Newberry Library - Gore, Lucretia Dean to Gore, Mary C., Dean family papers, 1852-1866, undated

Gore, Lucretia Dean to Gore, Mary C., Dean family papers, 1852-1866, undated

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Open book Gore, Lucretia Dean to Gore, Mary C., Dean family papers, 1852-1866, undated

Title Gore, Lucretia Dean to Gore, Mary C., Dean family papers, 1852-1866, undated

Creator Dean, Lucretia Mason

Date 1852-1866, undated

Place Connecticut, United States

Language English

Subjects Clergy, Congregationalists

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription [[top of letter is continued from another page]]
[in margin]
give my love to all who enquire after I cannot name all but all are remembered by me. I cannot realize that I am so far from you but mind will go back in lifetime than telegraph communications, write me soon & tell me all about everything

proper to communicate, especially I wish to hear of your health you may let Leonard see this letter as I cannot write but one at a time, the next, I shall write to L Lucretia say[?], she shall write to L soon but I think she will find it easier to promise than perform
Lucretia send love to all friends & [[Presume?]] I would if she was here

Sycamore De Kalb Co Illinois
May 17 185[4?]
Dear children
You may probably think I have been rather negligent, in not writing and giving you some account of my journey, ere now. but ere Mr Gore wrote the day that I arrived here, I have put it off writing longer than I intended to, I will now give you a brief but imperfect sketch of my journey. We left Mr. Maynards at 9 oclock Monday morning. my side was much betters than it was Saturday and I found riding did not hurt me. We started from West Brookfield between 10 & 11 still arrived at Albany before 6PM. The cars were very full as there were many pasengers who were designing to go on to Hartford & New haven from Springfield, who were compelled to go by the way of Albany and down the river to New York, to get to New Haven on account of the freshet. You have doubtless seen the account of the great rise of water, I need not therefore describe it at Pittsfield all the flat land near the river was with water, and the wrecks of buildings and fences were floating on the surface, cotages [[cottages]], which were on the interval were up to their windows in water. The low land were every where covered with water. The scenery through the Western part of Massachusetts and the Eastern part of N-York is bold and rugged in the extreme. I availed myself of all the chance I could get to look at it, which is but little from the cars. At Albany the river was so high, that we had

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Archival Collection Title Dean family papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Dean Box 1 Folder 21

BibID 998264908805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Filename 998264908805867_midwest_ms_dean_box_01_fl_21_01_01.tif

Unique Identifier NL1Z3P4

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