Origsize: 9 x 6.75; Origformat: Artifact; Resolution: 600 DPI
Name/Title
Letter to Elizabeth W. Braman from Amy Aldrich
Entry/Object ID
2024.02.44
Scope and Content
Letter to Elizabeth W. Braman from Amy Aldrich
THe letter is folded into four sections with it strating on the front right section of the paper. There is also writing on the header of both sides of the page concluding the letter.
Front right:
Sep 10 1889
My dear Sister Elizabeth I am not ??? with house work as I used to be but have to think what to do to busy myself about I have been to Jeromes and churned two or three times and helped to care for her baby boy ??? he will be two in December his Wife offers to get me a dress and has got me a ball of knitting yarn I have commenced to crochet an Article for you if you will accept it the newspaper called it an An Article convenient for traveling I thought in a minute it would be
Back left:
nice for you at home and ready if you were to Travel I have named it a Hussy and shall Try to make the whole affair worth Two dollars it is no beauty is a convenience for any one who has little room as one that boards and lives in their Trunk I received those flower seeds and worked like the dickens for Them to be put in the ground right I spaded and caried good soil and Tried to kill a Trumpet e?? time but the e?? ran all over them and smothered them I gave Lizzie a share of them and she is having good luck and is going to
Back RIght:
save seeds for me of them I divided also with Guest Lyngnan and he has good luck Daniel bought a new house for his hired man and family I gave him a full share of the ?magre Cannobulus? he has four windows cornered with the vines one window has five different colors and butiful luck with pansies petunias postutaen and has one plant of white artemesia I think I shall get every variety of seeds again I have received ?Picks? fall catalogue and intend to send for bulbs and bushes Lizzie is going to help me do some flowering ?Monons?
Front Left:
and a yellow rose bush I sympathize with you in working so hard if I were near enough to come and help you one or two weeks as you used to me I would gladly do so but no it is not so I can only think of you and that does no real good and still one loves to be remembered Dans Wife has gone to Cleveland and her child is with her that makes it very lonesome here now Jerome is at work very hard in a quarry down by the Rawsons bridge Mrs Rawson is Dead
Front Right Header: this is a short letter but I will try and do better soon Pleas answer this if I do not get an answer I shall turn my mind another way
Back header:
I will wait till Christmas before I turn
Front left Header:
how is David it seems to me as if he is dropsieal like his Father and is very fleshy is he was please tell me how much he weighs you sister Amy Nesbett
