Letter and envelope from Nellie Harrison Provo City, Utah to Mary Etta Syphus, Panaca, Nevada

Letter and envelope (with stamp) from Nellie Harrison, Provo
City, Utah, to Mary Syphus, Panaca, 14, 1895.
Nevada, dated September
Envelope addressed:
Miss Mary Syphus.
Panaca
Nevada
Lincoln County.
Envelope postmarked: Provo City, Sep
14, 9 AM, 1895, Utah
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Provo City Sept. 14, 1895
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Miss Mary Syphus
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Panaca, Nevada
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My Dearest Mary.
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Your very welcome
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missive reached me just a
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week ago and of course I was
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exceedingly glad to hear from
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you.
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I cannot express how
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I felt when I read of your expected
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journey to St. George.
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Well dearest Mary I
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hope that you will always be
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as happy as you desire and
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as you deserve and that our
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kind Father above will prepare
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you for every new duty that
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presents itself. May He enable
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you to endure your separation from your dear old home. I know it must be hard for you to think of but I hope the realization will not be so hard as you imagine it. 0, Mary dear, I can't half express myself this morning as I am half homesick and it seems impossible for me to write you such a letter as the occassion requires.
You ask me to tell you if I were not going to take a trip to the "White House!"
I shoud love to be there with you but, Mary dear I guess I will have to postpone mine until I find some one that will accompany me there.
You might have imagined me on the eve of a visit there when I left Panaca which
I really was. But thank 'Heaven I have escaped from such a possibility, as marrying the person to whom I was at
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one time engaged.
Ah! people are oftimes other what
than / they appear and I feel to thank my heavenly Father this
that I discovered / ere twas too late.
I am of course attending school and was hoping that you were also going to attend but you have taken a higher stept. that of filling the position of "wife." And how well you will act that noble part!
I have a present for you but can't send it by mail.
Now don't think that it is two large or to expensive to be put in the mail sack, for it might a bottle of wine and you know that you have can’t send that in such a manner. Why darling I am just ashamed of this letter but you will pardon me won't you?
Yes, you have always seemed nearer to me than a friend
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and I have always regretted very much that we always had to be so far apart and I suppose that, now we will be further than ever. But Mary dear do write to me and tell me how happy you are. I live to hear of other's happiness even if I never expect to get enjoyment in that line. But, is there anything that could bring more misery than to be compelled to live with one you could never love. Well you will think me "silly" for writing like this but
I have to say whatever presents its self and of course I think of that topic to some extent. School is just grand, and I just love it now but at first I never took a bit of comfort, for I just hated everything in the City. But it seems like I can't stand it with out a soul from home here with me. but I guess if I ever get where I want to be I will find but few more happy hours among the dear ones at home.
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wife".
Sometimes I feel as thoug I
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cannot endure even the thought.
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But, of course it is silly for me
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to expect papa, to support me and
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I can never do so myself at
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home so of course I am to be always
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te-be separated from home and
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dear ones.
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My ambition is to take a trip
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to Paris in 1900.
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It seems wonderful
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what fancies will present
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themselves. Perhaps that idea
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will have entirely vanished
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from memorys' tablet ere that
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time appears.
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Well, dearest, I have
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written this letter while the girls
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have been reading aloud their
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make
Elocution, so you must / alowances
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accordingly.
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I wish I were acquanted
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with Mr. Bunker, of course I do
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feel like I was to a certain extent
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and know he is nice by his
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choice in chosing such a sweet
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B.Y.A.
May the Father of All let his
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richest blessings flow in a current
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suited to your wants And as you
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begin life in love and happiness
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so may you live; and each
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day bringing.new joy’s and the
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affection that blossoms gain a
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richer tint each day of your lives
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until it becomes indelablely the
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prints of years.
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Wishing you every success in
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life I will close my rambling
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letter. Do write to me soon.
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Lovingly
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Nellie
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Provo City
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