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Milton Mowrer letters to sister Ellen Miller Mowrer, 1866-1868

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and find out some gossip, then it might be [us?] old [illegible] [illegible] "see her to my sorrow" That dress affair is "played out" there was no dress about it, if it was it has never occurred to me since, besides, it was not June, but when I came home, how if either one is not [mausical?] by that time, they will be [remediable?] "spiled", so that "dress" powder and paint will a waste of material Sister, you know that there are some of the finest young fellows here attending the University as you would wish to see, and some of the ugliest creatures you'd like to see, Tom Brookes is older than Sallie, and is much stouter and stronger than I am, he has been sick with the measles this spring, this must surely have been a measly spring, for nearly every young person around did not escape it, unless freed, by having it previously, and they were more severe, the physicians said, than they ever witnessed before The family here now only comprises for three during most of the time. My board bills by
 
Iowa Women’s Lives: Letters and Diaries