Metadata
Title
David E. Hale to Sarah Josepha Hale
Date
1833-11-03
November 3, 1833
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-172
Rights
http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html
Text
Beaufort Nov. 3rd 1833
My dear Mother,
I am perfectly astonished that you do
not write. Exactly a month ago I sent you a letter
containing 60 dollars. If you have not received it you
ought to have written, if you have it, still you should
have sent word before this. I send you five dollars
by way of experiment to see if the letter will arrive safe
for I have been very anxious lest my last should have
miscarried. I will send you twenty when I get a letter
from you. I've got nearly [DE: ?] all I want of furniture
and want nothing now but a gold patent lever watch,
worth from $57 to $100. I [DE:want] need it more at present than
I shall at twenty one years of age. If you could draw
on the sum left to us children & get some person of
experience to pick out a good one, I wish you would
would inform me soon. [I. Law: 91 Washn.?] St. is a good place.
I have been appointed Assistant [Commissary?] of Subsistence & Ast.
Quartermaster, with $20 per month in addition to my pay of
$64 & $12 for quarters which with some perquisites maks [makes] my
pay about one hundred dollars per month. I expect to be
employed on the rail-road, therefore I wish you to preserve
my books & papers of Engineering. I may send for them in a
month or two. Write to me immediately of the state of
affairs at home, if Horatio wants money, - all about
the young ladies. I shall expect a letter from you
regularly the 1st of every month, and just as regularly I
will send a letter on the 2nd with ten dollars.
Maj. Kirby thinks that before a year we shall be
stationed in N. England. He is a native of Litchfield Con
and well acquainted with Mr. Peirpont. What is the news
from Greenfield? I shall be in trouble till I get a letter
My love to every body
Your Son
David E. Hale
Brt. 2nd Lieutenant
1st Arty
Asst Carn. [?]
My dear Mother,
I am perfectly astonished that you do
not write. Exactly a month ago I sent you a letter
containing 60 dollars. If you have not received it you
ought to have written, if you have it, still you should
have sent word before this. I send you five dollars
by way of experiment to see if the letter will arrive safe
for I have been very anxious lest my last should have
miscarried. I will send you twenty when I get a letter
from you. I've got nearly [DE: ?] all I want of furniture
and want nothing now but a gold patent lever watch,
worth from $57 to $100. I [DE:want] need it more at present than
I shall at twenty one years of age. If you could draw
on the sum left to us children & get some person of
experience to pick out a good one, I wish you would
would inform me soon. [I. Law: 91 Washn.?] St. is a good place.
I have been appointed Assistant [Commissary?] of Subsistence & Ast.
Quartermaster, with $20 per month in addition to my pay of
$64 & $12 for quarters which with some perquisites maks [makes] my
pay about one hundred dollars per month. I expect to be
employed on the rail-road, therefore I wish you to preserve
my books & papers of Engineering. I may send for them in a
month or two. Write to me immediately of the state of
affairs at home, if Horatio wants money, - all about
the young ladies. I shall expect a letter from you
regularly the 1st of every month, and just as regularly I
will send a letter on the 2nd with ten dollars.
Maj. Kirby thinks that before a year we shall be
stationed in N. England. He is a native of Litchfield Con
and well acquainted with Mr. Peirpont. What is the news
from Greenfield? I shall be in trouble till I get a letter
My love to every body
Your Son
David E. Hale
Brt. 2nd Lieutenant
1st Arty
Asst Carn. [?]