Letters of Eliza Southgate by Eliza Southgate

Author:Eliza Southgate [Southgate, Eliza]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Geschichte
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2017-11-08T23:00:00+00:00

Martha sent me a most elegant indispensable, white lute-string, spangled with silver, and a beautiful bracelet for the arm, made of her hair. She is too good to love me, as she says, more than ever.

(Married the next spring.)

Portland, Friday, Nov., 1802.

Mr. Davis is going on to Boston, and will have a letter for you. I am delighted to hear that Mamma is better. I send you some of Miss Holmes's wedding-cake; married on Monday. You say Uncle Rufus Emerson has returned, and tells them a great many stories. When you write next, tell me what he says, and where he heard them, and all about it, for everything interests me. Mr. B. has not arrived. I am out of all patience. Cannot imagine what detains him. Four weeks to-morrow since he took Mr. Codman's letter. These Quakers are governed with such a slow spirit.

I wish the deuce had them. I shall be really uneasy if he don't come soon. I want some money; my last dollar I gave Horatio to buy Mamma's oranges. I have written to Mrs. Derby to buy me a winter gown.

In her last she says she has bought it, but does not mention the price. I wish the money to send to her as soon as I hear,—a little, likewise, for occasional expenses; 'tis not pleasant to be without it. I have been to but one party since Mamma's sickness; shall certainly not go out more than I can possibly avoid. Mrs. Derby is quite vexed at Mr. B.'s not coming. I'll not be so ungenerous as to condemn him without giving an opportunity of vindicating himself. Some circumstances I know not of may detain him. All our friends are well. Send me the money as soon as possible, and don't forget to tell particularly what Rufus says, who he saw, what they told him, and where he heard all. In some cases trifles acquire importance, mole-hills become mountains.

Adieu.

ELIZA.

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