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

Letter and envelope (with stamp) from Mary E. Syphus, Provo, Utah, to John M. Bunker, Logan, Utah, dated March 23, 1894.
Envelope addressed:
Mr. John M. Bunker,
Logan City,
Utah.
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Provo, Utah.
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Mar. 23, 1894.
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Mr. John M. Bunker,
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Logan, Utah.
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My. Dear Friend,-
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Friday night
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has come once more and I am tired
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and discouraged. Will write you a
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few lines, and try to drive the "blues"
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mean
away but I don't / I will send them
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to you. I would hate to do that.
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I was very pleased last Tuesday
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to receive your letter. If yow and
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my other correspondents should cease
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writing to me I believe it would be
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the worst punishment I could have
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for it is letters only that I look to
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for pleasure.
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Oh! I will be so happy when
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school closes I won't know how to act.
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Suppose I am getting the spring fever,
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for I am rather trifling for some
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cause.
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I have completed Domestic
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Science and that is followed by a ten
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week's course in Astronomy. Don't
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know whether I have told you the
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same before or not, however, what I
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wished to say is, that Astronomy is
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so hard I am disgusted with it. I
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spend more time on it than on any
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thing else and in places I can read
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it over and over and not get one
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thought. I would not have taken
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it but there was no other class I eanld
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enter for ten weeks without beginni^ -> ng
in the middle of a course and I did
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not like to go on all that time with
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just three studies.
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Our Principal, Prof. Cluff, has
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returned. He has been home about
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two weeks. Now we hear something
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of eastern people and schools and their
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educational methods.
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I suppose by another year there
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will be many changes in the methods
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of teaching in the Academy, and also
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in the courses offered. Prof. Cluff told us that it will require five years at the least, and perhaps six to graduate hereafter.
I think I may as well give up the idea of graduating completely after that for I can hardly get means enough to stay one year.
You asked for Harry’s address but I cannot give it to you now. Will ask for it when I write home to-night and send it when I get it.
You said you thought Aggie was trying to arouse my curiosity as I sometimes tried to arrouse yours. But I don't believe you ment the latter part. It is news to me. I didn't even know I had, and I am quite sure I don't know in what way I have. You need not think that Aggie willsay anything about you but what is good. How could she if she tried, and she is not likely to try.
Oh, I must tell you! We were invited out to dinner last Sunday
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to Miss Rose Young's home. We stayed until night and had a very pleasant time.
You need not think you have all the weather up there. We have the delightful part here. It has been very stormy since I last wrote but is clear again now. One thing, if it is ever so wintery now, there will be same satisfaction in knowing that spring actually has returned.
I am having my photos again. I am so fleeshy now to what I was when I left home and Annie is quite anxious for me to send my likeness so the folks can see how well Provo agrees with me.
I am going to exchange mine with some of the students.
I am not anxious that mine should be scattered around the country but I do want some of my dear schoolmates pictures before I leave.
Yes, and Annie is having hers also.
Well, I have several other letters
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to'write to-night so will conclude
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now. Wishing you contentment and
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success I.am your loving friend Mary.
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Written across top of Page 5 P.3.
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I will say, I am
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quite surprised that
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you are not think-
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ing strongly of going
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to Oregon, Southern
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Africa or some dis-
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tant island.
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If you should
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decide to, be sure to
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inform me before
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you start.
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