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CATALOG NUMBER HF 3042 Z
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE after Sept 1833 (bc of Greene St address)
(April 1835-Oct 1836?)
AUTHOR Eliza Storrs
RECIPIENT Emma Nicholas
MEDIUM Paper, pencil
PEOPLE Eliza (other), Louisa, Mama Storrs
PLACES Walden (Orange County), NY
EVENTS Eliza Storrs to Walden
Addressed to
Miss Emma Nicholas
224 Greene Street
Monday Evening
My dear Emma.
I regret very much indeed that I shall be obliged to / leave town without seeing you again / I would have called Saturday, but it / was impossible for I was so much / fatigued with walking the day before / that I could not go out & I was so / lame also that I could not walk. I / intended certainly to see you Sunday / but I have been engaged in making / preparations to leave in the morning. / I do wish to see you my dear friend / and I can scarcely be reconciled to go / and leave you so soon. Eliza and / Louisa will not listen to any / objections I can make to returning / to Walden with them, and I am /
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Pleased to go, it will be delightful / I know and the only serious objections / I have are these, that Mama will / be lonely here without me, and that / I cannot see you now until three or / four weeks more have elapsed. It / is not my intention to remain at / Walden longer than three weeks, / still I should not be surprised if I / did not return in four weeks but / certainly I shall not be absent / longer than four weeks, and as / soon as I dare return my first visit / shall be to you. If you come down / in this part of the city, I wish / you would call and see Mama / Can you not write to me while I / am absent? Direct to Walden, Orange County. I wish you would / send an answer to this.
Your affectionate
Eliza StorrsTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
