Metadata
Title
Sarah Josepha Hale to David E. Hale
Creator
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879
Date
1831-02-04
February 4, 1831
Medium
Manuscripts
Language
eng
Type
text
Collection
Sarah Josepha Hale Collection, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Identifier
46-M-126
Rights
http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html
Text
Boston JFeb 4th 18[31?]
My dear son I have been waiting very
anxiously for a letter from you - Why
have you not written? Is it because you
have not obtained the station in your
class for which you hoped? Never be
fearful of communicating to me your
[?] any more than your successes-
the former will sometimes occur, even
when we use the greatest exertion-
and if you do what you can I shall
be satisfied. But you must write. I
am always very anxious when the
time has elapsed for your letters to
arrive. I have sent you papers and
pamphlets frequently - and mail with
this letter & paper and [Willis'?] Magazine.
Horatio is in good health and
spirits - studying and working in the
printing office and your sisters,
and [Willey?] are in fine health at
Keene. I shall go there in April and
they will all return with me and
spend a few weeks in Boston.
If you have read the magazine I trust
you find it much improved. I
am going on with tolerable success
and hope I shall have the
privilege of visiting you at
West Point in June, and that we
shall then make a tour to the
spring and Glens Falls.
Mr. Kendrick Metcalf has been in
Boston not long since. He came
here to be married to Miss [Trask?], who
used to board at [Dort.?] Megregory's.
Mr. Metcalf is studying Divinity -
will be an Episcopalian clergyman - He now resides
in Dochester and is succeeding finely.
He named you with much affection
There is nothing of much interest to
you that I now recollect transpired here
of late - except it be that Master Burke
is performing at the Fremont. [Horatio?]
does not want to attend the
theatre - he prefers to expend his money
on books and his leisure
in studying the languages.
Have you read the Water Witch? by
Cooper - it is a poor affair. When
a good opportunity offers I shall send
you a few books.
Now, my dear son, answer this letter
soon, and tell me all your affairs
in which you think I shall be [interested]
If Mr. Poe is at West Point will you
say to him that I rec'd a poem from
him and shall publish it when it is
in season - which will be next summer,
to [accord?] with the scene described. I like
the article and have only delayed it
to make it more appropriate.
God bless you my son
Your affectionate
Mother
Sarah J. Hale
My dear son I have been waiting very
anxiously for a letter from you - Why
have you not written? Is it because you
have not obtained the station in your
class for which you hoped? Never be
fearful of communicating to me your
[?] any more than your successes-
the former will sometimes occur, even
when we use the greatest exertion-
and if you do what you can I shall
be satisfied. But you must write. I
am always very anxious when the
time has elapsed for your letters to
arrive. I have sent you papers and
pamphlets frequently - and mail with
this letter & paper and [Willis'?] Magazine.
Horatio is in good health and
spirits - studying and working in the
printing office and your sisters,
and [Willey?] are in fine health at
Keene. I shall go there in April and
they will all return with me and
spend a few weeks in Boston.
If you have read the magazine I trust
you find it much improved. I
am going on with tolerable success
and hope I shall have the
privilege of visiting you at
West Point in June, and that we
shall then make a tour to the
spring and Glens Falls.
Mr. Kendrick Metcalf has been in
Boston not long since. He came
here to be married to Miss [Trask?], who
used to board at [Dort.?] Megregory's.
Mr. Metcalf is studying Divinity -
will be an Episcopalian clergyman - He now resides
in Dochester and is succeeding finely.
He named you with much affection
There is nothing of much interest to
you that I now recollect transpired here
of late - except it be that Master Burke
is performing at the Fremont. [Horatio?]
does not want to attend the
theatre - he prefers to expend his money
on books and his leisure
in studying the languages.
Have you read the Water Witch? by
Cooper - it is a poor affair. When
a good opportunity offers I shall send
you a few books.
Now, my dear son, answer this letter
soon, and tell me all your affairs
in which you think I shall be [interested]
If Mr. Poe is at West Point will you
say to him that I rec'd a poem from
him and shall publish it when it is
in season - which will be next summer,
to [accord?] with the scene described. I like
the article and have only delayed it
to make it more appropriate.
God bless you my son
Your affectionate
Mother
Sarah J. Hale