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Milton Mowrer letters to Ellen Mowrer Miller, 1865
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drop in the parlor and must have some music on the Piano to cheer us up a little. I caught the name of most Piano tunes and by hearing and watching some of the comments given on the tunes, am getting so that I can tell a poor tune from a good one. The Piano makes very pleasant music when it has an expert player Well, I must tell you something about the family I am with. They were once very poor and now are worth he claims some $100,000. He has some five or six lots in town, still they are not aristocratie, the old gentleman is all for education, and if i try to learn the old fellow has quite a feeling for my advancement, but alas that copper [headism?] destroys my respect for him. if he would know my real sentiments he would make me leave, but as it is he treats me just as fair as he does his nephews. I would like to know how much the calves came too. You must have worked pretty fast at molasses if you had
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drop in the parlor and must have some music on the Piano to cheer us up a little. I caught the name of most Piano tunes and by hearing and watching some of the comments given on the tunes, am getting so that I can tell a poor tune from a good one. The Piano makes very pleasant music when it has an expert player Well, I must tell you something about the family I am with. They were once very poor and now are worth he claims some $100,000. He has some five or six lots in town, still they are not aristocratie, the old gentleman is all for education, and if i try to learn the old fellow has quite a feeling for my advancement, but alas that copper [headism?] destroys my respect for him. if he would know my real sentiments he would make me leave, but as it is he treats me just as fair as he does his nephews. I would like to know how much the calves came too. You must have worked pretty fast at molasses if you had
Iowa Women’s Lives: Letters and Diaries
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