Edinboro 16. 1883.

 

Cousin Lillie

                        I thought I would write a few lines to you to let you know I am well and enjoying myself splendid. maby you will not thank me for writing if so please excuse me and I will try and do better after this I like to hear from friends once in while. when I wrote to John he never answered it. I dont / know whethr he thought I wasent enough importence to spend a few moments in writing or not. I am rooming this term at Mrs. Lacocks, and boarding in the club. board has averaged about one dollar and sixty cents a week. my room costs my room mate and I twenty dollars. a fellow by the name of Cook rooms at Mrs. Giles. they were quite disapointed because I did not come back there. I havent been anywhere yet hardly. I have been down to Hams once because Rose dose my / washing. I am going to run around more after next Saturday examination day. Grace is going here to school this term. I guess she likes it very well. I havent herd her say much about it. Ella Carpenter is her to day. she is a going south to teach. I got a letter from gillie the other day. she wrote she was having a splendid school and enjoying ever so much. they have sixty one schollars. she said she was auful thankful she did not come back to Edinboro. I spose John has gone to the / faires by this time. It is quite pleasant here today. the tength we had a frost here that cooked everything, corn ripened the fastest that day it has in a long time. there isent a very large school here this term over two hundred a few. ther is upwards of thirty in the scenior class. this is all at present. please write. from Your Cousin

                                                Beecher Mott.

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