Letter: Mar. 9, 1893. J. Earle Alexander to Audrey Davis
- Title
- Letter: Mar. 9, 1893. J. Earle Alexander to Audrey Davis
- Accession Number
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2024.16.3.19
two pages:
2024.16.3.19a
2024.16.3.19b - Accession Date
- 15 Feb 2025
- Accession Creator
- David Lovegrove
- Depositor
- Kala Kennemore
- Date
- 9 March 1893
- Storage Location
- Box 21, Folder 2
- Text
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Tylersville, SC
Mar. 9 - 1893
Miss Audrey,
Dear friend:-
Your letter just received, and I assure you it was a welcome visitor.
How do you find yourself about now?
I suspect your time is occupied in preparation for the morrow's exercises.
Could you? I sometimes think lay them aside and be the jolly entertainer I chanced to meet on a certain occasion. (fair)
Doubtless you do. It almost makes me imagine I am now enjoying a tete a tete viva voce. Haste. Oh, hark! The time when I may realize my imaginations.
I'm very much obliged to you for your complimentary fashion of regarding my intended visit.
By and by there will come a time (not more than four years hence) when I may deem it my privilege to attend an inaugural. Perhaps too then you may not consider your "immature years" so seriously and contemplate, nay I would say you will realize that grand pleasure.
I acknowledge my years very reluctantly, although time with her "lightning speed" I have the right to boast: has not a long roll of mile posts on my pathway.
Turkey Hollow is quite destitute of everything which tends to excite and stimulate youth, if I may use such an expression.
I have not heard of a single entertainment within almost a fortnight.
Everyone seems to be threading the even - an uneventful terror of their way, unsuspecting and therefore realizing nothing to very the monotony.
By the way I'm thinking of a visit to the City on the Reedy sometime I hope not far distant, and if 'twould be agreeable I would be pleased to call at 24 West Str't. and see when I cherish of "Fair" fame, viz. yourself.
Impatiently awaiting a reply, which I hope to receive in the near future. I remain as ever
Sincerely yours,
J. Earle Alexander
P.S.
I will apologize for my penmanship in this letter, but the old adage "A bad workman quarrels with his tools" I suspect will apply very appropriately to me and my pen.
Au revoir
Part of Letter: Mar. 9, 1893. J. Earle Alexander to Audrey Davis