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CATALOG NUMBER HF 3043 O
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE June 1837
AUTHOR Eliza Storrs (New York)
RECIPIENT Emma Nicholas (Belvidere)
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE
PLACES
EVENTS
55th
Addressed to Miss Emma Nicholas
Belvidere
New York June 1837
When your letter my ever dear Emma / arrived I was in Whitesboro and I did not receive it until / my return a fortnight ago. I went to W soon after I wrote last / anticipating nothing but pleasure, and I intended writing / to you while I was there, but I was taken ill the day after / my arrival and scarcely left the house except to ride out / and spent most of the time on the bed, I lost all my / strength and never was so feeble. Papa came up for us / (Mamma & I) and we came home, I have been under the / doctor’s care since our return & with warm baths, riding & / a strict diet I am rapidly recovering. I have not been / able to do any thing or I would have answered your / welcome letter, this is the first letter I have attempted / to write. I have already written about nothing but / I presume you would like to know what has been the / matter. I have had some inflammation about my / throat & chest which disarranged my whole system taking /
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Away both flesh & strength. I shall be well enough to leave / town next week, when Papa returns from Saratogo, direct / your letters as usual and they will be sent to me. I / have much to write but cannot write all now, I thought / you would rather have a short letter than none, or I / should not have taken this small sheet.
Dear Emma how I wish you could / have remained with us, instead of going to Illinois, / When I read your letter my heart ached for you. We both / have peace and quiet and I can easily imagine how / you must long for it now. I do hope your situation / will soon be better. I must stop now for I am tired.
July 8th
I commenced this several days / ago as you will se ebay the date, since that I have / not been as well or it should have been finished / I am now better & to morrow [sic] we leave for / New Haven where we are to stay probably until / we go to Oyster Ponds where Gen[eral] Stevens things/ of going [^ also] I would fill this sheet if I could / but when I tell you that for 7 weeks I have done nothing [--b-u-t- crossed out] you will excuse me. I / would not send this but to convince you / that you are not forgotten, never indulge / such an idea my dear Emma, be assured I /
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Will write as soon as I can and ever believe / me as much attached as ever to you. The / girls are all well. Mamma writes with me in / love to your mother, Matilda, Mr W & kisses to / the little ones. Do you know that old Mrs. / [Rapelje?] is married to Chabert the Fire King? / is it not strange. Sarah Henry too is married to / Thomas Davis. I could write on but must stop. / Good bye my dear friend, write to me as / usual your letters will be sent to me.
Yours with much
Affection
Eliza Storrs
One piece of news I must write. Mrs Frederick / Paulding whom we admire so much is en famille / the family are delighted. Poor Phil will not be as / much of a pet. Cornelia McCrakan is in the / same predicament.
ENDTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
