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CATALOG NUMBER HF 3042 Y
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE September 12, 1836
AUTHOR Eliza Storrs (NYC)
RECIPIENT Emma Nicholas (17th Street, NYC)
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Henry Randolph Storrs, Aunt Trumbull, Aunt Eliza, Henry, Mary,
Hon. Joseph Trumbull, Charles Fenno Hoffman, Mr. Noyes, Helen, Sophia Kip, Mrs. Ellsworth
PLACES Hartford, 17th Street, City Hall, Canal Street, Trinity Church,
Oyster Bay
EVENTS enclosed “some verses”, accidental omnibus ride, Anne Noye’s
Death, Storrs to Hartford
(not numbered)
Addressed to Miss Emma Nicholas
(no street, no postmark)
When you receive this my / dear Emma I shall probably be in Hartford. / Nothing but inability has prevented me from / seeing you before I leave and when I think / how very soon you are going away I half / wish to remain at home. All last week after / I left you something happened every day to / prevent my going out to 17th Street and on Friday we received a letter from Aunt / Trumbull urging us to come up and / make her a visit this week. Papa wishes / me to go and this in addition to the / pleasure of visiting Aunt Eliza and of / being once more at liberty to run in the / country has desired me to go. Henry is / going and we shall probably return / the first of next week. As soon as I / return I shall ride out to see you /
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And you must be prepared to come / home and spend a week with me, for / I am afraid to have it put off longer / lest by such procrastination you will / go away and not come at all, and / you know Emma that it would be / ever regretted by me should you go / without making this promised visit. / Oh Emma who knows whether or when / we shall ever have another opportunity / of being together so long again. When I / think of your going it seems as if I / could not have it so. Enclosed is a copy of some verses I saw the other day & / which will please you I think. I / remembered your observations upon the / text which is the subject of them and / thought they would exactly suit you.
I saw Charles in the street one day last week, so your / wanderers have returned and you / are no longer alone.
I had a fine ride in the Omnibus the morning I left /
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You. I was no sooner seated than I / perceived it was a Canal st stage and / that I must ride through Broadway and / as it was raining it was impossible for / me to walk and when your Grandpapa / get out at the City Hall, I mustered all / my resolution and resolved to ride down / to Trinity Church, as there was quite a / gentlemanly looking personage opposite / me I thought that if any thing should / happen be would protect me and by / trying to forget I was alone, I consoled / myself. Nothing happened, when the / stage stopped this unknown gave the / driver my shilling and I jumped out / as soon as possible. /
I will write to / you from Hartford, and if you will write to me in a day or two and direct it to the care of Hon. Joseph Trumball / I shall get your letter, don’t wait for / me to write, but write in a day or two / from this time. I received a note from / Mary at Oyster Bay last week they will / be at home the last of this week she said. /
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I retain your parasol and half dollar / with many thanks for both. Have / you heard of Anne Noyes’ death? She / died very suddenly last Monday. Poor / Mr. Noyes is almost frantic. Oh Emma / what an affliction it is to him, and to / the family, it is an irreparable loss. I / have not heard very particularly about her / death but expect a letter from Helen soon /
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and shall know. Good bye my / dear Emma accept [illegible] affection from
Your sincere friend
Eliza Storrs
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Sophia Kip is going with us, to / visit Mrs. Ellsworth. I expect to / enjoy myself very much and wish / you could go (I should not have / copied the poetry on such exquisite paper / but do you remember you told me once to / write to you on it.Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
