Name/Title
Keen Letter, 1866Entry/Object ID
2021.16.56Tags
1860s, PostageScope and Content
Letter addressed to Aaron and Eleanor Keen from their son Walter S. Keen.
"Warren Feb 7th /66
Friends at home
It Is with plaisher that
I seat my self down to Inform you this
plesant morning while I am sitting
In the School house Caring byt little
Wheather I get my lessons or not your
letter Came to hand last night but let
me say to you that when you write letters
to me wright It with Ink So i can
read It I have not mutch news to wright
to you at the preasant time I want to
know If you have heard from Ant Nancy
or not and I want to know what you have
done with that money If I was In your
place I would poot It in land I got me a
watch and a good one and thank god
Oat Taylor has no claim on It he was
In warren last Friday and he enquiard
of me but he nead not come around me
If he does he will be apt to get ashort
answer for I dont want nuthing to
do with him thair Is a nough better
Friends In this wide world without
him If thare haint I pitty It for
god Sake I will tell you my Studdies
Rays Higher Arithmetick and Algebra
and Natural Philosiphy and Book Keeping
and It keeps me buisy all the time
but thank God every boddy must
work hard If he expect to know any
thing
I have found It out and I gess thare
are a graet many there that will find
It out before many years or before they
die The School House that I go to has
3 Stores high and thair Is 3 Schools in
It and thair Is about three Hundred
Student Im the Building and when
School lets out at noon It looks like
an armey of solgers the names of the
School is as folows High School Gramar
School Intermediat School I go to the
High School but I shant go a nother
term I think I shal go in the Soer
and Cleark In the spring I think
my letter is long enough for this
time I am well
So good By to yo uall
your truly Walter S. Keen
To Aaron Keen
+ Eleanor Keen
Direct your letters to Walter S. Keene
Warren Trumbull Co Ohio Box 161
now I will right some for Lecta
now i commence I dont no wheather It
will puzzle you to read It as
mutch as yourn did me but I hope not
so hear it gos lookout that you dont make
a mistake if you do you wont under stand
It Dear. Sister. It. is. with. plaisher. that. I seat. my. self
down. to. let. you. no. that. I am. well. and. hope. when
these. few. lines. meat. you. that. they will find you
enjying. the. same. state. of. health. when. you. make. this. out
send. me. word. and. I. will. write. you. another. So. Go. By
from Walter S. Keene. to. Amey. Keene. Brookfield. Ohio"Acquisition
Accession
2021.16Source or Donor
Cover, Dave, Luoma, LeonardLocation
Location
Container
Civil WarRoom
ArchivesBuilding
Morgan History CenterDate
January 6, 2022Notes
Folder: Post Civil War Letters 1Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Keen, Aaron, Keen, Walter S., Keen, Eleanor, Keen, AmyRelated Places
Place
* Untyped Place
Warren, Ohio, Brookfield Township, Ohio