Letter and envelope from Aggie Herrick Ogden, Utah to Mary Etta Syphus, Provo, Utah

Letter and envelope (with stamp) from Aggie Herrick, Ogden, Utah, to Mary E. Syphusx Provo, Utah, dated March 5, 1894.
Envelope addressed:
Miss Mary Syphus-
Provo,
B.Y.A. Utah-
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2666 Washington Ave-
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Ogden, Utah
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March 5-94-
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Miss Mary Syphus-
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Provo, Utah-
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My dearest Mary-
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I received your
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lovely letter last Saturday
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and was glad to hear from
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you again, but was sorry to
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hear that you had been
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unable to attend school.
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I do hope that you will not
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be afflicted like that again.
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You spoke about having a
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vacation in school, but I
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was not informed as to the
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cause. I have not heard
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from Jennie nor anybody else
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in Provo for a long time so
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am very ignorant. I don't
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even get my Normal so
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I "don’t know nothing."
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Well my dear, I did not
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have the pleasure of visiting
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Ollie. I intended to go on
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Thursday, but there was
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a blockade and not a train
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went through on that day.
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Ivas dreadfully disappointed,
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and she was too. I thought
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once of going last Friday,
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but was too sick. I had a
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bilious attack, the first
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experience of the kind and I
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hope that it will be the last.
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I am not working this week
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but I don't think I can visit
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Ollie for a while. Perhaps
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about Conference time I can
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go down. Ollie as attending
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the University in Salt Lake
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and she just loves her school.
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Last Thursday I went to
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a concert and it was just
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lovely. There were several
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professional singers and
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all the numbers were fine.
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The Tabernacle was crowded
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and lots of people were
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turned away, so the man-
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-agement concluded to repeat
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it to night. I would love
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to go but I have to attend
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Conjoint meeting. This
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afternoon I am going to see
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a professor of music and
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I think I will take some
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lessons. I am fond of music
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and would love to know
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something about it.
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We have named our Literary
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Society - The Symposium.
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Do you not think that is a
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high sounding name for
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it? We will finish Evangeline
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this week and our next work
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will be The Courtship of
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Miles Standish, by Longfellow.
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How are you getting along
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with your society. I don't
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see how you can help liking it if you are studying Evan- -geline. I think it one of the lovliest poems I ever read.
And so you are an Auntie. Well, I do not wonder that you are anxious to go home, now, You have more than one excuse now for your homesickness.
We are having disagree- ’ -able weather up in this part of the country - mud, wind, snow and sometimes a little sunshine. The weather prophet has predicted bad weather this whole month, but I do hope that his predictions will not be fulfilled.
Dear Mary, I would love to send you some word of Cousin Johnie, but I have not heard from him for some time, but perhaps you have heard from him lately. I do
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that his letters will "build line 11
you up and raise your fallen line 12
spirits." Well dearie, I must line 13
close now by sending love line 14
and kisses from Mama and line 15
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Lovingly Yours Aggie.
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