Letter
Dublin Core
Title
1840.05.04 – Elizabeth Huntington to Frederic Dan Huntington, May 4th, 1840- Thursday Afternoon
Creator
Elizabeth Whiting Phelps Huntington
Source
Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family Papers (Box 12 Folder 8)
University of Massachusetts Special Collections and University Archives
Date
1840-05-04
Rights
public domain
Type
Correspondence
Transcription
May 4th Thursday afternoon. 1840.
My Dear
Frederic,
Cousin Caroline1 is leaving us tomorrow morning, for Boston.
Bethia and Eliza are going to spend the afternoon with her, and the cousins; and will take over your roundabout2, two letters which we have received from Mrs. Fisher3 since you left us, and a labotoille4 paper, containing some sage thoughts of your brother Edward.
Theodore has written to him since the paper came, and given some good reasons against his opinion. Your father thought both of them very good. Your letter to Theodore came Tuesday evening. Probably before this, you have had a good long letter5 from your Father which he wrote on Monday, a leisure day with him as the rain prevented him from working in the garden. The letter from France you may return by some safe conveyance, if you know of any otherwise keep them till you came home. Bethia had an interesting letter from [Lisee] some time ago; it is at N.6 or we would send it to you.
The Flower beds are not finished, but are in a fair way to be before long. Tomorrow the 8th will bring to our minds, the distant and the departed, Mr. Fisher7, and our sainted
Catherine. Bethia wrote you by E. Judkins8, who went to Boston on saturday. With earnest desires for the best blessings in us all. I am most truly yours
Elizabeth
- Believed to be eighth child of Charles Porter Phelps who is the brother of Elizabeth’s. She was born in 1814 and there is no record of her death. Her family moved to Hadley after her mother’s death. ↩︎
- From Oxford English dictionary: “originally and chiefly U.S. a type of corner chair with a curved back, made in the 18th century” ↩︎
- Believed to be a good friend of Elizabeth’s. May be the mother of George Fisher, husband of Elizabeth’s oldest daughter, Elizabeth. ↩︎
- Believed to be a French word spelled wrongly. It is unclear which word she meant to write. ↩︎
- Letter from Dan Huntington in Elm-valley to Frederic Huntington on Monday May 5th 1840, located in the Porter Phelps Huntington collection at Amherst College, Box 16 Folder 8 ↩︎
- Shorthand for North Hampton, which is near Hadley. ↩︎
- The husband of Mrs. Fisher that passed away recently. May be the father of George Fisher. ↩︎
- Charles Porter Phelps’s third wife. They married in 1833 and lived in Hadley. ↩︎