Name/Title
Letter from Anna Titus to Miss Lydia CahoonEntry/Object ID
2000.FIC.02.225Scope and Content
Letter from Anna Titus assumed to have been a fellow teacher to Miss Lydia Cahoon. She says how much she misses her and thanking her for the Christmas gift she had sent to her.
Paper is folded at the top so pages 1 and 3 are 8" in height and when opened to page 2, 16".
2000.FIC.02.225A
Toledo, Ohio Feb 5th 1846
My Dear Friend,
I have thought of you very often since I last saw you, and have promised myself a number of times the pleasure of writing you, for I could not bear to think that an acquaintance that was so pleasant at least to me should be entirely broken.
You cannot tell how gratified I feel when I received your Christmas gift for I felt thee that you had not quite forgotten me.
It gave me too more courage to write you. Be assured that I shall always appreciate your very kind way of remem...
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...bering me. How are you? I hope you have a pleasant school according to what your sister says, a teachers first year in Cleveland must be quite hard. I am sorry for your sake that it is so, for after this very hard year you had here. you ought to have a great many easy ones. my school is quite pleasant this year. We have a very pleasant corps of teachers in our building so that makes our schools seem easier than they would otherwise be. Miss Mulholland one of teachers in our building that I suppose you would remember is my roomate this year.
I have a very pleasant boarding place and what makes it seem particularly enjoyable is that the gentleman of the house is so very pleasant. The has been a
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period in my life where I would not have appreciated anything of that kind as I do now.
After my experience though with that dreadful Cabin of mine (dont you ever tell what I say) a pleasant man will always possess peculiar charms for me. I don't care if he is the greatest rogue in Christendom if he will only be pleasant about it. I shall like him some anyway. Little Bess I think grows more & more cunning every time I see her. -
and Charles I am happy to say seems to be improving too. You would laugh though at the funny mistakes he makes in woods. You know his failing in that respect. I suppose you know that he goes to school now. He gets along very nicely. The other day he came home his
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mother said, howling and carrying on dreadfully you know how he will do. He told his mother that he had got a scratch in school and he knew the next thing he would get would be a whipping. Of course his mother could not imagine what was the matter until she found out from Lila that scratch meant check. Marys baby is really sweet. I wish you could see it.
I suppose you have heard from your sister the war that Gen Hill is raging against Col DeWolf. I should not wonder much if Col DeWolf wouldn't be forced to resign at the close of the year.
I should be very happy to hear from you any time that you feel like writing.
That God will bless you in your life and give you his own peace is the prayer of your friend.
Anna Titus.
315 13 St.
Care T.S. Fuller
2000.FIC.02.225B Envelope:
Postmark: TOLEDO, O.
FEB / 8 /4 PM
Sideways stamp: Green 3 cent George Washington
Miss Lydia Cahoon
Newburg
Cuyahoga Co.
OhioCollection
Early Family Papers: CahoonRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Cahoon, LydiaPerson or Organization
DeWolf, ColonelPerson or Organization
Hill, GeneralPerson or Organization
Mulholland, MissPerson or Organization
Titus, Anna
