Letter
Dublin Core
Title
1829.09.28 – Mary Huntington to Catherine Huntington, Sept. 28 1829
Description
Mary Dwight Huntington writes to her younger sister, Catherine Huntington. Mary has just started school and has so far attended it for only two days, but complains that her teacher, Miss Clarke, treats her shamefully. She mentions a friend named Harriette a few times, who may be Harriet Blake Mills, the younger sister-in-law of Mary’s older brother Charles. Mary states that the best part of the day is when she is at Mrs. Mills’ house, which may be referring to Harriet’s mother. She also asks about her siblings and repeatedly expresses a desire to visit home.
Creator
Mary D. Huntington
Source
Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family Papers (Box 20 Folder 8)
University of Massachusetts Special Collections and University Archives
Date
1829-09-28
Rights
public domain
Type
Correspondence
Transcription
September 28 1829
Dear Catherine
I have just dressed myself, and studyed my lesson in rhetoric, and was h and think I shall devote the rest of the morning to you. I have been to school two days, and think I shall like it quite well as long as Susan F and Mary H go, but they are going only a fortnight more, and then I shall have to go most of the way alone. I wish you were here to go to school with me. It is so cold this morning I really wish I had my great red shawl to walk to school in this morning.
I should like very much to go home Saturday and if it is convenient I should like to have some one come after me then, and you and Bethia come before that time though I am afraid I should let you go without me.
I think I am treated shamefully, for Miss Clarke [puts] me into almost every class in school excepting French and Latin without any regard to the requests of Ma and Pa.
Harriette says I am [homesick] she says sends her very great respect to her brother, for she says her its is very much against her principles to send her love to a boy. It is [nine] o-clock and I must deter writing till noon. I have just returned from school, and shall with pleasure resume the employment of writing to you. I received your letter this morning; I really wish I was at home with you. The most pleasant part of the day is when I am at Mrs Mills’ and the worst when I go to school.
You recollect how I felt about coming away Saturday morning and I feel so still. You can sympathize with me, for you and I were away from home at the same time though I do not feel near as bad here as I [did] there at [Va____].
I suppose you will all giggle and laugh at this foolish letter but I don’t care for that. Has Elizabeth got home yet?
There is another pleasure which you will enjoy and I shall not. I only feel [bad] when I am alone for where I am with Harriette I cannot feel bad very easily. When Pa comes over I shall tell him about my studies and till that time I shall continue in the same course which I have begun.
The Do write me as soon as possible and ask Bethia and Frederic to do the same. [Crossed out]
Give my love to all the rest of the family and believe me as ever your affectionate sister
Mary
Miss Clarke’s school does not keep at all Saturday so that I can go home in the morning