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

Letter and envelope (with stamp) from John M. Bunker, St. Thomas, Nevada, to Mary E. Syphus, Panaca, Nevada, dated October 7, 1894.
Envelope addressed:
Miss. Mary E. Syphus
Panaca Nev
Lincoln Co,
and when I last wrote
St. Thomas
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Oct. 7th 1894
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Miss. Mary E. Syphus
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Panaca Nev,
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Dear Mary;-
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It is with the
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greatest of pleasure that
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I attempt to answer your
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ever welcome letter which
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was received last Saturday
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night, As I said before
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it is a great pleasure to
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write, yet the light I am
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trying to write by is so
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poor I fear I will not
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be able to write all I have
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to say.
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I don't believe you
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can imagine the difference
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in the way I feel now
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and from what the neighbors say I am look- -ing better. While I am talking about fleshy people I must not forget to tell you about your sister Clara. She was down and got weighed yesterday one hundred and twenty five pounds I think that % is doing pretty well. You will say the scales were wrong but we weighed her on two different pair and that is the lowest amt. she could posibly balance.
Harry has not yet returned from the Canyon expect him about next Thursday. I will remain here until his return, and perhaps long enough to go and get the remains of the Trumbol trip.
Clara has been to Bunkerville, went up with Elen and John Abbott,
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They were gone one week.
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I was very pleased
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to hear of your liking
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the school so well, and
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may you have nothing but
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success, one thing about
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it you will not have all
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your time to think of
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me and the cows, I was
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very much surprised to
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hear you say, in one of
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your previous letters that
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I ocupied so much of your
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mind. I thought it was
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all on my part thinking
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about you. I often think
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of your dreams, and
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wonder yhy you should
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dream my feelings better
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than I could express them
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Ever since my return home
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it has seemed to me there
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was some place awaiting me
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or I wanted to go some
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place or do something.
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and wouldnt, because there
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was something I had or
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ought to do first
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I credit it more to
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my unsettled mind than
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any thing else. I am not
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always going to be as
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unsettled for I have an
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object in view, a dimond
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to obtain.
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Dearest Mary I hope
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you will not worry yourself
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over my character as I
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represented to you I will
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admit that I told you
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more than I would bother
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to tell any body else, for
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I would let them find
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out for themselves.
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Not but what you could
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do the same or had already
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done so, for I am sure I
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did not try to act the hip-
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ocrit in your presence
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I also hope you will
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not think I told you because
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I wanted you to become
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disgusted with me. no, not
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for one moment7- do not
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think that, but rather that
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you might help me to
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overcome my weaknesses
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Wherever I have been I
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think I have made a few
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friends at least, and I
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often wonder if I would
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have any if they were right
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well acquainted with me.
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I see by your letter that
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you have the same eurosity
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as a great many other people
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some of the folks up north
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used to try and get me to
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tell how I became acquain
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-ted with you, living so far
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apart. Of course ever
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time they asked me I
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had a different story to
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tell. They soon found out
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I was not bent on telling
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my first love tale. I well
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remember I said you were
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a school teacher and I used
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to go to your school. that
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would be quite a feasable
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way, would it not?
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I often wander myself
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how we ever came to be
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so intimate, for ever time
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we met it was on so un-
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-favorable circumstances
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on my part.
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I will remember the first
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time I saw you. I made
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sure you would have a John
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for a beau, but it was
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a different John from
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this lad. not long John
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either.
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I fear you will be
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tired out before you are
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through reading this.
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but, my love, you must
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do the same as you told
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me, "only read that which
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soots you,". I will say
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that I perused your letter
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very careful and when I
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came to that I had to
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go back and find out
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which to read. the conclusion
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I came to I would down
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ever bit of it, and inded
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I found much to feed and
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feast upon.
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As I am runing short
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of room and the clock has
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just reminded me that it
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is half past eleven I will
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try and retain the balance
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until next time, although
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Written across top of Page 8 there was
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something else
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I made sure
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to tell you
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Remember
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me not as a
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rusty, musty,
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crusty old
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bachelor
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but as your
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Loving John
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