Lillian Carpenter to Unknown, 6 December 1884
Edinboro Dec 6 18[ink blot]4
 
I aggreed to write to day and so I will I am studying Algebra Arithmetic Grammar Reading writing & spelling or am going to try too but am afraid that I will have to drop some of them. Lid forgot her singing book & thimble I went to all of my classes on Thursday except writing. There was a lecture in the assembly hall Thursday night. Mary Wilson teaches in the model school this term & Mrs Langley does not teach at all.
 
Ida Bennett & Miss Holt are here this term There are a great many here that was here last term Cooper is not a going to allow them to /
 
[sheet may be torn here; if so, bottom half of first side is missing]
 
this term, but has reserved the seats where you set this term & 2 ys ago and is going to have all those that whisper set there A Matheny & T. W has room in number 20
 
I have strained every every last nerve nerve already to write and cannot write any more
 
write soon and tell me all of the news
 
P.S. Lib read her letter to me & when you read it perhaps you will think she knows something about Wayne’s affairs but she does not
                                                                                    L. L. C
 
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PS. Aunt Solonia left her                                                        cieved the money to
aunt Coras and if you                                                              ght
get it and bring it up                                                               did not belong to the
come                                                                                       sunday school had
                                                                                                to go we did not go
            Edinboro, Erie Co., Pa. J[?]                                        had a social in the
It is over two weeks since                                                       f of the recatation
your letter & as we have not                                                   we had a jolly time Cooper
any answer to the last                                                             they should not dance but
we have written. I should                                                        me Cooper started a
written but things be                                                               wild Irish won & they
thin with only 25 cents                                                           ept the Pig in the Parlor for
& thought that it was time                                                      I never see a rouger
after a little more.                                                                   in my life But for
We went up to Uncle J                                                           we had a [?] time
first time) on Saturday n                                                         allowed to go except the
in a double wagon & a                                                            those that the students
We have not been up to                                                          in rotation Cooper
yet I have not sen any                                                             lot home among them
speak to them yet except                                                        Boyles. Lid did not
There was no school                                                               but one day last week
I[?] the evening there                                                              & set up more than 15 min
mas tree in the assembly /                                                       P. S. 22 of us went down
                                                                                                on Christmas day
                                                                                                In haste L. L. C
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(5156)DL0751.00658Letters1884-12-06

Tags: Money, Music, Recreation, School/Education

People - Records: 1

  • (1329) [writer] ~ Carpenter, Lillian

Places - Records: 1

  • (1159) [origination] ~ Edinboro, Erie County, Pennsylvania

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Lillian Carpenter to Unknown, 6 December 1884, DL0751.006, Nau Collection