement
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that you "do not know where I am,"
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I have been teaching just eleven
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weeks, The winter has passed by
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much more rapidly than I expected
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it would. I came here an entire
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stranger and lonely as you may
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imagine. But the family I am
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boarding with is so very kind to me
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that I feel perfectly at home. I do
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not go out any where except to the
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school—house. Sunday's I goo to meeting,
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and during the week of course I
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am engaged in teaching. I have
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45 students, not so very many you
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think? No, but they are ungraded
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and I am kept very busy, but
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I can truthfully state that I never
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had a more successful winter.
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notwithstanding the room I have
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to teach in is devoid of any attract-
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ions or comforts of the most simple
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nature.
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I might describe the room but
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would not like you to know
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how awful it is.
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It has been very cold and through
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constant exposure I have had
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both of my feet frozen, so you can
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judge that I have had anything but an easy time.
We celebrated Washington’s birthday and had a very enjoyable time.
I am going up.to Glendale tonight so will close and finish when I get up there, if you will excuse me that long.
Mt. Carmel Monday 11.
Well dear, I did not get to complete your letter while at Glendale as I was kept very busily engaged in sightseeing during my short stay in the Great Western Metropoles.
I had a very nice time and was indeed treated with the greatest respect by all - Well now you might infer that I most generally merited and received unkind treatment.
but what ever kind I merit, I receive the very kindest,
I met while at Glendale, a young lady by the name of Carrie Erickson from Salt Lake City, who is teaching in the Primary Department this winter. She is a very loveable girl and a graduate of the L. D. S. Collage.
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no teacher so good as Expearence - line 14
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would be an ideal7 teacher almost, line 17
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Well Mary dear write to me soon so that I can write you a longer letter than this Love to All, Success with your labors and a good night kiss.
Loving your Lonely
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Nellis H.
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