Letter and envelope from John M. Bunker, Logan City, Utah. to Mary Etta Syphus, Provo, Utah

Letter and envelope (with Lamp) from John M. Bunker City, Utah, to Mary E. Syphus, Provo, Utah, dated 18, 1894.
Envelope addressed:
Miss. Mary E. Syphus B. Y. Academy Provo, Utah
Logan City Saturday, Jan.
Miss.. Mary E. Syphus;
Provo, Utah
Dear Friend Mary I take great pleasure in attempting to pen you a few lines in answer to your ever welcome letter of the 11th Inst, which was recd. on Tuesday last.
I was so sorry to hear of your having to stay out of school, besides having the sore eyes. I know ones eyes will become weak study- without ing late at night wetit#/ a shade; but I am little afraid you have been worrying about home, or else looking to sharply at those cute
Logan January
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boys; I trust you have suffi
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ciently recovered so you can
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continue your studies.
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I have another composition
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to write between now and Tuesday,
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so I will not have much time
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to stand around on the corner
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and watch the pretty girls go
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to church tomorrow. If there
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is one thing I dread in school
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, . , is . . . .
work it / composition writing.
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Although I dont feel to complain,
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because our teacher does all
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the criticising. We have the
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Tales of a Wayside In by
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H.W. Longfellow to-'write from
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All the stories are in poetry
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We have to express in our own
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thoughts the substance of the
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pieces without using any of the
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language of the book
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I have been quite a
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naughty boy this week
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was out two evenings in sue-
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-cession Thursday evening I
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was starteled by a tremendous
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rap at the door, on going
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out I found some girls skulking
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behind the fence? They said
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they had come to go coasting
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We did go, but did not find
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it very pleasant trying
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to coast, as it was to rough.
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And after we crippled one of
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the girls, gave it up as a bad
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job. I think she is all
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right now. The slay run on
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her foot and pressed it a
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little two hard was all the
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matter
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We are having what I
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call very bad weather, one week
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ago to-day it blew till I
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thought it would blow all
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Logan away here was only
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about one fifth of the students
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to school on that day and two
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or three of that number had
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their ears and hands frozen,
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and now to-day it is coming
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back but not quite so fast
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It manages to snow about twice or three times a week. Has Ann made a mash yet? or is she like the majority of her sex? disgusted with the boys. Did you ever tell your friend about my reading your letters? that is the ones she wrote, if so what did she say. You see I am getting quite inquisitive Perhaps I have written enough nonsense for once, and so I will conclude and try and do better next time, With Love
and best wishes I am as ever Your
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J.M.B.