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Bean family letters, 1868-1898
1868-12-24 Page 02
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would be less but the advantages would justify an increased expense. I mean that you all could live at such a place as Oberlin where James and Mary can both have the best kind of a chance for less money than it would take to support James at college in any place as Oberlin, Ann Arbor, New Haven, or Cambridge, and Mary and yourself in Conneaut. Selling the house and lot will depend upon your own preference and upon getting a purchaser at a good price. I don't wish to urge the selling of the house but I think it decidedly the best way, if you can get a fair price. If you want to own the house you live in you can undoubtedly buy in the town to which you go and find just as salable property as ours in Conneaut or than similar property in Conneaut. If you go and I hope you will you will be gone from Conneaut 4 or 5 years and then in all probability you would not care to come back to Conneaut to live. I think you better move any way (where James goes to College) and sell if you can at about $1800- or $2000-. My candid opinion is that in the end it would be better to sell even at $1500- than to retain the property under the circumstances. I think the place is richly worth $1800- and ought to bring that if there is any sale for property. Still as I said before
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would be less but the advantages would justify an increased expense. I mean that you all could live at such a place as Oberlin where James and Mary can both have the best kind of a chance for less money than it would take to support James at college in any place as Oberlin, Ann Arbor, New Haven, or Cambridge, and Mary and yourself in Conneaut. Selling the house and lot will depend upon your own preference and upon getting a purchaser at a good price. I don't wish to urge the selling of the house but I think it decidedly the best way, if you can get a fair price. If you want to own the house you live in you can undoubtedly buy in the town to which you go and find just as salable property as ours in Conneaut or than similar property in Conneaut. If you go and I hope you will you will be gone from Conneaut 4 or 5 years and then in all probability you would not care to come back to Conneaut to live. I think you better move any way (where James goes to College) and sell if you can at about $1800- or $2000-. My candid opinion is that in the end it would be better to sell even at $1500- than to retain the property under the circumstances. I think the place is richly worth $1800- and ought to bring that if there is any sale for property. Still as I said before
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