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dc.creatorClark, Thomas M.
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-29T14:37:57Z
dc.date.available2021-03-29T14:37:57Z
dc.date.issued1891-03-12
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/44307
dc.descriptionLetter from uncle with an update on the loss of his job at school.
dc.format.medium5.75x9 paper
dc.relationClark Family Letters
dc.rightsPrior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any document or photograph
dc.sourceBox 2, Folder 11, Item 11
dc.subjectClark, Addison, Jr. "Addie"
dc.titleLetter to Addison Clark Jr.
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dc.description.transcriptionHome, March 12th/91 Mr. A. Clark. Jr.Dallas,Texas.My dear Nephew:-Your dear letter come to hand a day or two since,and I take advantage of this the first opportunity I have had, to reply. If sympathy will do you any good, my dear boy, be assured of car loads of it. You were blue indeed, but I am equally so.I presume you have heard from the home folks that the board have dropped me from the faculty of AddRan University. They try to ease my wounded feelings by saying it is only to curtail expensesand not because of any objection to me or my work. Small comfort in this. I will keep asking “Whyshould my department be dropped rather than some other? Is it of less importance to the school? I cannot think so since more than two-thirds of the entire collegiate pupils have had lessons with me during the past five years, and today I have more names on my roll book than any other teacher in school. But why need I question,since there is no one to answer my questions? I am afraid,Addie dear, that this move will interfere with our western trip, and I regret that, for I had my heart set on being with you all summer and sharing with you the joys of the life we both love so much. Of course now I shall leave to spend the summer hunting a new place for work.I do not wish to teach if I can help it, but more than likely I shall leave to content myself with a small school source where in the backwoods. Not a very delightful prospect, eh? Ah,well there! Let it go. Throw ___care to the wind. It ages one to worry, and I do not want to grow old, of all things.Suppose I suggest a line of life work for you? Oh, no, my boy, and don’t you be in anyhurry to choose. There is plenty of time. Whateveryou do, do not enter upon anything as a life work without abundance of interest and enthusiasm. Especially let it be so with preaching. Do you know, my dear, that is just the reason I did not continue a preacher? You know I began, but it was in a listless,half-hearted wayand I said “I will not do anything so importantunless I can put my best effortsand my highest interest andenthusiasm into it. So I quit, and that was worse than never to have begun. Profit by my experience and be very careful. Work along for yet awhile, and by and by your life work will present itself and you will be so anxious to begin it that you will not pause a moment to consult with anyone as to the propriety of it.I thank you for your invitation to visit you, and sometime next month when the days grow warm and it is almost impossible to stay in doors I shall accept,and come for a day or two. Speaking of warm days though leads me to remark that today old Boreas Bluster has been cutting up the most outrageous pranks. Think of a heavy sleet & snow storm on the 12thof March, when flowers should be blooming, birds singing and damenature arraying herself in her gayest gown of spring green. I suppose we must make up our minds to go another yearwithout fruit, as thosewho ought to know about such things declare that it is surely “done for.” ____yes,I got the photoand could have ____myself for not acknowledging its receipt and thanking you for it in my last letter. Please do not think “sou” that it was for lack of appreciation that I did not. Nothing I have received for many days has given me so much pleasure. My mind was sofull of the western trip, when I wrote last, that every thing else was for the momentforgotten. Aunt Alice admired so muchthelittle scenecardsyousentthat she took them from meat once, and says she means to keep them. Mrs. FlorrieDavis is quite sick and her house at Grapevine, and Alice thinks of going over there next week.You know the just came home three weeks ago from a month’s visit to Galveston, McKinney, and other places and I shall be sorry to have her go away again so soon, but,of course,under the circumstances she ought to go. Now, Addie I have scribbled enough. Pardon pencil writing, and write to me realsoon.Lovingly,Uncle Tommie


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