Metadata
Title
C. B. Haddock to Sarah Josepha Hale
Correction: Likely Charles Brickett Haddock
Correction: Likely Charles Brickett Haddock
Date
1853-12-27
December 27, 1853
Subject
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879
Medium
Manuscripts
Language
eng
Type
text
Collection
Sarah Josepha Hale Collection, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Identifier
46-M-073
Rights
http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html
Text
Lisbon
Dec. 27, 1853
Dear Madam,
I yesterday
received your kind letter
of June last, together with
the beautiful volumes of
which it speaks.
The Queen for whom one of
them was intended is
you
you are aware, dead. I shall,
however, immediately send
the volume to the afflicted
King.
Her Majesty, of whom you
speak as the granddaughter
of Don John II, was the granddaughter
of John VI, and inherited
many of his traits of
character. You have paid none
too much of her virtues. [In early?]
life she was beautiful, with
a very fair German complexion
and a graceful form. Her education
education had been careful and
suitable when exalted rank and
from the day she ascended the
throne till her lamented death
the royal Household was a
model of purity and propriety.
The spectacle of grief which
the capital has exhibited,
since her decease, is a beautiful
tribute to her illustrious
merit as a woman and
a queen.
I expect, Madam,
to enjoy the perusal of the
much valued volume for
which Mrs Haddock desires
me to present to you
her most sincere thanks,
not only as a work of talent and
learning honorable to your
sex, but as a contribution
of New Hampshire to
the Literature of our country.
Though I have not had
the
honor of a personal acquaintance
with you, I
am not ignorant of your exertions
for the improvement
of society and the
[?]patation of our native
state. We have labored
together, without meeting,
and cherish, without
having interchanged, the
same sentiments of patriotism
and
pride as citizens of the
same noble commonwealth.
Mrs Haddock unites with
me in most respectful
and grateful regards.
I am very sincerely
Your obedient
Servant
C.B. Haddock
Mrs. S.J. Hale [ED: appears to the left of "Servant"]
Dec. 27, 1853
Dear Madam,
I yesterday
received your kind letter
of June last, together with
the beautiful volumes of
which it speaks.
The Queen for whom one of
them was intended is
you
you are aware, dead. I shall,
however, immediately send
the volume to the afflicted
King.
Her Majesty, of whom you
speak as the granddaughter
of Don John II, was the granddaughter
of John VI, and inherited
many of his traits of
character. You have paid none
too much of her virtues. [In early?]
life she was beautiful, with
a very fair German complexion
and a graceful form. Her education
education had been careful and
suitable when exalted rank and
from the day she ascended the
throne till her lamented death
the royal Household was a
model of purity and propriety.
The spectacle of grief which
the capital has exhibited,
since her decease, is a beautiful
tribute to her illustrious
merit as a woman and
a queen.
I expect, Madam,
to enjoy the perusal of the
much valued volume for
which Mrs Haddock desires
me to present to you
her most sincere thanks,
not only as a work of talent and
learning honorable to your
sex, but as a contribution
of New Hampshire to
the Literature of our country.
Though I have not had
the
honor of a personal acquaintance
with you, I
am not ignorant of your exertions
for the improvement
of society and the
[?]patation of our native
state. We have labored
together, without meeting,
and cherish, without
having interchanged, the
same sentiments of patriotism
and
pride as citizens of the
same noble commonwealth.
Mrs Haddock unites with
me in most respectful
and grateful regards.
I am very sincerely
Your obedient
Servant
C.B. Haddock
Mrs. S.J. Hale [ED: appears to the left of "Servant"]