The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-07-08
VIRGINIAN
MAKES
LOVE
10 Mountain Maiden to Whom He Lost
Z His Heart on Hunting Expedition,
as Shown by Letter Picked
Up by Camping Party.

There are various ways of making love
and various ways of writing love letters,
MS shown by the letter below, which
CHANGED to come into the hands of this
paper. The missire was picked up on
the mountains in West Virginia by
party of excursionists and is supposed
to have been written by a young Vir-
ginia gentleman not yet out of school
to a young mountain maiden, to whom
he had lost his heart on hunting ex-
petition. It reads as follows:
In Camp, June l6, 'O4.
BY Dearest Birdie:
As / promised / will write yous al
though l have no paper except this; it
will have to do. How are You anyway,
darling7 1 did not get to write the pos
tai at Jane Lew, as the fellows would
not wait for me. Nevertheless / think
this viii reach you just about as soon.
Birdie, darling, only regret that
did not have good clothes on and that /
was not with you more while at Buck
harmon.
suppose You are having good time
this week, as the street fair, or carnival
rather, is on there.
A week and two days and will be
with you again. 1 can hardly wait,
dearie, and, Birdie, then You won't be
ashamed to go out on the street with me,
will you, sweetheart?
Well, guess l did not look fierce up
there either. Oh, no, it is all a mistake.
But TIL be dressed all o. X. when l
come Sunday a week.
think we are going to have storm
here, as it has begun to rain already
and the sky is full of clouds. So, you
can think of nue., sweetheart, tonight in
the hut with three other fellows and
our covers all damp, etc. How wish
you and were together tonight, and
would not care whether it was here or
there.
Never mind, dearest, got a plan for
this summer, will have little camping
trip of our own. Then we will take all
kinds of walks and go fishing, take our
dinners and stay all day. Well, 1 guess
we won't have n time either. Then,
Birdie. we can love ourselves to death.
But can never get through loving you,
dearest. You are so dear to me and You
really and truly love me, sweetheart.
] wish you would go down to visit
Susie, for we could have great time.
Can't You, after that fellow goes with
the organs? Try it anyway. You want
TO stick it out with that fellow now.
since you have taken it. You viii only
be there three weeks longer and show
them that you can.
Say. Birdie, dearest I believe You like
James Kean a whole lot. Now. tell the
truth, don't You? Now. that is Just like
me, darn it. l always get jealous. RI
would tear this up but l have so much
written and ! haven't any more paper
I'll take it hack. for really think you
do care lot for me. or, Mt least. you
say so. Birdie, darling, do you really
dove me? 7'.> -sY---.
Birdie, l love you. yes love you and
no other. To me You are dearer than
any girl in the world, yes. far dearer.
j love Won so much. didn't really realize
it until you were sore at me-
Darling. in my last letter / asked if
you would be mine. You say yon did not
get it. so ! will ask Won in this if You
won't be mine. My own dear, think
why. I-oh. don't know what to say. I
aove You with all my heart. Darling.
can never express the feeling have
when want to tell you how much l
love You. Just want you for mine. MY
own. Won't You be mine?
Sweetheart, ! await onxiousIy the an
swer, sa