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Milton Mowrer letters to sister Ellen Miller Mowrer, 1866-1868
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and remained till evening. We walked out in the county a short distance, taking flowers wherever we saw an opportunity, so we had plenty of Lilacs, Snowballs and Shrubs. I [had?] on a steamboat Tom Brooks & I have our fun together occasionally, he is the best matured young man you could wish, but Becky is entirely to hard on him, She has heretofore kept all his money and [illegible] without clothing him as she should have done, Ellen told him that he should make her "launch out" which she was compelled to do, so now he is in "full dress". Becky would like me to come and board with her, but as long as there are other places to procure boarding, I will have an excuse. She always asks so much after Sallie, and wants her to write. Ellen, Beckie's husband is the second "Dick" only he is smart, his working consists hefty in thinking about defining the different business in which he will engage in next week, [be?]. So you may judge that laziness is his chief forte. Sallie was at Uncle Williams last week, she found them
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and remained till evening. We walked out in the county a short distance, taking flowers wherever we saw an opportunity, so we had plenty of Lilacs, Snowballs and Shrubs. I [had?] on a steamboat Tom Brooks & I have our fun together occasionally, he is the best matured young man you could wish, but Becky is entirely to hard on him, She has heretofore kept all his money and [illegible] without clothing him as she should have done, Ellen told him that he should make her "launch out" which she was compelled to do, so now he is in "full dress". Becky would like me to come and board with her, but as long as there are other places to procure boarding, I will have an excuse. She always asks so much after Sallie, and wants her to write. Ellen, Beckie's husband is the second "Dick" only he is smart, his working consists hefty in thinking about defining the different business in which he will engage in next week, [be?]. So you may judge that laziness is his chief forte. Sallie was at Uncle Williams last week, she found them
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