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In addition, Edward writes that he is busy during the day copying law documents and that he is currently courting a girl, and mentions that Black Duke, the family dog, has died. He asks Callie not to show this letter to anyone because he is ashamed of his handwriting.","Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001, as part of GALILEO."],"dc_format":["image/jpeg"],"dcterms_identifier":["jhl0081"],"dcterms_language":null,"dcterms_publisher":null,"dc_relation":["http://american-south.org/"],"dc_right":["http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/"],"dcterms_is_part_of":["Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Joseph Henry Lumpkin family papers, 1821-1862 (bulk 1852-1857), box 2, folder 5, document jhl0081."],"dcterms_subject":["Cobb family","Lawyers--Georgia","Athens (Ga.)--Social life and customs--19th century","Lumpkin, Edward P., 1833-1872--Courtship","Christian Index (Atlanta, Ga.)","King, Callie, 1826-1905"],"dcterms_title":["Letter: Athens, [Georgia] to Callie [Lumpkin], 1851 Dec. 7"],"dcterms_type":["Text"],"dcterms_provenance":["Hargrett Library"],"edm_is_shown_by":["https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_lump_jhl0081"],"edm_is_shown_at":["https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/lump/id:jhl0081"],"dcterms_temporal":null,"dcterms_rights_holder":null,"dcterms_bibliographic_citation":["Cite as: [title of item], Joseph Henry Lumpkin family papers, 1821-1862 (bulk 1852-1857), Alexander Campbell King Law Library, University of Georgia School of Law, on deposit at the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia"],"dlg_local_right":null,"dcterms_medium":["letters (correspondence)"],"dcterms_extent":["4 pages/leaves"],"dlg_subject_personal":null,"iiif_manifest_url_ss":"https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_lump_jhl0081/presentation/manifest.json","dcterms_subject_fast":null,"fulltext":"Page: [1]  \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAthens Dec [December] 7th 1851 \r\nDear Sister Callie\r\nWe had quite a treat yesterday. Sister Marion got a letter from Miss Sallie Jackson announcing the birth of another daughter to Mrs. Cobb on Monday last. They have named it Laura Roots -- A letter come [came] to old Mrs. C from Mrs. Erwin stating that She \u0026 Miss Suey [unclear text: Lee] would visit Milledgeville about the middle of this month. It seems that her son \u0026 daughter Mr. \u0026 Miss Erwin are to accompany her alone. The old Colonel himself was to remain behind to get his new place fixed. It seems so for the present at least. They intend living in the country. But lastly came your packet with a letter to Jimmy \u0026 a note to myself. Jim having left me could not resist the temptation to read his. It will be forwarded to him in the morning. You have no idea my dear Sister how much pleasure your note gave me. In the first place I am delighted at the supposed resemblance between us. I always though [added text: t ] our faces were alike. In figure you have the advantage as I am rather more delicate, although in this respect. I supposed we do not differ so widely since you have gone through a course of [unclear text: lobelia] . And since you speak of fattening recollect that much is to be replaced before this process can begin. And then but I dare not trust myself on paper So you know that that little prairie bird has taken \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPage: [2] \r\n\r\nwonderful hold on my fancy. But breathe it not for this world. It would frighten her so that she would never bear me in her presence again. A lover once desired to communicate to his fair in amorator his hearts cherished secret But he was afraid to trust it to paper and what trick did he resort to. He shaved the head of his confidential servant -- imprinted the story of his love on the skin then dispatch him after waiting long enough for the hair to grow out -- arriving At the place of his destination he underwent the same process of shaving \u0026 thus the writing was read. Would that I could invent some mode equally seen from detection. You say she expect [expects] to come out next Summer. What if I come out this winter. Would it not take you very much by Surprise. And yet it is not impossible. If I have been correctly informed a communication has been dispatched to a certain young lady not living a hundred miles from Marion and upon her answer to it will depend my visit. I must be at the opening of the College the 16th of January. There is nothing to prevent me taking a hasty trip next between now \u0026 then. What say you to this suggestion. Would it not be very nice I am sorry to close by taxing your sensibilities nevertheless I should be inexcusable were I to remain silent. Death has again entered our little circle. Black Duke paid on Friday last the debt to nature and one long withheld. He died in the 23d year of his age and \r\n\r\n\r\nPage: [3]  \r\n\r\nreceived a Christian burial of us. Whilst I think of it Sister Marion says it is high time you were remembering her And Miss Sallie Jackson who is a good girl I think declares that if you do not write to her she will strike your name from the list of her friends So you see there is work enough for you to do. Tell the Squire that I sympathize sincerely with him in the delay of his books Had he not best advertise them as a Strayed or Stolen? Sister Marion begins to substitute to some extent little Callie in the place of Buddy in her affections \u0026 she seems very anxious that Pa should do the same Mr. Cobb brought her over this morning before the old man was dressed \u0026 she stayed while they all came from Church she is over her now and tell [tells] me to send you a kiss. Have you noticed the [unclear text: puff] to Dr. Quintard in the Christain [Christian] Index taken from a Memphis paper He is Professor in the Medical College at that place. It is very flattering. Would you believe it Ma sat up until 11 o clock last night working at her quilt \u0026 listening to me read \u0026 walked to church to day [today] During the day I am too busy copying law documents to do any thing [anything] else Would you have believed it that I would have thus employed my College vacation. But what will not love do. You know what the poet \r\n\r\n\r\nPage: [4]  \r\n\r\nsays Hope springs immortal in the lover [lover's] breast. But I must bring this scrawl to a close Dont [Don't] publish it in the Newspapers I am like the old man in that respect I have an unconquerable aversion to figuring in the papers. Honestly Sister do you not thank you [your] Stars that [illegible text] has given you me instead of my younger Brother for a correspondent All send love \u0026 kisses \u0026 so do I to all who will receive them\r\n\r\nAffectionately your Brother \r\n[Signed] Eddy \r\nP.S. Don't I pray you let any one [anyone] see my handwriting for I am sorry to say that I am ashamed of it \r"},{"id":"dlg_lump_jhl0077","title":"Letter: Athens, [Georgia] to Callie [Lumpkin King], 1851 Dec. 2","collection_id":"dlg_lump","collection_title":"Joseph Henry Lumpkin Family Papers","dcterms_contributor":null,"dcterms_spatial":["United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794"],"dcterms_creator":["Lumpkin, Callender Grieve"],"dc_date":["1851-12-02"],"dcterms_description":["In this letter dated December 2, 1851 from Athens, Georgia to Callie Lumpkin [King], her mother, Callender Cunningham Grieve Lumpkin writes about family matters, how much Callie is missed at home and Marion Cobb's illness. Lumpkin thinks Cobb's illness could be related to the recent death of Cobb's daughter, Lucy Cobb. Lumpkin relates items of interest such as Mrs. Howell Cobb's plans for Christmas entertainment and the trip taken by Colonel Fulton and his bride, Virginia, to Kentucky to visit Fulton's brother; Lumpkin also relates the Christmas holiday travel plans of James Lumpkin.","Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001, as part of GALILEO."],"dc_format":["image/jpeg"],"dcterms_identifier":["jhl0077"],"dcterms_language":null,"dcterms_publisher":null,"dc_relation":["http://american-south.org/"],"dc_right":["http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/"],"dcterms_is_part_of":["Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Joseph Henry Lumpkin family papers, 1821-1862 (bulk 1852-1857), box 2, folder 02, document jhl0077."],"dcterms_subject":["Bereavement","Athens (Ga.)--Social life and customs--19th century","Cobb, Mary Ann Lamar, 1818-1889","Cobb, Lucy, 1844-1857--Death and burial","Cobb, Marion--Health","King, Callie, 1826-1905"],"dcterms_title":["Letter: Athens, [Georgia] to Callie [Lumpkin King], 1851 Dec. 2"],"dcterms_type":["Text"],"dcterms_provenance":["Hargrett Library"],"edm_is_shown_by":["https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_lump_jhl0077"],"edm_is_shown_at":["https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/lump/id:jhl0077"],"dcterms_temporal":null,"dcterms_rights_holder":null,"dcterms_bibliographic_citation":["Cite as: [title of item], Joseph Henry Lumpkin family papers, 1821-1862 (bulk 1852-1857), Alexander Campbell King Law Library, University of Georgia School of Law, on deposit at the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia"],"dlg_local_right":null,"dcterms_medium":["letters (correspondence)"],"dcterms_extent":["4 pages/leaves"],"dlg_subject_personal":null,"iiif_manifest_url_ss":"https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_lump_jhl0077/presentation/manifest.json","dcterms_subject_fast":null,"fulltext":"Page: [1]   \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAthens Dec [December] 2d, 1851 \r\nDear Callie,\r\nI was greatly gratified at receiving your letter last night with Miss [unclear text: Laurra's] note. You know that I have always been a little jealous -- because I thought you loved your Father best And Joseph haveing [having] written to him -- had you done the same. I should have felt slighted. -- so you have shown yourself in this -- as in more important matters -- a good and considerate child -- forebearing the happiness of others -- to the indulgence of any selfish feelings of your own. You seem to think that you are greatly blessed in your friends. -- we feel -- I assure you -- that we are no less so -- in our children.\r\n\r\nJames your pet -- and who deserves to be so -- for no one has suffered more from your absence -- leaves on Friday morning for Savannah by the way of Macon and Milledgeville -- He accompanies Mrs. Cobb and John to the latter place where he will attend the Governors levee this night week and then go on He promised you know to spend the Christmas holidays with the Barnards if left to his choice -- he would I verily \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPage: [2]   \r\n\r\nbelieve -- prefer to run out to [document damaged] to you -- Mrs. Howell Cobb not knowing of your absence -- has sent up a great many kind messages for you to come down and assist at her entertainment -- The weather has been wretched eve [ever] since you left -- with scarcely a fair day. Yesterday the sun was shining to day [today] it is cloudy and rainy again -- we feel the abscence [absence] of you all the more on that account -- Marion continues to suffer from her head and heart and the chills which accompanies these attacks -- she will not consent that it is occasioned by the state of her mind and it may not be we hardly know what is best for her -- Your father and myself cordially approve of your excursion to Montgomery take pleasure while you can and whenever it is offered Life is short at best and the fountain of youth -- which is the only reason fitted for enjoyment still shortens Do not neglect Mrs. Ware -- On the contrary should she tender you cordially her hospitality manifest your appreciation of it we confer implicitly in your good sense in all matters\r\nI hope Dear Muggie \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPage: [3]  \r\n\r\nis better [unclear text: after her] cold -- How is dear Joe is he quite hearty? We miss him very much he is such a home body -- Little Bob has lost half his sprightliness since brother Joe is not [deleted text: home] [added text: here] to excite and enjoy it I want to see dear [unclear text: Lidd] and all very much I will forgive Mrs King for not coming by since your Pa says he did not urge her thinking upon the whole she had best return with the General and so I overlook the apparent slight of miss [unclear text: Docdaly] also hoping it was not her fault Now are I not a good Christian woman for being so forgiving? I must say however that I felt both his appointments very kindly\r\nWrite often as your letters from the west will constitute a large fraction of our enjoyment this winter -- John Cobb [unclear text: proposed] to Callie to give him the kiss you sent him But she refused saying \"you are not my [unclear text: little] sister\" Col [Colonel] Fulton has taken Virginia on a bridal tour to visit his his brother in Kentucky It is said that he has been elected Principal of the new Female College at Covington\r\n\r\nWith affectionate [unclear text: advances] to all\r\n\r\n\r\nI am as always your loveing [loving] mother \r\n[Signed] C C [Callender Cunningham Grieve Lumpkin] Lumpkin "},{"id":"dlg_lump_jhl0019","title":"Letter: to Callie King, [185-] Sept. 21","collection_id":"dlg_lump","collection_title":"Joseph Henry Lumpkin Family Papers","dcterms_contributor":null,"dcterms_spatial":["United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794"],"dcterms_creator":["Cobb, Marion, 1822-1897"],"dc_date":["1850-09-21/1859-09-21"],"dcterms_description":["Letter from September 21, [185?] from Marion Lumpkin Cobb, wife of Thomas Read Rootes Cobb and daughter of Joseph Henry Lumpkin, to Callie King, wife of Porter King and Marion's sister, about their mother's return trip to Athens to help care for Cobb's son. Both of her sons died in infancy. Callender Lumpkin, their mother, had been visiting King to help her with nursing her children. On the trip, her brother James contracted dysentery. Cobb reports that they miss King and wish that she had been there to join them.","Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001, as part of GALILEO."],"dc_format":["image/jpeg"],"dcterms_identifier":["jhl0019"],"dcterms_language":null,"dcterms_publisher":null,"dc_relation":["http://american-south.org/"],"dc_right":["http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/"],"dcterms_is_part_of":["Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Joseph Henry Lumpkin family papers, 1821-1862 (bulk 1852-1857), box 1, folder 19, document jhl0019."],"dcterms_subject":["Lumpkin family","Athens (Ga.)--Social life and customs","Lumpkin, Callender--Journeys","King, Callie, 1826-1905"],"dcterms_title":["Letter: to Callie King, [185-] Sept. 21"],"dcterms_type":["Text"],"dcterms_provenance":["Hargrett Library"],"edm_is_shown_by":["https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_lump_jhl0019"],"edm_is_shown_at":["https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/lump/id:jhl0019"],"dcterms_temporal":null,"dcterms_rights_holder":null,"dcterms_bibliographic_citation":["Cite as: [title of item], Joseph Henry Lumpkin family papers, 1821-1862 (bulk 1852-1857), Alexander Campbell King Law Library, University of Georgia School of Law, on deposit at the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia"],"dlg_local_right":null,"dcterms_medium":["letters (correspondence)"],"dcterms_extent":["4 pages/leaves"],"dlg_subject_personal":null,"iiif_manifest_url_ss":"https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_lump_jhl0019/presentation/manifest.json","dcterms_subject_fast":null,"fulltext":"Page: [1]   \r\n\r\n\r\nSept. [September] 21st \r\nMy dearest Sister -\r\nI wrote to Ma a day or two since which letter you have probably seen I write you a few hurried lines by today's mail to let you learn of Ma's safe arrival at home after numerous mishaps. She ought to have reached here last Saturday but having been three days going up the river \u0026 detained a day in Montgomery she did not reach here until yesterday - (Monday). Her trip up the river was rather an unfortunate one as Jimmy was made quite sick he thinks from drinking \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPage: [2] \r\n\r\nthe water with dysentery and in checking this he has had fever from it. He was very much defeated and weakened and last night had high fever again. Today he is better \u0026 Dr. Moore thinks he may soon recover. Ma was much broken down with anxiety to get him home but is nevertheless well - and I think Jimmy will soon be the same as she considers him a great deal better today. We were all taken by surprise at their arrival and 'tho [though] delighted to see them were so disappointed not to have you with her as we expected. We talk of you all the time \u0026 your little ones and wish so \r\n\r\n\r\nPage: [3]   \r\n\r\nmuch you were near us so as to assist you in nursing them. Indeed I think it was a great trial for Ma to leave you \u0026 nothing but a sense of duty made her do so. She thinks our little darling better \u0026 I do trust he may now mend rapidly. But dear Callie don't (if you can help it) be too anxious about him. Try \u0026 trust God who will do all things well \u0026 whatever his will may be strive to make it yours. I know this seems to [deleted text: a] be almost foolish advice to you so difficult is it to follow but the longer I live the more reconciled I think I am to the death of little children and to the loss of my own dear boys. I write thus to you because I feel it and altho [although] I trust your boy may be \r\n\r\n\r\nPage: [4]  \r\n\r\nspared to be a great comfort to you - yet never believe that it is hard to give him to God - which is such a blessing if we could only realize it. If he does not recruit rapidly - I still think a change would do him good but you will do what you think best I doubt not. All keep pretty well here altho [although] [unclear text: Muggie] \u0026 her baby are still very unwell \u0026 feeble. She has to give her good nurse up soon and I know not what she will do [unclear text: She] \u0026 are both much worried about a nurse. I have just received a message to go \u0026 see old Mrs Welch who is very ill and I must close Do excuse my dull letter \u0026 receive it only as an assurance of affection \u0026 sympathy from your sister who feels so much for you - All send kind messages to you \u0026 Mr King \u0026 beg that you will [added text: write often about [unclear text: Joe] ] \r\n\r\n\r\nPage: [5]   \r\n\r\nI am almost ashamed to send this scrawl but I know you will be anxious to hear about Ma. The children almost cried about your not coming. Sallie Bird left today with Lizzy Dixon for Sparta. Again God bless you \u0026 yours\r\n\r\n[Signed] Marion"},{"id":"dlg_lump_jhl0002","title":"Letter: Washington, [D.C.] to Joseph Henry Lumpkin, Athens, Georgia, 1850 Jan. 12","collection_id":"dlg_lump","collection_title":"Joseph Henry Lumpkin Family Papers","dcterms_contributor":null,"dcterms_spatial":["United States, 39.76, -98.5"],"dcterms_creator":["Berrien, John MacPherson, 1781-1856"],"dc_date":["1850-01-12"],"dcterms_description":["In this letter of January 12, 1850, U.S. Senator for Georgia (1825-29, 1841-52) Joseph MacPherson Berrien writes to Joseph Henry Lumpkin about his support for Lumpkin in the Senate. Berrien also refers to a letter from Reverend Theobald Mathew and Mathew's zeal in the temperance movement.","Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001, as part of GALILEO."],"dc_format":["image/jpeg"],"dcterms_identifier":["jhl0002"],"dcterms_language":null,"dcterms_publisher":null,"dc_relation":["http://american-south.org/"],"dc_right":["http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/"],"dcterms_is_part_of":["Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Joseph Henry Lumpkin family papers, 1821-1862 (bulk 1852-1857), box 1, folder 2, document jhl0002."],"dcterms_subject":["United States. Congress. Senate","United States--Politics and government--1815-1861","Lumpkin, Joseph Henry, 1799-1867","Mathew, Theobald, 1790-1856","Temperance--United States--Societies, etc."],"dcterms_title":["Letter: Washington, [D.C.] to Joseph Henry Lumpkin, Athens, Georgia, 1850 Jan. 12"],"dcterms_type":["Text"],"dcterms_provenance":["Hargrett Library"],"edm_is_shown_by":["https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_lump_jhl0002"],"edm_is_shown_at":["https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/lump/id:jhl0002"],"dcterms_temporal":null,"dcterms_rights_holder":null,"dcterms_bibliographic_citation":["Cite as: [title of item], Joseph Henry Lumpkin family papers, 1821-1862 (bulk 1852-1857), Alexander Campbell King Law Library, University of Georgia School of Law, on deposit at the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia"],"dlg_local_right":null,"dcterms_medium":["letters (correspondence)"],"dcterms_extent":["4 pages/leaves"],"dlg_subject_personal":null,"iiif_manifest_url_ss":"https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_lump_jhl0002/presentation/manifest.json","dcterms_subject_fast":null,"fulltext":"Page: [1]   \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nWashington 12th Jany [January] '50 [1850] \r\nMy dear Sir,\r\nThe appearance of a communication from the Reverend Theobald Mathew, under date of the 22nd ult [ultimate], which I have seen for the first time, within the last half hour, reminded me that I had omitted to acknowledge the receipt of your very kind letter of the 27th December last. In doing so now, I beg you to be assured that it afforded me very sincere pleasure, as one of Georgia's representatives in the Councils of the Nation, to vindicate the reputation of one of her most distinguished sons, and that it was moreover personally gratifying to me, to offer to you thus publicly, this testimony of my respect, and regard. Concurring entirely with you in the propriety of the course which you had pursued, I could not in justice to my own feelings have avoided the expression of that concurrence. If I had not considered the proceeding altogether out of place, and unfit for discussion in the Senate of the United States, I would have entered more largely into it -- I had the gratification\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPage: [2]   \r\n\r\nto perceive that the brief statement which I made accomplished the purpose for which it was intended --\r\nThe Reverend gentleman, in his last communication, has in my judgment involved himself in an inextricable dilemma. If the singleness of his devotion to the cause of temperance, resisting the promptings of patriotism, forced him to with-hold [withhold] his influence from the cause of his own countrymen, \"groaning under the weight of the heaviest burden of misery, that ever a Nation bore-\" even although for so doing, he \"endured every species of calumny,\" surely the effort would have been less, and the justification far more ample, to have abstained under the influence of that engrossing feeling, from an officious intermeddling with the domestic institutions of a people, of which he knew little - in behalf of a portion of their population, of \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPage: [3]  \r\n\r\nwhose actual condition, he knew less --\r\nI am dear Sir \r\nRespectfully and truly \r\nYour friend \r\n[Signed] Mr. MacPherson Berrien\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPage: [4] \r\n\r\nFree \r\nJM Berrien \r\nUS. S. [United States Senate]\r\n\r\nTo/ \r\nThe Hon [Honorable] : \r\nJoseph Henry Lumpkin \r\nAthens \r\n/Geo/ [Georgia] --\r\n\r"},{"id":"dlg_lump_jhl0018","title":"Letter: New York, [New York] to Callie [King, 185-] Jan. 3","collection_id":"dlg_lump","collection_title":"Joseph Henry Lumpkin Family Papers","dcterms_contributor":null,"dcterms_spatial":["United States, Connecticut, New Haven County, New Haven, 41.30815, -72.92816","United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729"],"dcterms_creator":["Cobb, Marion, 1822-1897"],"dc_date":["1850-01-03"],"dcterms_description":["Letter from January 3, 1853? from Marion Lumpkin Cobb, wife of Thomas Read Rootes Cobb and daughter of Joseph Henry Lumpkin, to Callie King, wife of Porter King and Marion's sister, about a trip to New York with her father and family to tend to her own health. Her illness may be due to the birth of one of her sons. She also includes news of her son's illness, fashions in New York, seeing the play David Copperfield, anticipating a performance of the operatic singer Sontag, and a visit to New Haven. Neither of her sons surrived childhood. 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My dear little boy has not been well, and having a white nurse has been a source of some trouble to me as for the life of me I cannot order them about, and I look forward to my meeting with [unclear text: Fanny] with no small pleasure in thinking of the other joys of getting home again. You have doubtless heard from Pa what caused my unexpected visit here instead of to Mobile \u0026 he has I suppose also informed you why I have been compelled to remain so much longer than he did. I am glad to tell you I have improved very much and tho' [though] the doct [deleted text: er][added text: or ] ing \u0026 necessity for it has been one of the most painful events of my life, still I feel it would be wrong to regret it if I am through the goodness of God restored to my family in health which I now know would have been entirely destroyed had I delayed much longer. I will say to you Callie \u0026 it is all I can say at present I shudder when I think what my situation was becoming \u0026 I feel renewed cause for gratitude when I know how much I am relieved \u0026 I hope will [illegible text] \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPage: [2]  \r\n\r\nAnd what shall I write to you about? I am a [unclear text: close] prisoner in my room and feel almost as lonely as you do on your plantation. Indeed Callie it has cost me a great struggle and several lectures from the Dr [Doctor] to make me remain [unclear text: contented] and I assure you that nothing but a strong sense of duty keeps me here. Pa whom we persuaded to accompany us I think was benefitted by the trip but Callie he is much changed from what he once was. His mind seems wholly occupied with his children \u0026 nothing excites him much which does not concern them. [unclear text: Eddy] too came with us \u0026 really worried Pa - he became so homesick and tired of city life. He is a noble boy and my babe is so much like him it attaches me still more to him. Pa was anxious for him to remain with us - \u0026 he most kindly told me if it would cheer me he would do so willingly but I would not press it upon him. I felt his \u0026 Pa's absence very much and made myself quite sick when they first left grieving about it. Since then my letters from home \u0026 my improvement have cheered me up \u0026 I bear it much better. [unclear text: New] York Callie does not seem to me what it did when I was here before \u0026 I can scarcely realize it has been so long ago. Marion \u0026 [unclear text: Alida] visit me daily and are very kind. With all of my ill health they are more changed than I am \u0026 I know you will not think it vanity when I say look older \r\n\r\n\r\nPage: [3]   \r\n\r\nMr Cobb is much pleased with N. [New] York \u0026 enjoys sight seeing \u0026 law books here wonderfully. We had several good jokes upon Ed \u0026 himself \u0026 I now laugh sometimes at his mistakes. But you know his disposition never to yield his own opinion of things \u0026 consequently he is never embarrassed. New Years he called upon Marion \u0026 [unclear text: Alida] \u0026 drank chocolate \u0026 cake with them a new thing to him which he did not much fancy. I see very little which is new in the way of fashions. Solid colors especially blue, brown \u0026 green are much worn - \u0026 the velvet trimming as I wrote you from home. Open or flowing sleeves or the old fashioned mutton leg plaited down in box plaits at the top \u0026 at the hand are much in vogue. Large collars \u0026 worked ruffles \u0026 belts - also strike me somewhat. The hair worn [illegible text] of the face \u0026 the old fashioned knot which strikes me exactly. Black velvet [unclear text: sacques] made vest style are pretty \u0026 in great use. So much for the fashions. I went to New Haven \u0026 found also there time had produced many changes. Upon old Mrs [unclear text: Apthorpe] it had laid its hand most heavily - and I felt almost sorry as it has changed the spirit of my dreams which I have ever had of since I last saw her. We met Mr [unclear text: Thatcher] who is much improved both in manner \u0026 appearance. His wife \r\n\r\n\r\nPage: [4]  \r\n\r\n\u0026 [unclear text: Miss Applia Thatcher] came to see us \u0026 told us they were very uneasy about Gabriellas mind. She had received a blow upon the top of her head last summer \u0026 they thought it would [unclear text: prove] more serious than they at first apprehended. Mr Cobb was disappointed at Niblo's but enjoys Burton's theatre very much where I went with Pa \u0026 saw David Copperfield acted the only time I have been out. Sontag is to be at Niblo's next week \u0026 I feel quite anxious to see her if I can go. I hope to be able to leave for home next week but cannot tell yet. I long to see my little darlings and Ma again \u0026 dread the trip very much. I was very sea sick coming on. Your letters home have been sent to us \u0026 I thank you for your kind wishes for me to be with you. I would have enjoyed it more under other circumstances \u0026 still have it in reserve for a more convenient season to make you a visit - when I hope to be well \u0026 hearty \u0026 enjoy it. I feel anxious to see [unclear text: Ma again] as her health is not firm \u0026 I always feel anxious about her. Do write to me \u0026 don't feel put out with my dull letter. It is [unclear text: difficult] for me to write here but I felt as if I must write you if it were only to tell you I think often of you and feel anxious to hear from you often. You must direct your letter to Athens as I trust I shall soon be there. Give my love to brother Porter and accept much yourself from Mr Cobb. He has quite broken himself down today visiting the shipping \u0026c [et cetera] - I feel quite badly keeping him from his business but as I believe it is now or never I have believed it right to do so. Goodnight dear Callie. 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