[Letters to the Editor]
Dublin Core
Title
[Letters to the Editor]
Subject
Letters, Praise, Requests
Creator
Unknown
Source
http://addison.vt.edu/record=b1775388~S1
Publisher
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Date
March 1876
Contributor
Katie Garahan, Alexis Priestley
Rights
Permission to publish images from The Gray Jacket must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Format
Text
Language
English
Type
Letter
Identifier
LD5655.V8 L4, ser.1, v.1, no.6 (Mar. 1876), p.4, 6
Coverage
Blacksburg, VA
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Editor of the Gray Jacket—The last paper you sent out was so good that I thought I would give you a little praise for it, by writing to you and telling you how every one praised it to whom I showed it.
Editors of Gray Jacket—We have only one "Rat" among the new cadets, who is much more of a ladies' man. He has accomplished more than any of the old cadets, although he is so very bashful that he asked one of our town belles to write him a letter addressing a young lady, which she did, and he immediately posted it to our town belle, from whom he received the following:
"Blacksburg, March 1st, 1876.
"My Dear Friend—A physician will prescribe for a sick person, a friend will do a kindness for a friend but did you ever know of a physician who could be induced to take the medicine he had prescribed for his patient, or of a friend who could receive as the sentiments of another the very words that she herself had penned? I have never found such a one, besides you are depriving me of my only pleasure; remember this is Leap Year.
"Permit me to remain,
"Your sincere friend,
"J.—
Editors of Gray Jacket—We have only one "Rat" among the new cadets, who is much more of a ladies' man. He has accomplished more than any of the old cadets, although he is so very bashful that he asked one of our town belles to write him a letter addressing a young lady, which she did, and he immediately posted it to our town belle, from whom he received the following:
"Blacksburg, March 1st, 1876.
"My Dear Friend—A physician will prescribe for a sick person, a friend will do a kindness for a friend but did you ever know of a physician who could be induced to take the medicine he had prescribed for his patient, or of a friend who could receive as the sentiments of another the very words that she herself had penned? I have never found such a one, besides you are depriving me of my only pleasure; remember this is Leap Year.
"Permit me to remain,
"Your sincere friend,
"J.—