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From the Syphus-Bunker Papers (MS-00169). The folder contains an original handwritten letter, a typed transcription of the same letter, and a copy of original letter attached.
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man000844. Syphus-Bunker Papers, 1891-1994. MS-00169. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d16t0m84z
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Letter (no envelope) from John M. Bunker, Bunkerville, Nevada to Mary E. Syphus, Panaca, Nevada, dated June 29, 1894.
I am on the committee.
Bunkerville Nev
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June 29, 1894
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Miss Mary E. Syphus;
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Panacea, Nev.
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Dear Friend Mary:-
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I now take a few moments
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to answer your ever welcome
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letter which was recd. a short
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time ago. It seemed quite
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natural to get a letter from
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you written from home.
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I hardly know what to
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write about every thing is
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so quiet besides my mind
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is so empty. Since coming
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home, I have been quite buisy
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but we have most of the rush
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of our work over now.
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We are expecting to have a
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fine time on the Fourth of July
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I think you will readily agree
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with me, when you learn that
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Francis starts to Milford in
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about a week, so I will have
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plenty to do then. If I could
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find a job I would go off to
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work untill school started.
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I imagine you will be
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surprised to hear that I am
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calculating to go back
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for you will be like all the
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rest of the folks, will think
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I have got quite enough
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schooling. I believe I will change
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my mind I think you the last
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person to be like the rest of the
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people
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I recd a short letter from
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Levi a short time ago he said
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he had heard that I had got
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home, and wished me to
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come down and prospect in
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Cedar Basin, he thought
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it better than Monkey Bench
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or White hills. I would have
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been pleased to have gone had
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I any way of going or had I
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of had less to do just then
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The thrasher is running
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a little to day. Most of the
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people in town are out of flour
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They will not do all the thrashing
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for some time yet.
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I think I have about exausted
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the farm news and as there
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is no other I think I will have
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to conclude.
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May these few scratches
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find you well and happy.
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With love and best wishes for
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a fly (?) time on the Fourth
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I remain as ever your
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sincere friend.
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J.M.B.
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