Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-17


for the present, some company has come In and
must close. kiss me here. Yours J.
P. s. had piece OF poetry for you, but can
not ind 1t now. Will send it next time II you
are good girl and do everything tell yon.
With love, yours, j.
AUGUST 30th, 1s77.-Your last two OF three
markable character that they are very difficult
to answer. You bring accusations against me
that are utterly without foundation, and you
make threats and call me names that are very
cruel and ineonsiderate indeed. / don't think
have ever given you cause to treat me in this
manner, nor can see why you do so unless it is
yoarse of dull tre So fellow vi" that C can't
write nice love letters. Yours of August Esd
seemed TO have been written with the express
purpose Of exasperatiDg me; l had Nv written to
don't seem to have considered it at ALL
Having heard that ! was at Faunsdale you
didn't wait to see whether 1t was so or not, but
flew into passion and wrote me lot OF cruel
and heartleSs letters, full of things calculated
to cut me to the quick. haven't been near
Faunsdale this summer. God knows how much
to you. ] shall expect all those "horrid things"
you learned in Selma when you write again.
SEPTEMBER 81 have received your last in
Which you say you are sorry for your past cruel
and unjust letters, and ask forgiveness. Well,
your are forgiven, with all my heart, but you
must remember that am no saint and haven't
have to ask your forgiveness some OF these days,
and hope that you will as freely forgive me.
Well let's quit quarrelling for the present; let's
bear and forbear" from this time on: want
you to tell me in your next of the horrible
things" you heard in Selma. You mention my
brother and Mr.. Walker, but you don't say what
you heard about them. Now you must tell me
all, for have right to know it. What you
heard about Mrs. B. and myself don't amount to
a ROW of pins" because it is simply untrue. l
never did take her to ball or picnic, and the
only time / went out walking with her met
you. As far as loving her is concerned you ought
to be able to judge for yourself AS to her caring
for me, why have never had the most remote
to believe that. think you must be mistaken.
Your cousins are quite handsome fellows. Did
you intend for me to keep them, or do you wish
them returned, the pictures mean, l will be
happy to trade you the two for one of yourself.
What do you say? If you wish it will ''throw
in" one of a certain 'plebian" friend of yours
Ito boot" With much love yours until you
write me another mean Lottery
SELMA, Sept. II, 1s77.-Dear S,ceetheart: Your
dear little note, of no date at all, came couple
OF days ago. 1t is the kind OF letter I like to
OF 1t. hope you are having fine time OF it
with your company. 1t is so much better to be
cheerful than to be all the time downcast, and
moody moments but then it is our duty to bear
up and strive to be cheerful. have been here
for several days, hard at work packing up
fathers library, preparing to leave for WASH
ington. want to see you very much, but fear
that Will not be able to come out to Dayton, as
am kept busy all the time. Ii it were my own
personal business would drop it and go out
there Immediately; but such is not the case and
cannot possibly leave. You want me to send
you the poetry, but you must remember that /
said you must tell me all you had heard about
me before would send it. intend to keep my
promise strictly; so you may as well make up
your mind to tell me all about it, and also to
give your authority. I don't propose to make
fuss about it. or to get you into any trouble on
account OF 1t; but am determined to find out.
II possible, who takes so much interest in me
that they must talk about me in that manner
There is to be hop here day after tomorrow
night, given by the Guards. Don't you wish
you could be here? l do. / would give any
thing in the world to dance the Home Sweet
Home dance with you on that occasion. Who
for the little souvenir enclosed In your last let
ter. l have put it where can get it every day
and and look at It, | see your special friend Mr..
you yet In fact beIie1e Would n1G Tather k dss
some OF the girls for you. / haven't seen Char
ley Walker since you saw him. but when do,
viii give him blowing up for telling. you
mer. Will have to wait until get little fatter
before can send you my picture. am only
an animated skeleton now. With much love
and long sweet kiss, I am, as ever, yours until
you get on the war-path again.
WASHINGTON, DC, october 23d, 1SI7.-MtSs
L,,cg: The tone of your last Two letters COM
pels me to believe that you no longer feel
towards me as you formerly did Those letters
have certainly produced a change in my feelings
toward you. cannot longer submit to that
1
say that from this on our correspondence must
cease. lave destroyed your letters; please be
kind enough to do the same with NINE
two peures IN my tTunk e. pelonS
to you. viii send them to you by mail as soon
as can get at them. j. H. M.
this evening at eight. If not, please mention
some time that will suit you. Very respectfully,
'JNo. II. MORGAN.
monday, June 4th. 1871
IT
to play croQuet with you and Mrs. Trippe this
evening; At what hour shall l call. Very r.
spect1ully, JNO. II. MORGAN
" Saturday, June 16."
miss Lucy: Ii agreeable to you, will call
this evening at eight O'Clock. With regards,
your friend. JNO. II. MORGAN.
Friday, June 90
g Miss Lucy: know it Is desperately hot but
row, and would like to see you tonight. May
come at $50 p. m? Your friend,
'ssELMA, July 3D. JNo. H. MORGAN
COUNTRY PLACE." twenty miles from Selma
written from Dayton. One was dated the 9th
and the other had no date. The dated one was
nice sweet letter, such as like to get from
my sweetheart but the other was unjust to
yourself and cruel to me. You don't seem to
care how deeply you wound me or what kind of
light you place yourself in. ] can't comprehend
you; two letters so widely diTerent in tone and
sentiment, and written within few days OF
each other lead me to believe-well don't know
what to believe. You hardly seem to know
your own mind. II the dated letter was writ
ten last am tO.believe that you sincerely love
and trust Inc, but if the other one is the last /
am exceedingly doubtful whether you really
love me or not However, / am unwilling TO
think that you meant anything you said in that
letter, so I'll say nothing more about it, burn it
up, and try to forget that ever received it. l
have been having lonely time of it up here;
there is no one at home but my mother and she
Is quite sick. spend my time reading, study
ing and thinking about LightfOOt, sweetheart.
That reminds me OF AndrOmache; you know
that her affections were just like every other
woman, that Is, TRANSFERABLE. She had ttr }
lovers after Hestor, and doubtless thought
quite as much OF them as she did OF him. Thi
was not at all in keeping with the sentiments
expressed In the poem you refer to, but it was
very human like and womanly. believe that
love is re,y mortal and liable to burn out and
die away, especially when it bazes and flames
too much in the beginning. Nothing personal
but don't propose to give you an
essay on love; simply sat down to say, Lucy.
DO lore yOn. There now Throw down your
crown! You know you are humbugging me
when you say all that sort of thing about
crowns, &C. Ii you wore a crown, such pie
beian as j. II. couldn't gain admission to the
kitchen, much less the parlor of your palace
Who is Miss Meta that Is so kind as to send me
advice through you? Is 1t the ''widow?" At
any rate say to her 'qui 20 soy su servidor q
s. NJ. B." wish could have gone to the dante
with you. / haven't danced a step nor spoken
to young lady since saw you, simply because
haven't had the opportunity. 1 hope you
wont continue to make yourself miserable every
time you learn anything about me. By the
time q few earc oIIlor Won ~ tbo+