Name/Title
AU Lambert, Bertha Elizabeth - 1896-01-23 letter to Joseph Hastings HarrisEntry/Object ID
1990.1.278Context
[Westerville, OH, to Mr. J. H. Harris, Ada, Ohio, Lock Box 28]
Westerville O., 1-23-'96
Mr. Joseph Harris,
Ada O.
Dear Joe: — Your letter was received this forenoon and I will answer before it gets cold (please excuse this big blot). I was very glad to hear from you but sorry to think you were uneasy. I am having another siege of the grippe but nothing dangerous or serious. I am much better today, and think I will feel as well as ever in a few days.
I have not been to class since Mon. I have been studying some at home but my head was too thick to do much. Now please do not worry about me in the least, for unless something else presents I expect to be in school next week. I expect you will scold when I tell you that I attended the lecture Mon. night, although I do not think it made me any worse. But whether it did or did not, it was worth a great sacrifice to me. I think it was the best I have ever heard, although I could not sanction every thing he said.
Ira was my “point.” He and father are attending the anti saloon convention today. We had a very pleasant visit from uncle Reece Lambert Mon. night, he came up to attend the convention. I presume you have heard before this that Howard started to Kas. last Mon. also of Clark Edgerton's death — caused by injury received in a railway wreck. He was brought home for burial last Mon. morning. Walter D. Fawcett died about one week ago in Colorado, of consumption, and Walter Embree is quite low. It seems sad to think of so many young people's being taken away. And what a lesson for us.
Tonight is our installation of officers, and I am on for debate but I promise I will not go. I surely have disobeyed nature's laws again but this time I can not tell just how or when.
Carrie says blots are kisses and I think if you count them in this letter you will get several. No more today.
Lovingly,
Bertha Lambert
