Metadata
Title
David E. Hale to Sarah Josepha Hale
Date
1830/1839-07-27
July 27, [1830s]
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-166
Rights
http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html
Text
Keene July, 27[th?]
My dear Mother -
I am well and happy at
Keene for I have every thing to make
me so - friends, relations, and above all
my dear sisters. You cannot conceive how
very, very, different every body with
whom I was formerly acquainted appears
to me. To begin with my uncle, I think
he has changed for the worse, his health
is not very good, his spirits seem low
and he has most terribly rusticated, but
if I recalled right he always was so,
though it never struck me so forcibly
as at present. My aunt, she has changed
very little in personal appearance but
how much are her manners altered
towards me - You would hardly think
it possible or rather I cannot, that
we are the same persons we once
were, that she can be 'aunt Sarah'
and I that David E. Hale who thought
her so unfeeling so haughty. We are
friends intimate friends I may say,
at least she tells me every thought,
shows me [Corrinna?] Prentiss' letters,
consults me about every thing and
every lady visits with are all the
best families in Keene and in [DE: ?]
fine is a most engaging, kind and
affectionate woman, lady I should
have said for she is the most ladylike
and accomplished of the ladies at Keene.
Elizabeth Wilson, how shall I describe
her, she insists that I am an old
friend of hers, that she always depended
upon me alone at school
to wait on her home carry her
books et cetera. Only think of walk
to the [Matrimomnial?] Tree with a
beautiful young lady at sunset.
I went to a dance at Miss Fiske's
School last evening, you can judge
therefore how intimate I am with
the young ladies there. I saw Mr. & Mrs.
Edes last week - love to you - [Samuel?] [DE:?]
sick -Mr. [?] says you must come to
Newport when the estate is sold - 19th
of Oct. I think when the license will
be obtained. I can't tell you of half
the entertaining people with whom
I have made acquaintence [acquaintance] or rather
renewed for it seems they knew
me when a boy?
Your affectionate Son
D.E. Hale
My dear Mother -
I am well and happy at
Keene for I have every thing to make
me so - friends, relations, and above all
my dear sisters. You cannot conceive how
very, very, different every body with
whom I was formerly acquainted appears
to me. To begin with my uncle, I think
he has changed for the worse, his health
is not very good, his spirits seem low
and he has most terribly rusticated, but
if I recalled right he always was so,
though it never struck me so forcibly
as at present. My aunt, she has changed
very little in personal appearance but
how much are her manners altered
towards me - You would hardly think
it possible or rather I cannot, that
we are the same persons we once
were, that she can be 'aunt Sarah'
and I that David E. Hale who thought
her so unfeeling so haughty. We are
friends intimate friends I may say,
at least she tells me every thought,
shows me [Corrinna?] Prentiss' letters,
consults me about every thing and
every lady visits with are all the
best families in Keene and in [DE: ?]
fine is a most engaging, kind and
affectionate woman, lady I should
have said for she is the most ladylike
and accomplished of the ladies at Keene.
Elizabeth Wilson, how shall I describe
her, she insists that I am an old
friend of hers, that she always depended
upon me alone at school
to wait on her home carry her
books et cetera. Only think of walk
to the [Matrimomnial?] Tree with a
beautiful young lady at sunset.
I went to a dance at Miss Fiske's
School last evening, you can judge
therefore how intimate I am with
the young ladies there. I saw Mr. & Mrs.
Edes last week - love to you - [Samuel?] [DE:?]
sick -Mr. [?] says you must come to
Newport when the estate is sold - 19th
of Oct. I think when the license will
be obtained. I can't tell you of half
the entertaining people with whom
I have made acquaintence [acquaintance] or rather
renewed for it seems they knew
me when a boy?
Your affectionate Son
D.E. Hale