Transcribe Fenn, S. P. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1852-07-01)

a tour by way of spending our leisure hours we each bought 50 books(Wells's Lawyers) for which we paid 20 cts apiece in N. Y. city and started in an easterly direction. I sold 6 the first day (50 cts apiece) and Condron 7, and so on, we went East as far as Clyde stoping at all the intermediate places, and then South as far as Elmira, we walked part of the way and rode the rest, we walked from Elmira to Jefferson in one day carying upon our backs about 15 books apeice. It rained all that </s day > day as it did most of the time while we were away. I lost about one dollar and a half by the operation but was well satisfied While in Geneva we visited the Medical college. The Janitor was very polite to us. He </s at > conducted us all over the building not excepting the disecting rooms, we saw three subjects about half cut up When we entered the rooms I had no idea of where we were going, the first thing that met my </s sid > eyes was a couple of legs and arms then on a table was the body of a man partly cut up and in an adjoining room were two other bodies. When we were out Condron said he would have given almost anything