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Smithville [Missouri] July 15th 1858 Dear Sarafine I have began to think that your mind is being engrossed with matrimony or something else as I have not heard from you for a spell I think that I do wonders in the way of writing and write scribble the letters that you do and I presume have as little time to do so unless yo have a Beaux at a distance that you write to verry often if not oftener but I hope that you are so situated as I am that your Dear Ebinezer is nigh so that you can talk to him and write oftener to me. You & mr Ellis have promised to write me a big letter each but I suppose they were to big to go in the mail bags hence the long delay I have written Joe Tank a small Epistle I suppose he will be kind enough to let you read it it is a kind of a Tristram Shandy concern and I hope he will consider me alltogether a fool although my letter betokens it. I am like the boy that tramped buck wheat in old Unitas Fratrum this time I have not much to say on the question and as I did not in the ouset in troduce any particular subject I will not confine my self to any therefore you cant say I have lost the thread of my story as I am writing none I am in tolerable reasinable health this time harvest [MS illegible] and went and I am still here as ever although I made mutton honey & old [MS illegible] helpers suffer I went in to the hornet field bare footed and the rattler thought they would hiss me out but it was no go I had seen too many on the plains I killed one the other day that allmost chilled my blood he was coiled as big around as a half Bushel his body was about 7 1/2 in in circumference and measured four feet in length a gentleman was with me he took a rail and held him down while I cut his head off after this I extracted his rattles which I will send you as a curiosity put your fore fingers in the string and you can have some idea how it rattles. a summer is not so hot & dry as in Ohio owing I suppose to Prairies a breeze raised 9 o clock A.M. I hike to Cabons on the Prairie and enjoy the sombrious atmosfier for two or three weeks past the praries and woodlands have been ornamented with wild roses four or five grow on one stem making a beautiful boynet or bean Ketcher you must come out here along with Mr Arnold or J.M. Evans by the by is there any danger of your coming as lady J.M. i never expect to see any of the Brown Co. [Brown County, Ohio] people here unless I come in or go in and persuade them to come which I will never do
Object Description
| Title | John Wesley Park letter to Sarah Park - Jul. 15, 1858 |
| Creator | Park, John Wesley |
| Source | Park, John Wesley. Letter to Sarah Park. 15 Jul. 1858. MS 94-28. Wichita State University Special Collections and University Archives, Wichita, Kansas. |
| Description | John Wesley Park wrote to Sarah Park on July 15, 1858. He informed her that he was in good health, and that he had written a letter to a friend in Ohio. Park also reported to Sarah that he had killed a rattle snake and promised to send the rattler to her. The summer had been hot and dry, and the prairies and woodlands were blooming with wild roses. Park commented on his status with local women and his desires to see his family again. |
| Theme | United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century |
| Subject | Health; Literary characters; Snakes; Weather; Wild flowers; Family; Women |
| Relation | Park Brothers Papers |
| Site Accession Number | MS 94-28 |
| Contributing Institution | Wichita State University |
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| Coverage | Clay County, Missouri |
| Volume | 1 letter, 2 pages |
| Date.Original | 1858-07-15 |
| Date.Digital | 2010-06-21 |
| Format.Original | Correspondence |
| Publisher.Digital | Springfield-Greene County Library District |
| Language | English |
| CONTENTdm file name | 4526.cpd |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Transcription | Smithville [Missouri] July 15th 1858 Dear Sarafine I have began to think that your mind is being engrossed with matrimony or something else as I have not heard from you for a spell I think that I do wonders in the way of writing and write scribble the letters that you do and I presume have as little time to do so unless yo have a Beaux at a distance that you write to verry often if not oftener but I hope that you are so situated as I am that your Dear Ebinezer is nigh so that you can talk to him and write oftener to me. You & mr Ellis have promised to write me a big letter each but I suppose they were to big to go in the mail bags hence the long delay I have written Joe Tank a small Epistle I suppose he will be kind enough to let you read it it is a kind of a Tristram Shandy concern and I hope he will consider me alltogether a fool although my letter betokens it. I am like the boy that tramped buck wheat in old Unitas Fratrum this time I have not much to say on the question and as I did not in the ouset in troduce any particular subject I will not confine my self to any therefore you cant say I have lost the thread of my story as I am writing none I am in tolerable reasinable health this time harvest [MS illegible] and went and I am still here as ever although I made mutton honey & old [MS illegible] helpers suffer I went in to the hornet field bare footed and the rattler thought they would hiss me out but it was no go I had seen too many on the plains I killed one the other day that allmost chilled my blood he was coiled as big around as a half Bushel his body was about 7 1/2 in in circumference and measured four feet in length a gentleman was with me he took a rail and held him down while I cut his head off after this I extracted his rattles which I will send you as a curiosity put your fore fingers in the string and you can have some idea how it rattles. a summer is not so hot & dry as in Ohio owing I suppose to Prairies a breeze raised 9 o clock A.M. I hike to Cabons on the Prairie and enjoy the sombrious atmosfier for two or three weeks past the praries and woodlands have been ornamented with wild roses four or five grow on one stem making a beautiful boynet or bean Ketcher you must come out here along with Mr Arnold or J.M. Evans by the by is there any danger of your coming as lady J.M. i never expect to see any of the Brown Co. [Brown County, Ohio] people here unless I come in or go in and persuade them to come which I will never do |
| CONTENTdm file name | 4524.jp2 |
