Letter to Martha Cahoon from Emily Vial

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Letter to Martha Cahoon from Emily Vial

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2000.FIC.02.227

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Letter to Martha Cahoon from Emily Vial expressing a desire to see her more often and also asking her to visit her home. The letter starts and ends on the first page. The author wrote in the heading horizontally to conclude her letter after running out of space on the other pages. 2000.FIC.02.227A Cleveland Dec. 14th 1862 [first section has been written over with the last portion of the letter. Dear Martha Perhaps you do not believe in writing letters on Sunday and will be shocked when you get this but I see no harm in it and I have no other time now it is getting so near examinations. I am glad you got home safely and quite warm at that. It was too bad you caught cold but with good nursing you will get over it soon I hope. I was very glad to get your note and handed the other to Nellie the next day. You say you are going to keep house during the [p. 2] holidays so from that I suppose your folks are going away. I do not think I can come out to see you for Pa is never free to go away except Sundays and I have no one else to bring me. You must take the will for the deed for I should like to come very much You will come to school next term I hope. I presume I shall go, and if I should not I could see you quite often. I often get lonesome living so far away from civilization as I do. If you come next winter we can have real nice time staying with each other for I have got a nice new bedstead now. Pa got it for me last week. I feel quite proud of it I can assure you. It is very dull today; one of those drizzling lead colored days that always give a lady the blues. I managed to get through my reading Friday night; the girls said I did very well. Tempa Foote spoke beautifully. Martha and Cassie [p. 3] and I went together and they took a notion to go and call for Tempa so I went with them. She came to the door and when she saw me before they had a chance to introduce me she said "this is Miss Emily Vial I believe." I said yes and after that I got quite well acquainted with her. I never was so sociable with anyone so soon before. I think she is one of those one would like better the more they got acquainted. She keeps house with two girls one Miss Dean the other Miss Hurst; perhaps you know them; they were both pleasant looking and Miss Dean was quite pretty I thought at first sight. Nellie Denison is to read next time at the Lyceum and Nellie Vosford is to have an essay. Frank Elliot - a declaration. There are a great many exercises but those are all I remember now. I went to the Aid Society the night you left- and had quite a good time thou- [p. 4] -gh nothing extra; there were a great many there. It has been too rainy to go to church today and I feel pretty dull so I am afraid this letter will an infliction rather than a pleasure to you but I did not know when I should get time again and thought I had better write today. I do not know whether I shall go to church tonight or not; it has stopped raining. When you are in the city we can go to church sometimes Sunday nights, can we not? You and I anticipate good times when you are here. Mr. Hopkinson has been quite cross and unreasonable with the Senior class lately, but fortunately for me he has become he says quite attached to the Junior class. Frank Werd was at the Lyceum but Mr. Hopkinson was not; poor man I suppose he is sick and worried and we ought not to say anything no matter how unreasonable he is but it does some more than [p.1 Heading] enough to try a saint sometimes. The other day Ann Pratt and Anna Thome were sitting on the back platform getting their lesson together and he gave them each demerits for "distracting the whole school" he said. All the girls sitting near say they made very little noise. Well, after school, they went up to him and Anna Pratt commenced to talk to him about it when he gave her two demerits. Only think! Two demerits for talking quietly to him after school was out. I doubt if it was regular for him to do so. The idea of marking them on their school report for what they did out of school. I have no more time to write now. Answer soon. Ma sends her love. Give my love to Laura. Yours affectionately, Emily A. Vial. 2000.FIC.02.227B: Envelope addressed to Martha W. Cahoon, North Dover Ohio. Postmark in black ink: CLEVELAND / DEC / 17 / 1862 / O Three cent pink stamp with George Washintons profile to the right. Handwritten in ink: Miss Martha W. Cahoon / Rose Hill / North Dover / Ohio

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Early Family Papers: Cahoon

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Cahoon, Martha W.

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Dean, Miss

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Dennison, Nellie

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Elliot, Frank

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Hopkinson, Mr.

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Hurst, Miss

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Kosford, Nellie

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Pratt, Anna

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Thorne, Anna

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Weed, Frank

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Vial, Emily A.