Name/Title
AU Harris, Joseph Hastings - 1896-10-13 letter to Bertha Elizabeth LambertEntry/Object ID
1990.1.131Context
[Lancaster, OH, to Miss Bertha Lambert, Westerville, Ohio, “Franklin Co.”]
Lancaster, O.
Oct. 13, 1896.
Miss Bertha Lambert
Westerville, Ohio.
My Darling Bertha: Your message came to hand this morning and found me well and enjoying my stay here. I am so sorry to hear of your illness, but we must accept all those things and do the best we can. You know you have my warmest sympathy and love, whatever may come. I would be so glad to be with you during some of your lonely hours. I hope this may find you still improving but if not I know you will continue to be the same patient, uncomplaining and loving little girl you always have been. Please do not try to write much if it troubles you, I will be content to know how you are while ill.
I expect to leave here tomorrow for Bremen, Jc. City and New Lexington.
If your eyes are worse you might have a note sent to N. Lexington otherwise I will write again later in the wk.
I may be disappointed but I think you may see me next wk. at W.
Leonard thinks we could do well to go to Athens for school-work, but of course he would be nearer Chester Hill then (I don't wonder at the idea).
I have a natural longing to be at Westerville (who would not under the circumstances?).
I have your picture on the mirror before me so I have something nice to look at.
I shall not write much this time but I must either get so I can be with you more permanently or else quit making those visits because I get crazier(?) every time I make a visit. I have lost so much school that I thought some of waiting until next term but I can relearn my A, B, C's and get acquainted and maybe graduate like Mr Barr did last yr. May God bless my Sweetheart and give her strength.
Whether absent or present I still remain the “Lover” of the sweetest little girl in the land.
J. H. Harris
New Lexington, Ohio.
