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 November 8, 1894.
Envelope addressed:
Miss Mary E. Syphus
Panaca Nev,
Lincoln Co
St. Thomas Nev,
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Nov 8,th 1894,
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Miss. Mary E. Syphus:
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Panaca Nev,
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Dearest Mary,-
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After so long a time I will
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try and collect my rambling
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thoughts and give to you my
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undivided attention. I would
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much prefer to step in and
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listen to you for a few short
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hours than be trying to write
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this evening.
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I suppose it would be pro-
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-per to offer some kind of
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an excuse for not writing
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sooner. Well dearest if you will
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take back all the hard names
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and all the cruel thoughts
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you have been thinking
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I will tell you the whole
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story. Last Saturday noon I
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left here to go to Bunkerville
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got in the Virgin and you
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can bet I quite enjoyed it.
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I arived at B. Ville Sunday
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night - rather feeling the efects
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of my bath. Perhaps you
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will know how fast time
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flies when a person has but
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one day to visit home and
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friends. The folks were all
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quite well. Mother said the
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three months I was away
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seemed longer than the time
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I was at school.
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I met several who seemed
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to feel quite sorry because I
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did not get back to school
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and it almost made me
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wish I was there.
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Mother had already heard
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that she had been circulating
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some wild conclusion about
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somebody she knew nothing
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about. I wish you were acqua-
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inted with her and then such
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talk would not even have
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a resting place in your mem
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ory. Oh yes! I must tell
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you I did not get to vote, after
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taking such a lively intrest
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in politics and then to
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miss the only privelege I have
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Well I must say all the
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Silver Party Candidates: can
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boast of being one ahed there.
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We are all quite worried about
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Harry havent heard anything
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from him since he left or
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since Levi left there last Sunday
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was ten days and he had not
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made one trip to Kingman
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or at least the mail rider
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did'nt see him, perhaps
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we will hear to night where
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he is.
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I see by your letter that
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you are pretty good at imagine-
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-ing yourself down here
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housed up for fear of panthers
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and going up to dine with
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Aunt Lucy, as Levi calls her.
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I must say, Mary Dear,
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that there is one advantage
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in batching and that / a fellow
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wont have to drink salty
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milk for supper, unless the
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old cow has a grudge of him
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also, but the disadvantage’s are
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Written across top of Page 4 to numerous
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to mention
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I would just
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like to take supper
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with you to night
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and see if you
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would try to
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salt me down
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in any such
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a manner
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I think I have
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written enough
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of the kind.
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Write soon and
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often I remain
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as ever your loving
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John
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