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

Letter and envelope (with stamp) from John M. Bunker, Logan City, Utah, to Mary E. Syphus, Provo, Utah, dated April 2, 1894.
Envelope addressed:
Miss. Mary E. Syphus.
B.Y. Academy
Provo Utah
Logan City.
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Monday, April 2n<? 18 94.
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Miss. Mary E. Syphus;
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Provo, Utah.
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Dear Friend.
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I now make an attempt
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to pen you a few lines in
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answer to your ever wel-
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-come letter of twenty third
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ult, I calculated to have
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written yesterday but while
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at Sunday School I reced.
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notice that I was to lec-
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ture in conjoint, that was
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last night, so my time
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was occupied in studying
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instead of writhing.
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You seem to be look
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ing forth till the close of
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school with some degree of
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pleasure. No doubt your folks
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are counting the days with
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you. I wish I could say
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I was counting the days
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with my folks for I know
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them to be reckoning on
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my coming home when
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school is out. It is very
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true I am counting the
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days untill school closes
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but just where the sunny
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days of June will find me
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I know not
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You may infer from this
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that I do not care anything
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about home; My actions may
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indicate that I have been
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partly weaned from the old
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threshold, still, often do my
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thoughts linger and hover
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about the humble abode of
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my mother's dwelling
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I recd. a letter from
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‘Cousin Aggie a short time
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ago, she accused me of count-
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ing the days when I would
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be accompanying you home
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from Provo, and pictured to
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my mind the good times
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we would have on our journey,
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but as your school lets out
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so much earlier than
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ours I guess our good
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tiflie/ will be taken by the
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seemingly long distance
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and the slowness of time
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while we are going that distance
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I think perhaps we will
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realise them sufficient when
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the time comes therefore
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I will not take you any
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further over the ground here.
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Just when I have stoped you
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must not think you cannot
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get any farther and get home
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sick, but keep of good cheer
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for about two months more
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I was very pleased to-
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learn you were having more
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again photos taken, / and I hope
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I will be counted among your
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school mates, for I want
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one of them. I am like the
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little boy Ann told about,
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"I like em fat." so you
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must surely rember me
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with one, and I will do the
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same to you when I get
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flesshy. Now I hear you say,
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"I'll not do it two is enough
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for any-body. If you could
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look in my pleading and
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wishful eye I know you
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would not deny me one.
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Our President has
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gone back east will be gone
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untill the last two weeks
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of school.
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We have had very nice
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weather here the last week
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but it rained some last
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night and looks like it
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to-day.
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I think perhaps I have
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written enough to tire you out
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for once, therefore I will. b:ring
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my random remarks to
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a close.
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With love and best wishes
I remain as ever your Loving friend.
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J .M-. Bunker
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