Letter from John M. Bunker, St. Thomas, Nevada to Mary Etta Syphus, Panaca, Nevada

Letter (no envelope) to Mary E. Syphus,
from John M. Bunker, St. Thomas, Nevada Panaca, Nevada, dated November 19, 1894.
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St Thomas Nev,
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Nov 19th, 1894,
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Miss, Mary E, Syphus;
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Panaca Nev,
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Dear Mary,-
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Once more it has come
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my turn to write, and once
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more I attempt to do so.
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Your ever welcome favor of
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fifteenth Ins. was duely recd.
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and I can assure you I was
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very pleased to hear from
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you once more. I had made
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sure the postmasters along
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the route had become curious,
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or at least some of them
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had, to know what was
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going on I made up my
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mind to get a letter one
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mail sooner but had I thought
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for a moment I might have
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known you would put off as
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long as I, and I cannot
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blame you for that either.
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George and Julia arived
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last night. All were feeling
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quite well, except Julia being
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so down cast. George and
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Clara starts back in the
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morning expect to get home
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in four days. Sister Whitney
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is feeling much better than she
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was a while ago,
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I guess some of the other
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folks have written so all this
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will be rather dry reading from
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me.
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My boss, Harry, hasent
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arived yet and from what
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I can learn by the mail
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rider he was to the river
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last Saturday or should have
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been there after hay and
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then when he got back to
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the Canyon expected to get
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a load of oar to Kingman
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from some of the mines about
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there. All this I hear from
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some body I cannot put to
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is all he left word to do. I could
much trust in, however I
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believe he will keep on hauling
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if there is any show
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You wished me to tell you
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whether I was coming up
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with him I am pretty sure
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to come if he wants me provid-
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ing he goes up before two or
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three years have passed away
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I am apt to get awful tired
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waiting for him and venture
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the trip alone some of these days.
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I trust you will pardon
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me, dear Mary, for not filling out
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this sheet as I was up visiting
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George and Clara this evening
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and therefore it makes me very
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late, but the worst of it is the
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lack of something towrite,
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Well I will say there is plenty I
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can think of but I would like
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to write something that would
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intrest my love or not write at
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all.
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I am helping Levi now as
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I have Harrys work all done that
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love. I am as ever your, John, xxx
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find plenty to do but it might
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not be to his greatest benefit
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Please excuse this scribbleing
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and accept of my never dying
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