AU Lambert, Bertha Elizabeth - 1897-07-20 letter to Joseph Hastings Harris

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AU Lambert, Bertha Elizabeth - 1897-07-20 letter to Joseph Hastings Harris

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1990.1.328

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[Westerville, OH, to Mr. J. H. Harris, Plantsville, Ohio, “Morgan Co.”] Westerville, O. July 20, '97. Mr. J. H. Harris, Plantsville O. My Darling Joe: — This pleasant evening I must spend a while with you. I will try and not get close enough to interfere with your comfort as I ate onions for supper (my old sin). I will not beg your pardon this time as the pardon would come too late. I do wonder how you are getting along, I have not heard from you since last Fri. but no doubt there are some letters on the way. Mother talks some of going with father to Logan and then on down to the old home. Elsie and I will keep house. Some way I have thought more about Athens Co the last week than I had for a long time. Indeed I would not mind being there myself. Of course you wonder how I am spending the time. Yesterday morning Ira and I fixed up country fashion and went over across the creek and picked thirteen qts of berries. We thought it would be fun but the fun wore off about ten o'clock. Today we washed and did housework in general. I spend the afternoons piecing quilts, reading, studying & etc. Since I came home I have instituted the “morning watch,” a daily bath and some other things. I am feeling just fine; my eyes are better than they have been for a year, I think, but I do not use them at night and try to be very careful with them in every way. I am enjoying vacation so well and am trying to use it profitably. I do hope your finger is almost well, but I do not know how long it usually takes a felon to heal. It is reported that Mrs. England has run off with a stranger. How can people live together for so many yrs. if they are so untrue? I am so glad that we can feel perfectly secure in every respect. I surely believe that God has had a hand in bringing us to this decision, and further that he has a work for us to accomplish. I will close as it is almost seven o'clock and I want to go to the office. May the dear Master be with you daily and soon restore you to health. Your own true Sweetheart Bertha Lambert.