Letter
Dublin Core
Title
1832.06.05 – Elizabeth Huntington to Frederic Dan Huntington, Jun. 5th, 1832
Creator
Elizabeth Whiting Phelps Huntington
Source
Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family Papers (Box 12 Folder 7)
University of Massachusetts Special Collections and University Archives
Date
1832-06-05
Rights
public domain
Type
Correspondence
Transcription
June 5th, 1832
Dear Frederic,
Your Pa thinks of going to Greenfield1 today, and if he does will go threw N-A (North Hampton) I felt very sorry to find by the lines you wrote to me, that you felt so unhappy and am almost of the opinion that you would be left unhappy, if you were as far from home as Mary- I can only seek for you the cheering light of divine love. In all our trials, however _ we should and ___ to think of the suffering our _ endured even for his enemies-
__ yourself with the hope that he will bring good to you, out of what you think to be evil, and endeavour by patient continuance in well doing to please him. I remember when I was a very young lying awake one night after I went to God, with a {deciphering?} headache. The thought came into my mind of what Christ endured at his crucifixion, and I felt ashamed to complain. I will thank you to call and pay Mr. Clarke for the colouring, and I will pay you soon. If you would like to get you a new small bible. I will give you forty or fifty cents for your old one. If you would not dislike to do it, I should like to have you say to Charles that we prefer as few farther forward than No. (Number) fifty, if the expense is not greater, and also at some leisure time measure the length and breath of the seat. Perhaps I shall make cushions, but of this you need say nothing. I should also like to know the width of the floor, and has for the Grace extend into the middle of a {few/pew}. —-
We are hoping to see Mr.{Ham?} tomorrow.
Yours most truly, _
__ a string for a measure.
- Greenfield was first inhabited by the Pocumtuck, but were wiped out by the Mohawks in 1664 and became apart of a principal root for Native American trade traveling west into New York; and was ultimately colonized as part of Deerfield by the English in 1686[?] ↩︎