Letter

Name/Title

Letter

Entry/Object ID

76.18.25

Scope and Content

A note about a young woman committing suicide. "The young lady who wrote the following lines terminated her existence by swallowing a large quantity of laudanum She was a person of an amiable and affectionate disposition lovely and end ingaging in her person and belove by all who had the pleasure of an acquaintance with her It was expected that she was sone be married and her intended husband spent part of the night precding her death in her company he left she retired to her chambers wrote these lines swallowed the fatal poisone and in less than two hours her spirit took its flight from this to the eternal world, The cause of her taking her owne life will probably remain a mystery untill the grate day of final accounts when the secrets of all hearts shall be made known. The balmy spring and odoriferous sumer sporting with then thousands swells of Autumn, nor the whi have no charm for me Nor have the beauteous fields of autumn nor the .... "

Collection

Jewell

Acquisition

Accession

76.18

Source or Donor

Jewell, Mrs. V.C.

Acquisition Method

Gift

Location

Container

Jewell Collection

Room

Archives

Building

Morgan History Center