Letter: Jan. 26, 1893. J. Earle Alexander to Audrey Davis
- Title
- Letter: Jan. 26, 1893. J. Earle Alexander to Audrey Davis
- Accession Number
- 2024.16.3.14
- Accession Date
- 15 Feb 2024
- Accession Creator
- David Lovegrove
- Depositor
- Kala Kennemore
- Date
- 26 January 1893
- Storage Location
- Box 21, Folder 2
- Text
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Tylersville, SC
Jan. 26 - 1893
Miss Audrey,
Dear Friend:
Indeed, I had another, immensely fine time during the past week; nothing to mar the pleasure of snow battles at any time.
Only wish I could have pitches a battle with you; perhaps I could have repaid some of the "bumps" received at the fair.
How is little mean, hateful self getting along about now?
Were it not for the pleasure in acquaintance _correspondence_, snow battles, entertainments, etc, it seems that life would grow weary. I'm now for most of the time shut in, like a hermit by the four walls of an academy, and like the poem which both begins and ends with the widows cry. "Poverty, hunger and dirt," these are recitations to explain, recitations to hear from 9 o'clock until 4.
I envy you the pleasure of having heard Dr. Talmage. I'm very sorry I missed it but had I known that he was to speak in Greenville, I certainly would have heard him, also would have enjoyed the pleasure of visiting your city.
I attended a musical on last Wednesday night had a very nice time.
By the way, I enjoyed an unusually interesting sight this aft. It seemed that the heavens were literally, _crowded_ with myriads of birds of many different kinds, seemingly making their way to warmer climes.
The hours of retiring is now forcing me to suspend this writing - it is as -dry- as Homer's Iliad anyway.
Hoping to hear from my "bonnie lassie" very soon, otherwise I must reluctantly bid my _dulcissima puella_ [sweet girl] a Goodnight,
J. E. Alexander
+Ita lex scripta.
Thus the written law.
Part of Letter: Jan. 26, 1893. J. Earle Alexander to Audrey Davis