Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER S 1011
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE February 28, 1811
AUTHOR William Sawyer
RECIPIENT Mary Anna Sawyer Schuyler
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Mifs [Snopes?], Miss [Scottay?], Catharine Schuyler
(step-daughter), Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (sister), Louisa Austin Lee (niece), Mary Ann Gardner Lee (niece),
PLACES Rhinebeck, Boston, Newburyport,
KEYWORDS “Lapland winter”, planning visit from Boston to Rhinebeck, he has
gotten “portly” over winter like a bear, Ball given by the Mifs
[Snopes?], bad roads, Rheumatism (quarantine), little children,
Feb’y 28th 1811
This Lapland winter has produced amongst us / on one fide or the others a fort of torpid ftate. But as / the Sun begins to cheer + warm us again we must / banish this ftate of non Intercourse and plan new / interviews _ It is faid as the mountain cannot remove to / Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain, which . means I take it here that as Rhinebeck cannot come / to Boston we must make you a visit. This I hope to / do alone if I can get no one to join me in all the month / of April. As bears are said to fatten in winter buried / in snow + fleep _ so have I … Putting on my boots / has become quite a puffing labor _ and I don’t know / whether I can’t buckle my own fhoe . You will / find me as portly as your ladyship _ Last even’g / however at a Ball given by the Mifs [Snopes?] I danced / one dance without lefs inconvenience than might / have been expected in my corpulent fituations. - We /
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Had a pleasant part. Miss [Scottay?] the younger fpoke / of the pleasure she had enjoyed in receiving a long letter / from Katharine. _ Hannah is very well + the infant _ it is now a fortnight, gran[ts] I believe the / father thinks it a rare child _ but I have hardly seen the / little stranger. Maryann Lee is a little bustling [ma- / nasing?] diverting little body always on the go. _ / I have not been to N. Pt this winter and fhall / wait till the fnow is gone our roads are very bad _ / I am forry to hear that Mr Schuyler has been a little / indisposed _ Spring & warm weather will probably / restore him . We have had three gent- confined to the / House + chamber for 7 or 8 weeks two with Rheumatism - / Remember me to all around you _ beginning from knee high / + upwards _ Your aff’t brother
W. S.
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[POSTMARK - red ink, circle]
BOSTON M[S]
MAR
1
[ADDRESS]
Philip J. Schuyler Esq’r
For Mrs. S. -
Rhynbeck_
N.Y.
[REVERSE OF ADDRESS]
Wm S
April 28, 1811Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
