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Instructive Letter,,By Dr. Connelley'fl Father.81G Lincoln Street, _Topeka, Kan,, Mar. 4, 1913. 6fl Dr. Walter C Connelley, aSalycrsville, Ky. ,Dear Walter:1 thank you for your kind letter of the 23rd of February, en-closing plat allowing proposed cut in the Licking River, I can readily identify all the points on the map. I see that the Sugar Camp Branch is on the other side of the river below the Sanford Reed farm, and that the cut would start in above where he used to live.I will be fifty-eight the 15th of this month. I was oorn March “ ! 15, 1855. Your children are rap-[ idly growing up* It seems im- ^ possible that you should have a son nine years old. They will I soon he grown. Keep plenty of | good papers and books for them to read, Get them story books and nursery rhymes, and for _ Francis get fairy stories and mythology—in addition to his school books of history and oth- ^ er studies. Story books stimu- ^ late the imagination and make m children love to read* One of j* the most fortunate things in my life was the finding of a part of a volume of The Arabian Nights when I was a boy. 1 read it and re-read it. I did not understand ail of it. and I studied about it and wondered over it. And 1 teach the children to read the Bible, There is nothing finer in all literature than the Book of Ruth, the Pualms, the books of the prophets, the Gospels, and E the Revelations. Read these to the children and explain the wonderful things in them. The Book of Daniel is one of the ! most interesting pieces of literature the world aver saw. The moat sublime prophecy in the Bible is the vision of Daniel I when he saw the little stone cut | ! out of the mountain and grow to I fill the whole earth.I send vou a piece for the 1 MOUNTAINEER. 1 will write Ja reminiscent articb soon for I the paper, and tell of the first schools we had tl ere, who the teachers were, and some of the pupils, And other old-time inci* dent*. That it, if they *re wanted.The weather has been frightfully cold here; and almost all f the time since the holidays. A f I seven inch snow is juat now J melting off.5 We are all well; hope this will ' i find you and all the family well. 4 Your father truly,William E. Ccnnclley,f I Note,
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Salyersville Kentucky Mountaineer
Salyersville, Kentucky, US
Fri, Apr 18, 1913
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