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dc.creatorClark, Addison, Jr., 1873-1903
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-23T20:16:17Z
dc.date.available2020-11-23T20:16:17Z
dc.date.issued1892-08-10
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/42687
dc.descriptionfamily and personal update
dc.format.medium8x10 paper
dc.relationClark Family Letters
dc.rightsPrior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any document or photograph
dc.sourceBox 2, Folder 3, Item 4
dc.subjectClark, Addison, Jr. "Addie"
dc.subjectClark, Addison, Sr.
dc.titleLetter to Addison Clark, Sr.
dc.typeDocument
dc.description.transcriptionThorps Spring Aug. 10- 92 Dear papa:- Your letter was received yesterday. Sister is better and able to be up now. I trust she will be all right by the beginning of school. I saw Amos Driver about that note and he said he couldn’t pay it now but would try to get it as soon as he went home. Seemed to be rather indifferent about it. As he is not of age the note will be no account except as a moral obligation. Might use it at the bank if it was endorsed. I want to get to see him and have a new note made and endorsed, if he will. I am glad you wrote as you did about that matter. I would be very glad if you would give me more advice in such matters and not leave everything to my judgement, which I fear is not at all good at times. At this time of life I suppose it is inevitable that a boy should have a great many hopes longings, and plans for the future, most of which a few years experiences and contact with the realities of life with dissipate. A great many mistakes are certain to be made and there is the need of some one who has passed through it all to guide and direct and prevent there being any evil result from these mistakes. While I have been more intimate with Uncle T. than anyone else, it has been rather as comrades than as boy and man, he hardly ever advising me in matters of the heart, but rather trusting my judgement as you have done. It is pleasant to be this trusted, but it makes my responsibility greater and I doubt that it is best. Please always tell me when I am not acting for the best. Perhaps I have been indiscreet and said and done many things, which though now they seem all right, in looking back on them from manhood, I may regret them as silly and foolish. I have never thought of marrying except as in the distant when I have made a man and can realize what that means. The course I have mapped out is one of work and study and leaves very little time for sentiment. I should not have written so much of myself so will stop now. I send you one letter which we did not know what to do with. Lovingly -Addie C-


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