Metadata
Title
James Buell to Sarah Josepha Hale
Date
1839-07-22
July 22, 1839
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-065
Rights
http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html
Text
Troy July 03 1839
My Dear Aunt
Your last favor came
safe to hand although not in due season
for I had been waiting very impatiently 4 or
5 weeks. - "but better late than never"
I had
heard of the death of Cousin David
Sometime previous to the receipt of Your
Letter. - he was a person, I had never
seen or had the pleasure of associating with
consequently no opportunity of forming
those ties of friendship which links man
with his fellow man - but in the event
of his death, it seemed to me as
if I might count one Friend less,
because of the near alliance of affection
existing between You and him. - was he
your friend he was mine also. - [DE: one?]
[DE: and] inseparable, - I have "Tears
for other woes" if I have not "Patience
for my own"
Sister Martha was
in Troy on a short visit, at the
time I received your last Letter
we called at Doct Hale's a short time
one evening
I done more visiting while
Sister was here than I had done all the
time I had been in Troy. I make ni
call on acquaintances only when they are
necessary. I have but little time to
attend to such things and quite as
little inclination
My health for the
last two months has not been [DE: quite]
quite as good as I could wish, but
I have no one to blame but myself -
for the last Year, I have confined
myself too close - the Store is opened
in the morning about [6?] O clock. I get
there about 6 1/2 and from that time
until it closes at night (at 10 or
after frequently) I am not out except
1/2 an Hour and each meal - after
business is done I go to my room -
direct set my lamp at a convenient
and safe distance from the Bed - get
into Bed raise my Head with pillows
as high as possible and commence
reading and read as long as I can
keep awake - it is sometimes 1
and often 12 before I [DE: O] sleep. it is
not unfrequently my sleepy [Chum?] very gruffly
bawls [DE: ?] "do for Heaven's sake blow
that light out" but blow it out
I would not to my sorrow, - now -
I have followed it up [DE: to my] untill [until] my eyes
refuse to do it any longer and I must
stop entirely for the present. - I have read
nothing but Biography
I took some medicine
last week and kept as still as I could. I am
some better, so that I tend to business as well
as ever. Mr Brewster things I had better
take a ride in the country for a few days
- I think I shall
Mrs Willard Yates
is in the Citty [City] I understand
Mrs [ED: page damaged]
Buell has just returned from a journey
out west, - to Michigan. - her health is
very good at present. She was in
the store to day. I call [them?] once
in a while. They seem very glad to
have me come
My prospects for business
continue as favorable as ever
My Love to Your Family
Your affectionate Nephew
James Buell
To Mrs S.J Hale
Boston
My Dear Aunt
Your last favor came
safe to hand although not in due season
for I had been waiting very impatiently 4 or
5 weeks. - "but better late than never"
I had
heard of the death of Cousin David
Sometime previous to the receipt of Your
Letter. - he was a person, I had never
seen or had the pleasure of associating with
consequently no opportunity of forming
those ties of friendship which links man
with his fellow man - but in the event
of his death, it seemed to me as
if I might count one Friend less,
because of the near alliance of affection
existing between You and him. - was he
your friend he was mine also. - [DE: one?]
[DE: and] inseparable, - I have "Tears
for other woes" if I have not "Patience
for my own"
Sister Martha was
in Troy on a short visit, at the
time I received your last Letter
we called at Doct Hale's a short time
one evening
I done more visiting while
Sister was here than I had done all the
time I had been in Troy. I make ni
call on acquaintances only when they are
necessary. I have but little time to
attend to such things and quite as
little inclination
My health for the
last two months has not been [DE: quite]
quite as good as I could wish, but
I have no one to blame but myself -
for the last Year, I have confined
myself too close - the Store is opened
in the morning about [6?] O clock. I get
there about 6 1/2 and from that time
until it closes at night (at 10 or
after frequently) I am not out except
1/2 an Hour and each meal - after
business is done I go to my room -
direct set my lamp at a convenient
and safe distance from the Bed - get
into Bed raise my Head with pillows
as high as possible and commence
reading and read as long as I can
keep awake - it is sometimes 1
and often 12 before I [DE: O] sleep. it is
not unfrequently my sleepy [Chum?] very gruffly
bawls [DE: ?] "do for Heaven's sake blow
that light out" but blow it out
I would not to my sorrow, - now -
I have followed it up [DE: to my] untill [until] my eyes
refuse to do it any longer and I must
stop entirely for the present. - I have read
nothing but Biography
I took some medicine
last week and kept as still as I could. I am
some better, so that I tend to business as well
as ever. Mr Brewster things I had better
take a ride in the country for a few days
- I think I shall
Mrs Willard Yates
is in the Citty [City] I understand
Mrs [ED: page damaged]
Buell has just returned from a journey
out west, - to Michigan. - her health is
very good at present. She was in
the store to day. I call [them?] once
in a while. They seem very glad to
have me come
My prospects for business
continue as favorable as ever
My Love to Your Family
Your affectionate Nephew
James Buell
To Mrs S.J Hale
Boston