Letter and envelope from Mary Etta Syphus, Provo City, Utah to John M. Bunker, Logan City, Utah

Letter and envelope (with stamp) from Mary E. Syphus, Provo
City, Utah, to John M. Bunker, Logan City, Utah, dated
January 13, 1894.
Envelope addressed:
Mr. John M. Bunker,
Logan City, Utah.
Provo City, Utah.
Jan. 13, 1894.
Mr. John M. Bunker,
Logan City, Utah,
Dear Friend
To-night I will endeavor to
reply to your most welcome letter which
was received on the 11th. inst.
I was very pleased to hear from
you again but I must confess your
letter puzzles me or at least some parts
of it. I don't think I understand your
meaning fully. By one remark you
made about going home I thought
that you ment you might go
most any time. And then again you
said, "since then things have changed"
and I am utterly at a loss to know
what you refer to there.
I have read your letter over and
over and still I don't get your meaning.
Of course you will laugh at
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me but please excuse my dullness and
I will try to brighten up a little by the time your next letter arrives.
I am sorry that you feel so unsettled about school but hope you will not have cause to this term.
I know I have felt very unsettled about my school and studies most of the time I have been here but perhaps not from the same cause that you do, in fact I sometimes wonder if I have any cause besides a discontented spirit.
School has not seemed the same at all since I came back. This week it has seemed almost like it did the first week for there are so many strange faces. All the Sunday School and M.I.A.
Normals are new students and there a many others besides.
My studies for this semester are Theology, Rhetoric, Physiology, Domestic Science, Elocution and Needle Work. I have- -nt become used to studying again yet and when I try to get at it in earnest about the first thing I know I have just awakened from a little nap.
I have been at home all day sewing
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and Ann and the family have been to meeting for it is sonference here now.
I have been thinking of home almost all day so of course I have had the blues for a change. But there, I am quite sure that will not be interest -ing to you but it seems so natural to write on that strain that I do it without thinking.
I have not felt well at all since I returned for I have a severe cold and cough. Thought I would wear it out in a few days but my cough is getting no better fast and to-night I have no ambition for anything but to lie in bed.
I had forgotten to tell you that we have really moved. I like it every so much better than keeping house, in some respects, though it is not one of the cleanest places I was ever in.
There is one other student boarding here besides us, a gentleman by the name of Graves. I will just tell you what he did to-night and then you will know what kind of a fellow he is.
We were eating supper and he began talking about his girl and all at
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once he asked us if we wanted to see her photo and immediately brought it fourth from his pocket.
There are no children in the family so that is one advantage for us in studying. Just Mrs. MacBride and her daughter Alice are all there are at home. One son is away teaching school and another is back East studying medicine.
When I wrote to you before
Aggie asked me to tell you that she had been very busy and had not had time to write to you but would soon and I forgot to tell you. Suppose you have heard from her before this.
I wrote to her as soon -as I got back but have not heard from her yet.
Well Dear Friend I suppose my letter-writing is at an end for this time as the folks are in our room talking as fast as they can. They have made it a practice so far to come in every evening though greatly to our annoyance.
Please tell me when you write what your studies are for this term.
I will conclude now hoping
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and in good spirits. line 7
With love I remain your Truly, line 8
Mary E. Syphus. line 9
P.S. Fortunately for Ann and me line 10
there are no rails in the streets in this line 11
part of town. We have living on the block line 12
just south of the Academy now.
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