Metadata
Title
David E. Hale to Sarah Josepha Hale
Date
1835-07-01
July 1, 1835
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-171
Rights
http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html
Text
Annapolis July 1st 1835
My dear Mother
I arrived here yesterday from
Beaufort having performed the whole journey
on bourd [board] steamboats. One can go now from
Charleston to Baltimore (600 miles) in four days for $22.50
I found two letters from you at the Post
Office here much longer and more pleasant than I
deserved. I am glad to hear that you enjoy good
health and Spirits and that my brothers & sisters
are well - For myself I am sick and feel indisposed
to write my aunt and sisters at present
I shall be able to send you $50 before
the end of next week I am sorry that I cannot
make it a hundred, but my debts require payment
and it is so difficult for me to economize though I
try my best, that my months pay slips away the
moment it is received.
I thought when I entered the
army that I should be able to save $400 per
annum for you and Horatio but I find it impossible
I am resolved to be out of debt before I am twenty
one. In three years from that time at the farthest
I expect to be promoted a first Lieut, from the
rapidity of promotions in our Regt. There will
be four vacancies before the end of the year
certainly which will put me half way up the
list of 2nd Lts. My pay as a first Lt. will vary
from $1100 to $1400 - which will enable me to save
from $300 to $500 per annum.
I think it would be best to put William
in business as a merchant. I have no doubt that
he will be the richest and happiest of us all.
Give Horatio books, fame, and the means of
subsistence and he will never want more of money
For myself I shall [DE: ?] remain in the
army a bachelor for life -
Give my love to my brothers and my
respects to the ladies of my acquaintance in
Boston who inquire for me.
Your affectionate Son
D.E. Hale
My dear Mother
I arrived here yesterday from
Beaufort having performed the whole journey
on bourd [board] steamboats. One can go now from
Charleston to Baltimore (600 miles) in four days for $22.50
I found two letters from you at the Post
Office here much longer and more pleasant than I
deserved. I am glad to hear that you enjoy good
health and Spirits and that my brothers & sisters
are well - For myself I am sick and feel indisposed
to write my aunt and sisters at present
I shall be able to send you $50 before
the end of next week I am sorry that I cannot
make it a hundred, but my debts require payment
and it is so difficult for me to economize though I
try my best, that my months pay slips away the
moment it is received.
I thought when I entered the
army that I should be able to save $400 per
annum for you and Horatio but I find it impossible
I am resolved to be out of debt before I am twenty
one. In three years from that time at the farthest
I expect to be promoted a first Lieut, from the
rapidity of promotions in our Regt. There will
be four vacancies before the end of the year
certainly which will put me half way up the
list of 2nd Lts. My pay as a first Lt. will vary
from $1100 to $1400 - which will enable me to save
from $300 to $500 per annum.
I think it would be best to put William
in business as a merchant. I have no doubt that
he will be the richest and happiest of us all.
Give Horatio books, fame, and the means of
subsistence and he will never want more of money
For myself I shall [DE: ?] remain in the
army a bachelor for life -
Give my love to my brothers and my
respects to the ladies of my acquaintance in
Boston who inquire for me.
Your affectionate Son
D.E. Hale