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CATALOG NUMBER HF 3043 E
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE August 19, 1835
AUTHOR Eliza Storrs (Middletown)
RECIPIENT Emma Nicholas
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Mrs and General Stevens, Mary Stevens, Mr. Morris, John Cox
Morris, Eliza Moseley, Henry Randolph Storrs, Mamma Storrs, Mr & Mrs (Frederic?) Tudor, Ann Nicholas, Julia Hoffman, Bostonians, Mrs. Otis and her sister, Henry Storrs, Dr. Schermerhorn
PLACES Hartford, Middletown, Butternut/worth?, Europe, Whitesboro,
Providence, Boston, Mount Auburn, Nahant, Sachem’s Head, Worcester, Oyster ponds
EVENTS Storrs journey to Massachusetts sights and sea shores
45th
Addressed to Miss Emma Nicholas
Care of Judge Hoffman
New York
Oyster Ponds July 26th, 1836
Middletown Aug 19th 1835
It seems a long, long time since I have / heard from you my dear Emma; and I suppose you think / it is a long time since you have heard from me. I said / I would write to you from Hartford, but I was there / only one day and of course had no time to write. I will / go back to the morning I left New York and give you / an account of my wanderings as well as I can. You remember what a thunderstorm there was the evening / before I left, I thought then that we would be obliged / to remain at home, but the sun rose bright & beautiful / and with it rose your friend Eliza, I cannot say as / bright and beautiful and not as cheerful for I always / feel sad when I leave home, although every thing is / calculated to make me happy, you know that I am / disposed to indulge in melancholy forebodings sometimes / and always when I leave home. At the boat I found / Mrs Stevens etc. and Mr. Morris who called at our house / a short time previous and said he was going to Boston /
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And would join our party. You will know what Mr / Morris this is when I tell you it is John Cox Morris [^from Butterworth?Butternut?] a / brother of the Mr M who married Eliza Moseley. He is / an old bachelor and was young in Mamma’s day, when / he studied law in Whitesboro. We found him agreeable / and as he returned from Europe a short time since he / amused Mary and I with relating his adventures etc / We remained in Providence the first night and the / next morning went to Boston, and Saturday visited / Mount Auburn which is the loveliest spot I ever / saw. It is too delightful, I was prepared to find it / beautiful but it more than equalled my expectations. / I do wish you could go there, I am sure you would / agree with me. I will tell you more about this / sweet place when I see you. We left Boston the / next Monday for Nahant and as we had received an / invitation to dine with Mr & Mrs Tudor we all went / there. You know Mrs Tudor, she inquired about your / Mother and about Julia. Mr Tudor’s cottage is the / most beautiful cottage an Nahant, indeed it is in every / respect a perfect cottage and I am sure if / circumstances can make a person happy Mrs Tudor / must be happy. We had a delightful visit and our / first impressions of Nahant were very favourable [sic] & / we were not disappointed be our future experience. /
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It is a lovely place as rude as it can be but I enjoyed / it the more on the account, and rambled about on / the rocks until my shoes were worn out and i was / obliged to stop. While we were there, there was a / storm and the surf was magnificent, I could have / amused myself with looking at the waves as they / dashed over the rocks for hours. It is very seldom they / are as fine as when we were there. The Bostonians / are very kind and we found the company agreable. / The beautiful Mrs Otis was there but I was disappointed [^in her] / she has a very pretty sister who was with her. Mr / Morris returned to Boston Thursday morning, but his / place was filled by Henry who also left us Saturday / and we followed him on Monday and ins Boston [page torn] again met both the above mentioned gentlemen, but / we met only again to part for they left the next / day for Providence and we went on Wednesday / morning to Worcester, and the next day to Hartford / where I found Papa, Mamma, and Henry. Gen. Stevens / Mrs. S _ Mary and Dr Schermerhorn went to Sachem’s / Head Friday morning and Papa went to New York / where perhaps you will see him. Mamma Henry & I / came here last Saturday, and day after to-morrow [sic] / we shall join Gen Stevens etc at Sachem’s Head and / remain at the sea shore until we return to New /
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York which will be in two or three weeks. I have / omitted a thousand things I wish to tell you, bit / when I see you I will tell them all. I have had a / delightful jaunt nothing has occurred to make it / unpleasant. I do wish you could meet us at the / sea shore for I should like to see you again my / dear Emma, often, often have I thought of you.
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Since I felt home and wished for you to participate in / my pleasures. What apology shall I make for such a / scrawl as this, you will not require any I am sure if / you can only read it I shall be glad. Mamma’s / asleep and my eyes begin to close. Mamma sends her / love to your mother and yourself [sic] give mine to your mother.
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If I knew where to tell you to direct a letter / I would but I cannot for it is uncertain / whether we remain at Sachem’s Head or go to / Oyster Ponds. I shall write to your again probably / before I return home. Goodnight for it is late.
Your affectionate ElizaTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
