Name/Title
Letter, 1885Entry/Object ID
2016.19.132Tags
1880sScope and Content
Letter to "Dear Folks" from Aurelia, Dated (?) 1885
" Dear Folks
I have just received your letter and
was enjoying myself very well (too)
a little boy came in and gave me a letter and I ( ) to casta
gloom over my feelings and is it
any wonder ( ) what mother's
heart would not ( ) in
the circumstance but father I have
a favor to ask of you and what
is do not dispose of my dear
little children of ( ) . I will come
for them soon as the weather and
the ( offering ?)of navigation will
( ) I am expecting to get some
(mowing?) from (waldsfield) in the cause
of a ______ I will
get places for time down here so that
I can ( ) and care for ( )
They shall not stay in ( )
country. I will teach school and
( ) for summer down here of I (c)
not get any ( ) else to run
It has been my intention all along
to come up for ( ) soon as I could
get the ( ) and I expect to get ok
soon. I think I can get Laura and
Mary places and Georgie , I will
take care of myself . Now you must
not try any further to ( ) places
for ( ) or they shall not stay up
there I wrote it is very hard for
pa and all of you and I have felt
it and thought about it a great
deal but did not see how I could
help it I have not love only
enough to ( ) heard ? this
winter though I have been busy
( ) all the time and
now I have Mary to take with
me everywhere . I go but I will
see what I can do and write to
you soon again I am in the
country about four miles from
Fairview and will be here all the
week. I spent there ( ) at ( )
John Shan'hous and I ( sewed) for ( )
I expect to teach school this spring
and must see about it( soon)
and engage our ( )
My health is very good now though
I was sick with a cold about three
weeks ago . Mary is well and so is
William. He grows very fast and is
one of the excellent of the boys . He has
a noble mind and Mary knows
how to appreciate his good traits
at ( ) for they love
him very much this has ( )
house I only wish the rest of us
has as good . Laura how
bad she wants to see her mother
and she shall see her soon as I ( 0
care possibly cared for her and
George - As for me getting married
I doubt can ( ) to do so till I can
( ) myself I might now if I
would take up with anybody
but I will not I could ( )
throwing myself away but ( )
(ele) Loise ( fro )
and I can better off today
think I would have been if I have
married him, He is a busy ( )
( ) and I shall be a little
cautious here after but no harm
of that now.
Now I ( ) I hope you will try to ( )
with any dear little (ones ) a ( )
longer there I will take this
off your hands I received a letter from
Laura and also a ( ) she deserves
to be away will ( ) with
( )( ) ( ) ( )
I must close for I am so cold
faces our ( ) . This back ( )
of this room . The weather is very
cold but no snow ( )
this ( ) through the (heard?)
excellent sleighing there ( )
ago and I ( ) used it ( )
I felt ( )
your deed write to mee. DO
write soon to ( )
daughters and sisters always
Give love to all for William
Mary and yourself . (Fairwell)
for the ( ) forget but
to ( ) for ( ) to the needs
(left) from our high "
( )Location
Location
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Horace Stevens Collection Box 1Room
ArchivesBuilding
Morgan History CenterDate
January 10, 2025Location
Container
Horace Stevens Collection Box 2Room
ArchivesBuilding
Morgan History CenterNotes
Folder 3Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Stevens, Horace