La. Port Aug 29.

 

            Dear Sister Teen

                                                It is with no small degree of shame that I take up my pen to write you a few lines. I suppose you are almost ready to disown your lazy brother, but I trust in a Sisters love for forgiveness, and make bold to write once more.

 

            I have changed my quarters since you last heard from me and am trying to get started in business. I am now in the City of La. Port (Indiana) trying to start a Commercial school I have been here about two weeks and if I meet with success, shall establish myself permanently. /

 

La. Port is a Town of some eight or ten thousand inhabitants and is a beautiful place I tell you it is situated in as good a farming country as there is in the North there is wood and water in abundance and the soil is hard to beat.

 

            I think that I shall meet with pretty good success in my business it costs me something to get started but I hope to get it all back and more with it. I have a partner with me who stands half the loss or Gain. I get boarded very cheap for such a place as this only two Dollars per week. I think some of making araingments before long to board myself dont you thing it would be a good plan.

 

            I graduated at the Com. College in Oberlin with the highest honors and received letters of recommendation from the Professors which I find / to be a great help to me in starting a school. I find that a fellow has to get his reputation established before he can do much in the world and when the people find he is disposed to do the fare thing there will be no trouble but what he may succeed with ordinary luck. but I must close for this time as I have some blanks to fill out for a fellow. so good by give my respects to Orson and tell him to write, also to the little ones. write soon and beleive me your afect bro

 

                                                                                                                        Frank M. G.

                                                                                                                        La. Port

                                                                                                                                    Indiana

 

P.S. Is Cory at home. I owe him a letter which I will answer soon

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