Letter and envelope from John Bunker, Eldorado Canyon, Nevada to Mary Etta Syphus, Panaca, Nevada

Letter from John M. Bunker, El Dorado, Nevada to Mary Etta Syphus, Panaca, Nev., dated,May 23, 1891. (4 pp.)
Envelope - postmarked El Dorado Canyon, date ? - to:
Miss Mary E. Syphus.
Panaca, Lincoln, Co. Nev
Miss Mary E. Syphus; Panaca Nev. Dear friend.
Saturday night finds me trying to write you hut it will be a poor out I am afraid. Yours dated May 11th, was kindly reed, some time ago, and its contents were read with great pleasure
You said you would wait two weeks and perhaps more. Well I guess by the time this reaches you it will be more, but I trust it will answer the purpose just the same.
There is something peculiar about most boys and especialy me In regards to having a kind of mean and stuborn will.
There is no need of me telling you this for I know you
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opi^jn. In regards to
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my staying here this summer
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I think perhaps I will if
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I can stand it although
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it is a very disagreeable
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place to work.
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It will be much more loneso-
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-me when Hary leaves, although
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I do not get to see him much
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now, but I know he is around.
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I think perhaps he will stay
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here all summer as there is
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pretty plenty of work and his team
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he has no one to drive
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It would suit me all right
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to have him stay here
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but if I had my say so
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I would send him home,
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for I think his presence
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there would be quite exceptable,
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£7
(also needed; Hi has gone to
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Kingman took with him
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a man who has been work-
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-ing here for some little while
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past The man went by
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the name of Ed. Ross, he is
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a little crazy or a terlble
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bit absent minded We had
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a few words some time ago
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at which he threatened to
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kill me, but I think he is
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perfectly harmless. He left
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here one tuesday going to the
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Park and wandered about on
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top of the sumit ten miles
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from here untill the following
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Friday then came back with
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Harry
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You seemed to think that it
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was not write to ask me
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any questions but for my
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part I would sooner you
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would, ask some so I would
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have something to write about.
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It seems as though I have
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filled up a little more space
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than usual, do I deserve a
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credit mark?
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If I could make my
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letters look as nice as yours
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I would never know when
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to quit writing. You must
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not think I am giving you tafy
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but Teachers are generally better
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than a plow boy. Well I must
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words , and the line 3
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opertunity. line 6
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Loving friend line 9
John Bunker. line 10