Letter (envelope missing) from John M. Bunker, St. Thomas, Nevada to Mary Etta Syphus, Panaca, Nevada

Letter (no envelope) from John M. Bunker, St. Thomas, Nevada to Mary E. Syphus, Panaca, Nevada, dated February 4, 1895.
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St. Thomas Nev line 1
Feb. 4th 1895. line 2
Miss. Mary E. Syphus; line 3
Panaca Nev. line 4
Dearest Mary,-
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After so long waiting I
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make an attempt to pen
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you a few lines.
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It seems almost an
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age since I heard from
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you but it isn't very long
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for I read both your
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letters at the Canyon just
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a week ago to day. I read
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and reread them for I
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found much to console
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my wandering thoughts
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I got back to the good
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old abode last Thursday and
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I made sure I would write
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that night but by the time
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I got straightened around
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it was to late so you have
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this horrible scribbling just
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a little later.
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I left Harry quite well
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he will have about three
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weeks hauling to do and
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then I think he will bring
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the team up on the Muddy
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I am making a garden
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for him will perhaps stay
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here until he comes up then
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I hardly know where I
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will go, To South America
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I guess. Levi says he will
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go with me and as we both
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need an out I think it a very
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good place to go
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You seem to think
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I would feel better if I
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confided my thoughts to
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you, that perhaps would
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be a very good question
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to debate but I do not feel
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like debating with you so
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will let you have your way
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about it. Yet there is another
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very serious question to con-
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still have the society of each
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sider. I am afraid if I tell
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all my foolish thoughts
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you will find out I am
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moor foolish than you
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thought me to be, and then
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I wouldn't even get a chance
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to tell my more sentimental
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and serious ones.
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Dear Mary I do so
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wish I was up there for if
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you so feel like talking I
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would be more than pleased
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to listen to you. I am
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pretty much in the same
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box all the time, nothing to
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write nor nothing to say.
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I guess you are
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more than pleased I did
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not come up for Holidays
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for I would have been
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a perfect nusiance while
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you were having so unfort-
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-unate a time. however I
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am more than pleased
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all is as well as it is and you
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other.
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I think you are about
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wright about my dancing
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for I do not lik to do that
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which I can't do well.
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I hear Stephen Bunker
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Written across top of Page 4 was expected
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home last Sat.
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I suppose you
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have heard of
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G. W. Lee and
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Patience Jones
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getting very
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impatient and
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swearing vengence
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on the world
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by getting maried
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It is getting
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dark and as
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there is no
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oil in town
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nore none in
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my lamp I
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will have to
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conclude
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Levi Snd Dave Hugg
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have gone to
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Written across top of Page 4
find the copper
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mine,
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Write soon dearest
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and accept of
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Written across top of Page 1 my never dying
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love,
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J.M.B
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