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Eno family letters, October 1832-October 1834
1834-09-03 Page 1
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Penn Yan Sept 3 1834 Dear Father I received your letter last evening I was glad to hear that you enjoy your health this summer, my own is very good and it is generally healthy in this part of the Country - there have been several cases of Asiatic Cholera in Canandaigua & Geneva but none here. many of our citizens emigrated to Michigan this last spring and several have fallen victims - the mortality has been dreadful in Detroit. I received a letter from a young man an acquaintance of mine who stated that nearly three hundred persons had died & business was at a complete stand in that place - I extremely sorry to hear that Rufus is an unpromising boy - I fear that the company he's in daily is not of the right kind associating with persons whose talk is of nothing but horses he will of course partake of their habits & dispositions. Could he not be put into some business where it would occupy his entire attention - suppose he should engage with some one in working a farm - and thus excite his ambition by showing him that if he pursues a proper course he will be enabled to own one himself - And could it not be worked so that he should have an Interest it will not endangering any thing which you should let him have or making yourself responsible for his faults or misfortunes I do not think he is too young - let him
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Penn Yan Sept 3 1834 Dear Father I received your letter last evening I was glad to hear that you enjoy your health this summer, my own is very good and it is generally healthy in this part of the Country - there have been several cases of Asiatic Cholera in Canandaigua & Geneva but none here. many of our citizens emigrated to Michigan this last spring and several have fallen victims - the mortality has been dreadful in Detroit. I received a letter from a young man an acquaintance of mine who stated that nearly three hundred persons had died & business was at a complete stand in that place - I extremely sorry to hear that Rufus is an unpromising boy - I fear that the company he's in daily is not of the right kind associating with persons whose talk is of nothing but horses he will of course partake of their habits & dispositions. Could he not be put into some business where it would occupy his entire attention - suppose he should engage with some one in working a farm - and thus excite his ambition by showing him that if he pursues a proper course he will be enabled to own one himself - And could it not be worked so that he should have an Interest it will not endangering any thing which you should let him have or making yourself responsible for his faults or misfortunes I do not think he is too young - let him
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