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Milton Mowrer correspondence to Ellen Mowrer, 1866-1868

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I shall keep the rest for som future letter, hope you'll keep these until I get that Album for you. Well sister I am getting along with the study of medicine as well as can be expected of one of my abilities, not tired of the study, still I would not have any objection if it was first of April. I get tired if sitting so long every day.  I sent father an account of our settlement here, so now I pay $5 per week (so long as greens are plenty) I got myself some $50 worth of books, I was obliged to have them for without books little is learned nowadays Sam Mowrer's oldest daughter was at Ellen's the other evenning, and I was compelled to take her to a lecture (Henry Ward Beecher on "Universal Suffrage") tickets were $0.75 to each $1.50, now sister you see what it cost to take "gals" out here

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I shall keep the rest for som future letter, hope you'll keep these until I get that Album for you. Well sister I am getting along with the study of medicine as well as can be expected of one of my abilities, not tired of the study, still I would not have any objection if it was first of April. I get tired if sitting so long every day. I sent father an account of our settlement here, so now I pay $5 per week (so long as greens are plenty) I got myself some $50 worth of books, I was obliged to have them for without books little is learned nowadays Sam Mowrer's oldest daughter was at Ellen's the other evenning, and I was compelled to take her to a lecture (Henry Ward Beecher on "Universal Suffrage") tickets were $0.75 to each $1.50, now sister you see what it cost to take "gals" out here