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[Letter from Arthur Allen to Young John Allen, October 15, 1883]
Oct. 15 1883
My Dear Papa,
I am going to school and am geting along very in my studies, I have altogether 7 studies a day.
Mama has
boardars
[sic]
this term and two of them are the old boys. I am now in the second year subfresh class.
There are about 60 boys in my class and in the whole College. There are about 250 boys. I am now
takeing
[sic]
[taking]
singing
lessons. I went to school this summer to Mr. Carney and study Latin. I am still a little behind in Latin but in all
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the other studies I am up in. This summer I stayed in Oxford 2 months and the month I to Newnan to see
Ant
[sic]
[Aunt]
Monties
a while and stayed 1 week there. I picked cotton for Uncle Sam one day and I picked 60 pounds for him the first
time. He says that was pretty well for the first time, then I went to Lagrange and stayed for about 8 days.
I stayed at Mr. Tuggles the first day and the rest of the time I stayed at the Female college for a
wick
[sic]
[week]
and a
good time with the girls. There was 30 girls and
ownly
[sic]
[only]
1 boy to stays with there and I got sort of
lounsome
[sic]
[lonesome]
.
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This summer while I was at Uncle Sams I went a possum hunting with 2 of Uncles friends and Huse
[unclear]
went with us also.
We went about 2 miles from home then one of the dogs barked and one of the negroes said bob has treed one and we went
to the tree he was in it was a great big
Popla
[sic]
[poplar]
it happened to be a moonlight and we could see the possum very easy one of the negroes
throughin
[sic]
[throwing]
lumps of dirt at him and hit
him on the back and he
hoped
[sic]
[hopped]
out and the dog caught it.
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Give my love to my friends and tell them that I have not
forgotten them yet, how are the old servants getting along with Mellie, I hope that my dog is still living yet does he still watch like he use to do. Give my love to
Ant
[sic]
[Aunt]
sweet and Uncle Fred. Ask
Ant
[sic]
[Aunt]
Sweet to write to me.
Give my love to Mr. Loehr
[unclear]
and Mr. Wrice
[unclear]
.
Yours truly
Arthur Allen