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James B. Weaver letters to Clara Vinson, 1856-1858
1858-03-24 Page 01
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Bloomfield Iowa March 24th 1858. Miss Vinson:- Your letter Came duly to hand, and I assure you it was very unpleasant to me. When I Consider the manner in which I have been treated by you during the past three years, my heart is made to bleed within me. At home and abroad; in the presence of Strangers, and before my friends you have treated me with scorn & contempt, and as though you looked upon me as being your inferior, and unworthy to keep you company. And why all this? Simply because I have loved you, and was honest enough to tell you so. Convinced by your Conduct that there was no hope for me, I have not for the past ten months given you any "trouble." I believe I did meet you once during the times at Bro Allen Brooks&', but I did not expect to meet you at that time. How has it been with you? You have not written a letter (that I am aware of,) to this place for the last six or eight months, but what you have spoken of me in it. In one of them (written about two months since) you spoke of me no less than three different times, and at different places in the letter. You said in it,- "The next match will be Jim & I, I expect, and that will be the strangest of all." In another letter written to the same individual, you made use of the following language, after speaking at some length of Mr. Hopkins. "But I shall be obliged to Content myself with going back to my first love,
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Bloomfield Iowa March 24th 1858. Miss Vinson:- Your letter Came duly to hand, and I assure you it was very unpleasant to me. When I Consider the manner in which I have been treated by you during the past three years, my heart is made to bleed within me. At home and abroad; in the presence of Strangers, and before my friends you have treated me with scorn & contempt, and as though you looked upon me as being your inferior, and unworthy to keep you company. And why all this? Simply because I have loved you, and was honest enough to tell you so. Convinced by your Conduct that there was no hope for me, I have not for the past ten months given you any "trouble." I believe I did meet you once during the times at Bro Allen Brooks&', but I did not expect to meet you at that time. How has it been with you? You have not written a letter (that I am aware of,) to this place for the last six or eight months, but what you have spoken of me in it. In one of them (written about two months since) you spoke of me no less than three different times, and at different places in the letter. You said in it,- "The next match will be Jim & I, I expect, and that will be the strangest of all." In another letter written to the same individual, you made use of the following language, after speaking at some length of Mr. Hopkins. "But I shall be obliged to Content myself with going back to my first love,
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