Letter and envelope from Nellie Harrison, Kanab, Utah to Mary Etta Syphus, Provo City, Utah

Letter and envelope (stamp removed) from Nellie Harrison, Kanab, Utah, to Mary E. Syphus, Provo City, Utah, dated November 7, 1893.
Envelope addressed:
Miss Mary Syphus
Provo City
Utah Co.
B.Y.U. Utah
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Kanab November
7,
' 93
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Miss Mary Syphus.
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Provo City
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My Dear Mary.
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I was so very, very
pleased
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to hear from you and I hope you are feeling
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more and more contented all the time.
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with your school.
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I know you must be kept very busy
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with your studies and house work.
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Yes I expect to go home for the holidays,
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and hope to have a very nice time
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as when we come back, we will have
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to stay until June. 0, dosn't that seem
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a long, long time to be away from
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home and the dear ones associated
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with it. But such is life in the "Far
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'West" I would love to see my mamma
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and all my brothers and sisters tonight.
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When I get to thinking of those who are
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so far away and how I should love to
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see them I can hardly content my self
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to trudge in the red sand for a living.
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"Let us play" we were together tonight that we were round a cozy fire and getting ready for a nice chat between the blankets.
Me thinks it is safe to say the first subject would be about the all important subject to girls-The boys or rather the boy. I must first confess that my ex-young man is at present attending school at Harverd collage and is getting along nicely. Our last parting was a sad one. We made a final decision and concluded of course that we had better have nothing between each other or it might interefere with what we we would wish it not to. I am out of a beau of any kind but as you have so many male schoolmates that perhaps you might take up a charitable labor, with them, for me. You say.the labor is to hard? I will admit that to give an exact description of me might not have the best effect, but perhaps if you should tell them it was a friend of yours their better natures would
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be awakined and the result, might /effectual. Perhaps you will think me very inconsiderate to request sjfuch a thing when I will never be able to repay you, but I could only promise to do whatever I could for you, whenever I could.
Isn't that a fair bargin? How did you say Mr. Bunker was? Getting along well at school? Been to see you several times since you left home? Now no hesitatency tonight.
I cannot tell you anything about my; because I havent one. but you. can tell me so dont be bashful!
I am afraid you will think I have been emptying some one's dimijohn if I dont get off this nonsencicle strain, but If you were here perhaps .I should be led to talk sillier than ever. I have to talk silly sometimes to keep from writing "blue." After school is out I sometime's sit and muse O'er what a great labor school teachers have to perform and
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how very poorly prepaired I am for the labor. I think a primary teacher should the very best educated of any grade teacher.
I guess I told you that I had the second and third reader grade and I fully realize my responsibility. O'how I hope to be what I wish to be. but it seems as though I have so many, many faults that I will never get them all destroyed, but we can never expect to gain the highest round of the ladder at one or two or three trials, but only by constant and unceasing perseverange I often think of what a great deal there is for us to do and learn and of the short time we have to accomplish it in for life at the longest is very short and there is not one single moment to be spent uselessly, yet, when I think of the many I misspend. I feel to condemn myself, but we mortals are so very weak that it is impossible to always do what you know to
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be exactly right when the temp-
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tation to do wrong is so very great.
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We know that it is only by
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overcoming our little weaknesses
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and living every obsticle down
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that we form individual character.
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Sometimes I think if I
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could do some big thing, all at
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once to make myself worth something
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I could to that, but that is not it.
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it is the "little foxes that spoil
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the vines." It is just so in life by
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neglecting small things we
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accumulate larger things and
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we find it very dificult to over
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come faults if left too long.
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Well Mary dear I suppose yow will
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think I am growing very sentimental
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but when we read and hear of
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so much wickedness in the world
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it makes a person wonder what
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they might do.
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Well I guess Silver is defeated. I
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guess Nevada will not be very
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much pleased.
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Yes, and they are really talking
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of annexing Nevada to Utah
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or Utah to Nevada. We will be
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more nearly related than
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ever wont we. or at least we
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will feel nearer when Utah becomes
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a state.
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I hope that when that time comes
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that I will have the long desired
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pleasure of a visit at your home.
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I have that in my plan for
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next summer.(?)
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Yes. I had heard of your brother
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George's marriage just before I
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received your letter. What a disappoint-
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ment it must have been for you
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not to have been home at the
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reception. When you write home
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bear them my congratulations
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please. Tell them I wish them
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as much happiness as they desire
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together with long life and
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prosperity. What is Clara doing
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this winter? Remember me to her
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also your mother and all the folks..
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I hope you will forgive me for
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writing such an everlasting
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letter, but I never did anything
perfect so of course there has to be some fault with this letter. Nellie Wishes to be remembered to you. Give my regards to Adelaide Jackson, also Miss Renon.
0 Mary I do enjoy your dear letters so much and I know it must
keep you very busy writing, but hope you will find time to write to me again as it does do me the world, of good to hear from you.
I get along very well in school for which I am very thankful to my heavenly Father for I know that he helps me every day. Good night dearest Mary, sweet sleep and succuss
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Written along side of Page 8
in your studies. I am as ever yours very affectionately Nellie.