Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-09-01
4 BACHELORS LOVE LETTER.
A Mine Of Poetry and Passion
Found in the Capitol Building.

For some weeks past number Of
house cleaners have been at work on
the Capi.oi building renovating it from
top 10 bottom.
In the vault under the Secretary of
States office they unearthed an old box
containing about two hundred love let
tiers.
They were III various handwritings,
and some were tied in bundles by blue
ribbon and some contained locks Of
hair. Some of these locke were of the
glorious golden" hue and some black
as night and some of chestnut variety
The letters gave no evidence of the re-
ceiver's or sender's identity. They
were signed only by the given names
of the writers and addressed to MY
Dearest" etc. They were written on
paper of various sizes and styles and
tile qualifications of correspondence re-
presented fairly well the changing fash
ions of stationary from 1860 to the
later perid OF Nevada's statehood.
Talk about love letters of an Eng
fish woman, here we're number of
American ladies who could make this
English woman have tired feeling
when it came to pouring forth on paper
the volcanic passion that burned with
in their souls. Ali these letters were OF
high order of literary merit and writ
ten in delicate and faultless handwrit-
ing.
AS the house cleaners lifted the
mouldy missives of almost forgotten
past and turned them over wondering
ly, the faint scent of violets and jas
sanines .hoated up from the delicate
epistles a fragrant reminder that the
sweet memory OF number. of unre-
Quilted buried affections that hourshed
greenly lii the days when Nye was first
elected Senator of Nevada and the wiz
,cs aud mothers OF today were cutting
their first growth of teeth.
AS they seemed to belong to nobody
in particular and with the general idea
that writers and recipients were dead
the letters were passed about and per
used. and many were the ordinations
Of wOndcrment at the refinement arc
education Of the writer's, and the opin
ion was generally expressed that the
man who could have inspired so muci
of the teidcr passion and from such
orcc, must lave been veritable AaroI
Burr i'll personal magnetism.
Certainly he was no ordinary indiv
idual. on whom so many of the TAI:
sex should concentrate their lavish,
applied affections, and to think that tn
, slv dog must have been corespondi;'.
, with half d dozen at once, if the date
counted Tor anything.
Secretary of State Howell, who i
somewhat 0, sentimental turn hiEl
self, wanted to annex the letters to til
State library, but finally determined t.
ascertain, if possible, who owned tn
J chest of concentrated sentiment in tn
$ basement of his office, and after som
j search brushed the dirt off the side Q
: the chest and there deciphered the in
i,;als T. w. H.
1t really looked as if it was no othe
, than Thaddeus Warsaw Healey VIII
owned the countraband goods OF Cupi
and he was accordingly notified tha
the letters were there and that he coul
have them on application.
Up to the present writing the Judg
i has not responded and possibly it ma
: be some one else. Suspicion howeve
+ points strongly to this gay old bacht
; lor, who at the time, was cutting wild
swath among feminine hearts in ca
son and was the veritable Beau Brun
/. mel of the period.