Letter and envelope from John M. Bunker, Bunkerville, Nevada to Mary Etta Syphus, Panaca, Nevada

Letter and envelope (with stamp) from John M. Bunker, Bunkerville, Nevada, to Mary E. Syphus, Panaca, Nevada, dated June 11, 1894.
Envelope addressed:
Miss Mary E. Syphus
Panaca. Nevada
Lincoln Co.
Bunkerville Nevada,
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June 11,th 1894,
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Miss Mary E. Syphus;
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Panacea Nevada
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Dear friend,-it seems a
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long time since I last wrote
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to you, and indeed it has
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been quite a while. You will see
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by the heading of this that I
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have changed my abode.
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I was greatly shocked to
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hear of the deth of your brother.
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if I could say any thing that
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would comfort or console you it
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would be a great pleasure to write
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but my wourds seem to be
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so ill fitted to the occasion
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that I am almost asheamed
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to write on such a sad and solemn
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ocasion Such occasions as you have been called to pass through takes time to remove all the sad events they bring. To be sure his wife and parents and relatives in general have a great many sympa- -thisers yet the loss is still the same.
I have often wondered how you stood the trip home. Being away from home for eight or nine months seems to bring sorrow enough but just in the heighth of pleasure to receive such sad news as was your lot to receive is almost more than one can stand
I got home Saturday night last, welcoming parents and friends were ready to receive me. I havent felt the least bit well since I came but manage to keep around.
On the way down we stoped over night at Provo and I tell you it seemed a long and lonesome night, I could not help but think
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of the few pleasant hours I
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had spent with you there
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Most every body that
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I have heard express themselves
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seem to think it strange that
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I should come so straight home.
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I do not believe it would have been
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very strange to them should I
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of had a horse at Milford, but I
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imagine you would have thought
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it strange.
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There are quite a number
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more wigwams in Bunkerville
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than when I left and they all
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seem to have occupants.
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I am not as well contented
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here as I would like to be every
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thing seems so quiet, but perhaps
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ere long I will be weaned from city
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life. I think I have written enough
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for this time.
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I will expect to hear from
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you soon. It seems a long long
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time since I received that
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sad and solemn not in Logan
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I trust these few lines will
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find all as well as could be
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expected, With love and best wishes
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I remain as ever.
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Yours Truly,
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J. M Bunker
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