Name/Title
Letter form Elizabeth Fisk to Mrs. Phebe FiskEntry/Object ID
HHV 003.421Description
Letter form Elizabeth Fisk to Mrs. Phebe FiskSubject
Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary, examinations, Elizabeth didn’t do hers because of illness, “weak
nerves”, overwhelmed with studies, Elbridge sent book, 4th of July holidaySubject Person/Organization
Elizabeth Fisk, Phebe Peters Fisk, Emma Willard, Josiah Fisk, Annette Fisk, Abbey Covell Peters, Elbridge FiskSubject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
Troy, NYCollection
Irving Manuscript CollectionTranscription
Transcription
Troy Seminary July 3d . 1828 Thursday.
My dear Mother
I have not sat down to tell you my / doubts and hopes, fears and anxieties with regard to / the coming examination - for my examination is past / and instead of being examined as I expected, by a / Doctor of Metaphysica _ I have been examined by / a Doctor of Physics _ My health has not been very good / for two or three weeks _ but I attributed to the very / warm weather we have had __ and thought when / that was pafsed I should feel better _ if I did not / I expected to have seen Pa by this time ) and this / is the reason I have not told you before that I was / not quite well __
Aunt Abbey says she thinks I ought not to study any / more at present _ and I rather think so too – for it is / so near examination that if I studied at all I should / of course study hard __ I don’t know that I have / any particular disease about me _ only that my / nerves are weak _ and my appetite not very good __ / I think perhaps, a short journey _ about 170 miles, north / where the air is cooler and purer would be as /
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Beneficial to me as anything _ I told one of the / young ladies this morning that I didn’t know how / to tell you I was sick _ but I think you must / understand it by this time __ I hope you will not feel at all alarmed about me / I go down stairs to all my meals and walk about house _ have not studied for five or six days _ / and am not allowed to go into the street _ though / I think it would not hurt me to walk as far as / Mrs [Covel’s?] _ I have spent only one afternoon with / Aunt Abbey since she has been here _ I hope / that tomorrow Mrs Williard will let me go and / spend the day with her _ I received a book / from Elbridge monday [^ Tuesday] evening and much obliged / to him for sending it _ but shall probably not be / about to use it _
Tell Annette I received her letter _ and at a time / when it did me a great deal of good __ / There is no school from now till Monday on / account of it’s [^being] 4th of July – and perhaps by / the time school begins again I shall be able / to study __ Your ever affectionate daughter
Elizabeth
Mrs. P. Fisk __
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[POSTMARK]
12 ½
[ADDRESS]
Mrs. Phebe Fisk.
Keeseville
Efsex County
New York.
[LABEL]
1828
[POSTAGE STAMP - red ink, oval]
TROY
NY
JUL 4Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
EnglishOther Names and Numbers
Other Numbers
Number Type
Former NumberOther Number
W 3121 C
