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1847 December 12 . [L.S. Cusse?] ALS to Jim [J.C. Hostetter]; Cincinnati, [Ohio].

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Box 2
Abstract:
Remarks on acquaintance Jim’s recent “Magnolia trip.” Comments on women of Cincinnati, especially one he is trying to avoid who he calls “horribly diseased.” Unable to flirt with more reputable women, as he is busy with college exams and classes, including Anatomy, Pathology, and Chemistry. “The Lord deliver me from being bound by the ties of matrimony with a City Belle. Our Prof. of Midwifery says half the adult girls in this city are troubled with Leucorrhoea, which has been excited by their mode of living.” References a “grey overcoat” of his that Jim may use in company with an unnamed woman. Notes the many attractions held in the city, but he has refused to attend any except a microscope exhibition and “a curiosity in the way of a horse—a sort of 1/2 horse 1/4 sheep 1/8 goat 1/8 elephant.”
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