Metadata
Title
Sarah Josepha Hale to David E. Hale
Creator
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879
Date
1830-11-05
November 5, 1830
Medium
Manuscripts
Language
eng
Type
text
Collection
Sarah Josepha Hale Collection, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Identifier
46-M-135
Rights
http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html
Text
Boston Nov. 5th, 1830
My dear Son - I have rec'd two letters from
you - and tho' no so long as I would
wish, they are tolerable. I have been
disappointed in my contemplated
visit to Keene - but I shall start tomorrow -
and hope, at eventide, to kiss the dear little
girls. Willey goes with me, and I have
about concluded to leave him there
during the winter. He wants to live
with his sisters so very much - and
Miss [Fiske?] will take him into her family.
Horatio has been in Boston about a
fortnight. I am intending to keep him
with me, if I leave Willey, all winter.
He is now at work in the printing
offices of [?] a [?]. O, he is very
happy to be with me - you know
he has had to be away almost the
whole time since your father's death.
He is a fine boy - and I shall be very
glad if I can manage to keep him for
a year or two now, while his mind and
morals are forming, and his habits of
thought are taking the tendency which
must affect his happiness for life.
Next summer you will be here
two months, and we will all go to
Keene, and meet M. & S once more - if God
permits; - and I shall see all my children
together. I have published a little volume
of poems for children and am daily
engaged in the wearisome task of
writing, writing - and you think it
is a task, - don't you? - What will you
write in your book? O, I cannot now
stop to conjecture or advise -
Good night, and God bless you
my dear Son - Willey and Horatio
send love - S.J. Hale
Cadet David [E.?] Hale
West Point
N. York
My dear Son - I have rec'd two letters from
you - and tho' no so long as I would
wish, they are tolerable. I have been
disappointed in my contemplated
visit to Keene - but I shall start tomorrow -
and hope, at eventide, to kiss the dear little
girls. Willey goes with me, and I have
about concluded to leave him there
during the winter. He wants to live
with his sisters so very much - and
Miss [Fiske?] will take him into her family.
Horatio has been in Boston about a
fortnight. I am intending to keep him
with me, if I leave Willey, all winter.
He is now at work in the printing
offices of [?] a [?]. O, he is very
happy to be with me - you know
he has had to be away almost the
whole time since your father's death.
He is a fine boy - and I shall be very
glad if I can manage to keep him for
a year or two now, while his mind and
morals are forming, and his habits of
thought are taking the tendency which
must affect his happiness for life.
Next summer you will be here
two months, and we will all go to
Keene, and meet M. & S once more - if God
permits; - and I shall see all my children
together. I have published a little volume
of poems for children and am daily
engaged in the wearisome task of
writing, writing - and you think it
is a task, - don't you? - What will you
write in your book? O, I cannot now
stop to conjecture or advise -
Good night, and God bless you
my dear Son - Willey and Horatio
send love - S.J. Hale
Cadet David [E.?] Hale
West Point
N. York