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

Letter and envelope (stamp removed) from Nellie Harrison, Kanab, Utah, to Mary Syphus, Provo City, Utah, dated October 15, 1893.
Envelope addressed:
Miss Mary Syphus Provo City Utah, Co.
B.Y.U. Utah
Kanab. Oct. 15^-h 1893 Miss Mary Syphus
Provo City Dearest Mary.
Words are inadequate from you to express my delight at receiving a letter,/ but I must first tell you that I was not aware of Ma sending that old letter, and I haven’t any lidea what
I said, but remember that after reading
I thought it that / it wasn't nice enough to send, so never posted it. I am glad ma sent it as it has brought me a letter from you and it just came in time to drive off a miserable spell of the "blues."
Do you get them very often? I hope you are not bothered as much as I
am.
I must find out some remedy soon or I'll be sick.
You said you hoped I should like
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my school as well as I anticipated,
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and I am pleased to tell you that
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I am agreeabley surprised in the
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school, althoug the children are hard
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to keep quiet yet net I cannot say
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they are hard to govern as they will
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do any thing they are asked to and
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suffer punishment without a murmer
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and I am very glad they will do that.
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I have 55 students.
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Well, dear Mary, I hope you will be benefited
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by attending school as much as you expected
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and also that you will not be home
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sick too much. Homesickness has but
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one remedy besides home and that comes
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only through prayer and the goodness
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of our heavenly Father or at least
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I find it so.
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Some of my happiest moments away
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from home have been in the solace of
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prayer. It seems to me that then I
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can feel consoled / than at any other
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time.
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I am very glad that you like your
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school and teachers as that will
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make you feel at home more than as if you disliked both or either
I saw Bro. : Brimhall & Cluff at Beaver and I just loved them both and know that you could not help it.
There is one very bad feature in Kanab and that is the sand. If I should attempt to tell you I know you couldn't believe me for M never would believe At if I had not seen it. You never saw anyth1^ deep an(^ hard to walk through® Our cloths look
Uike we never did change them.
But we do.- honest,, we do.
Joe Robinson is going to attend school in Provo after Christmas
so you will get to see him and
Minnie, also that lovely baby of their's| He is a beauty^-
Nellie Thornton and a are here boarding at the same placeW NellSe has a school about a block south of mini. Bb
The people here are very kind to us and do all they can for our pleasure H
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Now Mary dear don't say a thing
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about your writing as it is so much
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better than I ever expect to do that I
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am almost afraid to write to you.
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I must say once more that I was very
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very much delighted to get your letter
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and hope that you will write to
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me often as your letter to-day was
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like a gleam of moon light on
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Written across top of page 4 a dark and
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stormy nighite
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When I write
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home I shall
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send your
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regards to Pa & Ma.
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and I would
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ask you to
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remember me
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kindly to
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all of your
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folks.
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Pleas write
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soon to your
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far off and
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lonely Nellie
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Af fectunately N,
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Thanks for
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your sweet
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and accept
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these in .return.
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