Norman Cary 1865

Sept 11,65 Alice Please explain "That (the $7 from tickets) added to the $12 which your board will cost will make enough to bring you home" I have had several duckings since I wrote last. Can you cook with the range yet? I thank you for the insinuation about my [?] in New York at night. Please send my muse to meet me + take me home. If you can find the large almanac in red printed by Ringwalt + Brown roll it up like music + send it to me. I want it very much indeed Yours, N.W Cary To Mother Seymour classes in the english department [?] I have told you the names of the boys 2 seniors 1 middler Seymour + myself + a teacher by the name of Perkins. You ask the names + sizes George Arthur Strong 4 House 5 room senior about 1/2 head taller Walter Rogers Beach 4 House 5 room senior about my size John Gray 4 House 5 room Middler about 1/2 head taller I wish you would send money to Cousin Geo. Ward for [metodrama?]. But I dont want to trouble him so much. I will write him if I get into trouble. I wish you would send a basket of Phil. peaches up here. Peaches here are about the size of walnuts. Geo. Dodge is a nice fellow not extra quick in study but I can judge better when we get in [?] when we will be on an equal footing I have translated what he has not. He is not at all like his father. He is restless in church. Who would not be with such seats? When I write I do as you do about playing letter before you + when I have ans all the questions I take a list + ask you things Lovingly little mother. Tell me what time letters reach you. [?] mails go out at 12 M + 6 PM + two in at 8.30 A.M. + 4 P.M. This letter will leave at 6 P.M. tonight tell me when you get it. Have you paid your life insurance at New York + what arrangements did you make about insuring the addition to the building? What did the hooks you sent, cost? Also the slippers? Also paper collars? Also linen collars? Also shirts? The boys

like the idea of my silent comforter, Please send the N.Y. observer regularly. I now close + go to dinner. I have made out Miss Woodward + Nan's a/c of our trip + will sent it to then direct or, send it to you first just as you wish. The new suits are made for sleeve buttons of the kind like studs only longer. Will you get me a pair with C on them or shall I get them in Boston I would like you to choose them if you can + send them on perhaps you can get them at Jacob's Chestnut below 13 where the shirts were made. Like this C like your zeal for letters. Side view the hole in my sleeve is so long one a little smaller than this will do nicely. The suits collar + slippers fit nicely.

order to be set up at a moments notice. I bought pipe [picture] for 75 cts it is sound & good. I paid $2.25 for painted foot tub those not painted cost $2. 35 cts for a dust pan & 25 cts for a shovel. Seymour has only a little money with him & when he wants some he will write home for it. I study 7-8 1/2 in morning 1 1/2 to 3 & 7-9 P.M. 5 hours in all. Dont let jack die unless you wish to kill me too. Explain buy cushion - like your Father's - The quilt fits nicely I have not written the boys but once to Percy Lewis Explain - clear yourself of all mischief I would not like to be Mother to a thief - do you mean that I would steal. When I want pants I will write cousin George Waid. The teacher opposite my room goes away on Saturday. Keep your money for I dont want it spent for a birthday present. All my room furniture etc. are birthday presents.

Yours in haste N.W. Cary

Answer immediately with advice

Andover. Mass Sept.13.1865 Dear Mother, I am in trouble. Last night about 7 1/4 Taft Senior came in + sat in the rocking chair + acted foolishly I suspected something & soon Gray Middler came in + asked me to go + look at some stove pipe which he had offered me for sale.* I went got them + on returning when on stairs leading to 2nd. story I received the contents of a full pail ful of water it was dark but I heard

*I omitted I looked for my hat to put it on to go with him not finding it missing, supposing I had mislaid it I borrowed Seymours,

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steps upstairs + a door close I went up + found after a long knocking at the door + getting in an assembly. Taft then proposed Mr Beach Senior as Chairman + they had a mock meeting I was elected Sec. pro. tem. (Explanation of Sec. pro. tem. The class had a meeting the other day + I in simpleness of heart, got up stated that there should be a Secretary pro. tem. to keep a record of the meeting + also asked what the [?] of the meeting was. I learned that it was to engage speakers +c. for the winter + if not enough tickets are sold each time the club class makes up the rest. Since then they regarded this as interference + sec. pro. tem has been a joke against me.) Taft is a great coarse boy who smoke, chews, + swears. He uses tobacco so much that he cant say the name Cary [?] care - [?]. His tongue is as thick with chewing.)

Shall I pay my share or not.

In the meeting it was stated that the hat had disappeared and the dudsing given because I would wear the pin in the side of my hat after it had been taken out by force so many times. I found who were in the meeting. Laft Beach, Strong (Seniors) Stray, and P Emerson (Middlers) and a few others of no account. This morning I said without thinking that unless the hat or money enough to by a new one + to pay my fare to Boston + back here in my hands thus evening I would tell Uncle Sam. This of course made them keep it here until further issues. While at speaking exercise this afternoon. When I came home I found the lock in order but the latch was fastened I tried to climb in the window but jumped back in time to escape a bucket full of water. When Seymour came I told him and he climbed in + found a piece of wood in the latch + his trunk moved against it. While waiting for Seymour's arriral I found in conversation that I was disliked for the hat business (1) because being a stranger here I put on too many airs i.e. was too familiar which is the true nature of my heart (2) + for my threatening to tell Uncle Sam (3) I am disliked for these three things wherein I meant no wrong. I am the butt of ridicule. the recipient of tricks+generally disliked for my for-