Name/Title
AU Harris, Joseph Hastings - 1896-08-07 letter to Bertha Elizabeth LambertEntry/Object ID
1990.1.116Context
[McArthur, OH, to Miss Bertha E. Lambert, Iberia, Ohio, “Morrow Co.”]
McArthur, O.
Aug. 7, 1896
Miss Lambert,
Iberia, Ohio.
My Darling Bertha: Your letter rec'd Wed. night found me well and very glad to hear from you. Your letter of July 21, came to hand Monday. I left Athens yesterday 8:20 A.M. and before we left the fair ground the engine gave out and we had to wait two and one half hrs for an engine. I stopped off at Mineral between trains and did some work coming on to Zaleski in the P.M. I worked that place last night and this A.M. coming on to McArthur this morning. I will go to Hamden from here and on toward Portsmouth. I have made a fair start but do not know about holding out.
The weather is so hot I hope you do not try to canvass much. I feel so lonesome in starting out this time I scarcely know what to do, and just to think that while I am tramping about here you are doing the same thing elsewhere. I am at the P.O. so I can't write so much as I would like but I still love you and want to see you ever so bad. I want to start in at O.U. at the beginning of the term if possible but must say that the financial question does not look as bright as I should see and so I may not be able to start then, but I hope you will not fail to start then and I will come as soon as possible. Please do not worry any about this as God can clear the way and I look hopefully into the future.
I hope you may have a nice concert. Please send mail to Athens and it will be forwarded at once. Hoping to see you in the near future I remain
your True and devoted Lover
J. H. Harris,
Athens, Ohio.
