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Miscellanous and unidentified compositions, Everett family writings, ca. 1850s-1870s

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Title Miscellanous and unidentified compositions, Everett family writings, ca. 1850s-1870s

Date ca. 1850s-1870s

Language English, Welsh

Subjects Abolitionists, Brothers and sisters, Congregational churches

Extent 6.9 linear feet (16.5 boxes)

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User-Contributed Transcription over and pile on the fuel. There a mother is mourning over the fire that has gathered around her only daughter. She was a beautiful girl and eagerly sought the joys of life. Her companions were voteries of pleasure and when wearied with their mirth she kindled her wasted energies with the sickly fire of some overwrought imagination. Her mother saw the evil tending of this course but mistaken love held back the warning till too late. for while she hesitated consumption had kindled in the bones of the maiden. In vain now must the physician strive to quench this fire, his skill cannot reach it, the girl must die. At a little distance is another person so completely enveloped in flames that I can scarcely see him He was once a happy man but in an evil hour a spark of dislike fell among his affections. One afternoon he wished the use of his neighbor's carriage but it hug? gone to town. Vexed by the disappointment his evil genius ventured to suggest that his neighbor knew he wanted it and had therefore chosen that day to go to the city. As he brooded over this he remembered that not long since this very neighbor's cattle had broken into his grain and now he doubted not that their owner had himself turned them into his field, for why should thy have broken over that night and not before. Thus one little circumstance

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Archival Collection Title Everett family papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Everett Box 17 Folder 599

BibID 998218028805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Size 2648px × 3314px 25.14 MB

File Created 08/12/2016

Filename 998218028805867_mms_everett_ser_01_box_017_fl_599_005_02.tif

Unique Identifier NL1G4AN

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