Name/Title
AU Harris, Joseph Hastings - 1895-07-12 letter to Bertha Elizabeth Lambert - AEntry/Object ID
1990.1.43Context
[Ada, OH, to Miss Bertha Lambert, Iberia, Ohio, “Morrow Co.”]
Lock Box 28,
Ada, O. July 12, 1895
My Loving Bertha:
I send a few lines this morning to soothe your fears and to say that I arrived safe this morning at 1:20, had quite a wait at Galion, where the agt. told me I would hardly make connections at Crestline as the trains on both roads were due at 11:40 {ie} the Big Four was due at Galion at 11:40 and the P.T.W.C. at Crestline 11:40, but I concluded I would ride my ticket out at any rate and was favored in making connection all right. Alva did not know anything of my coming until this morning.
It is no 8 o'clock and the mail goes out in half an hour, so I will not write much this morning. This is a bright morning to me, everything seems cheery and glad.
The room looked so much brighter this morning that I asked Alva if they had not been cleaning the room since I left, but he said “no.”
I will take an exam. in German at 10 this morning and may have Botany at 11. I can almost see your beaming face this morning and what is better still I read your thought. While you know your presence has always charmed me, yet I confess your charms captured me more completely yesterday in every respect than ever before.
I didn't think of it or I should have been tempted to steal a curl from your glossy hair. You are busy this morning and of course very happy. I saw a sight last night at the station at Galion that made me very sad, a woman with six little children all needing care, all of them half clad dirty and without food. They were on their way to Anderson Ind. and had no money. The sanitary com. of Galion were preparing to help them on. I was pitiful to hear the children cry for bread. I thought of what a happy day we had spent and thanked God for His blessings.
I cannot express what I feel, so I will close. May God continue to bless and use you. Yours with Love, and also kind regards to Mr. and Mrs Mayne,
J. H. Harris.
