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Eno family letters, October 1832-October 1834
1832-11-09 Page 1
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Penn Yan Nov 9 1832 Dear Father I wrote a few days since by Mr. Winans to you, and under a state of feeling which I hope never to experience again - a consciousness of self degradation, and a knowledge coming home to ones own bosom that he has failed in all the expectations that have been formed of him, and that he has dissappointed all the fond hopes of a kind father is to me a mental torture more to bear than any physical pain or the severest crosses of adversity. I live, but to convince the world I can rise as high as I have sank low, & to have father & brothers think & speak of me with pride rather than shame. I am endeavoring through the influence of some friends to place myself in such a situation as to enable me to do business on an equality with others of my profession I believe I shall succeed - if they fulfill their promises & shall open an office in about three weeks at the head of our village & with fair prospects of making a living & in time extricating myself from pecuniary embarrassments. I have had an offer from Mr Nevins a lawyer in this village to enter into partnership with him on equal terms, but think I shall not accept this offer. I want to stand before the people of the County as painters express themselves "in Cold relief" to stand on my own bottom and not be second to any one - Mr Reiner a former assembly man and one of the richest & most influential
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Penn Yan Nov 9 1832 Dear Father I wrote a few days since by Mr. Winans to you, and under a state of feeling which I hope never to experience again - a consciousness of self degradation, and a knowledge coming home to ones own bosom that he has failed in all the expectations that have been formed of him, and that he has dissappointed all the fond hopes of a kind father is to me a mental torture more to bear than any physical pain or the severest crosses of adversity. I live, but to convince the world I can rise as high as I have sank low, & to have father & brothers think & speak of me with pride rather than shame. I am endeavoring through the influence of some friends to place myself in such a situation as to enable me to do business on an equality with others of my profession I believe I shall succeed - if they fulfill their promises & shall open an office in about three weeks at the head of our village & with fair prospects of making a living & in time extricating myself from pecuniary embarrassments. I have had an offer from Mr Nevins a lawyer in this village to enter into partnership with him on equal terms, but think I shall not accept this offer. I want to stand before the people of the County as painters express themselves "in Cold relief" to stand on my own bottom and not be second to any one - Mr Reiner a former assembly man and one of the richest & most influential
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