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Mother | Mother M. Bangor March 7 | ||
Du Quoin, March 26, 1853 | |||
My Dear Children, First I must thank you more especially My Nettie tho you are both one- for a very beautiful Book Mark it is in modern phrase exquisitely Elegant | My Dear Children, First I must thank you more especially My Nettie tho you are both one- for a very beautiful Book Mark it is in modern phrase exquisitely Elegant | ||
I intended to have written to you again before now but being here and having in some | I intended to have written to you again before now but being here and having in some measure the care of cooking and household affairs seems to absorb about what little I have left of mind and thought-- However I enjoy it---- when you can get the girls letters as a substitute for mine you'll be great garners by it you know for I am growing old & stupid or rather I am grown old and stupid --- only think now I am 66 years old. And what has my life been ? if I could not throw it all away and flee to Christ as a hiding place and covent, how miserable I should be I had a letter from your Uncle at Woonsocket a few days since He said he had been sick but is getting better your uncle Enoch perhaps you know has had a shock of paralysis cannot use his right hand feeds and shaves himself with his left Eliab has I suppose told you of the " Brig Susan Duncan's " Disaster her Master carried away He making a Bill of 2 or 3000.00 for her owner. Eliab is more unfortunate than he us'd to be his health so poor these two years past | ||
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does not as a gift, but rather as a matter of rights , it would be more agreeable to her feelings with out doubt__ If we are wrong in the matter why then do nothing about it. I have said nothing | does not as a gift, but rather as a matter of rights , it would be more agreeable to her feelings with out doubt__ If we are wrong in the matter why then do nothing about it. I have said nothing to E as he has unusual expense about this time. In haste Most affectionately, Sister Lucy | ||
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Mother M. Bangor March 7
Du Quoin, March 26, 1853
My Dear Children, First I must thank you more especially My Nettie tho you are both one- for a very beautiful Book Mark it is in modern phrase exquisitely Elegant
I intended to have written to you again before now but being here and having in some measure the care of cooking and household affairs seems to absorb about what little I have left of mind and thought-- However I enjoy it---- when you can get the girls letters as a substitute for mine you'll be great garners by it you know for I am growing old & stupid or rather I am grown old and stupid --- only think now I am 66 years old. And what has my life been ? if I could not throw it all away and flee to Christ as a hiding place and covent, how miserable I should be I had a letter from your Uncle at Woonsocket a few days since He said he had been sick but is getting better your uncle Enoch perhaps you know has had a shock of paralysis cannot use his right hand feeds and shaves himself with his left Eliab has I suppose told you of the " Brig Susan Duncan's " Disaster her Master carried away He making a Bill of 2 or 3000.00 for her owner. Eliab is more unfortunate than he us'd to be his health so poor these two years past
left side of page and top does not as a gift, but rather as a matter of rights , it would be more agreeable to her feelings with out doubt__ If we are wrong in the matter why then do nothing about it. I have said nothing to E as he has unusual expense about this time. In haste Most affectionately, Sister Lucy