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1848 August 5 . E. J. Howe ALS to Mr. & Mrs. Enoch Dole; Lynn, [Massachusetts].

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Abstract:
Notes "drunken rowdies" making a false claim of fire and getting arrested and a subsequent real fire breaking out. Comments on Fourth of July celebrations, a fishing trip where members of the party got drunk, and a preacher's condemnation of the level of "rowdyism and recklessness" in Lynn. Agrees that young men spend too much time in "Rum Holes, Bowling Saloons, Billiard Rooms, and in places sunk still lower in vice," and disagrees with the sentiment that "the young should be allowed to sow their wild oats." Some of his poetry has been published in the Lynn News. Glad the recipients are pleased with their "new situation," questions rates of marital happiness, and notes he might not consider marriage "if it was not for the buttons I have to sew on… because I have no one to repair my clothes."
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