1
150
270
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/371166c72eda5ed60ca87f361d1908e1.jpg
293ce629b267602f59816656142ef92a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/de2ead14f308da2c4fb435af2c30a3ca.jpg
4095ca7962fb50ad758305b185d253f3
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c3adc8dead8af02577521698cc263e17.jpg
6845075529001c6febcf212e4fb6e8c9
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/eddae636685288d731737321750fd1e2.jpg
4d5ef4ce83da3aff7b313e31fd8a2def
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
text_
A transcribable resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/4174/#transcription">This letter is being transcribed, please choose another</a>
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Willis, Sarah L Kirby Hallowell. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Sarah L Kirby Hallowell Willis to Isaac Post, March 6, 1872.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Willis, Sarah L Kirby Hallowell
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1872-03-06
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1895
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
gdos
gdos2023
Quakers
transcribe
Women's Rights
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ac2d086a5a25b01ae3cda38a76463aba.jpg
bbc7c4527c605c86a8980e19373ee204
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/182f45ad0d9ca6e91325360b7ef4214f.jpg
6e9bd7dd627e5f0484eb241a77ddc88c
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/86111283f72e4672563a17b7953e2335.xml
fbe72c7b314cdf3cdd2ddc97b429195e
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> [Text Printed]<br /><br /> Druggists,<br /> Jacob K. Post & Co.,<br /> NO. 4 Exchange Street, <br /><br /> Rochester, N.Y. March 4 1872<br /><br /> [Text Normal]<br /><br /> Dear Parents 8 <sup>45</sup> PM<br /> The largest crowd that Rochester has<br /> lately been troubled with was the [taken?]<br /> [holdus?] [sic] to ^the^ grant gift [Enterprise?] of<br /> George Ellis Washington Hall could<br /> not contyain half that came from <br /> the country and they did not care<br /> to hear the concert but wanted ther [sic]<br /> drawing to commence} Our Company drew <br /> a silver castor<br /> Friends General Meeting are <br /> so well attended that all cannot<br /> get into the Methodists Church on<br /> Fitzhugh St also Shaws church <br /> was cramed [sic] full the Beldeu <br /> family attend there and find<br /> no fault with [Prakers?] since Dr<br /> Shaw speaks in the highest terms <br /> of Miss Comestork Miss Smiley ahs <br /> not spoken much being very slender<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> Our snow that commenced very hard<br /> and fast this morning abut [sic] four inches<br /> snow fell Thermometer when I was at<br /> supper 5 degrees above zero<br /> Catharine Willis meat [sic] to start<br /> for Long Island she was at the <br /> Depot in time but stood and saw the <br /> team depart This is the first case<br /> that I have heard of where a person <br /> was <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">on</span> ^ahead^ of time for the cars and got left<br /> Jemme’s friend Widow of the <br /> butcher W<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>m</sup></span> Andrews is quite sick <br /> he little boy near Curtis age <br /> said that if his Mother did not <br /> get well he would live with Auntie <br /> Post Jemm is in quite Quandary<br /> does not want any boy in babys <br /> place and feels that she cannot<br /> say no and I am hoping that <br /> she will seedily [sic] get well<br />E.A. Cowley has paid in one hundred<br /> dollars since thee left they have <br /> this day a fine cattle [give?] that weghs [/i/2<sup>4</sup>?]
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Jacob Kirby. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Jacob Kirby Post to Isaac Post, March 4, 1872.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Jacob Kirby
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1872-03-04
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1894
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. [Text Printed] Druggists, Jacob K. Post & Co., NO. 4 Exchange Street, Rochester, N.Y. March 4 1872 [Text Normal] Dear Parents 8 45 PM The largest crowd that Rochester has lately been troubled with was the [taken?] [holdus?] [sic] to ^the^ grant gift [Enterprise?] of George Ellis Washington Hall could not contyain half that came from the country and they did not care to hear the concert but wanted ther [sic] drawing to commence} Our Company drew a silver castor Friends General Meeting are so well attended that all cannot get into the Methodists Church on Fitzhugh St also Shaws church was cramed [sic] full the Beldeu family attend there and find no fault with [Prakers?] since Dr Shaw speaks in the highest terms of Miss Comestork Miss Smiley ahs not spoken much being very slender Our snow that commenced very hard and fast this morning abut [sic] four inches snow fell Thermometer when I was at supper 5 degrees above zero Catharine Willis meat [sic] to start for Long Island she was at the Depot in time but stood and saw the team depart This is the first case that I have heard of where a person was on ^ahead^ of time for the cars and got left Jemme's friend Widow of the butcher Wm Andrews is quite sick he little boy near Curtis age said that if his Mother did not get well he would live with Auntie Post Jemm is in quite Quandary does not want any boy in babys place and feels that she cannot say no and I am hoping that she will seedily [sic] get wellE.A. Cowley has paid in one hundred dollars since thee left they have this day a fine cattle [give?] that weghs [/i/24?]
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/03f0e92dab11c9bae88e257537e9c1db.jpg
d065f471fb753f3166ca096d02f6c051
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c59591e97f5da246fe4a56dd989c3eeb.jpg
4ce3d88e4c332ac3a2d0c820c3e55e3c
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/2b8ceece0ac12ac8895e180e41152a6b.jpg
5e340052aaed42e820fca5894b11c905
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a59773b17f27319e692c18f023545893.jpg
d7c51e385fda72966a5501dbe77f0b3c
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/76378d8ba0dc7cc61321d2f560e90856.xml
14b754eac05501825f1afb97ed48c132
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> Westbury 6 mo 17<sup>th</sup> 1871<br /> Dear Brother<br /> It has been a long time since<br /><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">I written to any </span>I have written any thing [sic] to <br /> any of you no apology but the habit of <br /> putting off which grows stronger by being <br /> indulged in, Many things have transpired<br /> of latter time that has been very interesting<br /> to us. The annual meetings not Antislavery<br /> but composed of many of the old friends<br /> made ^it^ seem like one of the very best<br /> of antislavery meetings it was a very good<br /> one I do not know but it will do to say the<br /> very best one we ever attended, and then <br /> the women meeting that we attended was<br /> also a very good one we did not attend all <br /> the revolution meetings we did not attend <br /> any. Mary and I attended the Philidelphia [sic]<br /> yearly Meeting where a large number of<br /> Friends congregate and many of the liberal<br /> order particular among the young speakers<br /> and there was many that attended that <br /> meeting it was verry [sic] encouraging to see<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> the progression that seems to be taking<br /> place It makes us feel that ^if^ many <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">that</span><br /> that resigned their right of membership<br /> some years ago had held on a little<br /> longer it would have help on the good<br /> work in Society and not hinderd [sic] any of<br /> their good works out of Society. It was a very<br /> pleasent [sic] week to us. Mary and Catharine<br /> attended M<sup>rs</sup> Howe, meetings and was much <br /> pleased an account of which was in the Standard<br /> and then we attended our yearly meeting<br /> which as Freinds [sic] say was a favouerd [sic] season <br /> many friend from other yearly meetings<br /> both Preachers and others of course some<br /> orthodoxy but I think on the whole<br /> it is desidedly [sic] giving away I fell like<br /> using a friends turn truth reigned over<br /> all T Clarkson Taylor from Wilmington <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">a</span><br /> expects to be at our meeting tomorrow not<br /> over fifty I think, who we think is a very <br /> great preacher, you will see by the Standard<br /> the doings of Martha Treville about New <br /> York is it ^not^ to bad that men who are placed <br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> in authority over the erring ones should [expersize?]<br /> it so that a woman who is particular gifted <br /> to speack [sic] to the erring should not have an <br /> oppotunety [sic] because she was a woman I <br /> believe Samuel Willets did all he could<br /> to have it different he helped her around<br /> where ever she went and proberly [sic] did it <br /> better than any other friend in New York<br /> could do it, I saw him yesterday he seems<br /> peased [sic] with what was done except in <br /> regard to the mens meeting at Sing Sing<br /> Joseph Hicks youngest sons mind has so far<br /> given way that they took him to the assylum [sic]<br /> about 3 weeks ago ^he^ should it first in <br /> meeting he had been much trouble about<br /> friends having any thing [sic] to do with fairs where<br /> horse [trotting?] was practiced to considerable ^extent^<br /> and then ^some^ friends attending parties and taking<br /> part in much and dancing monthly meeting<br /> in 5 month he spoke a long time much out<br /> of place it incr^e^ased so fast they thought it<br /> best to take him asylum we here is some<br /> better but have read in a week now<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> Dr Rogers widow was buried day before yesterday<br /> and old woman eighty four or five [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">illegible</span>]<br /> [Horathe?] Poole was buried yesterday leaves<br /> a mother an old woman about 85 no<br /> brother nor sister. I suppose you have herd [sic]<br /> before this this the trouble I have got myself <br /> in buying a part of Isaac farm I had been <br /> feeling I wanted to lessen buisness [sic] and<br /> then to get more does not correspond and<br /> when I will get out of it I do not know<br /> It has ^been^ dry our hay crops are very light not<br /> more I think than half of some years wheat<br /> is large and much down help is scarce so <br /> many rail roads [sic] building finds imployment [sic]<br /> for many hands Edmund Rushmore has<br /> been poorly for some months saw him last<br /> evening said he was not smart said he was<br /> weak in body and mind he wanted the advice <br /> of his friends I advised him to go to Dr<br /> English he said he had been very much pre=<br /> =judice against him I told him I had ^to^ but<br /> he had helped so many folks I advised<br /> many to go and try RR Willets ^and Lydia^ is going<br /> to New Port with their daughter she is very<br /> poorly yet they have ^been^ importuned to take her<br /> to [Engasal?] but they do not conclude yet <br /> Thine Joseph Post
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, June 17, 1871.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1871-06-17
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1874
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Westbury 6 mo 17th 1871 Dear Brother It has been a long time sinceI written to any I have written any thing [sic] to any of you no apology but the habit of putting off which grows stronger by being indulged in, Many things have transpired of latter time that has been very interesting to us. The annual meetings not Antislavery but composed of many of the old friends made ^it^ seem like one of the very best of antislavery meetings it was a very good one I do not know but it will do to say the very best one we ever attended, and then the women meeting that we attended was also a very good one we did not attend all the revolution meetings we did not attend any. Mary and I attended the Philidelphia [sic] yearly Meeting where a large number of Friends congregate and many of the liberal order particular among the young speakers and there was many that attended that meeting it was verry [sic] encouraging to see the progression that seems to be taking place It makes us feel that ^if^ many that that resigned their right of membership some years ago had held on a little longer it would have help on the good work in Society and not hinderd [sic] any of their good works out of Society. It was a very pleasent [sic] week to us. Mary and Catharine attended Mrs Howe, meetings and was much pleased an account of which was in the Standard and then we attended our yearly meeting which as Freinds [sic] say was a favouerd [sic] season many friend from other yearly meetings both Preachers and others of course some orthodoxy but I think on the whole it is desidedly [sic] giving away I fell like using a friends turn truth reigned over all T Clarkson Taylor from Wilmington a expects to be at our meeting tomorrow not over fifty I think, who we think is a very great preacher, you will see by the Standard the doings of Martha Treville about New York is it ^not^ to bad that men who are placed in authority over the erring ones should [expersize?] it so that a woman who is particular gifted to speack [sic] to the erring should not have an oppotunety [sic] because she was a woman I believe Samuel Willets did all he could to have it different he helped her around where ever she went and proberly [sic] did it better than any other friend in New York could do it, I saw him yesterday he seems peased [sic] with what was done except in regard to the mens meeting at Sing Sing Joseph Hicks youngest sons mind has so far given way that they took him to the assylum [sic] about 3 weeks ago ^he^ should it first in meeting he had been much trouble about friends having any thing [sic] to do with fairs where horse [trotting?] was practiced to considerable ^extent^ and then ^some^ friends attending parties and taking part in much and dancing monthly meeting in 5 month he spoke a long time much out of place it incr^e^ased so fast they thought it best to take him asylum we here is some better but have read in a week now Dr Rogers widow was buried day before yesterday and old woman eighty four or five [illegible] [Horathe?] Poole was buried yesterday leaves a mother an old woman about 85 no brother nor sister. I suppose you have herd [sic] before this this the trouble I have got myself in buying a part of Isaac farm I had been feeling I wanted to lessen buisness [sic] and then to get more does not correspond and when I will get out of it I do not know It has ^been^ dry our hay crops are very light not more I think than half of some years wheat is large and much down help is scarce so many rail roads [sic] building finds imployment [sic] for many hands Edmund Rushmore has been poorly for some months saw him last evening said he was not smart said he was weak in body and mind he wanted the advice of his friends I advised him to go to Dr English he said he had been very much pre= =judice against him I told him I had ^to^ but he had helped so many folks I advised many to go and try RR Willets ^and Lydia^ is going to New Port with their daughter she is very poorly yet they have ^been^ importuned to take her to [Engasal?] but they do not conclude yet Thine Joseph Post
Abolitionism
Agriculture
Medicine
Quakers
Women's Rights
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/6627d79fea43ef24e0db21484617288b.jpg
355e77fadcbd062ae37fe0f4a8dfdc6a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9837230a6a43f0b2e6b2d62349531a5b.jpg
0d87c5ea76b368fc0cbd5c0bf25748ca
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/3531689ae6e1678fed415c13330bed3a.jpg
5c28e4dfcf949aeb89f60f01cb79e1c6
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/866b79a4b5f77753f0d207bf30f44af9.jpg
85dd7d95f75d07d4c813536b2ebe8856
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/4b7c8fc19455c3e79ed827b7a97261f2.xml
31e8d94fc46eb5edeaf55f42ce4af881
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> Old Westbury 4 m 25<sup>th</sup> 1870<br /> Dear Brother & Sister<br /> We received your letter in due<br /> course and should have writen [sic] you long<br /> ago Mary is at Syossett <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">with</span> helping them <br /> Samuel is poorly not so very sick to ap<br /> =pearence but he has been growing weaker <br /> steaderly [sic] for some weeks we advised them<br /> to have a doctor, they called in the Jericho<br /> docter [sic] he thought he had no particular disease <br /> but was bilous [sic] gave him some medicine <br /> called him better if they neaded [sic] him more<br /> let him know and he would come but he<br /> continued to grow weaker, Quarterly meeting<br /> last week we were not there in a week found<br /><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">him</span> he had lost considerable, he thought the<br /> Jericho docter [sic] did not understand his situation<br /> we proposed to go for doctor that Mary h as <br /> been going Samuel was willing and I <br /> went for him he came thought much<br /> as the Jericho doctor did, but treated him <br /> very different used electering [sic] mashene [sic]<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> and his hands he thinks he can help <br /> him I think Samuel felt quit encourage<br /> from one treatment I came home then<br /> we came up first day morning the doctor<br /> would stay till second day morning treats him <br /> more before he went down I believe some <br /> of them was about writing yesterday they<br /> can ^give <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">tell</span>^ more particular account than I the <br /> doctor spoke so encourageing ly [sic] it help us<br /> all very much he has had his close [sic] on <br /> every day and been out doors until the<br /> last 3 days am very much in hopes this <br /> treatment will bring him up again<br /> We look around at the Antislavery meet<br /> ing thinking it might be we should<br /> you but we looked in vain I think <br /> I may say we had a gloyrious [sic] meeting <br /> if Garrison had only consented to think <br /> perhaps they have done some good in con=<br /> =tinuing the Antislavery society on to this<br /> time and <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">as</span> the coloured man is now equeal [sic]<br /> to the white man before the law I will <br /> join them in ^deliberation of the ^ fulfilment of all our [labours?]<br /> how nice it would have been I was asked many<br /> times was Garrison there he ought to have been there <br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> some our conservative new york Friends<br /> were there <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">we lt</span> and attended all the meet<br /> =ing. we thought some improvement had<br /> taken especially with Thomas Folk but<br /> at the quarterly Meeting he shoed [sic] himself<br /> as orthodox as ever. he is a man not calculated<br /> of himself to do a great deal of hurt but<br /> as he is a speaker and the rich enfluencial [sic]<br /> friends back him up he can <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">have</span> make<br /> quite a show he is a great stickler for<br /> bible any one holding on to the book as <br /> holy as sackred [sic] and ever blessed a great <br /> many will tolerate him . Isaac Hicks<br /> has got to preaching speaks prety [sic] often<br /> and I think prety [sic] well generally, in <br /> quarterly meeting he had quite a long sermon<br /> and after [have?] long teadous [sic] sermon from <br /> Tommy F and John AD Right he arose and<br /> said I will now explane [sic] to you, and stood<br /> some time and said I thought I had a clear <br /> intermation [sic] but it is gone and set down<br /> he has been several time in Pensilvania [sic]<br /> to attend monthly meeting and Quarterly<br /> meeting <br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> Samuel Willets has bought 60 acres<br /> of Samuel Hicks farm for his grand<br /> son who expects to marry Charles Titus <br /> daughter are about <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">but</span> building a barn<br /> this summer bound to be left until <br /> they are married our neighbor all<br /> in general health Mary R Post much<br /> as she has been for a longtime wants<br /> to ride out often goes to meeting mostly <br /> she being prety [sic] heavy it is very hard<br /> for Edmund who mostly taks [sic] her in <br /> his arms and carrys [sic] her like a baby<br /> Uncle James I think has been better<br /> this winter than a number of winter<br /> past . It is time for this to go to the post<br /> office if it goes to day so must close <br /> expecting to see you before long as the<br /> 11<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> of next month will soon come<br /> round so farewell your Brother<br /> Joseph Post <br />
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, April 25, 1870.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1870-04-25
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1847
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Old Westbury 4 m 25th 1870 Dear Brother & Sister We received your letter in due course and should have writen [sic] you long ago Mary is at Syossett with helping them Samuel is poorly not so very sick to ap =pearence but he has been growing weaker steaderly [sic] for some weeks we advised them to have a doctor, they called in the Jericho docter [sic] he thought he had no particular disease but was bilous [sic] gave him some medicine called him better if they neaded [sic] him more let him know and he would come but he continued to grow weaker, Quarterly meeting last week we were not there in a week foundhim he had lost considerable, he thought the Jericho docter [sic] did not understand his situation we proposed to go for doctor that Mary h as been going Samuel was willing and I went for him he came thought much as the Jericho doctor did, but treated him very different used electering [sic] mashene [sic] and his hands he thinks he can help him I think Samuel felt quit encourage from one treatment I came home then we came up first day morning the doctor would stay till second day morning treats him more before he went down I believe some of them was about writing yesterday they can ^give tell^ more particular account than I the doctor spoke so encourageing ly [sic] it help us all very much he has had his close [sic] on every day and been out doors until the last 3 days am very much in hopes this treatment will bring him up again We look around at the Antislavery meet ing thinking it might be we should you but we looked in vain I think I may say we had a gloyrious [sic] meeting if Garrison had only consented to think perhaps they have done some good in con= =tinuing the Antislavery society on to this time and as the coloured man is now equeal [sic] to the white man before the law I will join them in ^deliberation of the ^ fulfilment of all our [labours?] how nice it would have been I was asked many times was Garrison there he ought to have been there some our conservative new york Friends were there we lt and attended all the meet =ing. we thought some improvement had taken especially with Thomas Folk but at the quarterly Meeting he shoed [sic] himself as orthodox as ever. he is a man not calculated of himself to do a great deal of hurt but as he is a speaker and the rich enfluencial [sic] friends back him up he can have make quite a show he is a great stickler for bible any one holding on to the book as holy as sackred [sic] and ever blessed a great many will tolerate him . Isaac Hicks has got to preaching speaks prety [sic] often and I think prety [sic] well generally, in quarterly meeting he had quite a long sermon and after [have?] long teadous [sic] sermon from Tommy F and John AD Right he arose and said I will now explane [sic] to you, and stood some time and said I thought I had a clear intermation [sic] but it is gone and set down he has been several time in Pensilvania [sic] to attend monthly meeting and Quarterly meeting Samuel Willets has bought 60 acres of Samuel Hicks farm for his grand son who expects to marry Charles Titus daughter are about but building a barn this summer bound to be left until they are married our neighbor all in general health Mary R Post much as she has been for a longtime wants to ride out often goes to meeting mostly she being prety [sic] heavy it is very hard for Edmund who mostly taks [sic] her in his arms and carrys [sic] her like a baby Uncle James I think has been better this winter than a number of winter past . It is time for this to go to the post office if it goes to day so must close expecting to see you before long as the 11th of next month will soon come round so farewell your Brother Joseph Post
Abolitionism
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d43d71309eb9480aa93df1f8eb96d5fc.jpg
0a216273880ffa6751f84cf52bf0a6ea
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/20b330eb08819aacddc474b1668b6b0e.jpg
93846aea05508f6df705a52c19dbd2bf
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5dc6bcdc49a82cea5db1a4a54888ed24.jpg
834520e914b1948ee6b7bffc88faef2f
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/e3f68bc6ea3427e5ce24aad5fb857684.jpg
0d8999d88c759659bf114fed1a72bb65
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
We have (cross out) I have been geting [sic] feed from New York or rather from
the Steam boat for our cows to day. some little time ago, as
perhaps you have seen by the papers Henry Bury ?? made a decent [sic]
on the cow stables in Brooklyn. The man that has our milk came
right up and desired us to stop feeding grains or starch feed, and
as it is difficult to find a market at any time, we did so. he now
rights [sic] we may feed starch feed, but I think it is very little if any
cheaper than dry feed so shall feed dry feed a little longer. A
ct? report is in circulation that Stewart has bought the Long
Island railroad but as so many reports get in circulation that
Are not to be depended on we must whate [sic] to see what will turn
up we are not uneasy about getting [sic] a more unreasanable [sic] man
to manage it than we have now Stewarts [sic] movements has had
tenderncy [sic] to make people ask more for their land especially
about the plains, but I think their [sic] must be a reaction before
long I do not think people enough will come out of new
york to fill up all the places that are being laid out for
them but wonderful thing [sic] have taken place in our time
even. I do not know as land north and east of the plains
selld much higher but along South much changing
Jacob Hicks has gone in buisness [sic] with his Father & Brothers in the
lumber ^buisness [sic]^ at Roslyn or gone with them some way hires one man
on his farm so will leave very much ^without being done.^ William Titus son Edward
has been since last spring out at Lake Superior in the copper
mines conserened [sic] with a man that has been inventing some new
process to brake [sic] up the rock have (cross out) did not get it operation [sic] untill [sic]
after new years, they say it work well a great improvement over the
old sistome [sic] but wither [sic] they will get copper enough to make
it profitable is yet to be seen he illegible cross out rights [sic] copper is much
lower than it has been I fear very much he will lose his money
and time
3rd mo 2 Mary has just been reading the preface to George Fox journal by
Wm SS Penn it is wonderful how clear and how much advanced he
was than many who profess the same doctrine after having the
advantage of all his and other testimony should go back almost
to the same doctrine that he and his Friends suffered so much from
to establish liberty of concience [sic]. We here [sic] Townsend Rushmore
seems failing illegible cross out is unconcious [sic] most of the or all the time sleeps
nearly all the time Dr SS Treadwell is apt to give something to cause
incensibilaty [sic] to pain how much has been done I do not know
wind northwest quite quit [sic] cold J Post
Transcription author
Roesch, Patricia
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, February 28, 1870.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1870-02-28
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1839
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Agriculture
Medicine
Quakers
transcribe
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/e2fef3a390ebd51aa47aec65daaf87fe.jpg
bf33bd7b4ef9afcf963eb455f7d52923
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/fcbd54f8dfcb8b8b1bd3e083fe0637ce.jpg
f2cd5f3e68a2cbdacfd5c870ed79edea
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/702ce1f2f7518944bf691f91f673a8b5.jpg
8bf69cd7d337cf18260e1b30a96276f3
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/acfdcc0cd7a2c6efbe93404f7b4136eb.jpg
65efa322aac81453a15d2236a5037a42
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f406df3284ab077028196f4ec9992bf8.xml
ee521a44e5582110fde97cbe25292f62
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, February 28, 1870.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1870-02-28
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1838
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of Rochester
University of Rochester
500 Joseph C. Wilson Boulevard
Rochester, NY 14627
2017-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was
added on January 1, 2018.
University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
D93
Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists,
spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are
letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved
in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been
encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible."
Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as
such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's
original page layout and placement of additions.
/29/2/70Dear All It is so pleasant to hear from our friends (altho we I havenothing especially worth writing) induces me to take my pen hoping toreceive a double reward in the return for such favor It now seemssomewhat like winter just a very slight sprinkling of snow enough tocover the ground The ponds have been some of them frozen sufficientlyto gather ice while others open there was quite a busy time on our lastweek our people W P Titus’s and Saul T Tabor’s (They ^ Tabor had 4 wagons and 8 or 10men) I guess they got sufficient from that and other ponds but hearall have not found ice in reach to fill how different from former times an ice house was an almost unheard of appendage now it seemsalmost indispensable The inquiry was made who it was that hadbought Saul Hicks land Saul Willets of NY bought it for the purposeof settling one of his grandsons who is engaged to be married to adaughter of Charles Titus the land is very near to Charles which perhaps was one inducement to purchase it We are engagedabout as usual had Mary here last week which turned thingsup nicely I found work must yeild [sic] somewhat to entertain herso that grandmothers might be a pleasant in reality as in heranticipation how much sunshine and joy these little onesbring the house after she was gone was so silent but when she is here I am soanxious lest something may happen it was not so formerly thisis one among many indications that I am not as reliant aswhen my children were young surely there is a time for all things
I have been thinking and pleasing myself with the expectationof seeing most of you at the proposed Commemorativeand Social 7th Union meetings to be held ere long in NYit will I trust be an occasion fitting to the close of sogreat & noble a work how nice if all the old pioneers wouldonly come in and join in harmonious thank offering that theobject sought had been attained and now that other work still remain [sic]to be done in educating the people ^to a higher plane^ we must still be aggr-essive and reformatory so that there is no time even forrest We will however rejoice over the past and be encouragedby it for the future efforts and trials which we will most likelycontinue to assail The prospect now is that the Standardwill be issued but of course have a wider range and Ithink it is still needed there is no other paper that hasthe real interest to me which is embodied in it hope it willnot be a failure I rejoice that Aaron is so greatly appreciatedin that department as well as in ? for he is very worthyMaria Mitchel has delivered a lecture at the 27 St meeting houseat their Social Union meetings which we hear was very interestingFriends and friendly people meet at 27 St also at Brooklyn once a weekfor speaking reading and conversation the women generally takework and very ^they are^ pleasant and improving too and I trust theyare building better than they know Elias Lewis taking much interestin the Brooklyn Aaron and Anna at the other they recently took Mrs Sargantwith them introduced her she spoke and was as far as I knowmutually pleased John & Hicks read an article to each Concern’^ing^Friends reviewing the past near the close he says Antagonism from
without having ceased are we not in danger of foes within the house-hold more to be feared because less obvious in their character?We allude to apathy and the prevailing fear lest something shall bedisturbed forgetting that life is never a condition of rest; rest is deathLife implies growth & growth involves change but that changemust be always within the limits of the principle of its life An oakcannot become a willow but it may grow to be a larger oak wherein itsleading branches catching the sunlight of each succeeding yearmay so overshadow other branches that have served its purpose inpast years that they may become useless and be left to die …….……..Let friends learn the ideas they are trying to teach the Indian that every age must live for the present and future but not forthe traditions of the past _ the past is a material to be interw-oven [sic] in the fabric of the present but never a garment to be puton Let us cease “Plastering our swallow nests on the awful Past andtwittering round the work of larger men” Aarons [sic] essay which he read’in Boston and which will probably be in this weeks Standard has calledforth criticisms and awakened interest & enquiry especially in Bostonsome of the leading minds desiring to obtain standard works to acquain^t^themselves with their principles Aaron says it is astonishing howmuch prejudice there is against friends in Boston Our orthodoxgive W Phillips a very black mark for his opinion of friends But you must excuse me for this long story which youmay not be interested in but so true it is that subjectswhich we are interested in claim too much of times of ourfriends making ourselves tedious While I am on Friends willcontinue Isaac Hicks continues to speak and nicely too he andMary F attended all the mm in Bucks Qr (?) recently Jacob Willets
son William and wife have come to take Gidion Frostsplace which I hope will prove agreeable to all Gidion hassought dilligently [sic] for a young wife but do so far unsucessfully [sic]and I hope this arrangement will be so satisfactory as torender all further search unnecessary Jacob and Esther areliving at Vineland Gidion is quite interested in the Indian concerngetting goods etc and has recently done the most toward painting upMatinecock (?) house putting in some new windows etc Amelia Post does not regain her mind or health ^ which ever it is^ Henry’s son too not quiteas well they expect to go to Dr Ingersol when there is an opening for themMatilda has been very feeble for 2 months but is better now MaryP Titus has also been quite poorly also better Mary R had a poor turnbut is smart again spent an afternoon & evening here last week goesto meeting generally Townsend 2 weeks ago fell and broke his thumbbadly days after had a paralytic his thumb seemed to be mortifying theythought he could not last long sent for his friends but he seemed smarterwhen we heard Joseph has gone out collecting landing fees disag--reeable business enough I had rather work very hard butsome one must do it We think of going to Whitestone soonsuch?? frequent storms or bad travelling often prevent the fulfilment [sic]of plans Valentine is making a visit – staid [sic] with us 2 weeks beforecalling on his other relatives last week at Phebe Titus & EP WilletsThis week was going to J H Cocks and a few other places with returnto finish his visit with us I thought how hard it was as he was walkingfrom our door to receive no welcome like to this I am very glad to see theeIt is more and more of circumstance to have to care for him Matthewand Hannah far exceed all other of his relatives combined in their patientcare of him I told them they would deserve the Inasmuch as ye have doneit unto one of the least of
Agriculture
Family
Medicine
Native Americans
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/86b9e04f2d61b4e1bc8dd98c99a47ff3.jpg
df89329143a3ecfb4cb3359bdad1209b
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5c0bb9cc8f13c1bb045714d8dba274f0.jpg
ad6f869864d7af40b9a580fca281a1a6
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/782e783831e1bde67ccf22fab0d0580c.jpg
ae97a9565e7569e0c543938803cc672f
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/cb630439e98ed0894ebabadf2ca2ec49.jpg
b7f93cd03a41822b146d42ee6ee9d6bf
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
text_
A transcribable resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Amy Kirby Post, 187-?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
187- ?
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1824
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Civil War
Family
Quakers
transcribe
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/834d00adca653173fc2d9670138a7974.jpg
fa595dcaec9da5928673ed8c9a739449
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/e023d538de3a7318bcf3eb6d3bbbb1cb.jpg
e4bd542b34e803a2165a7b5ec8bee7fd
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/b98ec9a3dbd2d3c15108a929784c008f.jpg
e33f055fa5b05b85e384fb06b882ea46
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1d9a8dbdc31cb9e9357b41e7d5a5ec30.jpg
1cd09db5b4fa28251f3db48ff4160541
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
text_
A transcribable resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, December 17, 1869.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1869-12-17
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1821
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
Quakers
transcribe
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ca31ab559841846e124ff446bafbd67f.jpg
e3520869f3c85d2474f4f56a70039f7e
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/842444e01d8c8fd2ab39eaeb48fc107c.jpg
aacd4d4ef9e2584a7f9b808d0ee1275e
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9d81a3205f556702badbcd30b3cdbb68.jpg
c0d53a4f98f4ca5cb904c569763ef133
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/25c45b2f440f797d2cf6301f7a4dbae2.jpg
e187f34a53ac5b84d07e5505b44c4097
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/0de439ee27615324dbe473d52af796c1.jpg
3cef5e9874171a0fdcc67d0b24d861cb
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/2def1cd1d76728854adebc31e7fcf524.jpg
09d7abfe5945a407d51532ec89d7703a
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
text_
A transcribable resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
Westbury 12 mo 6 - 1869<br />Dear Brother & Sister<br /> Parish and Mary left us this morn=<br />ing after making us a short but very<br />pleasant visit in a snow storm not<br />but little ^ snow ^ on the ground but cold and<br />teageous [sic] day with hail and rain. Two<br />weeks ago we concluded to to [sic] Philadelphia<br />and attend the State Antislavery meeting<br />and make some visits. we stoped [sic] a [sic] Bristol<br />and staid [sic] ^a^ night with Cyrus Pearse and family<br />very pleasent [sic] <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">with them</span> in the morning<br />in a very hard rain strorm [sic] went on to the<br />meeting which was a very interesting one<br />C C Burleigh was their [sic] I think I never<br />herd [sic] him more interesting some speakers<br />was their [sic] as is common at such meetings<br />who wanted the Antislavery standard to<br />take up working mens [sic] cause and other<br />reforms C.C. B was favo<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">u</span>red to answer<br />them so planly [sic] and so to the point as I<br />believe to satisfy every one
Lucretia as bright as ever and health<br />better than for 18 months although not<br />very strong We went with Dr Turnan one<br />day to see Swarthmore Collage [sic] It is a verry [sic]<br />large building although I had herd [sic] the size<br />it look [sic] larger than I expected 3 storys [sic]<br />high with french [sic] roof it makes 4 storys [sic] the<br />school in operation with 170 or 180 scholars<br />yet they did not seem very thick I suppose<br />it will so [sic] expensive that many of the common<br />people cannot send to it although this term<br />has 8 or 10 scholars from our Island. Then we<br />made Lucretia a visit at her home mist [sic]<br />James presents [sic] very much. their [sic] man<br />who has been with them 7 years said it<br />was so lonesome with Mr Mott he was such<br />nice [sic] man we were gone about a week<br />The Orthodox had a first day school confer=<br />=ance [sic] their [sic] while we were ther [sic] most 4<br />days [?] meeting house full or nearly<br />so most of the time we attend tho ^ part of ^ last<br />siting [sic] ^after they got through with the buisness [sic] about 2 hours was spent in<br />religious exersices [sic] of prayers and speaking<br />all the time some called a love feast
on first day one of their Ministers attends<br />Rose St meeting and after George Truman<br />had spoken in one of his most liberal strains<br />he arose and united fully with his Brother<br />had said spoke at considerable length with<br />very few orthodox expressions I could unite<br />him in the main not near as orthodox as<br />some of our preachers, On our way home<br />Emma Hardage was in the cars and as she<br />sat alone I introduced myself and had<br />quit [sic] a pleasant chat with her. a number<br />of orthodox in the cars. our attractions<br />were drawn to her more than to them<br />Last evening I went with Sarah an [sic] Mary<br />to Samuel Hicks Mary W seemed pleased<br />wanted to enquire [sic] after many folks and<br />things but seemed to forget names Mary<br />Halowell [sic] said <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">she </span>with a little ^lalf ^[sic] Aunt<br />Mary seemed to know quit [sic] a good deal<br />We have been repairing our meeting house<br />and sheds shingled the south side of the mee<br />=ting house rebuilt one of the sheds new<br />roof on one side of each of the others<br />sheds makes our religious tax quit [sic] large this<br />year
Isaac Rushmore continues to cart hay<br />and others ^things^ to Brooklyn yet some one<br />asked him lately why he carted so much<br />he said he carted for his health I suppose<br />he will go as long as he can he has pretty<br />much given up visiting his friends and liks [sic]<br />to go. as Edmund has to carry ^her^ out to the<br />waggon [sic] and in the house makes it verry [sic]<br />hard for him and I think some danger of<br />hurting himself she goes to meeting<br />often Uncle James hold out very smart<br />very little failure of interlect [sic] but his<br />strength gives way some The excitement<br />caused by Stewert [sic] purches [sic] has queted [sic]<br />down we here[sic] ^he^ has has [sic]been laying<br />out streets and has begun to form the road<br />and herd [sic] of one large house building but<br />suppose he will not do much before spring<br />Mary and some of neighbours [sic] are now at<br />work <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">for</span> to help the Indians makeing [sic] cloths [sic]<br />for their children the tribe The New York yearly<br />meeting has under charge are very destitute. J Post
3 day morning 7<sup>th</sup> a very clear morning with<br />5 or 6 inches of snow yesterday was a stormy<br />day <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">with</span> hailing morderately [sic] all day at<br />night it began to snow with hard wind<br />This morning seems like real winter we<br />have not kiled [sic] hogs yet expect to do it day<br />after tomorrow alway a dred [sic] although not<br />near as much of a job as formaly [sic] only hav<br />=ing enough for our own use Edward S Willetts [sic]<br />is more poorly does not set up much it <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">seem</span><br />looks as though he was nearly to the top<br />of the ladder as George Truman says<br />when we were in Philadelphia and aged woman<br />said to him she was going down George<br />replided [sic] no don’t [sic] say so, going up to the top<br />of the ladder, he considerd [sic] it going up <br />up up continual many phrases he uses<br />is much like Spiritualist
Congress has begun its labours [sic] we can<br />hardly hope for them to go on and do<br />the right thing, without also doing many<br />rong [sic] ones, so many have not any or<br />very little of a good princple [sic] and so many<br />lay princple [sic] aside and act from expediancy [sic]<br />and many are ready to take bribes so<br />that so that [sic] the poor and [sic] have to suffer<br />and as Wendel Philips [sic] seems to think<br />the right will finily [sic] prevale [sic] and his<br />predicklions [sic] have been fulfiled [sic] very generally<br /><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">we will</span> and sometimes so much sooner<br />than we expected we will hope on<br />we are fixing to go to Syosset to dinner and<br />it is now after 10 Oclock so must stop<br />we shall go in a sled fare well<br /> Joseph Post<br /> <br />Mary has been wrighting [sic]<br />to other friends prevents ?<br />her from ading [sic] this time<br />(at lower left of page)
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Transcription author
Becket, Margaret
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, December 6, 1869.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1869-12-06
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1819
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Abolitionism
Domestic Servants
Education
Native Americans
Quakers
transcribe
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/0a9f990e51533b68e900abf29c8bca90.jpg
cac34600e533afc09158c0ffd7d92c4a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9d6ca10e94881d5b247e2bbcfe514016.jpg
4021c394ef98fa62d72f3b44999fa0d4
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/61e61e6c34bbc1f0714fb3615f1cbcbe.jpg
ec6728db3cb710d0669af5f008bdabc5
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/85118a66ab70012468d002cd0f129f87.jpg
fad697a301f6f3a3f4dabc1ae401c764
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
text_
A transcribable resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, November 1, 1869.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1869-11-01
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1814
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Abolitionism
Family
Quakers
Spiritualism
transcribe
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c3dcab0df4e8cafc16a52e0301542d47.jpg
6f23b38319fdfc86579446cb93bfa748
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d74a0e7632275bba3de61602ba2e727c.jpg
7972dd697c1fd4ffff971c47cb77bdaf
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
text_
A transcribable resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, November 1, 1869.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1869-11-01
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1813
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Agriculture
Family
Quakers
transcribe
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/68506ac34a11333aa5b5e12e9a571bbf.jpg
713852d21a70d1c2097dab032226436e
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5e0420f5d871993ab72fad11c3f0068c.jpg
da262f35a6b6c0ac84305fb43afc9465
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/823a96b4970d25901fe55e5074d103d1.jpg
01fcb8d7df78cb6e49730d25f76379c3
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/2a8c7da6a9d19e61b9f0fc067ebc3171.jpg
c89a9713ca2e4184a64f3552e6103303
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
text_
A transcribable resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, August 6, 1869.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1869-08-06
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1794
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Agriculture
Family
Quakers
Spiritualism
transcribe
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/24c516f0ca52a2c8016d6dde25bd49f5.jpg
04731e51550cd5f91239f4452574c845
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9a792a2b9a7500012ae7f635190fd690.jpg
12097697e71bde1337253fbd936cfe00
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/6443cbe68764956a1c40aecc3f6d7615.jpg
1e4dfe8c98b57a5d361f1d84e7b5dcfa
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
text_
A transcribable resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Warron, I Macamy ?. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from I Macamy ? Warron to Isaac Post, April 25, 1869.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Warron, I Macamy ?
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1869-04-25
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1779
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Civil War
Personal
Quakers
transcribe
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/4a46fdf68bc525ece84771868748f492.jpg
95113208342c306bcc5cd617c76e2fb4
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ff227359911786fb647037cb6ca927e8.jpg
a26ead6dbe972546117098115a56b68e
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/bb05f4adfe8fceb144e8594cba2f4ff2.jpg
da74eafce668677e8a09af0ae952062a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/661f0137539d1663f46345111252fcff.jpg
fb9dbe504c9f003e15b74684515921ab
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
text_
A transcribable resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/4059/#transcription">This letter is being transcribed, please choose another</a>
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Titus, Esther. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Esther Titus to Amy Kirby Post, March 27, 1869?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Titus, Esther
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1869 ?-03-27
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1776
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Abolitionism
gdos
gdos2023
Personal
Quakers
transcribe
Women's Rights
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a00527890b5c2bacea36d0cff6d53f90.jpg
a4301d5eb15d18c40039ce4eb2868d7c
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/bf286d30990da5d56636dcaff3573f35.jpg
4349425657876dcad5405c97edd9b670
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/292a63bfb58abb50eed8387a30ac38d3.jpg
4db790457bb527159891e8115c7f601d
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/3d2b3caf2a51eb8adf6a5853eb39bf44.jpg
c6535a0966c153db04be71236cc754cc
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
text_
A transcribable resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
Mary is wrighting has just been called<br />out to get some flowers for the Coulerd [sic]<br />people of our neighborhood who are to<br />have a first of August meeting and festival<br />tomorrow they want to raise money to pay<br />the debt for their new meeting house<br />it is a great task for them I think with<br />the same exertion some other way they might<br />get as much money and leave a better<br />example. I came in this afternoon and I took<br />a nap with a feeling of releif<span style="text-decoration: line-through;">e </span>[sic] as we have our<br />harvest all finished off, not that it has been<br />any harder than common, only that such <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">jobs</span><br />gobs [sic] are more of an undertaking than when<br />I was younger for I cannot stand it to work as<br />I once could, and we have had more extreamely [sic]<br />hot weather than I ever remember and now<br />for several days mesquetoes [sic] has [sic] been I beleave [sic]<br />thicker than I ever saw them this side of<br />the plains, on the whole we have got through<br />very well have had some dull weather and<br />been longer about it han [sic] some times<br />Last week was Quarterly Meeting much
smaller than usual for Summer John Merrit<br />appeal case came on which was desided [sic]<br />against him not altogether in the unity<br />the committee reported they were united<br />except one their [sic] were four or five expres=<br />=sions of dissatisfaction with the report but<br />so much predgidice [sic] against John that he<br />cannot have justice done him he and his<br />wife came to our house I think he felt<br />disappointed he thought they had gone so contr<br />=ary to disipline [sic] the people would see it. I<br />think he does not quite realise [sic] that most of<br />friends have not change [sic] since Isaac [illegible] <br />time. he has so change and made a full ackno=<br />wledgement I get discouraged about society<br />often so many of those that have<br />as I think correct and liberal views<br />get disatisfied and leave the orthodox<br />party to have things their own way<br />when if they had contended for the<br />right things might have been different<br />and in many cases as well for the<br />parties that have left I find they have<br />things to contend with outside of society
had expected to go to Whitestone this afternoon<br />or tomorrow with Jennie but wither [sic] Mary<br />will be well enough to do not know yet<br /><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">I think Jennie expects to leave for home</span><br /><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">on fourth day. </span>We have very warm weather<br />yet has been some showery for 2 or 3 days<br />and now cloudy and some the appearance<br />of rain but I think most likely to clear<br />We attended the Coulered [sic] <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">folks</span> people<br />meeting on s-day [sic] not quit [sic] so large as I<br />expected and their speaker a coulerd [sic]<br />man formerly a slave had been to Cannada [sic]
and some Michigan school but was a<br /><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">sadly </span>smart talented man but sadly<br />ignorant in respect to the doings of<br />abolitionist [sic] in some respects the situation<br />of the blacks in their position with the<br />whites, many of his points very good but<br />then he would reccommend [sic] seperate [sic]<br />organizations of Coulered [sic] men<br />Isaac Rushmore keeps it up going to<br />Brooklyn with hay potatoes cabbage and<br />beets Howard has quite a notion for<br />gardening which with their two farms<br />makes much to do<br /> J Post
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Transcription author
Becket, Margaret
Roesch, Patricia
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, July 31, 1868.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1868-07-31
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1726
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Agriculture
Education
Family
Freed Slaves
Quakers
transcribe
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/6cd3e859bac7034f2d39302b7a3cc768.jpg
176fac9b2b283d4c49f433acd01ce985
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c49fc91c7972b19ed6485de9f1561252.jpg
b7ed165bc9438697d55607f0f0c7f367
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d051fe2221c3d3148201d57e66a72e68.jpg
a05b00ffa5da80986463c5d33138e8db
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/8f432b80fb21af9acf3c6139a950c6e2.jpg
20761477c83a95e4f7474726c1167263
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, April 10, 1868.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1868-04-10
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1698
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/df0c3a0f3403c8f874d20672fb7daaf8.jpg
4078780ea46c013960c6d52134cdc78d
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/19909c547f840a816de1fbbe39fb2823.jpg
a64f28a6670c749c17fd31509ecb8e83
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/4680c53ae0a9740ac62fb593e7bc1bc3.jpg
108cc1169112f1f2db5f721d090dbae0
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c98ae2cbdb88484eb26198c47f4e7f13.jpg
90db20a6244a20836f7b7e7bbe6818b9
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, March 21, 1868.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1868-03-21
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1692
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Agriculture
Education
Family
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/8855a4bba1ca44920ae5dbbccd84318b.jpg
bc6c444b4d04151b13f89617a3bdd0d5
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/6f7398a3619594b1620be8c397deccf4.jpg
0f52b5f2d0ac25d93aa1110ab329986b
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1723df10edadf504a2b57c713805c109.jpg
c971ba3f5680d2137572c79754ac83bf
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/303edbdf2d01bc4f6bac76ab0bcd0e25.jpg
3c982615b8dba2cb72d1721d4632e8c0
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, March 2, 1868.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1868-03-02
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1688
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
Quakers
Reconstruction Era
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/81f4d9fb07436667d4c928fbcc57a3ce.jpg
5dcbd8be4411ddcbcb3c886868644718
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/4159254ffb89f3541967d5d4f2818280.jpg
3b1ece9ad1b428123fc6404ee533fe58
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9c37110d071108ae9d3bf2da6e99ec39.jpg
3727a3a5de33dc0c9dd8d7c8d0c10043
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d2f179dc709c76f1bb946a13f0726167.jpg
3a5dcd5ab960025c29c7405399ae8e95
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, February 2, 1868.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1868-02-02
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1681
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f78879087c60ec60e938fe24f85e0a6f.jpg
2293308f43b1cd6e536a6a0078d61bf8
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/31a1c85aff66bf340181e65ecd365020.jpg
9c3a14de4e19385db02129f68a106ad5
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c46809836d9491d5c41df50e2a30fd86.jpg
d7e12d56aab50a5d0a4cdccb9100eb6f
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1b4e0a73219388ff0b02650fb0fb10a4.jpg
74b4009f945bde9467b2e1f116f3a741
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
text_
A transcribable resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
Westbury 1<sup>st</sup> month 6<sup>th</sup> 1868<br />Dear Brother and Sister<br /> <br />We received your letter promptly after<br />being mailed with much pleasure nd I often<br />think I will not be so negligent any longer<br />and then my idies [sic] some so sloly [sic] I get discou=<br />=raged. When William and Mary were here<br />we had some very fine bleu [sic] fish. I thought<br />if you could have some nice one salted<br />it would be nice. I spoke to Charles Post<br />he said if he could get some good ones he<br />would attend to it for me I enquired of him<br />at times he said he could not find any that<br />he thought would do. yesterday he told<br />me he had forwarded [1?] barrel to thee by<br />express, my desire is that <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">they be </span> all<br />of our friends may have some I mean our<br />family friends hope they may prove good<br />The weather for some 10 days has been <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">warm</span><br />moderate some muddy and some places<br />after thoring [sic] [thawing?] quite icy. W<sup>m </sup>Robbins moved<br />his family and apart [sic] of his things about a<br />month ago the road have [sic] been so snowed
up many things not moved yet we have been<br />to day with 2 waggons [sic] and carted a wheat stack<br />for him. he is so afflickted [sic] with fits it is<br />very hard for him it seems to affect his<br />mind some times is quite resolute cannot<br />persuade him not to go with a team alone<br />a few days ago fell off his waggon [sic] and<br />hurt him very much and horses ran away<br />Jacob Jackson was burried [sic] last 6 days very large<br />collection of people, he being aman [sic] much<br />res^p^ected Arden and Stymonson both<br />held up liberal views but Ardens [sic] the<br />best W<sup>m </sup>Thomas Willis also held fourth [sic]<br />without much orthodoxy although he<br />seemed to try some he said it was not<br />by justice but mercy that we were<br />saved Rachel made a prayer and almost<br />half the meeting keep [sic] their seats the<br />weman [sic] very generally and many of the<br />men how it happened I do not know <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">for</span><br />I think the desire that the practice<br />may be done away with among friends<br />is increasing that it may become<br />general is very desirable
John Merrit we here [sic] has appealed from<br />the judgment of the monthly meeting<br />I think the meeting acted very unfairly<br />from the report of the committies [sic] visit<br />with him that was published which they<br />ackno^w^ledg [sic] was correct I think put the<br />meeting in a very bad light as respects<br />justice. Many of the ruling friends of<br />these parts I think are determined to<br />get red [sic] of him we here [sic] he does not attend<br />friend meeting but goes to Chaduck [?] meeting<br />his chance to be reinstated would be<br />better if he keept [sic] to his meeting, not much<br />chance then, it does seem as though<br />New York friends might learn by the<br />things that has past for after accom=<br />=plishing their ends one time, 20 some<br />some other comes up from a very<br />unexpected quarter for who would of<br />thought that John Merrit after percicuting [sic]<br />the Abolitions [sic] so soon like Paul in turn<br />become the persecutiated [sic] for he was<br />at that one of the most violant [sic] <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">of the</span><br />not only holding the close but even<br />throughing [sic] stones
Isaac Rushmore seems to have rennew^ed^ [sic]<br />his energies to work some week ago<br />we herd [sic] of his telling he had been to York or Brooklyn 40 times since harvest<br />mostly with hay one load of 36 [?] fell<br />off Edmund Post came up and as it was<br />his uncle had to help him I supposed he<br />picked up as fast as he could you know!<br />Isaac disposition not to be out done Edmund<br />said he found failed for before they got<br />done he had to favour him Isaac very<br />seldom comes to see us I think he feels<br />so much to be done must stay and help do it<br />Samuel J Underhill has been to Washington<br />with some other Friends with a partition [sic]<br />for the Indians the President was so kind<br />and so Gentlemently [sic] he did not look like<br />a man that drinked [sic] some of his Jericho<br />friends think that if Johnson was now<br />held up for President he would vote for<br />him I think he has always been half<br />hunker * Henry Willis used to call him the<br />body man I think he will do a littl [sic]<br />more to be with the stronges [sic] party than<br />many I do not mean to say he will sacrifice<br />principl [sic] but will do a little for expediancy<br /> Yours Joseph Post
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Transcription author
Becket, Margaret
Notes
Usage as in MODS/
Used for information which is important to convey but is not represented in any other element.
*Hunker - a member of the conservative section of the Democratic Party in NY 1845-48, hence one opposed to progress in general. A fogy.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, January 6, 1868.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1868-01-06
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1675
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
Native Americans
Quakers
transcribe
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5fa15f2c384eee80891422ba0c82d8d8.jpg
4168052eebb8ae178934c0147c1c2ce4
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/46e7777abb1011c87ee216292c9af641.jpg
523288a4a096fdc0c4ac2b698be5cc8f
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/cefce96fcbc26249565764ffa132c727.jpg
b20d639ed2e89b70268e45451def1a69
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/2fd1a3124c1f62e78bb32b98b9c27cab.jpg
f7607f85e1a49ad9548eeaaa071be098
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, 1868?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1868 ?
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1673
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/dcbf3b5e333735df8984a33f38c73b36.jpg
13c0d3697c2ccbdb330a12f2d94bb0bb
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/3cde5517c8c00853ac0ee72647461287.jpg
6de177869c81cc780bd27b45c50d972a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/dfe03b18c2a01f40ee61ad7033fcb96f.jpg
15c52b1f51b1693fa1a810595c13053a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/8693c3315ce1257a00e93c0d6db00689.jpg
5c66188c73019814c59a32bafae32f26
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Willis, Mary W Kirby. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary W Kirby Willis to Amy Kirby Post, May 22, 1867.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Willis, Mary W Kirby
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1867-05-22
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1647
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/49af93782f5e4feb3cc66aab855bff1c.jpg
61322c5e6628b1873147d09fc15b9df5
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/2d95580580c32f058ff96a72853d687a.jpg
7973db7fffcf5a416918c208984e6ce7
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/fafbd612f8369ffbc6ad30a9bb4491ae.jpg
c8eba3c97c97f9e5050fcab72505da46
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/0057dea3866bb8636ba4a58a3147c774.jpg
823659f55db31f8d778494a53442cb6d
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
text_
A transcribable resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/3875/#transcription">This letter is being transcribed, please choose another</a>
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, December 27, 1866.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1866-12-27
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1588
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Scripto
Transcription
A written representation of a document.
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>PAR 3/23/23 -- Completed 4/4/23</p>
<p>Page 1</p>
<p>Dear All Syosset 12th 27 1866 After the receipt of your welcome letter I felt just like answering immediately but the old story of necessary things ^to be done^ which claimed my attention and prevented the impulse and as is said by other requisitions if not yielded to the duty becomes less manifest and finally it is nearly lost sight of ???? wrote to his kinfolk today and perhaps that has awakened me to the duty It is now at 2 PM a furious snowstorm with wind and growing cold been raining and snowing since in the night and as I look out I feel ???very comfortable it is to be so ??? as not to require any of our friends to come out in it Probably you ^will^ have heard ere this reaches you of the rich boon which has been granted to ??? & Catherine in a fine baby girl weighing nearly 9 lbs and do good as to make it a great joy to have her Catherine is I think pretty smart but these events are terible [sic] to most mothers and almost past endurance I came on first day afternoon shall stay some days longer I was here 2 days last week and</p>
<!--
Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)
100.00% 1.126 1 .Mzg3NQ.MTI1OTM
100.00% 1.126 1 -total
--></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>Page 2</p>
<p>in that time Emma Titus was released from her sufferings her hip had been opened in two places two weeks previous discharged some but did not relieve her much she has to take morphia but with that suffered greatly mortification ensued was sensible to the last She died 2nd day morning the funeral on 5th day at our ??? an exceedingly cold windy day The remains were unfit to be seen very soon after the spirit left its tenement Ann was nearly worn out with nursing no one could do as well for Emma as well as she She was generally quiet and showed but little of her bitterness toward her near relatives but enough to need a mantle of charity to excuse her in any degree No one knows what to think of her whether she is sane or insane The ??? of ministers and Elders proposed to the MM to acknowledge cousin E Willets as a minister a com^??? was apt to consider objections at our last MM they asked more time I think it will be too bad if it is not done for he is certainly more alive than most and as long as</p>
<!--
Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)
100.00% 1.260 1 .Mzg3NQ.MTI1OTQ
100.00% 1.260 1 -total
--></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>Page 3</p>
<p>is the fashion to do it I want it in his case but many of our ^young^ conservatives who are satisfied to go with the current will likely enough stop it if they can have heard some said where it the life (both words underlined) He and Stevonson?? are now from home to attend wishing??? luck ??? of m and the meetings___We are having Phebe Johnson at Westbury who generally preaches but not any more to my edification than formerly but am very glad there is a tolerant spirit felt toward her Edward attends now at our m? Matilda has not been at all smart for 2 or 3 weeks sever turn of sick headache Our cousins Jacob and Hannah Seaman have been making a visit to their son Edmund and spent a day at our house Rachel & Mary seemed more like old (underline) times than I have seen her for many years I told her when leaving I have enjoyed this visit she replied I think we have all enjoyed it very much (underline both words) She does not fully regain her hearing Brother spoke of attending the funeral of Saml Waring I have</p>
<!--
Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)
100.00% 1.111 1 .Mzg3NQ.MTI1OTU
100.00% 1.111 1 -total
--></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>Page 4</p>
<p>wondered if he could be William Waring's son he had one Saml Abel Wiggins lost a son and two of the sons of grown up children George Tappan has had a sick house his wife just recovering from the fever when a daughter was taken and died we heard another was sick I believe the neighbors are careful about going in much We have had no lectures yet but believe Solon?? Robinson is to come shortly and there is a desire among many people to have if practicable Frederic Douglass & Willets is to give a temperance lecture and I suppose Curtis sometime We have decided to send a box of our nice clothing to Georgiana and Mary Willets at Lynchburg we hear there is great need in many places I wished we knew about Sojourner whether she knew of the persons or neighborhoods where it was most disirable [sic] to forward them for distribution suppose all that we have made will go to the girls affectionately Mary</p>
<!--
Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)
100.00% 1.039 1 .Mzg3NQ.MTI1OTY
100.00% 1.039 1 -total
--></div>
Family
Freed Slaves
gdos
Medicine
Quakers
Temperance Movement
transcribe
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5c06921070ca2a607eb93a66c71f4731.jpg
cd5b68743c2c5d2e796381877b216521
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a0c696495ecf9360e53533889229f8e9.jpg
4234c6abec7fb0a42788066997b40970
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d236a4d4a1abce86d4172e1ce5a1c776.jpg
2ad22c6f1d8317df700889b294f83edf
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/fee4c48a4797a2499e157c523d339840.jpg
7b04df7095017657c38643aa0b308afc
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/318579fbec0b5aed6cf89ba6dac48e7e.xml
40fa7fe9987beca2074e68ca4fb1ff00
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> Dear Brother Westbury 12 month 25<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span>1866<br /> I am feeling somewhat<br /> lonesome to day Elizabeth and I are all<br /> of the human at home Mary is at<br /> Syosset staying a few days with Catharin [sic]<br /> our domesticks [sic] are scatered [sic] keeping as they<br /> say the holy day, which is very pleasent [sic]<br /> one warm and [thoring?] very little frost<br /> in the ground. we have had for the last<br /> 2 weeks quite cold not to [thor?] but little<br /> roads very good. last 6 & 7 days we filed our<br /> ice house first ^and second^ days rain and warm and<br /> now very muddy. Emma Titus passed on<br /> to the higher life last week has been<br /> a great sufferer although the weather<br /> was very cold it seemed impossible to<br /> keep the body in a situation fit to be seen<br /> it swelled up almost immediately and discharge [sic]<br /> very much, although ice was used freely<br /> it did not stoop [sic] it so as to look natureral [sic]<br /> Ana seems very pleasant and kind since<br /> although she <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">did</span> ^was^ not willing to speak<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> to her sister Jane and Maria Willets when <br /> they came, the funeral took place from<br /> our meeting house Jonathan Dickerson<br /> and William Thomas held forth I think <br /> prety [sic] good not much of the ^extreme^ orthordox [sic] faith<br /> Jacob Seaman from Cornwell was here<br /> he says the words were good but they lacked<br /> the life, and to me I thought quite as<br /> much life as our side preacher manny [sic] times<br /> on like accations [sic]. I think what we turm [sic] the<br /> Orthordox [sic] part of our Society is quit [sic] as intolerant<br /> as the more liberal ones. Phebe Johnson is at<br /> S. Rushmores has been for some weeks she<br /> holds forth generally ^at meeting^ I suppose for our in=<br /> struction but I think to the edification of<br /> but very few. Edward has come to our meet=<br /> =ing since she has been here. I suppose<br /> unites with her, and yet I can hardly see<br /> how it is possable [sic] for any enlightend [sic] mind<br /> in these times of enligh^t^enment to go back<br /> to those dark days <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">of</span> when sacrifices were<br /> beleived [sic] to be required and think a sacrifice<br /> was required that we to [sic] might be saved. to me<br /> it is the hight [sic] of superstition<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> I attended two of the Equal rights meetings in<br /> New york I thought Stanton dilivered [sic] the best <br /> peach [sic] I ever herd [sic] her she has not been a favourite<br /> of mine but this time I though [sic] it very good<br /> Remond to was very good Col Ross of Missouri<br /> spoke very well whent [sic] very thoroly [sic] for negro<br /> suffrage as well as woman. he though [sic] it was<br /> the only hope of the union people of the south<br /> can it be possible that persons who are engaged <br /> in so unpoler [sic] calling as the advocacy of<br /> womans rights to the ballot. can feel any<br /> objection to Spiriualist [sic] takeing [sic] a part in and<br /> helping on the cause, if their [sic] is any I think<br /> they had better pause and consider what manner<br /> of spirit they are of. Where is Fredrick [sic] now <br /> is he at home I <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">per</span>see he was at Brooklyn<br /> last week I want to get him to come and see us<br /> and lecture in our hall, but as he is one of<br /> the populer [sic] lecturers and gets high prices<br /> hardly know how to accomplish it unless<br /> he will come some time from New York<br /> when it will not be much additional expense<br /> some of our trustees are not yet enough <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">enlig</span><br /> enlighened [sic] to really want him it makes<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> it hard to get the best lectures they are<br /> so affraid [sic] to give any countinence to any<br /> thing new as they think and then again<br /> we have to wait for them on account of<br /> geting [sic] the pay. we <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">cannot</span> ^are so scartered [sic] it is^<br /> hard to get an ordiance [sic] large enough<br /> unless we yeald [sic] to their wishes<br /> Solan Robison [sic] is expeced [sic] to give a lecture<br /> next week on Agriculter [sic]. as it is the <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">first</span><br /> first we have had this winter it may<br /> do I do not think a subject that will be<br /> likely to call a large meeting We think<br /> we know about as well about farming<br /> who have had practical experianc [sic]<br /> all our days as one who has never to<br /> my knowlege [sic] had much experiance [sic] I<br /> think we will be oppen to learn<br /> 26 verty clear bright morning not very cold<br /> ground very rough. We want to see you very<br /> much have been in hopes you would find<br /> time to have made us a visit but do not <br /> hear any thing about it and I have been<br /> looking for an appertunity [sic] when we might<br /> brake [sic] away and give you a call but<br /> do not see the time yet. We were very<br /> glad to receive<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">d</span> thy letter please wright [sic]<br /> often. I am such a poor hand to wright [sic] must excuse me<br /> Joseph Post
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, December 25, 1866.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1866-12-25
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1587
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Dear Brother Westbury 12 month 25th1866 I am feeling somewhat lonesome to day Elizabeth and I are all of the human at home Mary is at Syosset staying a few days with Catharin [sic] our domesticks [sic] are scatered [sic] keeping as they say the holy day, which is very pleasent [sic] one warm and [thoring?] very little frost in the ground. we have had for the last 2 weeks quite cold not to [thor?] but little roads very good. last 6 & 7 days we filed our ice house first ^and second^ days rain and warm and now very muddy. Emma Titus passed on to the higher life last week has been a great sufferer although the weather was very cold it seemed impossible to keep the body in a situation fit to be seen it swelled up almost immediately and discharge [sic] very much, although ice was used freely it did not stoop [sic] it so as to look natureral [sic] Ana seems very pleasant and kind since although she did ^was^ not willing to speak to her sister Jane and Maria Willets when they came, the funeral took place from our meeting house Jonathan Dickerson and William Thomas held forth I think prety [sic] good not much of the ^extreme^ orthordox [sic] faith Jacob Seaman from Cornwell was here he says the words were good but they lacked the life, and to me I thought quite as much life as our side preacher manny [sic] times on like accations [sic]. I think what we turm [sic] the Orthordox [sic] part of our Society is quit [sic] as intolerant as the more liberal ones. Phebe Johnson is at S. Rushmores has been for some weeks she holds forth generally ^at meeting^ I suppose for our in= struction but I think to the edification of but very few. Edward has come to our meet= =ing since she has been here. I suppose unites with her, and yet I can hardly see how it is possable [sic] for any enlightend [sic] mind in these times of enligh^t^enment to go back to those dark days of when sacrifices were beleived [sic] to be required and think a sacrifice was required that we to [sic] might be saved. to me it is the hight [sic] of superstition I attended two of the Equal rights meetings in New york I thought Stanton dilivered [sic] the best peach [sic] I ever herd [sic] her she has not been a favourite of mine but this time I though [sic] it very good Remond to was very good Col Ross of Missouri spoke very well whent [sic] very thoroly [sic] for negro suffrage as well as woman. he though [sic] it was the only hope of the union people of the south can it be possible that persons who are engaged in so unpoler [sic] calling as the advocacy of womans rights to the ballot. can feel any objection to Spiriualist [sic] takeing [sic] a part in and helping on the cause, if their [sic] is any I think they had better pause and consider what manner of spirit they are of. Where is Fredrick [sic] now is he at home I persee he was at Brooklyn last week I want to get him to come and see us and lecture in our hall, but as he is one of the populer [sic] lecturers and gets high prices hardly know how to accomplish it unless he will come some time from New York when it will not be much additional expense some of our trustees are not yet enough enlig enlighened [sic] to really want him it makes it hard to get the best lectures they are so affraid [sic] to give any countinence to any thing new as they think and then again we have to wait for them on account of geting [sic] the pay. we cannot ^are so scartered [sic] it is^ hard to get an ordiance [sic] large enough unless we yeald [sic] to their wishes Solan Robison [sic] is expeced [sic] to give a lecture next week on Agriculter [sic]. as it is the first first we have had this winter it may do I do not think a subject that will be likely to call a large meeting We think we know about as well about farming who have had practical experianc [sic] all our days as one who has never to my knowlege [sic] had much experiance [sic] I think we will be oppen to learn 26 verty clear bright morning not very cold ground very rough. We want to see you very much have been in hopes you would find time to have made us a visit but do not hear any thing about it and I have been looking for an appertunity [sic] when we might brake [sic] away and give you a call but do not see the time yet. We were very glad to received thy letter please wright [sic] often. I am such a poor hand to wright [sic] must excuse me Joseph Post
Abolitionism
Agriculture
Domestic Servants
Family
Freed Slaves
Quakers
Women's Rights
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/b16d8f507b12cdf22a81d9423e496730.jpg
49648ae4fe7075a723702f4d62ae86c7
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a71a9d74e9d07dba41c7e2575d9906c4.jpg
6359b09d0865e79f597ca3bbfc105d9d
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/788feafd6487e9f48749829a27a525b6.jpg
33b8d54f081b359a4b5e3101f3851830
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, October 2, 1866.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1866-10-02
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1577
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Agriculture
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/732e7b818d9fcf0a9b2a314658285223.jpg
3c83a889cf9ce926c3f4b85574fedda0
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5db3defa087eaeb80bed190d6ac7d32f.jpg
19525f7d35745941f50e6fa9867f3395
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/79c61ed024b943a1b3a2d61c529cd8b7.jpg
98da73fc054e022ca8d055edcc059e92
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/7cca21fe9dc6b9055a16aa21e64da3d7.jpg
90e47c9e1a7930f52650a932b4c853c4
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, August 4, 1866.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1866-08-04
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1568
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/22cceb67cf0a559e3414259aab6a111f.jpg
572187dc9b95b9f9e0a5e7ee74b28ec7
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/87f55da79082816abfa735586f265ea2.jpg
6b3585520560ed7deafa330d2d814955
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/e0ca43dc7d464cae0e7ded9b2fbcfda5.jpg
9ca5ae6648a4ce7390df305e5b651093
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ed555e31112e4829bf44d23457e8ec0d.jpg
c49977b6446a55762a7eca8ca5698761
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
text_
A transcribable resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/3842/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, May 21, 1866.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1866-05-21
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1555
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Scripto
Transcription
A written representation of a document.
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>Page 1 <br />Post Isaac Post May 21, 1866 <br />Dear Brother and Sister <br />I love to receive letters from <br />you, and as it is a motto that I think is perfect [do?] [unto?] others as we write <br />that they do write [no we out?] always do <br />our full share. We have been at home <br />or I have most of the time this spring <br />Mary has been helping [nurse?] [the?] of home <br />she will give you an account I suppose <br />I had quite a consern [concern?] to attend Philadelphia <br />yearly meeting but being so sick at <br />[illegible] did not seem best, while Mary <br />was at [illegible] helping them I went to <br />the Antislavery meeting expecting to <br />stay all night attended one meeting <br />which was a good one and got so [illegible] <br />about the sick ones that I came home <br />and from the papers the equal rights <br />meeting was rather inharmonious which <br />is not to be wondered at considering the <br />different views of the parties for as <br />strong an antislavery woman [illegible] <br />used to be she did not appear interested <br />in the meeting</p>
<!--
Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)
100.00% 1.208 1 .Mzg0Mg.MTI0Nzc
100.00% 1.208 1 -total
--></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>Page 2 <br />I attended one setting and part of another <br />held at Brooklyn I thought the manag= <br />=ers [managers] of that meeting did not act on very <br />liberal principle was [illegible] not to <br />let any speak but what they had <br />fixed on. so much so that they tried <br />to adjourn the meeting about 11 o'clock <br />as that was voted down they called <br />on a certain one to speak cutting off <br />several that tried and when he set <br />down the chairwoman adjourned the mee <br />=ting [meeting] but Lucy Stone stepped forward <br />and hoped the meeting would not adjourn <br />yet as it was not 12 o'clock she had <br />something to say to the women she <br />some about half an hour [illegible] [illegible] <br />afternoon she spoke again very good <br />I had to leave before the meeting was out <br />as I came home that night [illegible] <br />came in the meeting a little before I <br />left I think women have much of the <br />same [illegible] in them as men when <br />it is brought to exposure</p>
<!--
Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)
100.00% 1.324 1 .Mzg0Mg.MTI0Nzg
100.00% 1.324 1 -total
--></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>Page 3 <br />John of Cornell has visited the meetings <br />on the Island this week at our meeting <br />he had much to say to individual states <br />encourage some to faithfulness and if so <br />would have to speak to the people and <br />some others that had got in a discourage <br />situation did not go into doctrinal but <br />very little Monthly meeting at [?] <br />[?] very rainy day quite a large meeting <br />most of his [concern?] seemed to be to the <br />society desiring the members to live up <br />to their profession. They might be a light <br />to others. Next week in our yearly <br />meeting I suppose we should [go? if] our <br />sick friends are so as to be prudent <br />have been so long in the habit of <br />going it seems a matter of course <br />some things that are done by society <br />have no unity with [nor?] not much with <br />some of the public [expanders?] and <br />with some others so much unity that I <br />think the good over balance the [?] <br />the Quaker [?] lived out I think</p>
<!--
Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)
100.00% 1.232 1 .Mzg0Mg.MTI0Nzk
100.00% 1.232 1 -total
--></div>
<div class="mw-parser-output">
<p>Page 4 <br />will lead to perfection. It is now rainy <br />again is quite wet now has been very <br />nice time for planting corn we miss our <br />Thomas much had been here so long <br />and knew so well how to do but on <br />the whole an not sorry they are gone <br />so for the men we have I think try <br />to [suit?] and much quieter times in the <br />house and and am in hopes it will <br />continue. do not feel like sending <br />either of them with hay to market [so?] <br />are pressing it and carrying to the boat <br />do not get quite as much for it have <br />sold it at Roslyn for 90% percent <br />loose hay at Brooklyn sell from <br />[57?] to 125 [cts?] percent we are not farming <br />as largely as we have done [not you as?] <br />many cows do not plant as much [earn/corn?] <br />and not [mow?] quite as much as common <br />Edward Titus has lift home we have gone to take <br />[Superier?] in the [mincing?] [illegible?] have herd <br />with a new machine to [auch?] are the family <br />have been disposed to keep his concern [illegible] <br />much to [themselves?] <br />Joseph Post</p>
<!--
Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)
100.00% 1.294 1 .Mzg0Mg.MTI0ODA
100.00% 1.294 1 -total
--></div>
Family
Freed Slaves
gdos2022
Quakers
Women's Rights
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/4e000713a85958f1b9b7d89e8baf3852.jpg
d2751ab3fd917dd1275c5a4714bda547
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/567ecb1ac87f0a259587fad11379b6d4.jpg
ff4a439071e2e230c9005bef2cd16728
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/20211d1d27aa9744d2b4b194841d732d.jpg
c78a29269e438646ca5e2f5d081527c0
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/2c257a45ca5035a1c1f5d74303c43a0b.jpg
bb2e51518782e869ee1897377b2af0d9
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, April 29, 1866.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1866-04-29
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1551
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/0b66802ee1884ca373cf32bbcbfb28d7.jpg
c4c3a14705856ae668a621585fcc6a4e
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/7700be95b06ee28b21f4d208602540a6.jpg
d1e1c64b08e9d4b6e31b35d060cf50d7
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/3e1aa20a896cd9adc8f585391cfa3b37.jpg
7c7af47194ef6d1560ea3a68f4785361
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/3aabd117303ae7f7883060c783e33dc0.jpg
cf7b131e5fe45afad072c57b12bb0304
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
text_
A transcribable resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/3824/#transcription">This letter is being transcribed, please choose another</a>
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, February 7, 1866.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1866-02-07
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1537
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Scripto
Transcription
A written representation of a document.
PR
Abolitionism
Education
Family
Freed Slaves
gdos
gdos2023
Medicine
Quakers
transcribe
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1af0d2c61bfaab8e4cba67f8b5c0cb27.jpg
e4e520b7d7360b3fdf139e27bb23a4a6
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/0fedd6d931e920f436af550be493ded2.jpg
f21f5bed616b3ad6ed1d4f8a13d59949
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, February 23, 1865.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1865-02-23
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1476
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Abolitionism
Civil War
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9b857cbbe6dd6d02e047491ca77f615f.jpg
fa1dd3442b52dbf0e3b36f7dd0942578
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/07ce93ee097431b99847edcfd226082a.jpg
8ca6e5d40545b4807898c4a3dc5aefc9
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/e745f2e66d1d72b6accecf98ff4f5944.jpg
0b9fa079972ea0ab30de34d68815bc67
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/699954ff868e556075116891b5314670.jpg
af9690ae6e97efb640505f5a6d0382e2
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, January 1, 1865.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1865-01-01
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1467
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Abolitionism
Education
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/324e5d6d3551d848998aa876ebb111c4.jpg
a21b2e4012ba15af42d6839c2292c89e
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/716fee451628deb228f4747285a0ba83.jpg
80ec27522ac0b73cf3e16dd54483dbf0
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/33e0c45ff149af76a5944fb605be9f13.jpg
f475dd7f3cba70a2b3d8def693c06e99
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, November 7, 1864.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1864-11-07
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1456
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/8872a4d953635de2fb82914252f3d287.jpg
a3f49f7e0687d834416d1432f08906a0
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/87f7d2dca4a38fe1974822b4fd13c5e0.jpg
826d3589632fbef6a4e8b1fd6896e06b
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/2216796cdd68c811c7bbb85bdfa3efe6.jpg
df0888a0b454fc90afde66b73267321c
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, July 25, 1864.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1864-07-25
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1437
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Abolitionism
Agriculture
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/78371d392b52b17553c6d7ccee5962bf.jpg
2fb61100e189e6d88b1e300c622adde7
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/8561cc486664710f83ea911b29855f1f.jpg
6b5b236425a51e817b9e9c1323b7c2f4
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5b84af4c513f25bf1528637d318db342.jpg
b7b0f28f9b008e4a21fb8027f7702933
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/33b1d25c23636608d0151c7144e86b73.jpg
0e2527f5aa21125ff01319e3faf60166
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/01f5f7ef3f611de7ac19c9a260d171aa.jpg
5e9cb0cc9c8b37bef1c3dace77a78b43
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1dc508f7272eb29519232cbd00ad909c.jpg
081d18cc87cd51ff9b3121130ea4903d
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/b6db04576eb25a861baa5bdcc6e504e5.xml
ddb49dc0c8d6b2fdd57b75fb0cf8cd73
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>Dear All I take my pen up but fear my eyes<br /> will not permit me to write much as they feel<br /> very weak tonight Joseph is sitting near me asleep<br /> he has been trying to read and succeeded<br /> quite well until just now he has yielded<br /> he has been very busy husking cand carting<br /> stalks today and is very tired I would<br /> like him to go to bed if I should not feel<br /> to [sic] much alone waiting for the children<br /> who have gone to Roslyn to hear Curtis and<br /> it will probably be late They have the large<br /> tent put up in front of Benjn Hicks and great<br /> efforts tomake the meeting atrractive in ad<br /> -dition to the spaking music banners<br /><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">and</span> floral ^&^ evergreen decorations are very<br /> abundent principly got up by our<br /> young people the meeting both after no^on^<br /> and evening Curtis has spoke every even^ing^<br /> this week I wish he might be elected<br /> I have not read Phillips speech in<br /> Boston only the editorial I have felt as<br /> all have a dersire to know how he stood<br /> (Page 2)<br /> and it appear he does not satisfy his friends<br /> entirely yet in the little sketch of his NY<br /> speech at the close it was stated that the<br /> audience were better satisfied than at<br /> the beginning I am so sorry that there<br /> should be any similarity even in their<br /> opposition to Lincoln between him and<br /> the copperheads and I felt rather unwil<br /> ling just at this eventful period to say<br /> any thing to cool the patriotism of any<br /> as it seems if we judge between the two<br /> as the safest wisest and only course that<br /> is left to pursue The recent discovery of<br /> the frauds and the magnitude of them<br /> is truly alarming and reveals so muc^h^<br /> that is wicked mean & comtemptable as all <br /> the party that has fallen so low as to do<br /> this thing is unworthy to govern a <span style="text-decoration:underline;">free</span><br /> people and I most earnestly hope<br /> they will be foiled in all their mach<br /> -inations and that they may utterly<br /> perish We went to Q[uarterly] M[eeting] at Flushing ret<br /> -urned last eve in a great blow rode<br /> in some fear lest branches or trees<br /> might be broken but we got home safely<br /> (Page 3) <br /> The meeting was large and I thought an<br /> interesting one John Parish was very excellent<br /> several others of less note H W Ridgeway is<br /> to be in NY tomorrow were disappointed in<br /> not having him at the QM Cousin Gilbert<br /> seemed very bright and smart Sam[ue]l Bowne<br /> & Elizabeth Mary & Rebecca Titus are all on<br /> from Maryland Cousin Amos has gone<br /> as you have probably heard his remains<br /> were interred at Westbury Cousin Jane ^Willets^ too<br /> both after the M[onthly] meetings and of each<br /> words of eulogy and parise I am out<br /> of conceit of eulogy at funerals let<br /> the remembrance of good deeds and<br /> a pure life be a sufficient record in<br /> the hearts of the life that has passed<br /> First day It is almost dark but will add a<br /> word have had company who have gone have<br /> read some portions of Phillips speech and I find<br /> there is great truth and force in his argume^nts^<br /> but cannot speak of it as a whole until it<br /> is read would like to hear what you think<br /> of it—The meetings yesteday were very<br /> satisfactory and I think friends are more<br /> interested than usual in politics I suppose<br /> that is natural Phebe W Titus our old neighbor<br /> has talked very earnestly to J[oseph] to convince him<br /> of the duty of giving a vote and I think all<br /> (Page 4)<br /> who can consciously do it should at<br /> this time and continue to urge the gov<br /> erment up to a higher policy in our<br /> old fashioned way Phillips thinks he<br /> is doing so now and it seems very<br /> much like it It has been a beautiful<br /> day but now some dark clouds are in<br /> the west whether it is cold or storm they<br /> portend Some people were injured by the<br /> blowing down of a tree as they were riding<br /> a little west of us We have only sun<br /> Isaac & Mary F at meeting since their<br /> return James & Elizabeth were at meeting<br /> today were going there E says she enjoyed<br /> being at Mamaroneck very much visited<br /> Ann and other of their friends We have<br /> been to E Willis cousin Mary seemed very<br /> comfortable but of course feels her loss<br /> deeply Rachel has got home has not<br /> got quite through her visit a few<br /> places besides Shrewsbury ____<br /> Edward Willets & wife are in Paris they<br /> are going around seeing the sights<br /> some but his father hopes they will<br /> return before long as there seems<br /> no prospect of his being much better<br /> there than he was here It seems <br /> that his determination to get better<br /> keeps him up It has got so dark<br /> I cannot see much will invite<br /> Joseph and Willie to add a slip<br /> this evening I am getting more and<br /> more delinquent so dont wait for us but<br /> write when you can love to all<br /> (Page 4)<br /> Willie goes to schoole [sic] steadily<br /> and helps milk and carts wood ___<br /> strongly ^or any thingwe call on him to do and we call him a good<br /> boy, and he seems to enjoy himself<br /> as far as I can see very well<br /> he appears to learn easily but I<br /> think if he would not <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">set</span> ^depend on^ his<br /> own judgment quite so much<br /> it would be rather better for<br /> his getting [sic] on with his studies<br /> (Page 5)<br /> 2<sup>nd</sup> day morning Bright and<br /> pleasant it is a little cool but<br /> thinkgs which were not injured by<br /> the early frost look fresh and grow<br /> -ing Kate Post goes this morning to<br /> Willets Point for a week or two<br /> we were in company with Charles<br /> Buntings wife & daughter and so forcely<br /> it showed the truth that from the abun<br /> -dance of the heart the mouth speakes<br /> for they could scarcely talk of matters<br /> foreign to the hospital and its sick &<br /> wounded inmates This terrible war<br /> has developed the goodness and smp<br /> -athy of multidues who would but<br /> for this passed along quietly For every<br /> thing which blesses the suffering let us<br /> be animated to do likewise in our _____<br /> ____ Love to all most affectionatly Mary<br /> [Mary Post Robbins]<br /><br /> Wendell Phillips<br /> Quakers and voting<br /><br /></p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, 1864?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1864?
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1420
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions.Dear All I take my pen up but fear my eyes will not permit me to write much as they feel very weak tonight Joseph is sitting near me asleep he has been trying to read and succeeded quite well until just now he has yielded he has been very busy husking cand carting stalks today and is very tired I would like him to go to bed if I should not feel to [sic] much alone waiting for the children who have gone to Roslyn to hear Curtis and it will probably be late They have the large tent put up in front of Benjn Hicks and great efforts tomake the meeting atrractive in ad -dition to the spaking music bannersand floral ^&^ evergreen decorations are very abundent principly got up by our young people the meeting both after no^on^ and evening Curtis has spoke every even^ing^ this week I wish he might be elected I have not read Phillips speech in Boston only the editorial I have felt as all have a dersire to know how he stood and it appear he does not satisfy his friends entirely yet in the little sketch of his NY speech at the close it was stated that the audience were better satisfied than at the beginning I am so sorry that there should be any similarity even in their opposition to Lincoln between him and the copperheads and I felt rather unwil ling just at this eventful period to say any thing to cool the patriotism of any as it seems if we judge between the two as the safest wisest and only course that is left to pursue The recent discovery of the frauds and the magnitude of them is truly alarming and reveals so muc^h^ that is wicked mean & comtemptable as all the party that has fallen so low as to do this thing is unworthy to govern a free people and I most earnestly hope they will be foiled in all their mach -inations and that they may utterly perish We went to Q[uarterly] M[eeting] at Flushing ret -urned last eve in a great blow rode in some fear lest branches or trees might be broken but we got home safely The meeting was large and I thought an interesting one John Parish was very excellent several others of less note H W Ridgeway is to be in NY tomorrow were disappointed in not having him at the QM Cousin Gilbert seemed very bright and smart Sam[ue]l Bowne & Elizabeth Mary & Rebecca Titus are all on from Maryland Cousin Amos has gone as you have probably heard his remains were interred at Westbury Cousin Jane ^Willets^ too both after the M[onthly] meetings and of each words of eulogy and parise I am out of conceit of eulogy at funerals let the remembrance of good deeds and a pure life be a sufficient record in the hearts of the life that has passed First day It is almost dark but will add a word have had company who have gone have read some portions of Phillips speech and I find there is great truth and force in his argume^nts^ but cannot speak of it as a whole until it is read would like to hear what you think of it--The meetings yesteday were very satisfactory and I think friends are more interested than usual in politics I suppose that is natural Phebe W Titus our old neighbor has talked very earnestly to J[oseph] to convince him of the duty of giving a vote and I think all who can consciously do it should at this time and continue to urge the gov erment up to a higher policy in our old fashioned way Phillips thinks he is doing so now and it seems very much like it It has been a beautiful day but now some dark clouds are in the west whether it is cold or storm they portend Some people were injured by the blowing down of a tree as they were riding a little west of us We have only sun Isaac & Mary F at meeting since their return James & Elizabeth were at meeting today were going there E says she enjoyed being at Mamaroneck very much visited Ann and other of their friends We have been to E Willis cousin Mary seemed very comfortable but of course feels her loss deeply Rachel has got home has not got quite through her visit a few places besides Shrewsbury ____ Edward Willets & wife are in Paris they are going around seeing the sights some but his father hopes they will return before long as there seems no prospect of his being much better there than he was here It seems that his determination to get better keeps him up It has got so dark I cannot see much will invite Joseph and Willie to add a slip this evening I am getting more and more delinquent so dont wait for us but write when you can love to all Willie goes to schoole [sic] steadily and helps milk and carts wood ___ strongly ^or any thingwe call on him to do and we call him a good boy, and he seems to enjoy himself as far as I can see very well he appears to learn easily but I think if he would not set ^depend on^ his own judgment quite so much it would be rather better for his getting [sic] on with his studies 2nd day morning Bright and pleasant it is a little cool but thinkgs which were not injured by the early frost look fresh and grow -ing Kate Post goes this morning to Willets Point for a week or two we were in company with Charles Buntings wife & daughter and so forcely it showed the truth that from the abun -dance of the heart the mouth speakes for they could scarcely talk of matters foreign to the hospital and its sick & wounded inmates This terrible war has developed the goodness and smp -athy of multidues who would but for this passed along quietly For every thing which blesses the suffering let us be animated to do likewise in our _____ ____ Love to all most affectionatly Mary [Mary Post Robbins] Wendell Phillips Quakers and voting
Civil War
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/2957d67e1c809312df85ff5ca6c5c3c3.jpg
162f50ab358b7c574474df23e46bb880
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d07cfa78ac7901a9fdd179a5c2c1999d.jpg
37b41519600b3d0eba3eedac53d2c64e
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/4757b742ad1c85eee271fc3874e675f8.jpg
9d2e389bb14a710c17d8adce8854c5d1
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/3fdd45a2150f1304faeecd5d3bdf5e5d.jpg
218b24c9f20c3447a09bb3407f0e5871
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f2c59037f8dda1801f3f29e69071fd50.xml
14e298b93560f23bc1fac2db20c3656d
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>Westbury 10<sup>th</sup> m 16<sup>th</sup> 1863</p>
<p>Dear Brother</p>
<p> This morning some rainy for the</p>
<p>first time in several weeks, it has been very</p>
<p>dry and quit [sic] cold some frost several times. It has</p>
<p>been rather a dry summer with us ponds and wells</p>
<p>quit [sic] low, yet I think it may be called a pretty</p>
<p>seasonable summer. We are gathering corn half</p>
<p>done not as much as some times not having as much</p>
<p>gound [sic]. help is very scarce almost impossible to find</p>
<p>a person by the day. The produce of the farm is selling</p>
<p>well generaly [sic]. hay from 8 to 11 shilling per cut corn</p>
<p>1$ per bushel oats 70 to 90 cts d[itt]o wheat the lowest 10 to 12 shillings</p>
<p>shorts 1.60 to 1.70 cts per cut so it is pretty hard time for us to</p>
<p>raise milk as that is not much higher than common</p>
<p>if we had not engaged it last spring for the year we could</p>
<p>now get more for it. I was at New York yesterday I</p>
<p>perseaved [sic] the general feeling of the people seemed of</p>
<p>a speculative character an excitement that I think</p>
<p>is not profitable eather [sic] spiritually or morally. Wile [sic]</p>
<p>in at Willets a man came in he and Daniel had <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">consid</span></p>
<p>considerable talk about oil. R. told me he was a</p>
<p>(Page 2)</p>
<p>partner of Wm Bruff in the oil speculations and that</p>
<p>David A Burtice were also in the same business that</p>
<p>they had bought largely but he thought the prospect</p>
<p>of their makeing [sic] money by it looked dull. I made</p>
<p>a remark did they ^not^ get enough of it last winter he say it</p>
<p>seems not. I asked him R. if Isaac and Jacob was consearned [sic] with</p>
<p>Bruff he though [sic] not. I am in hopes you will keep clear</p>
<p>of all speculation where the thing has to be done</p>
<p>through other parties commission for buying also for sell</p>
<p>-ing storage leekage [sic] and any number additional expences [sic]</p>
<p>and also to look to Bruff or you will get drawn in were [sic]</p>
<p>it will be hard to get clear, were [sic] persons are in a buis</p>
<p>-ness that will afford a comfortable living it is unwise</p>
<p>to lanch [sic] into uncert^ent^ty [sic]. Lucretia Mott was in New York on</p>
<p>4 day at meeting had much to say mostly to the children her</p>
<p>daughter ^[Lard?]^ has removed their [sic]. We saw James at [con?] [Neck?]</p>
<p>about 2 weeks ago he said L. was very feeble and looked</p>
<p>thin suffers much. Cousin L Mott pretty well</p>
<p>mind bright then 90 years old. his son Leonard very</p>
<p>feeble gets ^out^ but little. Edmund Willets has been on</p>
<p>a visit in Pensylvania [sic] I suppose I might ^say^ a religious</p>
<p>visit but as he is not reccommended [sic] it is not common</p>
<p>to add the religious. he has the advantage in some re</p>
<p>pects he can go when he feels drawn but has some</p>
<p>(Page 3)</p>
<p>disadvantage as it takes longer time if he attends</p>
<p>many meetings he says he got along very well I think</p>
<p>the people generally like him except some of the</p>
<p>law and order ones. sometimes it looks like improvement</p>
<p>among us and at other times all looks dark</p>
<p>20<sup>th</sup> of the month this has take untill [sic] this time</p>
<p>yesterday work at Roslyn Today with Mary and</p>
<p>Elizabeth P Willets have been most of the day</p>
<p>at Joshuas dividing things that were Sarah</p>
<p>Downing she left a Will but not legally singed [sic]</p>
<p>but Silas it seems disposed to carry out her</p>
<p>views. Joshua and Henry Titus went up their [sic]</p>
<p>last week and got over 5000$ money and her</p>
<p>cloths linen some beds and ^a little^ furniture we divided</p>
<p>them in 4 parts. Joshua and sisters Jane [Vatmes?]</p>
<p>children Uncle John and Richards family and</p>
<p>after dividing them in 4 parts we divided one</p>
<p>parcel again in 4 parts so their bundls [sic] wer [sic]</p>
<p>not very large, and Sarah Cromwells portion</p>
<p>to be divided in 10 parts will be very small</p>
<p>to Samuel Post she gave the desk and Book</p>
<p>case. also the use of 1000$ during life and</p>
<p>to his children and Silas gave up a note</p>
<p>(Page 4)</p>
<p>that he held against Samuel ^for 250$^ dated 22 years</p>
<p>ago and and [sic] no interest every been [endosed?]</p>
<p>Now is the time for the examination of</p>
<p>those that have been drafted to go to Jamacia [sic]</p>
<p>have been going nearly all last month and</p>
<p>continues all this month I beleave [sic] very</p>
<p>many get clear for very trifling causes. Wm</p>
<p>Townsend Hannak son was one had the money</p>
<p>in his pocket as he was going to be examined</p>
<p>he said he did not know as he had any excuse</p>
<p>but came out with heart deseas [sic] and was</p>
<p>cleared many get clear because not natural</p>
<p>-ize Our Thomas Hughes was one drafted</p>
<p>he is notified to go 28<sup>th</sup> of the month he</p>
<p>expects to get clear on account of [illegible word crossed out]</p>
<p>not being naturalize. Labours is very scarce</p>
<p>on account of so many having gone and now</p>
<p>going to the war. quite a number of the</p>
<p>coulerd [sic] men have enlisted and go to [Read?]</p>
<p>Island from these parts. Tomorrow is the</p>
<p>orthodox Quarterly Meeting at Westbury they</p>
<p>make quite a time of fixing. Next day is ours</p>
<p>at [Flushing?] but weather [sic] it will be much</p>
<p>time will make manifest. do not look for much</p>
<p>Joseph Post</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Lucretia </strong>(1793-1880)<strong> and James </strong>(1788-1868)<strong> Mott</strong> were well-known Philadelphia Quakers. Both were leaders of the abolition and women’s rights movements.</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, October 16, 1863.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1863-10-16
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1405
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions.Westbury 10th m 16th 1863Dear Brother This morning some rainy for thefirst time in several weeks, it has been verydry and quit [sic] cold some frost several times. It hasbeen rather a dry summer with us ponds and wellsquit [sic] low, yet I think it may be called a prettyseasonable summer. We are gathering corn halfdone not as much as some times not having as muchgound [sic]. help is very scarce almost impossible to finda person by the day. The produce of the farm is sellingwell generaly [sic]. hay from 8 to 11 shilling per cut corn1$ per bushel oats 70 to 90 cts d[itt]o wheat the lowest 10 to 12 shillingsshorts 1.60 to 1.70 cts per cut so it is pretty hard time for us toraise milk as that is not much higher than commonif we had not engaged it last spring for the year we couldnow get more for it. I was at New York yesterday Iperseaved [sic] the general feeling of the people seemed ofa speculative character an excitement that I thinkis not profitable eather [sic] spiritually or morally. Wile [sic]in at Willets a man came in he and Daniel had considconsiderable talk about oil. R. told me he was apartner of Wm Bruff in the oil speculations and thatDavid A Burtice were also in the same business thatthey had bought largely but he thought the prospectof their makeing [sic] money by it looked dull. I madea remark did they ^not^ get enough of it last winter he say itseems not. I asked him R. if Isaac and Jacob was consearned [sic] withBruff he though [sic] not. I am in hopes you will keep clearof all speculation where the thing has to be donethrough other parties commission for buying also for sell-ing storage leekage [sic] and any number additional expences [sic]and also to look to Bruff or you will get drawn in were [sic]it will be hard to get clear, were [sic] persons are in a buis-ness that will afford a comfortable living it is unwiseto lanch [sic] into uncert^ent^ty [sic]. Lucretia Mott was in New York on4 day at meeting had much to say mostly to the children herdaughter ^[Lard?]^ has removed their [sic]. We saw James at [con?] [Neck?]about 2 weeks ago he said L. was very feeble and lookedthin suffers much. Cousin L Mott pretty wellmind bright then 90 years old. his son Leonard veryfeeble gets ^out^ but little. Edmund Willets has been ona visit in Pensylvania [sic] I suppose I might ^say^ a religiousvisit but as he is not reccommended [sic] it is not commonto add the religious. he has the advantage in some repects he can go when he feels drawn but has somedisadvantage as it takes longer time if he attendsmany meetings he says he got along very well I thinkthe people generally like him except some of thelaw and order ones. sometimes it looks like improvementamong us and at other times all looks dark20th of the month this has take untill [sic] this timeyesterday work at Roslyn Today with Mary andElizabeth P Willets have been most of the dayat Joshuas dividing things that were SarahDowning she left a Will but not legally singed [sic]but Silas it seems disposed to carry out herviews. Joshua and Henry Titus went up their [sic]last week and got over 5000$ money and hercloths linen some beds and ^a little^ furniture we dividedthem in 4 parts. Joshua and sisters Jane [Vatmes?]children Uncle John and Richards family andafter dividing them in 4 parts we divided oneparcel again in 4 parts so their bundls [sic] wer [sic]not very large, and Sarah Cromwells portionto be divided in 10 parts will be very smallto Samuel Post she gave the desk and Bookcase. also the use of 1000$ during life andto his children and Silas gave up a notethat he held against Samuel ^for 250$^ dated 22 yearsago and and [sic] no interest every been [endosed?]Now is the time for the examination ofthose that have been drafted to go to Jamacia [sic]have been going nearly all last month andcontinues all this month I beleave [sic] verymany get clear for very trifling causes. WmTownsend Hannak son was one had the moneyin his pocket as he was going to be examinedhe said he did not know as he had any excusebut came out with heart deseas [sic] and wascleared many get clear because not natural-ize Our Thomas Hughes was one draftedhe is notified to go 28th of the month heexpects to get clear on account of [illegible word crossed out]not being naturalize. Labours is very scarceon account of so many having gone and nowgoing to the war. quite a number of thecoulerd [sic] men have enlisted and go to [Read?]Island from these parts. Tomorrow is theorthodox Quarterly Meeting at Westbury theymake quite a time of fixing. Next day is oursat [Flushing?] but weather [sic] it will be muchtime will make manifest. do not look for muchJoseph Post
Agriculture
Civil War
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ae99cc032f4ef9f5178a0d8677d71221.jpg
bb378d6ff007ca8c3152fe0901dd935f
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/12f6f9fefe14889d791878ef2bc9c678.jpg
b4b28ca395885cd8c458d0dca8c082c8
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/2c283a08d63f1be85161ae9a1eae0782.jpg
4653d2dc1c59f7817a1fe8ae23cc29ff
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a17a0325ec2858ad7e6166bba3987932.jpg
84087daafa2949e7b77a09330c754577
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1953e31fa9d3dcc06340e2f06a338ba0.xml
0e62013dc9772597a449b0935a8dbe3c
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>8 mo 23/63<br /> Dearly Beloved<br /> On the receipt of your truly<br /> acceptable letter I felt just like answering it im<br /> -mediately and should have done so had not my duty<br /> to a sick and suffering sister come in the way<br /> (Sally Ann Bond who was yesterday released from<br /> her great suffering cancer and dropsy) I wanted<br /> to prepare things for her and then to go there and<br /> the next day I accompanied J who was at work<br /> getting hay at Roslin [sic] to see Sarah Mott found<br /> her pretty comfortable but been very poorly since<br /> you were there had quite a pleasant visit and<br /> was glad if I had contributed to her happiness<br /> Then to James Motts Elizabeth at home and well<br /> but I thought not feeling quite as cheerful <br /> as sometimes I took <span style="text-decoration:underline;">all</span> your letters received<br /> since your return and read to her and we<br /> recounted all the pleasant memories of your<br /> visit she said it was unusually pleasant to<br /> her and I tried to urge the necessity for<br /> her happiness to mingle more with her friends<br /> and neighbors Miss Crapon was there spending<br /> (Page 2)<br /> a few days and E said she was sorry to let her go alone<br /> making calls <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">but</span> (she excused herself from going with her)<br /> but really she felt but little inclination she has staid [sic]<br /> at home so much that it is irksome to exert herself suff<br /> -icently I told her I knew well the feeling but almost alw<br /> ays I felt the better for going and mingling with my<br /> neighbors and even that very afternoon I almost regretted<br /> having spoken about going She was supprised [sic] to hear I ever<br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">felt</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">so</span> I do not think she feels much better reconciled to<br /> her present home than at first says it has increased<br /> their cares and she would gladly lessen them and<br /> live in a very small way James was at Great Neck moving<br /> a building but I did not think of making so long a story<br /> out of my reason for not replying immediately and when<br /> the right time passes over we may not see the necessity as<br /> much then M[onthly] M[eeting] at Matinecock and Jericho both of which we<br /> attended at [ours?] R H was exercised on ac[coun]t of the growing sentime<br /> -nt among friends of doubting & reasoning on parts of the scriptures<br /> the miracles and other parts incomprehensible to us the Jewish<br /> law was adapted to the state of the people at that time and<br /> even now we saw ample illustration that there were those<br /> who could only be controled [sic] by the force system that God was<br /> able now to raise the dead &c &c that we had even considered<br /> them as secondary quoting Barclay who she believed was a<br /> standard work on all except original sin & the atonement<br /> our part of society could not acknowledge she was quite leng<br /> thy and it seemed to me she labored for very little profit<br /> seldom has it seemed so clear the desired object was not<br /> attained after all her exercise soon after she took her<br /> seat Stimonson rose spoke of Jesus of his life of obedience<br /> to all the requirements of his day that he often said it<br /> (Page 3)<br /> was <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">often</span> said by those of old times thus and so quoting <br /> but I say onto you lose your enemies &c &c he imposed no<br /> burdens on his followers but that they should come into the<br /> childlike teachable state of obedience to the will of their heave<br /> -nly father that it was not well to look back but to press forward<br /> Edmund followed in quite a hopeful strain that he had felt<br /> encouraged in meeting so large a number and so many young<br /> people spoke of the evils wh[ich] were laying waste the community<br /> intemperance & other evils abounded and we ought to be<br /> [alive?] and in earnest to maintain a faithful testimony against<br /> evil in all its many ramifications that we might leave the<br /> world better for having lived in it &c went to Henry Titus to<br /> dine 18 of us accepted of their hospitality at Jericho the meeting<br /> was small our girls said there were only 9 females of that [P?] Meeting<br /> and fewer from the other meetings I looked back to the time when Amy<br /> and I were girls and how different then from the present [Ardon?]<br /> spoke and we thought very well but he told us an elder told him<br /> he was all wrong that day Mother not as well as usual I spent<br /> the afternoon with her J and girls went to Henrys Today Rachel<br /> spoke well as she has generally done lately shorter and in<br /> a way to encourage obedience to duty Dorinda and children<br /> are here they have gone to Uncle Jamess since tea and I am<br /> the only occupant of home It is sadning [sic] to me to have the<br /> dear children so misled <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">as</span> I think they are coming up in<br /> all the formal observance of days [at home?] Minnie said<br /> this afternoon why it dose [sic] not seem much like Sunday here<br /> it seems most like other days I asked her what they done at<br /> home why we go to church and then we sit down and mother<br /> reads the bible to us – We had had reading but it had not<br /> been the bible It reminded me of H C W joyless Sundays I<br /> have known a long time she would not allow them to play<br /> how different all would have been if their father had lived<br /> The orthodox are zealous in their first day school and they<br /> have a bible class meet at each others house weekly<br /> met once at Phebe Titus Edward Rushmore is very much<br /> interested in them and the school also Edward Hicks went<br /> to P Titus but was not all suited told Phebe he should have<br /> been much better satisfied had he remained at home [and?] enga<br /> -ged in silent prayer so you see we are still earnest<br /> some in one way and some in another we are trying<br /> a little to get signatures to the womens petition but succeed<br /> poorly some say slavery is virtually abolished some say congress<br /> has no power some want to keep clear of all intermedling [sic]<br /> that the subject is gaining and we have signed petition [so?]<br /> (Page 4)<br /> but what has it amounted to Fifth day here this is yet<br /> scarcely a minutes time have I had since first day<br /> we have had company steadily since second day we<br /> were out making calls and some acquaintance from Oyster<br /> Bay came they were just gone and I had doned [sic] by visiting rig<br /> for my working dress when we were delighted by a new<br /> arrival W. & Mary Third day Stephen & family & Uncle James girl and<br /> yesterday quite a company mostly of N Yorkers and strangers to you<br /> I presume who will come to day is not known as yet Dorinda<br /> and girls want to go to see M K Underhill this afternoon We hope<br /> W and Mary will come back soon I tried to convince them we<br /> had quite as much claim on them as any other family Mother<br /> is failing and I am feeling for Hannah fearing too much will<br /> come on her Mothers woman is away now her child is deceased<br /> There have been many accidents but as my paper is nearly full<br /> and I think likely Elizabeth has mentioned them Henry Havi<br /> -land has just lost their two oldest children only one little one<br /> left and Valentine Seaman their youngest cousin P Haviland<br /> is in a critical condition and they very much fear she will<br /> not regain her health tho more comfortable just now<br /> There [crossed out word] no epidemic but deaths are very frequent<br /> around us Hicks Albertson had been sick but recovered<br /> in degree so as to attend business was taken with spasms<br /> and died in a few hours We have had extreme warm<br /> weather for several weeks but night before last had a fine<br /> rain and now the weather is delightfully cool too<br /> cool to sit with open windows Joseph has gone to<br /> take some things to send to the Hospital at Fort<br /> Schuyler there are a great many there All supplys [sic] are<br /> stoped [sic] being sent to Davids Island where the rebel prison<br /> are in many instances people who had not contributed<br /> any thing for the union wounded were anxious to give<br /> to the rebel so it was easy to see where their sympathy was<br /> The Draft is going on in N Y see some names that we know<br /> among the number is Howard Wright [J?]DW son & J Wilids<br /> R R Wilids son how our Nephews will fare is to be seen<br /> Matilda is not al all well the root or [ilegible] [difficulty?]<br /> in her mouth seems to be the cause Had a letter from<br /> Lucretia lately she spoke of the remarkable character<br /> of the col[ored] troops said they committed no depredations whatever<br /> and were very superior every way to the white regiments so their officers<br /> said E M Davis has been very much interested in them Thomas Mott has<br /> gone to Europe again affectionately Mary<br /> [Mary Robbins Post]<br /><br /><strong>Roslyn, NY</strong> is a village in Nassau County on the north shore of Long Island<br /><strong>Great Neck, NY</strong> is a village in Nassau County on the north shore of Long Island<br /><strong>Matinecock,NY</strong> is a village located within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County<br /><strong>Jericho, NY</strong> is a hamlet in Nassau County on the north shore of Long Island<br /><strong>Robert Barclay (1648-1690)</strong>: Scottish Quaker; published <em>Apology for the True Christian Divinity:</em> <em>Being an Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People called Quakers</em>. (1676 ) which set forth the tenets of the Quaker religion in the form of fifteen theses; aruged that all true knowledge comes from divine revelation and is imparted directly to the individual <br /> Perhaps refers to <strong>Stimonson Powell</strong>, a Quaker minister from Westbury Monthly Meeting<br /><strong>Women’s petition</strong>: On May 14, 1863, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton called a meeting of the Women's National Loyal League. The League called for the immediate abolition of slavery and gathered signatures on petitions asking Congress to “pass at the earliest practicable day an act emancipating all persons of African descent held to involuntary service or labor in the United States."<br /><strong>Oyster Bay, NY</strong>: a hamlet on the north shore of Long Island in Nassau County<br /><strong>Fort Schuyler</strong>: located at the southeastern tip of the Bronx; includes McDougall Hospital a U.S. military hospital that treated wounded soliders during the war<br /><strong>Lucretia Mott</strong>(1793-1880): well-known Philadelphia Quakers; leader of the abolition and women’s rights movements<br /><strong>Edward Morris</strong><strong> Davis</strong> (1818-1897): Abolitionist and Philadelphia merchant was married to James and Lucretia Mott’s daughter Maria Mott (1812-1897)<br /> William and Mary (Post) Hallowell? daughter of Isaac and Hannah Post</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, August 23, 1863.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1863-08-23
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1402
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions.8 mo 23/63 Dearly Beloved On the receipt of your truly acceptable letter I felt just like answering it im -mediately and should have done so had not my duty to a sick and suffering sister come in the way (Sally Ann Bond who was yesterday released from her great suffering cancer and dropsy) I wanted to prepare things for her and then to go there and the next day I accompanied J who was at work getting hay at Roslin [sic] to see Sarah Mott found her pretty comfortable but been very poorly since you were there had quite a pleasant visit and was glad if I had contributed to her happiness Then to James Motts Elizabeth at home and well but I thought not feeling quite as cheerful as sometimes I took all your letters received since your return and read to her and we recounted all the pleasant memories of your visit she said it was unusually pleasant to her and I tried to urge the necessity for her happiness to mingle more with her friends and neighbors Miss Crapon was there spending a few days and E said she was sorry to let her go alone making calls but (she excused herself from going with her) but really she felt but little inclination she has staid [sic] at home so much that it is irksome to exert herself suff -icently I told her I knew well the feeling but almost alw ays I felt the better for going and mingling with my neighbors and even that very afternoon I almost regretted having spoken about going She was supprised [sic] to hear I everfeltso I do not think she feels much better reconciled to her present home than at first says it has increased their cares and she would gladly lessen them and live in a very small way James was at Great Neck moving a building but I did not think of making so long a story out of my reason for not replying immediately and when the right time passes over we may not see the necessity as much then M[onthly] M[eeting] at Matinecock and Jericho both of which we attended at [ours?] R H was exercised on ac[coun]t of the growing sentime -nt among friends of doubting & reasoning on parts of the scriptures the miracles and other parts incomprehensible to us the Jewish law was adapted to the state of the people at that time and even now we saw ample illustration that there were those who could only be controled [sic] by the force system that God was able now to raise the dead &c &c that we had even considered them as secondary quoting Barclay who she believed was a standard work on all except original sin & the atonement our part of society could not acknowledge she was quite leng thy and it seemed to me she labored for very little profit seldom has it seemed so clear the desired object was not attained after all her exercise soon after she took her seat Stimonson rose spoke of Jesus of his life of obedience to all the requirements of his day that he often said it was often said by those of old times thus and so quoting but I say onto you lose your enemies &c &c he imposed no burdens on his followers but that they should come into the childlike teachable state of obedience to the will of their heave -nly father that it was not well to look back but to press forward Edmund followed in quite a hopeful strain that he had felt encouraged in meeting so large a number and so many young people spoke of the evils wh[ich] were laying waste the community intemperance & other evils abounded and we ought to be [alive?] and in earnest to maintain a faithful testimony against evil in all its many ramifications that we might leave the world better for having lived in it &c went to Henry Titus to dine 18 of us accepted of their hospitality at Jericho the meeting was small our girls said there were only 9 females of that [P?] Meeting and fewer from the other meetings I looked back to the time when Amy and I were girls and how different then from the present [Ardon?] spoke and we thought very well but he told us an elder told him he was all wrong that day Mother not as well as usual I spent the afternoon with her J and girls went to Henrys Today Rachel spoke well as she has generally done lately shorter and in a way to encourage obedience to duty Dorinda and children are here they have gone to Uncle Jamess since tea and I am the only occupant of home It is sadning [sic] to me to have the dear children so misled as I think they are coming up in all the formal observance of days [at home?] Minnie said this afternoon why it dose [sic] not seem much like Sunday here it seems most like other days I asked her what they done at home why we go to church and then we sit down and mother reads the bible to us - We had had reading but it had not been the bible It reminded me of H C W joyless Sundays I have known a long time she would not allow them to play how different all would have been if their father had lived The orthodox are zealous in their first day school and they have a bible class meet at each others house weekly met once at Phebe Titus Edward Rushmore is very much interested in them and the school also Edward Hicks went to P Titus but was not all suited told Phebe he should have been much better satisfied had he remained at home [and?] enga -ged in silent prayer so you see we are still earnest some in one way and some in another we are trying a little to get signatures to the womens petition but succeed poorly some say slavery is virtually abolished some say congress has no power some want to keep clear of all intermedling [sic] that the subject is gaining and we have signed petition [so?] but what has it amounted to Fifth day here this is yet scarcely a minutes time have I had since first day we have had company steadily since second day we were out making calls and some acquaintance from Oyster Bay came they were just gone and I had doned [sic] by visiting rig for my working dress when we were delighted by a new arrival W. & Mary Third day Stephen & family & Uncle James girl and yesterday quite a company mostly of N Yorkers and strangers to you I presume who will come to day is not known as yet Dorinda and girls want to go to see M K Underhill this afternoon We hope W and Mary will come back soon I tried to convince them we had quite as much claim on them as any other family Mother is failing and I am feeling for Hannah fearing too much will come on her Mothers woman is away now her child is deceased There have been many accidents but as my paper is nearly full and I think likely Elizabeth has mentioned them Henry Havi -land has just lost their two oldest children only one little one left and Valentine Seaman their youngest cousin P Haviland is in a critical condition and they very much fear she will not regain her health tho more comfortable just now There [crossed out word] no epidemic but deaths are very frequent around us Hicks Albertson had been sick but recovered in degree so as to attend business was taken with spasms and died in a few hours We have had extreme warm weather for several weeks but night before last had a fine rain and now the weather is delightfully cool too cool to sit with open windows Joseph has gone to take some things to send to the Hospital at Fort Schuyler there are a great many there All supplys [sic] are stoped [sic] being sent to Davids Island where the rebel prison are in many instances people who had not contributed any thing for the union wounded were anxious to give to the rebel so it was easy to see where their sympathy was The Draft is going on in N Y see some names that we know among the number is Howard Wright [J?]DW son & J Wilids R R Wilids son how our Nephews will fare is to be seen Matilda is not al all well the root or [ilegible] [difficulty?] in her mouth seems to be the cause Had a letter from Lucretia lately she spoke of the remarkable character of the col[ored] troops said they committed no depredations whatever and were very superior every way to the white regiments so their officers said E M Davis has been very much interested in them Thomas Mott has gone to Europe again affectionately Mary
Civil War
Domestic Servants
Education
Family
Quakers
Women's Rights
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/235c35ec2ddf27d7fe8db2f836212288.jpg
9dd752733baebbb4af65eaa1f9778643
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/bd800abea83a99e24bce2fd1ce808577.jpg
d982bd6ae092ce5466d123bfb5b82dcb
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, March 29, 1863.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1863-03-29
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1388
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Agriculture
Family
Medicine
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ce5ed044223cc31f053ded73ec56da52.jpg
d62ce9d59f8981df54467aa1cf73054f
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c88d783769663156df74c4753e3febc6.jpg
f776574dbf8056293ad6f7ae3a75723b
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/3a5ef7f20c244bef07c7ffdd9a9f8f38.xml
d07530d78fff22808fbb23d60df9281c
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> Westbury 11<span><sup>th</sup></span> m 4<sup>th</sup> 1862<br /> Dear Brother<br /> This is election day clear and cold<br />much axitey [sic] among the people about<br />geting [sic] the right men in office of course<br />every one partakes of a [feeling?] on the sub<br />=ject but wither it will make the differ<br />=ence on the subject that some think it<br />will wither the war party or the peace<br />party gets in I do not know. but really<br />our country is in a verry [sic] deplorable state<br />and to me things looks very dark but<br />some seem to be profficing [sic] better times<br />soon. Rachel Hicks has been to Baltimore<br />yearly meeting but I have not heart [sic] one<br />word how she found thing in that section<br />have herd [sic] that friend are divided the<br />same as other people. We are gathering corn<br />pretty good, not a great many apples but<br />very plenty for <span>ourn</span> our own use<br />Uncle John has become very child like<br />in many things very forgefull [sic], yet his<br />habit for work I think has increased of late<br /><br />(Page 2)<br /><br />for he is in the lot most of his time<br />Uncle James I think is very smart I<br />do not see but that his mind remains<br />as good. John Willis and Mary much<br />pleased with visit to Rochester John says<br />Isaac seemed as he used to had given up<br />spiritualism &c [<span>it</span>] It is about for the<br />mail to close so I shall have to stop<br />for this time We have been looking<br />for thee and Amy the past season some<br />but do not hear much of your [condission?]<br />shall we ^not^ have a chance to see you this<br />fall yet<br /> Thy Brother Joseph Post
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, October 4, 1862. Joseph writes briefly of the state of the county and gives some news about friends.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1862-10-04
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1373
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions.
Westbury 11th m 4th 1862
Dear Brother This is election day clear and coldmuch axitey [sic] among the people aboutgeting [sic] the right men in office of courseevery one partakes of a [feeling?] on the sub=ject but wither it will make the differ=ence on the subject that some think itwill wither the war party or the peaceparty gets in I do not know. but reallyour country is in a verry [sic] deplorable stateand to me things looks very dark butsome seem to be profficing [sic] better timessoon. Rachel Hicks has been to Baltimoreyearly meeting but I have not heart [sic] oneword how she found thing in that sectionhave herd [sic] that friend are divided thesame as other people. We are gathering cornpretty good, not a great many apples butvery plenty for ourn our own useUncle John has become very child likein many things very forgefull [sic], yet hishabit for work I think has increased of late
for he is in the lot most of his timeUncle James I think is very smart Ido not see but that his mind remainsas good. John Willis and Mary muchpleased with visit to Rochester John saysIsaac seemed as he used to had given upspiritualism &c [it] It is about for themail to close so I shall have to stopfor this time We have been lookingfor thee and Amy the past season somebut do not hear much of your [condission?]shall we ^not^ have a chance to see you thisfall yet Thy Brother Joseph Post
Civil War
Family
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/042dc84af11e978214808d8b50917900.jpg
c846fc434004b718669866505dfca737
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/295acb0aef9891a6f2a70389f3c968df.jpg
cd1a320c539c799ec2ddf898f554a567
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/b8a60c37d994e761cf7294845c2f0689.jpg
013a1358d711d20e8a87dfd61bb7e7c7
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1d4f36eced8e6591fb427f2800366ed4.jpg
9745e4fcc6f008e7c7c1e6c26982ea97
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, January 8, 1862.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1862-01-08
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1358
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/3982e3d22058babd7c65bb283938fcac.jpg
25cb161151ab11e20a3cc4ad2753023b
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/040686c49a6f771679c804ac4a5ae6d8.jpg
de956c49902b1b44dd27e087a62b874e
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1ed12616a2682449251c144073e492e8.jpg
a8e0d4a389ec22dca15ef19dc74c43ed
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a161433f7b91ec45e86b7088f48bbfba.jpg
892544f8ec5d01b15714637ad173d845
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Willis, Mary W Kirby. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary W Kirby Willis to Amy Kirby Post, October 29, 1861.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Willis, Mary W Kirby
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1861-10-29
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1353
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/b1bfc24acefd2267d2f1e5ac18ecb3d1.jpg
174ac905a29848c225167e0ed6d0a359
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a563555fce0dd4144d53a6fe19b3d7f7.jpg
b5d0a211645d2042d0d49e28042b92db
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/6cabd331688656203393b862ada55a27.jpg
66de2762c5fc3e95375e39f6c588ceff
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/efef4e8dad81e607377331b21e05d803.jpg
f265154e47e165af84af7cafe980f478
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/092b400a94df4f6fbfbe84322c256d0d.jpg
b9d63d2d7eb532d94bd4e6944e2de94a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/8f03d269d760b23e3988ce2d1d7770d0.jpg
d8026c74ce295389033ba444a1c2742d
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/4e6f5cc9574cee16ea5f39982138414f.jpg
bb83849e026eed9998f2a19109aa37d3
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f8c4452de5877c3ea5a4cdc0a2228c82.jpg
cedf4f8e3ba241f9f4f6731592eb82a6
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, June 15, 1861.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1861-06-15
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1348
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Agriculture
Business
Family
Medicine
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/4bd2055e52396d93a66143d1d52bfa7d.jpg
c4821db1083d74402627251fa94dcca3
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c3c2984343a4b99bd144e77d0dc60382.jpg
0d9db6c1237346362c60b241fe207552
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/611911ab05ebe727b7c3dfcd8c70220c.jpg
64be8902ad85bcfe1a438d015ac46c84
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ce77bf0dde1abca40a3461c0f47aefde.jpg
1a59bc1cdf903282aef6adc59a301a05
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/2d448caef7ed3dcfa66e0ba6315c3a5e.jpg
81fbf4408416fd631dabe086d3859f00
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/794fdf7f585c171bfea48d4e9ad9f183.jpg
966f60cb42b8f243de7096a7f1dd9322
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ed42262aec47b1b6c689a31c7169bb09.jpg
8fa571db8797f6bfb9f70c8983970f5b
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/84441feca9e871b3ea7541232a7162a1.jpg
659f9840c9cda70ec6cfceb9a937a8c4
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Jane ?. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Jane ? Post to Isaac Post, September 26, 1860.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Jane ?
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1860-09-26
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1337
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/b680a5bdea9f0d19ba37c9798cd98fe6.jpg
d45d3e78aa72a3c28b20b02b8f04fc07
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f70f773c5cfaa28e8474193481715416.jpg
d72e14290326b2bcc95e070d8149d841
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/3c8cb7bd0aa0094dd9bac4d71085e3ee.jpg
cbf21d834caeb5025e3e7993c256e6fd
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a527eb3201b1d661e837cf4a4a3b2ad5.jpg
c6cd467818e9ab3fb5f3ce2f19a24e06
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, June 1, 1860.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1860-06-01
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1320
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Abolitionism
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/149882e59496570d43158a33d6725532.jpg
1f3231539680077d7e3806801ce25299
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/6991febc01549281ad442d31bdd876a3.jpg
5d91c59e0f9d664be172b983f09416a8
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/998bc1a5a6a49d53fbcba716642c86d6.jpg
81ed3628ae499a6949b14a85a2e95566
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/619cc742919696a69443402f312c4e39.jpg
8e2f7e05797c3bff56a5183bbf8ee0ce
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c29026f56a92f25e077869e5e2793790.xml
876dc5065be1198cdb8458353e6f8c0f
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> [Letter begins on page marked "5"; any other pages are missing]<br /><br /> 5<br /> Wherein – it seems as if I could<br /> see coming events, surely & truly<br /> The <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">first </span>Sunday before our <br /> Army moved It seemed as if<br /> I lived in another sphere & I<br /> told our folks that I must<br /> prophecy [sic]. I told them & I wrote<br /> to Georgia that there would be<br /> a great battle before the week<br /> was out _ with great loss on<br /> both sides, that Lee would<br /> retreat towards Richmont [sic] &<br /> would not acknowledge himself<br /> beat. Then I done up a package<br /> of fifty dollas [sic] & sent to Georgia<br /> though I knew she had thirty<br /> dollas [sic] or over _ She wrote me<br /> saying what did I send her so<br /> much money for she did not<br /> need it, but the Battles came<br /> off and Geora [sic] hurried down<br /> to the front and it gave her<br /> means plenty _ to take care of herself<br /> and to do something for those in<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> 6<br /> need – I would not boast or<br /> recount this even to any one<br /> but to you I feel I can pour<br /> out my whole soul and it<br /> will meet with a [response?]<br /> But enough on this. I was at<br /> Leahs not may [sic] days ago and<br /> my father said “George thee will<br /> have a visitor soon whom thee little<br /> expects to see” I asked him who<br /> but got no answer. Leah said<br /> it is your Brother Benj from Cal[ifornia?]<br /> but the spirits would not endorse<br /> it. Well in a few days just at night<br /> who should come – but Milo<br /> Codding [sic] so dirty and so ragged<br /> & so Crazy _ that I was sorely<br /> tried to know what to do. I<br /> asked him to set down & eat supper<br /> and he talked & talked so that<br /> it took him an hour to eat & he<br /> was very hungry He said he was<br /> going to change the whole world<br /> that he had done work that<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> 7<br /> would do more good than any<br /> man that had lived on the Earth<br /> before him. I tried to sooth him<br /> and show him that first, the<br /> physical wants must be provided<br /> for. we must have food & clothes<br /> and shelter before we could be<br /> good I said that had been tried<br /> at the five points . . they were<br /> preached to & told all about Christ<br /> but no headway was made until<br /> they took the poor things by<br /> the hand & washed them &<br /> gave them food & clothes first<br /> At this he flew in a passion &<br /> was very wild _ and said I had<br /> no business to compare him<br /> to them &c well I got him quet [sic]<br /> & asked him where he was stopping<br /> He said nowheres – He thought<br /> he would stay with us – we<br /> had company John Searing & others<br /> & I told him we were all full<br /> every room but I would help<br /> him so he need not suffer<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> 8<br /> I gave him three dollas [sic] & some<br /> small change _ and he<br /> consulted the spirits awhile<br /> shaking his head for no a<br /> great many times – and finally<br /> he nodded his head yes &<br /> left. I bade him God speed<br /> and we parted friends –<br /> He said the spirits had sent<br /> him to Washington – but they<br /> did not get him an appointment<br /> under Goveonment [sic] as they promised<br /> and now if he could get a<br /> chance he was going a sea<br /> voyage – so perhaps his mission<br /> to reform the world will not<br /> be finished for awhile.<br /> The yearly meeting is over I did<br /> not attend once – It seems like<br /> husks to me. perhaps I am<br /> incorrigible. John Searing was<br /> down _ and to day came up<br /> with me together with Anns<br /> sister Jane _ & Rachel Hicks<br /> & her companion with a Minute<br /> to visit meetings in New York<br />
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Willets, George. Letter to Isaac? ? Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from George Willets to Isaac? ? Post, 186-.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Willets, George
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
186-
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Isaac? ? Post
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1305
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. [Letter begins on page marked "5"; any other pages are missing] 5 Wherein - it seems as if I could see coming events, surely & truly The first Sunday before our Army moved It seemed as if I lived in another sphere & I told our folks that I must prophecy [sic]. I told them & I wrote to Georgia that there would be a great battle before the week was out _ with great loss on both sides, that Lee would retreat towards Richmont [sic] & would not acknowledge himself beat. Then I done up a package of fifty dollas [sic] & sent to Georgia though I knew she had thirty dollas [sic] or over _ She wrote me saying what did I send her so much money for she did not need it, but the Battles came off and Geora [sic] hurried down to the front and it gave her means plenty _ to take care of herself and to do something for those in 6 need - I would not boast or recount this even to any one but to you I feel I can pour out my whole soul and it will meet with a [response?] But enough on this. I was at Leahs not may [sic] days ago and my father said "George thee will have a visitor soon whom thee little expects to see" I asked him who but got no answer. Leah said it is your Brother Benj from Cal[ifornia?] but the spirits would not endorse it. Well in a few days just at night who should come - but Milo Codding [sic] so dirty and so ragged & so Crazy _ that I was sorely tried to know what to do. I asked him to set down & eat supper and he talked & talked so that it took him an hour to eat & he was very hungry He said he was going to change the whole world that he had done work that 7 would do more good than any man that had lived on the Earth before him. I tried to sooth him and show him that first, the physical wants must be provided for. we must have food & clothes and shelter before we could be good I said that had been tried at the five points . . they were preached to & told all about Christ but no headway was made until they took the poor things by the hand & washed them & gave them food & clothes first At this he flew in a passion & was very wild _ and said I had no business to compare him to them &c well I got him quet [sic] & asked him where he was stopping He said nowheres - He thought he would stay with us - we had company John Searing & others & I told him we were all full every room but I would help him so he need not suffer 8 I gave him three dollas [sic] & some small change _ and he consulted the spirits awhile shaking his head for no a great many times - and finally he nodded his head yes & left. I bade him God speed and we parted friends - He said the spirits had sent him to Washington - but they did not get him an appointment under Goveonment [sic] as they promised and now if he could get a chance he was going a sea voyage - so perhaps his mission to reform the world will not be finished for awhile. The yearly meeting is over I did not attend once - It seems like husks to me. perhaps I am incorrigible. John Searing was down _ and to day came up with me together with Anns sister Jane _ & Rachel Hicks & her companion with a Minute to visit meetings in New York
Civil War
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/3849e4475cc87a34f99755b4287a3219.jpg
f67a1ec313fcc23fb9823a8cc3c3e1b9
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c248eb4e4c6c868a9f16185fc213e901.jpg
6ff7d1d5f4dcd8cfca37d9cb7d66b962
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/454ee61ee68b6c3a5eba15f675f803ce.jpg
b3f099ed893dcafa43cee8e060ee8177
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/94334148ee26115b9219813658079b9d.jpg
1148940d5424554680a2b63787a58a42
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbi Ns. Letter to Isaac ? Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbi Ns Post to Isaac ? Post, 186-?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbi Ns
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
186-?
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Isaac ? Post
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1285
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Civil War
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/6aa93283ada45cac47d6e9ed6f81ee2f.jpg
c0ae5549213a98aadefb3a7fd2b063bb
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/7967fd24dd0b30e1e7e715ac01093623.jpg
90c66cb0f966753ceff815486f2276ba
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/46f76e2a162f07a375896d9659ff3981.xml
08ba09c8e290f9357a2dead1265585a1
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> [Text just above main body of letter, written upside down]<br /> The funeral on 3 day at eleven his sisters all there Anne<br /> is still at Flushing dont hear of much improvement<br /><br /> [Text normal]<br /> Dear All Willie has had a letter commenced sometime<br /> I inquired on 6<sup>th</sup> day if it had been sent and finding it had<br /> not told him I would put in a slip but he puts off writing<br /> have got him at it this evening he thought he would only<br /> send the half sheet but I hope he will fill it as he surely mig^ht^<br /> if he set about it He has been having a great time skating<br /> and from appearance may have as it is quite cold the sch<br /> -ollars [sic] both girls and boys engage in the sport and the<br /> evening the pond is quite a resort for boys who often<br /> skate until bedtime In our last we told you of the<br /> sudden death of Elizabeth F Cock now it is mine to tell<br /> of another nearly as sudden our cousin Henry Titus last<br /> fifth day eve he was milking the cow kicked him in his<br /> side ^or near the navel^ he suffered very much indeed could not lay down<br /> did not discover until the next day he was badly ruptu<br /> red it was put in place and through the quieting infl<br /> uence of morphine he was so muc[h m]ore comfortable we<br /> hoped he might recover however the [obliterated] very little enco<br /> uragement and to day about one he was released <br /> from all suffering It seems sad to us two such unex<br /> -pected bereavement in our little circle so nearly<br /> together too We miss E H Cock from her usual seat<br /> in our ^semi^ weekly gathering and in her family she is<br /> very much missed so generally at home they feel very<br /> lonely and who does not when these separations occur <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">the</span><br /> every thing reminds of the dear one the vacant chair<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> the silent house and a thousand things keep the memo^ry^<br /> alive to the reality of loneliness of separation and<br /> sorrow Edward S Willets has a carbuncle [bile?] on his<br /> neck been confined to the house a week the cancer patients<br /> are still under treatment Sarah Whitsons the Dr hopes is<br /> killed the lump is loosning [sic] Sarah Post has just commenced<br /> to poultice again has not loosned [sic] any yet around the edges<br /> the man at Mary R has been very poorly so that E had to go for<br /> his wife he is quite comfortable again and they feel quite<br /> encouraged We have lately been to Uncle Stephens he is quite<br /> forgetful I think as much as father was Esther Post has been<br /> to see Aunt Rositta she is well but a great deal thinks<br /> she is from home and wishes to go there Stephen & Benj-<br /> Hicks have returned become very much interisted [sic] in the<br /> freed people and their needs B said if we could see them we<br /> would work with redoubled zeal he brought a little boy<br /> home with him he did not know what he should do with <br /> him he had nothing for him to do They went to see the assist<br /> -ant secretary of w[ar?] and the Washington authorities would<br /> do any thing they [obliterated]ed in relation to the comfort of the<br /> blacks were very desirous friends should take charge of <br /> their government wile [sic] put up dwelling houses on the land<br /> appropriated to them while friends will put up school houses<br /> they engaged lumber sent on for a box of our goods did not<br /> get there but one from Phil they saw distributed and it was a<br /> glad sight the quarters they are in are very leaky and insufficient<br /> many were sick with inflamation [sic] of lungs and die of. They are<br /> to give us a sketch of their visit at our next meeting giving<br /> general notice after the lecture hoping to interest others to come<br /> and contribute of their substance they saw E Howland and her schoo^l^<br /> but I will stop we have had bible reading this evening Mary W Post
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, 186-?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
186-?
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1284
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. [Text just above main body of letter, written upside down] The funeral on 3 day at eleven his sisters all there Anne is still at Flushing dont hear of much improvement [Text normal] Dear All Willie has had a letter commenced sometime I inquired on 6th day if it had been sent and finding it had not told him I would put in a slip but he puts off writing have got him at it this evening he thought he would only send the half sheet but I hope he will fill it as he surely mig^ht^ if he set about it He has been having a great time skating and from appearance may have as it is quite cold the sch -ollars [sic] both girls and boys engage in the sport and the evening the pond is quite a resort for boys who often skate until bedtime In our last we told you of the sudden death of Elizabeth F Cock now it is mine to tell of another nearly as sudden our cousin Henry Titus last fifth day eve he was milking the cow kicked him in his side ^or near the navel^ he suffered very much indeed could not lay down did not discover until the next day he was badly ruptu red it was put in place and through the quieting infl uence of morphine he was so muc[h m]ore comfortable we hoped he might recover however the [obliterated] very little enco uragement and to day about one he was released from all suffering It seems sad to us two such unex -pected bereavement in our little circle so nearly together too We miss E H Cock from her usual seat in our ^semi^ weekly gathering and in her family she is very much missed so generally at home they feel very lonely and who does not when these separations occur the every thing reminds of the dear one the vacant chair the silent house and a thousand things keep the memo^ry^ alive to the reality of loneliness of separation and sorrow Edward S Willets has a carbuncle [bile?] on his neck been confined to the house a week the cancer patients are still under treatment Sarah Whitsons the Dr hopes is killed the lump is loosning [sic] Sarah Post has just commenced to poultice again has not loosned [sic] any yet around the edges the man at Mary R has been very poorly so that E had to go for his wife he is quite comfortable again and they feel quite encouraged We have lately been to Uncle Stephens he is quite forgetful I think as much as father was Esther Post has been to see Aunt Rositta she is well but a great deal thinks she is from home and wishes to go there Stephen & Benj- Hicks have returned become very much interisted [sic] in the freed people and their needs B said if we could see them we would work with redoubled zeal he brought a little boy home with him he did not know what he should do with him he had nothing for him to do They went to see the assist -ant secretary of w[ar?] and the Washington authorities would do any thing they [obliterated]ed in relation to the comfort of the blacks were very desirous friends should take charge of their government wile [sic] put up dwelling houses on the land appropriated to them while friends will put up school houses they engaged lumber sent on for a box of our goods did not get there but one from Phil they saw distributed and it was a glad sight the quarters they are in are very leaky and insufficient many were sick with inflamation [sic] of lungs and die of. They are to give us a sketch of their visit at our next meeting giving general notice after the lecture hoping to interest others to come and contribute of their substance they saw E Howland and her schoo^l^ but I will stop we have had bible reading this evening Mary W Post
Family
Medicine
Quakers
Reconstruction Era
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/020a61b241e43e057a5a154c2f6d2abb.jpg
c86c09ada3945edfc8063659da05e420
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/606bac0953e813a70f4c09f0fbb318cf.jpg
bdbcb366c0506b4ff8423291d4e2c592
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/680ce8646dead0cd4b598c44038d7a60.jpg
467e143f91201271af73f3777bd82771
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/2aa42be5a48cdb756d84588e7bd6a38d.jpg
e96c76ac14de4777dba35da8b8ca282c
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
text_
A transcribable resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/3567/#transcription">This letter is being transcribed, please choose another</a>
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, 186-?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
186-?
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1279
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Scripto
Transcription
A written representation of a document.
PR
Family
Freed Slaves
gdos
gdos2023
Quakers
transcribe
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/702d6488b1b54b845ed13ee09abdaebb.jpg
2b2ed64c1a7420724101aec0479dd6c0
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/309aed17d3c806123ec9833715bdc02d.jpg
4fd1ccf57c82bbce4b6c8b20488489be
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
text_
A transcribable resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/3563/#transcription">This letter is being transcribed, please choose another</a>
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, 186-.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
186-
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1275
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Scripto
Transcription
A written representation of a document.
PR
Family
Freed Slaves
gdos
gdos2023
Medicine
Quakers
transcribe
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9bbb62ab0c9e03590a62613286e379d3.jpg
f77b4418f51e16eff7b3fa80a25f67be
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/57f861d572ff12201b4e9ac2bc5277e9.jpg
5126b55c7e91a4684abfef1c38b3e737
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p> 2<sup>nd</sup> mo 8<sup>th</sup> 3 oclock</p>
<p> I have just got home from</p>
<p>New York I went down day before</p>
<p>yesterday in the afternoon to here [sic] Carl</p>
<p>Shurz at Brooklyn I like him very</p>
<p>much he advocated the equality of</p>
<p>all before the law and to the b^a^llot</p>
<p>said he thought the President made</p>
<p>a great mistake in taking the rebels</p>
<p>back and keeping the coulerd [sic] people</p>
<p>who were universially [sic] loyal out</p>
<p>that the President spoke truly when</p>
<p>he said the Southern people done</p>
<p>as well as he expected, for he to [sic]</p>
<p>could say the same, and what could</p>
<p>be expected of people who had</p>
<p>risked all <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">who</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">had</span> for the support</p>
<p>slavery, and to have the rule of the</p>
<p>government, and had lost both rule</p>
<p>and Slavery, and had forfieted [sic] all</p>
<p>right not only to slavery but life also</p>
<p>that if the President had only said</p>
<p>that as a condition of pardon the</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 2)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>black man must have equal rights</p>
<p>in all respects, they would have</p>
<p>gladly excepted [sic] it. that the President</p>
<p>sent him through the Southern States</p>
<p>he had made his report and he had</p>
<p>not one word to take back, that he</p>
<p>expected the committee of 15 would</p>
<p>make a repote [sic] much more startling</p>
<p>than his, he still hope [sic] that Congress</p>
<p>would maintain their position</p>
<p>I yesterday attended New York Monthly</p>
<p>Meeting they had much business among</p>
<p>the rest Silas T Robbins for marrying a</p>
<p>member contrary to our order and being</p>
<p>drafted and procuring a substitute</p>
<p>and nearly neglecting the attendance of</p>
<p>meetings I said to one friend that I</p>
<p>thought it a little inconsistent to</p>
<p>bring his case of hireing [sic] a substitute</p>
<p>when they all were paying taxes for</p>
<p>the very purpose of hireing substitutes</p>
<p>so that others would not be drafted I</p>
<p>have heard that Silas aske [sic] one of the</p>
<p>overerseers [sic]whiter it was any worst to</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 3)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>hire a man to go, than to pay the 300 $</p>
<p>which the law then required after being</p>
<p>drafted, which a son of the Overseer did</p>
<p>and which has not yet been noticed and</p>
<p>proberly [sic] never will they also 4 other</p>
<p>cases of serving in the war</p>
<p>Two months ago the monthly meeting of</p>
<p>New York got up a concern to see if they</p>
<p>could not do something to get <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">up</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">a</span> the</p>
<p>young folks to attend meeting and feel</p>
<p>an interest in society which resulted</p>
<p>in calling a conferrence [sic] of friends</p>
<p>generally both young and old to have</p>
<p>a free enterchange [sic] of views They had</p>
<p>one meeting and adjourned to meet</p>
<p>last evening again I felt so much interest</p>
<p>I staid to attend it Samuel Willets was</p>
<p>appointed chairman at the first meeting</p>
<p>after Thomas Folk was rejected he acted</p>
<p>again last evening after the meeting</p>
<p>was opened Effringham Cock introduce</p>
<p>the business by offering to the meeting</p>
<p>some resolutions the first that plain</p>
<p>-ness does not require a particular form but</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 4)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>simplisity [sic] which after much being</p>
<p>said resulted by a large majority in</p>
<p>favour of the view, the next the names</p>
<p>of days and months which also had a</p>
<p>large majority in favour of a change</p>
<p>Then came the music question which</p>
<p>called out much expression when</p>
<p>the meeting adjourned for 2 weeks</p>
<p>without coming to a dissition [sic] the</p>
<p>resetutions [sic] were worded very different</p>
<p>from what I have given the above</p>
<p>is only the substance the first meeting</p>
<p>nearly full up stairs [sic] as well as down last evening</p>
<p>quit [sic] a snow storm yet the house nearly full</p>
<p>down stairs [sic] Rosoland Johnson and Aar^o^n Powell</p>
<p>were their [sic] and took an active part Aaron read</p>
<p>a resolution proposeing [sic] to ask the monthly</p>
<p>to take steps to have the disipline [sic] so change</p>
<p>as to do away with the select meeting which</p>
<p>was not reached as the other took all the</p>
<p>time wether it will be entertained next time</p>
<p>is somewhat uncertain yet I think if they</p>
<p>do not allow the largest liberty now they</p>
<p>have begun it will do no good but rather</p>
<p>hurt From what appeared in the meeting</p>
<p>some were for stoping [sic] the thing last</p>
<p>night but a very large majority were disposed</p>
<p>to to [sic]meet again I heard of some advising other</p>
<p>freinds [sic]to stay away. I suppose many of the con</p>
<p>-ceritive [sic] friends will feel as though all was lost</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[Text aligned upside along top margin of Page 3 continuing over to Page 2]<br /><br />Just say to Jacob that I don’t know but his letter is lost it stood on the mantle for weeks waiting to send it or hear from him about it it was taken off by some one [sic] and whither it has got I cannot <br /><br />[Text aligned vertically along right margin of Page 2]<br /><br />tell we are thinking it may turn up somewhere but have not-the least idea where</p>
<p><br />[Text aligned horizontally along bottom margin of Page 2]<br /><br />it is if found will send I am sorry for our carelessness.</p>
<br /><p> </p>
<p>Carl Shurz (1829-1906) German born; came to US in 1852; abolitionist; served in Civil War as general; at the request of President Andrew Johnson, Shurz toured the Southern States in the summer of 1865; his report was critical of Johnson’s reconstruction policies which were adversely effecting blacks and those who had stayed loyal to the Union.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Andrew Johnson (1808-1875) was elected as Abraham Lincoln’s Vice President in the election of 1864. He became President when Lincoln was assassinated in 1865. A native of Tennessee he was eventually impeached by radical Republican members of Congress who disagreed with his reconstruction policies regarding the civil and political rights of former black slaves and the repatriation of Confederate insurgents. </p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p>Monthly Meeting is the basic unit of Quaker administration, which holds regular monthly business meetings. Only Quakers could participate. It has responsibility for care of members, authorizes removals and marriages, maintains discipline, considers the queries, manages meeting property, fosters social concerns, and reports regularly to the quarterly meeting. Business meetings in theory are held in a spirit of worship, and so are in effect meetings for worship for conducting business.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.swarthmore.edu/academics/friends-historical-library/quaker-meeting-records/glossary.xml">http://www.swarthmore.edu/academics/friends-historical-library/quaker-meeting-records/glossary.xml</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>After 1828, at the time of the Hicksite Separation, there were two New York Monthly Meetings: the Orthodox met at Rutgers Medical College and later on Henry Street, and the Hicksites retained the Rose Street and Hester Street Meeting Houses.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Civil War substitutes</p>
<p>In 1863, the government federalized the draft process, and while not allowing specific exemptions for religious beliefs, the government created a $300.00 commutation fee in lieu of service. However, many Meetings considered the payment of this fee by its members tantamount to nonobservance of the testimony against military service; therefore, no legal means existed for drafted Quakers to avoid violating the peace testimony in most Meetings.</p>
<p>Because of their beliefs, individual Quakers struggled with their consciences in ways not fully understood by others. of the peace testimony to some Quakers, people not accustomed to pocketing scruples. Others found ways in their hearts to make peace with their decision to make war.</p>
<p><a href="http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/his480/reports/civilwar.htm">http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/his480/reports/civilwar.htm</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>On February 24, 1864, the following exemption clause was included as an amendatory to the Enrollment Act:</p>
<p>Members of religious denominations who shall by oath or affirmation declare that they are conscientiously opposed to the bearing of arms, and who are prohibited from doing so by the rules and articles of faith and practice of said religious denominations, shall, when drafted into the military service, be considered non-combatants, and shall be assigned by the Secretary of War to duty in the hospitals, or to the care of freedman, or shall pay the sum of $300 to such person as the Secretary of War shall designate…to be applied to the benefit of sick and wounded soldiers.</p>
<p>http://castle.eiu.edu/historia/archives/2011/2011Carnahan.pdf</p>
<p>SCHURZ, KARL</p>
<p>JOHNSON, ANDREW</p>
<p>CIVIL WAR</p>
<p>RECONSTRUCTION</p>
<p>QUAKER MONTHLY MEETING</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, 186-?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
186-?
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1271
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Civil War
Education
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/66ae7c78eeacddb21435b97cd1286d30.jpg
4f426fa06039a4a9d24f2a08c241a1c6
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/bd73665cdf7dc0b54e4aa9395d7bca2c.jpg
46035d745589f48ff45b3c99fab8f3d9
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, 186-.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
186-
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1270
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Abolitionism
Agriculture
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/e1ec5eb81348599250ad5d35a2e1847e.jpg
ec11e1eca28acb5cffda7c46cf8ccc92
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/dbbf2e5166ff8a13f8c08928d2a76339.jpg
035acfcdd76879e5aef50a9c2864fe32
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/477dcc1f3729f08f3e596ae2cda5eb94.jpg
1cdf56c43af6203f9ec169629e1d3a84
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d05e8979a32f4ce887c4563522110808.jpg
53f3940f7b64a06bff2b69a4c803a3a3
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/4fb5b44e2c804b0dd1be863787d991bf.xml
9258bc49dc6f483b3bce9e1722b5a33c
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p><br /> 2<sup>nd</sup> mo 8<sup>th</sup> 3 oclock<br /><br /> I have just got home from <br /> New York I went down day before<br /> yesterday in the afternoon to here [sic] Carl<br /> Shurz[sic] at Brooklyn I like him very<br /> much he advocated the equality of<br /> all before the law and to the b^a^llot<br /> said he thought the President made<br /> a great mistake in takeing [sic] the rebels<br /> back and keeping the coulerd [sic] people<br /> who were universially [sic] loyal out<br /> that the President spoke truly when<br /> he said the Southern people done<br /> as well as he expected, for he to [sic]<br /> could say the same, and what could<br /> be expected of people who had<br /> risked all <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">who</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">had</span> for the support<br /> slavery, and to have the rule of the<br /> government, and had lost both rule<br /> and Slavery, and had forfieted [sic] all<br /> right not only to slavery but life also<br /> that if the President had only said<br /> that as a condition of pardon the<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> black man must have equal rights<br /> in all respects, they would have<br /> gladly excepted[sic] it. that the President<br /> sent him through the Suthern [sic] States<br /> he had made his report and he had<br /> not one work to take back, that he<br /> expected the committee of 15 would<br /> make a repote [sic] much more startling<br /> than his, he still hopes that Congress<br /> would maintain their position<br /> I yesterday attended New York Monthly<br /> Meeting they had much buisness [sic]among<br /> the rest Silas T Robbins for marrying a<br /> member contrary to our order and being<br /> drafted and procuring a substitute<br /> and nearly neglecting the attendance of<br /> meetings I said to one friend that I<br /> thought it a little inconsistent to <br /> bring his case of hireing [sic] a substitute<br /> when they all were paying taxes for<br /> the very purpose of hireing [sic] substitutes<br /> so that others would not be drafted I<br /> have heard that Silas aske [sic] one of the<br /> overerseers [sic]whither [sic] it was any worst[sic] to <br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> hire a man to go, than to pay the 300 $ <br /> which the law then required after being<br /> drafted, which a son of the Overseer did<br /> and which has not yet been noticed and<br /> proberly [sic] never will they also 4 other<br /> cases of serveing [sic] in the war<br /> Two months ago the monthly meeting of<br /> New York got up a concern to see if they<br /> could not do something to get <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">up</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">a</span> the<br /> young folks to attend meeting and feel<br /> an interest in society which resulted<br /> in calling a conferrence [sic] of friends<br /> generally both young and old to have<br /> a free enterchange [sic]of views They had<br /> one meeting and adjourned to meet<br /> last evening again I felt so much interest<br /> I staid [sic] to attend it Samuel Willets was<br /> appointed chairman at the first meeting<br /> after Thomas Folk was rejected he acted<br /> again last evening after the meeting<br /> was opened Effringham Cock introduce [sic]<br /> the buisness [sic] by offering to the meeting<br /> some resolutions the first that plain<br /> =ness does not require a particular form but<br /><br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> simplisity [sic] which after much being<br /> said resulted by a large majority in<br /> favour of the view, the next the names<br /> of days and months which also had a<br /> large majority in favour of a change<br /> Then came the music question which<br /> called out much expression when<br /> the meeting adjourned for 2 weeks<br /> without coming to a dissition [sic] the<br /> reselutions [sic] were worded very different<br /> from what I have given The above<br /> is only the substance. the first meeting<br /> nearly full up stairs as well as down last evening<br /> quit [sic] a snow storm yet the house nearly full<br /> down stairs Rosoland Johnson and Aaron [Powell?]<br /> were their [sic] and took an active part Aaron read<br /> a resolution proposeing [sic] to ask the monthly<br /> to take steps to have the disipline [sic] so change<br /> as to do away with the select meeting which<br /> was not reached as the other took all the<br /> time wether [sic] it will be entertained next time<br /> is somewhat uncertain yet I think if they<br /> do not allow the largest liberty now they<br /> have begun it will do no good but rather<br /> hurt From what appeared in the meeting <br /> some were for stoping [sic] the thing last<br /> night but a very large majority were disposed<br /> to to [sic]meet again I heard of some advising other<br /> freinds [sic]to stay away. I suppose many of the cons<br /> =ceritive [sic] friends will feel as though all was lost<br /><br /> [Added comment around periphery of pp. 2 and 3. Starts upside down across top 3 & 2, then sidewise down left edge of 2, then right side up bottom page 2]<br /><br /> Just say to Jacob that I don’t know but his letter is lost it stood on the mantle for weeks waiting to send it or hear from him about it it was taken off by some one and whither it has got I cannot tell we are thinking it may turn up somewhere but have not the least idea where it is if found will send I am sorry for our carelessness .<br /><br /><br /><br /></p>
Annotations
Carl Shurz (1829-1906) German born; came to US in 1852; abolitionist; served in Civil War as general; at the request of President Andrew Johnson, Shurz toured the Southern States in the summer of 1865; his report was critical of Johnson’s reconstruction policies which were adversely affecting blacks and those who had stayed loyal to the Union.<br /><br />Andrew Johnson (1808-1875) was elected as Abraham Lincoln’s Vice President in the election of 1864. He became President when Lincoln was assassinated in 1865. A native of Tennessee he was eventually impeached by radical Republican members of Congress who disagreed with his reconstruction policies regarding the civil and political rights of former black slaves and the repatriation of Confederate insurgents. <br /><strong><br /></strong>Monthly Meeting is the basic unit of Quaker administration, which holds regular monthly business meetings. Only Quakers could participate. It has responsibility for care of members, authorizes removals and marriages, maintains discipline, considers the queries, manages meeting property, fosters social concerns, and reports regularly to the quarterly meeting. Business meetings in theory are held in a spirit of worship, and so are in effect meetings for worship for conducting business. <br /><a href="http://www.swarthmore.edu/academics/friends-historical-library/quaker-meeting-records/glossary.xml">http://www.swarthmore.edu/academics/friends-historical-library/quaker-meeting-records/glossary.xml</a><br /><br />After 1828, at the time of the Hicksite Separation, there were two New York Monthly Meetings: the Orthodox met at Rutgers Medical College and later on Henry Street, and the Hicksites retained the Rose Street and Hester Street Meeting Houses.<br /><br />Civil War substitutes<br />In 1863, the government federalized the draft process, and while not allowing specific exemptions for religious beliefs, the government created a $300.00 commutation fee in lieu of service. However, many Meetings considered the payment of this fee by its members tantamount to nonobservance of the testimony against military service; therefore, no legal means existed for drafted Quakers to avoid violating the peace testimony in most Meetings. <br />Because of their beliefs, individual Quakers struggled with their consciences in ways not fully understood by others. of the peace testimony to some Quakers, people not accustomed to pocketing scruples. Others found ways in their hearts to make peace with their decision to make war. <br /><a href="http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/his480/reports/civilwar.htm">http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/his480/reports/civilwar.htm</a> <br /><br />On February 24, 1864, the following exemption clause was included as an amendatory to the Enrollment Act: <br />Members of religious denominations who shall by oath or affirmation declare that they are conscientiously opposed to the bearing of arms, and who are prohibited from doing so by the rules and articles of faith and practice of said religious denominations, shall, when drafted into the military service, be considered non-combatants, and shall be assigned by the Secretary of War to duty in the hospitals, or to the care of freedman, or shall pay the sum of $300 to such person as the Secretary of War shall designate…to be applied to the benefit of sick and wounded soldiers.<br />http://castle.eiu.edu/historia/archives/2011/2011Carnahan.pdf<br /><br />Key words:<br />SHURZ, KARL<br />JOHNSON, ANDREW<br />CIVIL WAR<br />RECONSTRUCTION<br />QUAKER MONTHLY MEETING
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, 186-.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
186-
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1268
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. 2nd mo 8th 3 oclock I have just got home from New York I went down day before yesterday in the afternoon to here [sic] Carl Shurz[sic] at Brooklyn I like him very much he advocated the equality of all before the law and to the b^a^llot said he thought the President made a great mistake in takeing [sic] the rebels back and keeping the coulerd [sic] people who were universially [sic] loyal out that the President spoke truly when he said the Southern people done as well as he expected, for he to [sic] could say the same, and what could be expected of people who had risked all whohad for the support slavery, and to have the rule of the government, and had lost both rule and Slavery, and had forfieted [sic] all right not only to slavery but life also that if the President had only said that as a condition of pardon the black man must have equal rights in all respects, they would have gladly excepted[sic] it. that the President sent him through the Suthern [sic] States he had made his report and he had not one work to take back, that he expected the committee of 15 would make a repote [sic] much more startling than his, he still hopes that Congress would maintain their position I yesterday attended New York Monthly Meeting they had much buisness [sic]among the rest Silas T Robbins for marrying a member contrary to our order and being drafted and procuring a substitute and nearly neglecting the attendance of meetings I said to one friend that I thought it a little inconsistent to bring his case of hireing [sic] a substitute when they all were paying taxes for the very purpose of hireing [sic] substitutes so that others would not be drafted I have heard that Silas aske [sic] one of the overerseers [sic]whither [sic] it was any worst[sic] to hire a man to go, than to pay the 300 $ which the law then required after being drafted, which a son of the Overseer did and which has not yet been noticed and proberly [sic] never will they also 4 other cases of serveing [sic] in the war Two months ago the monthly meeting of New York got up a concern to see if they could not do something to get upa the young folks to attend meeting and feel an interest in society which resulted in calling a conferrence [sic] of friends generally both young and old to have a free enterchange [sic]of views They had one meeting and adjourned to meet last evening again I felt so much interest I staid [sic] to attend it Samuel Willets was appointed chairman at the first meeting after Thomas Folk was rejected he acted again last evening after the meeting was opened Effringham Cock introduce [sic] the buisness [sic] by offering to the meeting some resolutions the first that plain =ness does not require a particular form but simplisity [sic] which after much being said resulted by a large majority in favour of the view, the next the names of days and months which also had a large majority in favour of a change Then came the music question which called out much expression when the meeting adjourned for 2 weeks without coming to a dissition [sic] the reselutions [sic] were worded very different from what I have given The above is only the substance. the first meeting nearly full up stairs as well as down last evening quit [sic] a snow storm yet the house nearly full down stairs Rosoland Johnson and Aaron [Powell?] were their [sic] and took an active part Aaron read a resolution proposeing [sic] to ask the monthly to take steps to have the disipline [sic] so change as to do away with the select meeting which was not reached as the other took all the time wether [sic] it will be entertained next time is somewhat uncertain yet I think if they do not allow the largest liberty now they have begun it will do no good but rather hurt From what appeared in the meeting some were for stoping [sic] the thing last night but a very large majority were disposed to to [sic]meet again I heard of some advising other freinds [sic]to stay away. I suppose many of the cons =ceritive [sic] friends will feel as though all was lost [Added comment around periphery of pp. 2 and 3. Starts upside down across top 3 & 2, then sidewise down left edge of 2, then right side up bottom page 2] Just say to Jacob that I don't know but his letter is lost it stood on the mantle for weeks waiting to send it or hear from him about it it was taken off by some one and whither it has got I cannot tell we are thinking it may turn up somewhere but have not the least idea where it is if found will send I am sorry for our carelessness .
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f5913cc1c13a1d528ba976e2d7556fe3.jpg
d8582e04d99ba4bb9b6a5ab315b86018
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/e3ebf79c6a05409d364d5c638b4bebd9.jpg
035f4a152947d3803b193dd299f155fd
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, 186-.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
186-
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1267
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Abolitionism
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/e60775118a8215795f48ee5b12f19de3.jpg
a53e03be344fbaa06e8b5eac4e106714
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/09c75f898f825b776ee7633b5b1fbb5d.jpg
680b85ef58be84177d00db691b188b42
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/403b1dad2571968472ff1fcb395b2b8c.jpg
9c45ec3a2fad3de7da78c9951d5a6145
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d66a2829efbf87ae074012c92c378fb9.jpg
0df584a4973e472a2d67b59b13a3890b
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Willis, Mary W Kirby. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary W Kirby Willis to Amy Kirby Post, January 24, 1859.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Willis, Mary W Kirby
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1859-01-24
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1224
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Domestic Servants
Education
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/615c2a8c5402a382bf604c8f889d47c0.jpg
7b490677685b16ab97987a88b66089ad
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/67562e16d7ebb387242177f3355c2719.jpg
e5cc95c0c136d33f8d28a56ea9ebc567
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d6cdc8ded0d3e2e5be2ad4d6508408ed.jpg
3f03f81e44f93d4e690bc5b0d3c3c4bd
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1376327a01a8ada82541261ba379df15.jpg
7d6e8950a130cbcdb7d87711d834415b
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Willis, Mary W Kirby. Letter to Sarah L Kirby Hallowell Willis.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary W Kirby Willis to Sarah L Kirby Hallowell Willis, January 23, 1859.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Willis, Mary W Kirby
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1859-01-23
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Sarah L Kirby Hallowell Willis
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1223
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Domestic Servants
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/af485640bcbdfd15ee278a33e6637847.jpg
a888922616155e8466098560b638f8ed
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/dac48f026db1c4ca22bb7acea2b715ae.jpg
9d63a0e05487cc35fde5611b6bb661b0
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/58cf197ef6886c9c84c7e03b524ba33b.jpg
38ff5cf6e63764d7d3494abb1f3524f2
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1c04341935dd880278731129470e8b07.jpg
478f078094cd4063b5bc890070c11e46
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/6e98f7301f16531e833dd1fe107abbac.xml
ad47e77366bf7a5cb003c95f578418b7
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> 1856<br /> Kings Ferry aug.<br /> My dear Friends<br /> I have wish'd many times to commune<br />with you _ since I met thee at Waterloo but I have<br />not taken the pen to express my wish for many<br />reasons _ the principle [sic] one was that I could<br />not expect a response nor do I now claim such<br />a favour but as Charlote [H?]. is here I will send a<br />note by her _ just to let you ^know^ my much lov'd<br />and Honour'd Friends how I long to see and<br />converse with you _ as we did the last ever-<br />to-be-remembered _ evening at M Schooley at<br />Y M time _ oh how I did drink in the food of<br />"life"_ then and there shall I ever (t<span style="text-decoration:underline;">his side the </span><br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">grave</span>) find myself in such precious society - We<br />have enjoyd [sic] the "Magic Staff" and I have re-read<br />it to Phebe since we have been here with our Isaac<br />and C.S. Jacobs _ for two month, ^Phebe^ shall soon return to<br />Auburn I expect to remain here and if if L Mott has<br />any payment from the Duchman [sic] he will please<br />Direct to Isaac Jacobs [illegible] Kings Ferry for<br />me Sarah E. Thayer<br /><br />(Page 2)<br /><br />I have made many enquiries of Charlotte<br />respecting our Rochester friends and it has<br />been pleasant to hear from you I have just<br />reciv'd [sic] a long letter from our children in Kan<br />sas _ they continue to suffer from the effects<br />of the climate they are not free from sick-<br />ness two weeks at a time I do hope they<br />will leave this fall and return to a <br />more congenial clime I have been <br />since Phebe has so far recover'd as to be<br />comparatively comfortable and my own health<br />p<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ret</span>ty p<span style="text-decoration:underline;">atient</span> as to the [stray?] ones _ especially<br />as I have been inform'd from time to time<br />that Isaac would spare Abby to return if she<br />would have consented to leave him there to make<br />his experiments, alone but she has resolutely decided<br />to stay untill [sic] he was ready to leave which looks<br />more favorably now as his own health seems so<br />frail that he concluds [sic] to leave if he can make<br />his arrangments [sic] we shall indeed rejoice to see <br />them again tho we have but a <span style="text-decoration:underline;">morsel</span> to <br />divide with them still her husband is a good<br />one and Abbie is very dutiful and I trust<br /><br />(Page 3)<br /><br />her lessons will not be lost on her _ her little<br /> Ella suffer too all the time or mostly<br />she is fond of her books and is a small child<br />but health is not her companion _<br /> I have been enjoying some oppertunities [sic] of<br />sitting in circles _ we have a good trance<br />speaker and a superir [sic] Clairvoyant at 5 com[ing?]<br />Rheuben & Hannah Halsted are quite happy<br />in their belief of the "new Science" and have<br />left the society of Friends _ also Amos & Elisabeth<br />Giles _ Amos is not quite <span style="text-decoration:underline;">clea</span>r yet for some reas<br />=ons _but I think we might get up a Free Religious<br />m[g?] heraway [sic] _ this fall H Collins seems san=<br />guine _ and is taking some of the inetiatary [sic]<br />steps therfore [sic] _ Steven Young ^& Phebe^ have returned from<br />Mich. to spend the winter and there are<br />many thro' out "old Scipio" who would be<br />glad of a mee[<sup>tg</sup>?] but we are not sure<br />of obtaining a house <span style="text-decoration:underline;">the</span>y will apply for<br />the Oldest Friends M House in town and I<br />hope they will try all the 5. if it is only<br />to test the fairness of the old and new<br />Organisations _ the Wilbourites have asked and<br />obtained two of the old ones to hold fast<br /><br />(Page 4)<br /><br />their "new old" doctrines and have held<br />two such m<sup>g</sup> Rufus Winslow was buried<br />a week or two since _ and Sarah Mosker too<br />Bro W<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>m</sup></span> Greene is about purchasing at<br />Spring Post and George Dunlap too is<br />wishing to go there to retire from the<br />anxieties of the world and the office of<br />Overseer which is too onerous for his c<span style="text-decoration:underline;">omfort </span><br />Where is Jackson and Mary? _ if they are not<br />too f<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ul</span>l already give them a heart full<br />of my <span style="text-decoration:underline;">love</span> and accept a share for<br />your selves _ for the heart can be full<br />and overflow all the time if my cousin<br />[I?] E R has not forgotten us say Phebe is im<br />proving in health and being much more<br />free from pain than for a series of years<br />she can enjoy her friends company and hope<br />we shall be favourd [sic] with yours sometime<br />we have a horse and Buggy _ to use and have <br />been riding for her health almost daily for 2 moths<br />and did intend to visit Macedon but I dont<br />feel quite capable of the task _ I drive round<br />here some but the task seems to [sic] much in the <br />event of accident &c &c she has improved [sic] from<br />the healthy exercise &c<br /> yours fraternally Sarah E Thayer
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Thayer, Sarah E. Letter to Amy Kirby Post. (1858-08)
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Sarah E Thayer to Amy Kirby Post, August , 1858.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Thayer, Sarah E
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1858-08
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1213
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. 1856 Kings Ferry aug. My dear Friends I have wish'd many times to commune with you _ since I met thee at Waterloo but I have not taken the pen to express my wish for many reasons _ the principle [sic] one was that I could not expect a response nor do I now claim such a favour but as Charlote [H?]. is here I will send a note by her _ just to let you ^know^ my much lov'd and Honour'd Friends how I long to see and converse with you _ as we did the last ever- to-be-remembered _ evening at M Schooley at Y M time _ oh how I did drink in the food of "life"_ then and there shall I ever (this side the grave) find myself in such precious society - We have enjoyd [sic] the "Magic Staff" and I have re-read it to Phebe since we have been here with our Isaac and C.S. Jacobs _ for two month, ^Phebe^ shall soon return to Auburn I expect to remain here and if if L Mott has any payment from the Duchman [sic] he will please Direct to Isaac Jacobs [illegible] Kings Ferry for me Sarah E. Thayer I have made many enquiries of Charlotte respecting our Rochester friends and it has been pleasant to hear from you I have just reciv'd [sic] a long letter from our children in Kan sas _ they continue to suffer from the effects of the climate they are not free from sick- ness two weeks at a time I do hope they will leave this fall and return to a more congenial clime I have been since Phebe has so far recover'd as to be comparatively comfortable and my own health pretty patient as to the [stray?] ones _ especially as I have been inform'd from time to time that Isaac would spare Abby to return if she would have consented to leave him there to make his experiments, alone but she has resolutely decided to stay untill [sic] he was ready to leave which looks more favorably now as his own health seems so frail that he concluds [sic] to leave if he can make his arrangments [sic] we shall indeed rejoice to see them again tho we have but a morsel to divide with them still her husband is a good one and Abbie is very dutiful and I trust her lessons will not be lost on her _ her little Ella suffer too all the time or mostly she is fond of her books and is a small child but health is not her companion _ I have been enjoying some oppertunities [sic] of sitting in circles _ we have a good trance speaker and a superir [sic] Clairvoyant at 5 com[ing?] Rheuben & Hannah Halsted are quite happy in their belief of the "new Science" and have left the society of Friends _ also Amos & Elisabeth Giles _ Amos is not quite clear yet for some reas =ons _but I think we might get up a Free Religious m[g?] heraway [sic] _ this fall H Collins seems san= guine _ and is taking some of the inetiatary [sic] steps therfore [sic] _ Steven Young ^& Phebe^ have returned from Mich. to spend the winter and there are many thro' out "old Scipio" who would be glad of a mee[tg?] but we are not sure of obtaining a house they will apply for the Oldest Friends M House in town and I hope they will try all the 5. if it is only to test the fairness of the old and new Organisations _ the Wilbourites have asked and obtained two of the old ones to hold fast their "new old" doctrines and have held two such mg Rufus Winslow was buried a week or two since _ and Sarah Mosker too Bro Wm Greene is about purchasing at Spring Post and George Dunlap too is wishing to go there to retire from the anxieties of the world and the office of Overseer which is too onerous for his comfort Where is Jackson and Mary? _ if they are not too full already give them a heart full of my love and accept a share for your selves _ for the heart can be full and overflow all the time if my cousin [I?] E R has not forgotten us say Phebe is im proving in health and being much more free from pain than for a series of years she can enjoy her friends company and hope we shall be favourd [sic] with yours sometime we have a horse and Buggy _ to use and have been riding for her health almost daily for 2 moths and did intend to visit Macedon but I dont feel quite capable of the task _ I drive round here some but the task seems to [sic] much in the event of accident &c &c she has improved [sic] from the healthy exercise &c yours fraternally Sarah E Thayer
Family
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ab3b1103ce4e06a5ab65b4af408ee8e4.jpg
07690436ec8ce43da4e55134a9154a2d
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/96edfebe4a40d8a806660591e22488f2.jpg
14d93709d2641d66e4e5c99dd511e0be
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/6ba5595eb360becf1a6219bda77122f3.jpg
9146514cbec1a4cc051dc62cb2d7e525
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/0fe2b43b27e9ac4a0f5e630d41e8b08b.xml
2c62e894e137e712b71d06c6b2f12ff6
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> Rochester May 4<sup>th</sup> 1858<br /> Dear Mother <br /> Nothing to write about that <br /> will interest thee much only perhapse [sic] it would<br /> be a source of gratifycation [sic] to hear from home<br /> Our folks are nearly through cleaning house<br /> would have finished seveth [sic] day but all felt tired<br /> and thought they would put it off till after washing<br /> day and they are now busy at the cellar and kitch<br /> en suppose that they will finish to day<br /> Old Mr Danforth Lucy Colemans father was in <br /> this morning saying that Mr Foss had come<br /> and asked Father to come over the Old man felt<br /> so rejoiced that he did not work to day<br /> Eunice Doty was in town and stayed three days Sarah<br /> Burney sayes [sic] that she always come when we clean house <br /> she urged taking Willey home withe [sic] her and Willet al-<br /> ways likes to go Jennie said that she was willing <br /> as we have two babies no with out [sic] him cannot say <br /> how long they will keep him<br /> George and [Ambia?] have come to Otises to stay awhile<br /> George expects to go in to Canada on a collecting expedition<br /> soon would have went yesterday but had somthing [sic] like<br /> unto the ague the night before have not seen him <br /> to day <br /> Joseph has not forgotten to white wash yet guess that <br /> he can beat some that put Professor to their names<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> Father talks more like going down on the Island<br /> to day [sic] than any day before can’t say what has<br /> made him alter his opinion perhapse [sic] reading in thy<br /> letter that the Long Island relative wer [sic] looking <br /> for him and would be glad to see him<br /> George Hawkins came in a day or two<br /> a go he stood still to see if we would know<br /> him I knew his horse voise [sic] before I say the man<br /> dont think that he is changed for the worse<br /> but very little he seemed surprised to see<br /> that Father knew him I did not hear him<br /> say much about California suppose that he has <br /> enough to live on and ^not^ work very hard<br /> Elias and Susan Ann are going to attend<br /> the yearly meeting in New York City and<br /> Susan Ann whispered to Edmund that Elias would<br /> set in Business meetings so do not speak of <br /> it aloud or they might be asking Elias to just<br /> step out we wer [sic] down their [sic]first day they<br /> must have considerable confidence in young<br /> Susan to be willing to leave the house suppose<br /> that they would not if they could only take the<br /> house and goods along Elias must have <br /> forgotten himself when he lately bought a pup-<br /> py and have four dollars for him<br /> What a relief we hardly ever see a Burtis<br /> now Bob is in Le Roy Warren in Troy the rest<br /> too busy to set around in the store<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> Suppose that the [sic] has heard of Aldridge <br /> Colvins death at Utica short illness<br /> I believe Funeral at Fitzhugh street<br /> meeting house<br /> There is a flying report that that sweet<br /> cousin of Old Dan Tuckers the Doctor<br /> that married Mary Wright at our house has<br /> ran away from her saying that he can not <br /> support such an extravagant woman this must<br /> be quite refreshing to Mary who had all the mon<br /> ey and most all the energy however I do not<br /> believe it shall waite [sic] to hear more particulars<br /> We received several days ago a letter from William Wight<br /> sayes [sic] that he has plenty of elbow room the nearest <br /> tree being only four miles off and the next house <br /> about the same distance he lives just in sight<br /> of some timbered land and houses sayes [sic] that they <br /> have plenty of wind can see six miles in two or <br /> three different ways<br /> May 5 All well slight shower last night <br /> This week we do not have to work quite as hard<br /> as we did the most of last we seem to get <br /> almost as much money though do not have<br /> have [sic] any large bills to put up<br /> Tell Uncle Isaac Rushmore that we do not<br /> take in quite as much money as we did the<br /> time that he asked me all about the business <br /> Affectionatly [sic] Thy Son JKPost<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> [Page 4 written by Isaac Post to Amy Kirby Post and transcribed as 1205_05_04_1858]<br />
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Jacob Kirby. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Jacob Kirby Post to Amy Kirby Post, May 4, 1858.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Jacob Kirby
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1858-05-04
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1204
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Rochester May 4th 1858 Dear Mother Nothing to write about that will interest thee much only perhapse [sic] it would be a source of gratifycation [sic] to hear from home Our folks are nearly through cleaning house would have finished seveth [sic] day but all felt tired and thought they would put it off till after washing day and they are now busy at the cellar and kitch en suppose that they will finish to day Old Mr Danforth Lucy Colemans father was in this morning saying that Mr Foss had come and asked Father to come over the Old man felt so rejoiced that he did not work to day Eunice Doty was in town and stayed three days Sarah Burney sayes [sic] that she always come when we clean house she urged taking Willey home withe [sic] her and Willet al- ways likes to go Jennie said that she was willing as we have two babies no with out [sic] him cannot say how long they will keep him George and [Ambia?] have come to Otises to stay awhile George expects to go in to Canada on a collecting expedition soon would have went yesterday but had somthing [sic] like unto the ague the night before have not seen him to day Joseph has not forgotten to white wash yet guess that he can beat some that put Professor to their names Father talks more like going down on the Island to day [sic] than any day before can't say what has made him alter his opinion perhapse [sic] reading in thy letter that the Long Island relative wer [sic] looking for him and would be glad to see him George Hawkins came in a day or two a go he stood still to see if we would know him I knew his horse voise [sic] before I say the man dont think that he is changed for the worse but very little he seemed surprised to see that Father knew him I did not hear him say much about California suppose that he has enough to live on and ^not^ work very hard Elias and Susan Ann are going to attend the yearly meeting in New York City and Susan Ann whispered to Edmund that Elias would set in Business meetings so do not speak of it aloud or they might be asking Elias to just step out we wer [sic] down their [sic]first day they must have considerable confidence in young Susan to be willing to leave the house suppose that they would not if they could only take the house and goods along Elias must have forgotten himself when he lately bought a pup- py and have four dollars for him What a relief we hardly ever see a Burtis now Bob is in Le Roy Warren in Troy the rest too busy to set around in the store Suppose that the [sic] has heard of Aldridge Colvins death at Utica short illness I believe Funeral at Fitzhugh street meeting house There is a flying report that that sweet cousin of Old Dan Tuckers the Doctor that married Mary Wright at our house has ran away from her saying that he can not support such an extravagant woman this must be quite refreshing to Mary who had all the mon ey and most all the energy however I do not believe it shall waite [sic] to hear more particulars We received several days ago a letter from William Wight sayes [sic] that he has plenty of elbow room the nearest tree being only four miles off and the next house about the same distance he lives just in sight of some timbered land and houses sayes [sic] that they have plenty of wind can see six miles in two or three different ways May 5 All well slight shower last night This week we do not have to work quite as hard as we did the most of last we seem to get almost as much money though do not have have [sic] any large bills to put up Tell Uncle Isaac Rushmore that we do not take in quite as much money as we did the time that he asked me all about the business Affectionatly [sic] Thy Son JKPost [Page 4 written by Isaac Post to Amy Kirby Post and transcribed as 1205_05_04_1858]
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/6bf8442febdb12efaf69f976725e1d6f.jpg
9b8e71e3b480dc1c9171625cdf5701bb
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/3cd698356090c9e60aac5c5f0bf78aef.jpg
83885757bb6a02281dfd31bc0a41da13
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f4b03c7b34dd61894a00dcce8cfc479e.jpg
9f20c4e4e318323af6d02789e918e598
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/8db9a18e17b1eefa3c449090d608c84e.jpg
a7af738afb695af0d10dfef8205b6f0e
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, March 1, 1858.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1858-03-01
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1198
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Agriculture
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1cd5a219d3cda36f7b1eb88716a7c7ae.jpg
7cec4ce2691964bc096adc1cf81324fe
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ad08eefe88a6f44d25dd79b541fc81c7.jpg
6ad6e00675a4a5163d281d56cf22eb8f
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/e5a132619c43c9005aba0ab5367e991a.jpg
46f047c51af86ae21dfa9640dcc1bf91
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/69eda497f445721ad190ac994fc01654.jpg
11550bfc9c61ebbd2b45d366bf5d8e3b
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Potter, Nathaniel Jr. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Nathaniel Jr Potter to Isaac Post, November 18, 1857.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Potter, Nathaniel Jr
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1857-11-18
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1190
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/01c20f37fec1dc6ababbdc18e311bf2f.jpg
4fe8e58cc8ddfd7efe8178a3c1871622
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/06e3e44a4be6500abff777b23b7fe078.xml
462e86b3cfcd1554e6b2b5994489dc90
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> Westbury 10 mo<sup>th</sup> 12<br /><br /> Our Dear brother and sister<br /> It is with feelings of regret that I have<br /> ^defered [sic]^ to this late period any reply to your most welcom [sic] letter received <br /> sometime ago at the time of its reception i thought I would<br /> answer it immediately and thank you for it and solicit a cont<br /> inuance of such favor's _ but hour after hour passed then day's before<br /> I attempted to write I have no <span style="text-decoration:underline;">new</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">excuses</span> to make for this neglect<br /> of duty but a plenty of the kind I have often rendered under simi-<br /> -lar circumstances and as you probably remember some of them<br /> will not repeat them at this time The sketch you gave of<br /> Frederic's [sic] sermon was most interesting to us and gladly would<br /> we be with you at such times to be instructed and encouraged<br /> by such earnest and hopeful workers in the great field of reform<br /> very often do I wish after hearing a long discouce [sic] for a few wo-<br /> =rds of practical truth to stir up the people and I believe if this<br /> was the case there would be some improvement manifest and<br /> not the <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">same</span> lifeless inactivity which <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">has</span> covers<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">ed</span> the society of<br /> Friends as with a mantle _ There ha<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">s</span>ve been <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">a</span> several strangers<br /> visiting and appointing meetings all have been of the conservative<br /> order and that class have received much encouragement<br /> to hold on their way they speak of its being a time of great trial<br /> and proving to the faithful such a disposition to lay waste the<br /> order and running in the will of the creature into things<br /> which are good in themselves but which not being commanded<br /> to engage in are wrong _ and the idea seems to be with<br /> some that all who are the advocates of temperance peace &<br /> have encroached upon our rights somewhat for these testimonys [sic]<br /> were given to friends to bear _ This selfrightious [sic] cant I am <br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> heartily sick of 15<sup>th</sup> Several days have passed and my paper is still<br /> a blank and I have only a short time now to give to it Last third day<br /> we attended the funeral of Phebe Conklin she has been sick a long time at<br /> Henry Titus's and deranged several months _ it seemed to me to be a <br /> happy release to all under these circumstances _ had much preaching <br /> in addition to all their home preachers had Senaca [sic] Hazard and wife from<br /> Vermont and Deborah Hinsdale they all done pretty well cousin Tammy s<br /> was in substance the same we have been accustomed to hear for thirty<br /> years from him Deborah Conklin has felt deeply tried she could not leave<br /> her daughter to go home where she seemed to be needed very much<br /> as her husband has a broken leg and without doubt desired her<br /> presence more than any other It was three months yesterday<br /> since we had the pleasure of meeting Isaac the fact brought many<br /> pleasing reminicences [sic] to mind and six since sister Amy was with us<br /> so agreeably how swiftly time passed by us it seems but a few weeks<br /> altho to look back we realize the space which lies between the past and<br /> present Cynthia has returned was absent five weeks she is a very<br /> pleasant addition to our home circle we love her more and more<br /> how delightful <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">it</span> is this faculty we are endowed with of attaching<br /> our selves to those we are with and making them as one in feeling<br /> and interest sharing each others joy and sorrow altho we all probably <br /> have found some disappointment in friendships formed and which <br /> we fondly thought would last through time still the tendency of our<br /> adhesiveness is to find a friend We attended monthly meeting<br /> yesterday and were greatly supprised [sic] to hear a minute from the<br /> select quarterly to <span style="text-decoration:underline;">ordain</span> frinds [sic] fashion Martha Coles as a minister it<br /> took all by supprise [sic] some of us never had thought of its being at<br /> all worth while to ordain a person for quoting a few scripture<br /> passages it really seems like childrens play _ silly in<br /> the extreme to do so I have no dislike to her but down with<br /><br /> [Page 3)<br /><br /> the select meeting as being the ground of much of the difficulity [sic]<br /> existing We have had a <span style="text-decoration:underline;">ver</span>y <span style="text-decoration:underline;">pleasant</span> v<span style="text-decoration:underline;">isit</span> from James Mott he<br /> thinks it doubtful whether the concervatives [sic] will tolerate Lucretia<br /> much longer says those once her friends begin to be a little shy and <br /> cool toward her _ but it has no effect on her she is <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">as</span> fearless of them<br /> and consequences and boldly advocates reform What a model for<br /> the women of the nineteenth century yet how few are prepared to<br /> receive the truths which she promulgates it is an humiliating view<br /> to take of mankind the reception given to any new idea or truth<br /> but the past experience of reformers has in all ages been what<br /> reformers now experience coldness distrust and persecution<br /> I have admired Frederic's [sic] courage and perseverance in getting up<br /> his own meetings especially at Honeoy [sic] I think it was where he went tho<br /> the streets with his bell Nantucket fashion only he had to be his own<br /> crier for such self sacrifice and labor he will receive an abundant <br /> reward of peace I am glad for you to have a mass convention it<br /> may help on the car at which Frederic [sic] has been tugging sing<br /> =le handed quite a bit and it may slip along easier in the<br /> time to come as to our being with you bodily I have no hope<br /> dearly as I would love to do so but in feeling I can participate<br /> in the movement _ Lucretia expects to be at the Washington Hollow<br /> meeting all success to both Thomas Nelson's family have<br /> sickness again their daughter Ann whose husband died on his way<br /> to California is now sick believe with consumption have not been<br /> to see her yet ) it has been a long time since they have been<br /> favored with health and prosperity very quickly after one is gone<br /> some other is taken sick _ then in a pecuniary line they have<br /> their difficulties which add to their trials _ but I must now<br /> lay this by hope it may go soon Sydney Averill would like to<br /> come back to teaching believe at LI<br /><br /> [Following page written by Joseph Post and transcribed as letter 1186)<br />
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, October 19, 1857?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1857 ?-10-19
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1185
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Westbury 10 moth 12 Our Dear brother and sister It is with feelings of regret that I have ^defered [sic]^ to this late period any reply to your most welcom [sic] letter received sometime ago at the time of its reception i thought I would answer it immediately and thank you for it and solicit a cont inuance of such favor's _ but hour after hour passed then day's before I attempted to write I have no newexcuses to make for this neglect of duty but a plenty of the kind I have often rendered under simi- -lar circumstances and as you probably remember some of them will not repeat them at this time The sketch you gave of Frederic's [sic] sermon was most interesting to us and gladly would we be with you at such times to be instructed and encouraged by such earnest and hopeful workers in the great field of reform very often do I wish after hearing a long discouce [sic] for a few wo- =rds of practical truth to stir up the people and I believe if this was the case there would be some improvement manifest and not the same lifeless inactivity which has coversed the society of Friends as with a mantle _ There hasve been a several strangers visiting and appointing meetings all have been of the conservative order and that class have received much encouragement to hold on their way they speak of its being a time of great trial and proving to the faithful such a disposition to lay waste the order and running in the will of the creature into things which are good in themselves but which not being commanded to engage in are wrong _ and the idea seems to be with some that all who are the advocates of temperance peace & have encroached upon our rights somewhat for these testimonys [sic] were given to friends to bear _ This selfrightious [sic] cant I am heartily sick of 15th Several days have passed and my paper is still a blank and I have only a short time now to give to it Last third day we attended the funeral of Phebe Conklin she has been sick a long time at Henry Titus's and deranged several months _ it seemed to me to be a happy release to all under these circumstances _ had much preaching in addition to all their home preachers had Senaca [sic] Hazard and wife from Vermont and Deborah Hinsdale they all done pretty well cousin Tammy s was in substance the same we have been accustomed to hear for thirty years from him Deborah Conklin has felt deeply tried she could not leave her daughter to go home where she seemed to be needed very much as her husband has a broken leg and without doubt desired her presence more than any other It was three months yesterday since we had the pleasure of meeting Isaac the fact brought many pleasing reminicences [sic] to mind and six since sister Amy was with us so agreeably how swiftly time passed by us it seems but a few weeks altho to look back we realize the space which lies between the past and present Cynthia has returned was absent five weeks she is a very pleasant addition to our home circle we love her more and more how delightful it is this faculty we are endowed with of attaching our selves to those we are with and making them as one in feeling and interest sharing each others joy and sorrow altho we all probably have found some disappointment in friendships formed and which we fondly thought would last through time still the tendency of our adhesiveness is to find a friend We attended monthly meeting yesterday and were greatly supprised [sic] to hear a minute from the select quarterly to ordain frinds [sic] fashion Martha Coles as a minister it took all by supprise [sic] some of us never had thought of its being at all worth while to ordain a person for quoting a few scripture passages it really seems like childrens play _ silly in the extreme to do so I have no dislike to her but down with [Page 3) the select meeting as being the ground of much of the difficulity [sic] existing We have had a very pleasant visit from James Mott he thinks it doubtful whether the concervatives [sic] will tolerate Lucretia much longer says those once her friends begin to be a little shy and cool toward her _ but it has no effect on her she is as fearless of them and consequences and boldly advocates reform What a model for the women of the nineteenth century yet how few are prepared to receive the truths which she promulgates it is an humiliating view to take of mankind the reception given to any new idea or truth but the past experience of reformers has in all ages been what reformers now experience coldness distrust and persecution I have admired Frederic's [sic] courage and perseverance in getting up his own meetings especially at Honeoy [sic] I think it was where he went tho the streets with his bell Nantucket fashion only he had to be his own crier for such self sacrifice and labor he will receive an abundant reward of peace I am glad for you to have a mass convention it may help on the car at which Frederic [sic] has been tugging sing =le handed quite a bit and it may slip along easier in the time to come as to our being with you bodily I have no hope dearly as I would love to do so but in feeling I can participate in the movement _ Lucretia expects to be at the Washington Hollow meeting all success to both Thomas Nelson's family have sickness again their daughter Ann whose husband died on his way to California is now sick believe with consumption have not been to see her yet ) it has been a long time since they have been favored with health and prosperity very quickly after one is gone some other is taken sick _ then in a pecuniary line they have their difficulties which add to their trials _ but I must now lay this by hope it may go soon Sydney Averill would like to come back to teaching believe at LI [Following page written by Joseph Post and transcribed as letter 1186)
Abolitionism
Family
Quakers
Temperance Movement
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/b38ef30a70a6f803f6fd96790bf1c2a1.jpg
0e52251c0b19ac851a00782dce047c51
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/3c0d8874c21db201645507c141aad0de.jpg
03d587dcf6eae3185993fcd439aedb51
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/56d78f7e0612366fc84c7f874e35607c.jpg
3ef02cfce980fc46f547f896d60aac61
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/15094d7277e53f9da57e587c324d5860.jpg
c90875b280cf01dcfabccd79c6307873
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5cb9b4622f8e2e24ed52b921aa206b5f.xml
af130a5fb7b4963f9ef5815cc07f51a6
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> [Text in upper left margin, continuing into top margin, written upward]<br /> Ephraim Hawxhursts duaghter Elisabeth is<br /> expecting to be married soon to a person<br /> she is comparatively <br /> a stranger to never<br /> as I have heard see<br /> him more than twice<br /> I think it something<br /> of a risque to run<br /> they have corresponded<br /> and have heard his <br /> character from others<br /> but I would see<br /> him personally again<br /> and again ere I would<br /> concent [sic] to go<br /> from home and<br /> friends the <br /> neighbors have<br /> been making<br /> pieces for an<br /> album quilt<br /> for her but<br /> I must stop we<br /> are going to see<br /> mother she has <br /> been quite feeble<br /> each warm day<br /> can scarcely<br /> sit up is more<br /> drawn too<br /> farewell write<br /> soon Mary<br /><br /> [Text normal]<br /> Westbury 8 mo 23<sup>rd</sup> /57<br /><br /> Dearly beloved<br /> What is the cause of all this long<br /> long silence not a word from either of us has passed in<br /> such a length of time that really it would seem there must<br /> be a cause? I am ashamed to say <span style="text-decoration:underline;">I</span> have been negligent of<br /> duty in the expectation of soon seeing some of you but this is <br /> no good reason and I am sure it is from no diminution of sisterly<br /> affection then it must be indolence procrastination or what<br /> ever name we may give it but what can be the excuse you<br /> can render is more than I can guess We have been looking for<br /> Jacob and Jennie for the last 2 weeks until yesterday Cathe<br /> -rine received Jacobs letter which refers our expectation still<br /> longer I have expected Amy with them but hear no intimati<br /> -on of such being the prospect hope you will all watch the right<br /> time and come when ever it is practicable it seems like a very<br /> long time since we have been together and in the little sympathy<br /> in any movements in which in which we are interested in our circle<br /> of friends hereaway our hearts yearn towards you with more than<br /> brotherly and sisterly affection we all love companionship with<br /> congenial spirits it is a want which we feel keenly alive to but<br /> occasionally feel a dim foreshadowing of a brighter day but it<br /> has been dissipated speedily by some new or unpopular idea<br /> Our family have all gone to their meetings and as I am to<br /> officiate as cook find I make a rambling kind of story by hav<br /> -ing to leave it so often 25<sup>th</sup> Baldwin Chapman & children Susan Brown<br /> & daughter come so that I laid this aside and yesterday after our secon^d^<br /> days work went to Glenwood to Williams on a visit and today have<br /> been fully occupied our men all at South to work and you may<br /> not have forgotten what women folks have to do at such times<br /> however the girls have gone to John Velsors this afternoon and<br /> as there seems to be no immediate suffering among the out<br /> of door family just now will scribble a little while before any<br /> thing turns up Restore and Rhoda Lamb were at the Monthly Meeting<br /> he said his mission for a number of weeks had been to visit prisons<br /> [Continues on page 2 with line beginning "and he found"]<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> [Text in upper half of left margin and top margin, written upward]<br /> We went to Jericho found Mother better than she had been for some <br /> days Joseph<br /> went over<br /> to Uncle<br /> Jacobs<br /> found him<br /> comfortable<br /> and Matild<br /> was reading<br /> the paper to<br /> him said <br /> she read to<br /> him a good<br /> deal he <br /> because<br /> interested<br /> from the<br /> first in<br /> the [Burdile?]<br /> affair and<br /> still likes<br /> to keep up<br /> with it<br /> Matilda<br /> confines<br /> herself<br /> very closely<br /> to make<br /> it comforta<br /> -bler for<br /> him she<br /> deserves a<br /> [Continues in top margin of page 3 with line beginning "debt of"]<br /><br /> [Text normal]<br /> and he found among the great multitude incarcerated a very<br /> large proportion were brought to commit crime by the use of intoxicating<br /> drinks and that tobacco was an almost universal stimulant and gave <br /> a real strong antitobacco discourse and temperance one too only<br /> he very unfairly gave a blow at the main law said in travelling<br /> through that state he found it to be a dead letter that liquor<br /> was sold at little shantis [sic] by the road side and this proved it to<br /> be a failure that signing a pledge was useless that it would not<br /> do to rely on what man could do independent of Divide aid<br /> Rhoda gave a slap at Spiritualism but it was of no account<br /> They were quite acceptable to the majority I should judge <br /> from the cordiality manifested The Quarterly has passed too<br /> and nothing remarkable Aaron C. Macey from Hudson was the most<br /> liberal speaker Richard Cromwell as usual poured forth of the <br /> bitterness which if we may judge from his countenance and<br /> manner covers his entire being to the exclusion of <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">all</span> the<br /> gentle and lovely attributes of the Saviour he says so much<br /> of I desire not to judge harshly but I cannot see the fruits whi<br /> -ch characterise the christian James and Phebe Haviland and<br /> Lydia Seaman have been around on a visit seemed pleasant<br /> and we had an agreeable visit from them but think they rem<br /> -ain as hostile in feeling to reform's generally and Spiritualism<br /> in particular as ever We have heard that when Rachel Moore<br /> was at Brooklyn meeting sometime ago James Phebe and Deborah<br /> Feild called on her and told her among other things their dis<br /> -unity with her bible views &c &c I said to a liberal friend<br /> from N Y I suppose those who had felt themselves aggrieved<br /> somewhat on the music question had become more liberal towa^rd^<br /> others that had been denounced by the ruling power's the reply<br /> was we do not see any evidence of that being the fact<br /> but beleive [sic] they are as illiberal as ever We perceive they<br /> are as uncharitable towards James Miller as can be and<br /> if reports are true they have not done as they would be done<br /> unto You may probably know all the history he is a speaker not acknow<br /> -ledged yet and very unfortunately he and wife are very dissimilar<br /> [Continues on page with line beginning "she has her"]<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> [Text in top margin, written upward]<br /> debt of<br /> gratitude<br /> from all<br /> for her<br /> assiduous<br /> attention<br /> she will<br /> be rewarded<br /> spiritualy [sic]<br /> if our<br /> faith is<br /> correct<br /> hastily<br /> Mary<br /> we are <br /> expecting<br /> Javob &<br /> Jeanine<br /> to come here first<br /> and make<br /> it their<br /> abiding<br /> place<br /><br /> [Text normal]<br /> she has her life in parties gaiety &c he the revese [sic] but I never heard<br /> as he tried to curtail her liberty well it was bad enough I suppose for<br /> finally she left the house and a note saying that she had no expectation<br /> of ever returning and bidding him farewell forever that she did not wish<br /> to see him again &c Well he told Henry Haydock how it was she gone<br /> &c Henry thought better talk with some others which he did ad it appears they<br /> have acted very ingenerously to say the least I cannot go into particulars<br /> as I have heard them at present twould take more space than I can<br /> spare Dorinda and children have been up staid [sic] with us three weeks<br /> the children have been poorly since their return home It has been<br /> a beautiful summer so cool and frequent showers that it has<br /> had an aspect of spring but now it seemse [sic] quite like Autumn<br /> so cool night and morning and the Fall s^o^unds greet the car<br /> particularly in the eveing Katy did's have commencd [sic] a little<br /> but crickets and other chirpers whose names I do not know are in<br /> full chorus I hope our flowers will not be all gone before Jennie<br /> comes have had an abundance of them and angry now out but<br /> fear they will not last many days our wax plant has outdone<br /> itself in the profusion of its gift of flowers and the Oleander has<br /> flowered constantly for months they are both bidding us gradually<br /> adieu as only a few bunches are out I forgot to say Steven was delighted<br /> with the Progressive meeting and with many he met there<br /> W L Garrison most of all I had told him previouly [sic] he should know<br /> him if he did he could not fail to love him (he had never been interested<br /> in him much thought him too severe) he is now as warm in his praise<br /> as even I could wish Steven is a spiritualist and is rejoicing<br /> in it Suppose Mrs Hatch will be in Rochester about this time<br /> I dont know if you have ever heard her It is amusing to see<br /> the avidity opposers grasp at the idea of an expose at Boston<br /> that it is all done up now _ I get almost vexed at the wilful [sic] ignora^nce^<br /> of some of these harping in the occasional tricking of a medium<br /> and bringing up the most shallow objections to it but then it does <br /> not pay to get vexed at these who are determined not to beleive [sic] no<br /> matter what evidence but the world moves nevertheless and spiritu<br /> alism too<br /> [Continues on page 4 with line beginning "26 Another bright"] <br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> [Text in top margin, written upward]<br /> the papers which come daily<br /> What a <br /> wonderful<br /> woman<br /> Mrs [Cunning?]<br /> Sam shows<br /> herself to<br /> be I think<br /> she will<br /> establish<br /> her quite<br /> in the<br /> minds of<br /> the commu<br /> nity altho<br /> she may<br /> escape the<br /> punishment<br /> attached<br /> to crime<br /> still the <br /> way of <br /> the tran<br /> -sgression<br /> is hard<br /> We have<br /> had a <br /> great<br /> feast of <br /> whortle<br /> =berrys [sic]<br /> we wishe<br /> to go this<br /> afternoon<br /> but think<br /> it doubtful<br /> whether we do<br /> <br /> [Text normal]<br /> 26 Another bright and bea<span style="text-decoration:line-through;"> Westbury 8 moth 23rd /57</span>^tiful morning so quiet and yet^ <br /> so filled with music all nature both animate and inanimate<br /> is offering a thanksgiving for the bounteous gifts of sunlight and<br /> shower which are lavished upon them no discord if man the noblest<br /> work of the creative hand would progress in the scale designed what<br /> a glorious world this would be but discord wrong and outrage<br /> mar the beautiful order We have been trying some to get signers<br /> to the call for the National convention but do not succeed very well<br /> the fear of disturbing the harmony of this glorious union is too great to admit<br /> of signing such a call We do not hear of you having antislavery<br /> meetings much in your section this summer at the East they are<br /> active and zealous as ever that was a great speech of W Phillips you read<br /> it of course and what a shame to bring that old slander up again agains^t^<br /> Parker Pillsbury when it had been denied and explained at the time There<br /> is nothing too mean for some men to resort to to [sic] blacken the character<br /> of an abolitionist Suppose you are working for the good cause the girls<br /> and self are doing what we find time for and hope to <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">have</span> ^do^ more than ever<br /> before you are aware probably of a little fair which has for several years<br /> been held in NY the proceeds of which has principly [sic] been devoted to aiding<br /> fugitives but we have decided not to apply it so exclusively as heretofore<br /> many have worked for it who would not at first for the general cause<br /> there was dissatisfaction last year from both extremes as to the applica<br /> -tion of the funds If we could have a little society here it would be<br /> very pleasant but that is not the case so we must cheer each other to<br /> labor alone Uncle John and aunt Sarah went to Purchace [sic] last week aunt<br /> remains there R Rs family are boarding near Stephens he remains in <br /> Cannada [sic] as far as I know writes cheerfully speaks of enjoying himself<br /> but has not spoken of coming home It seems singular to say the least<br /> I have not spoken of Jacob H Willets death supposing you have heard the particu<br /> lars unless I did when I wrote before which I think i did Sarah seems won<br /> -derfully supported cousin Samuel is more broken by this than any<br /> former affliction Hannah H Frost is very low and it would not suppri<br /> se [sc[ the at any time to have the summos come Docia Downing<br /> passed away last week and just about the same time Latitia Willis son<br /> aged 16 without knowing of either the time was appointed for both at 3 [oc?]<br /> I expected Joseph would have done something towards filling this<br /> but he has been pretty fully occupied and all share time he wants to read
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, August 23, 1857.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1857-08-23
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1173
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. [Text in upper left margin, continuing into top margin, written upward] Ephraim Hawxhursts duaghter Elisabeth is expecting to be married soon to a person she is comparatively a stranger to never as I have heard see him more than twice I think it something of a risque to run they have corresponded and have heard his character from others but I would see him personally again and again ere I would concent [sic] to go from home and friends the neighbors have been making pieces for an album quilt for her but I must stop we are going to see mother she has been quite feeble each warm day can scarcely sit up is more drawn too farewell write soon Mary [Text normal] Westbury 8 mo 23rd /57 Dearly beloved What is the cause of all this long long silence not a word from either of us has passed in such a length of time that really it would seem there must be a cause? I am ashamed to say I have been negligent of duty in the expectation of soon seeing some of you but this is no good reason and I am sure it is from no diminution of sisterly affection then it must be indolence procrastination or what ever name we may give it but what can be the excuse you can render is more than I can guess We have been looking for Jacob and Jennie for the last 2 weeks until yesterday Cathe -rine received Jacobs letter which refers our expectation still longer I have expected Amy with them but hear no intimati -on of such being the prospect hope you will all watch the right time and come when ever it is practicable it seems like a very long time since we have been together and in the little sympathy in any movements in which in which we are interested in our circle of friends hereaway our hearts yearn towards you with more than brotherly and sisterly affection we all love companionship with congenial spirits it is a want which we feel keenly alive to but occasionally feel a dim foreshadowing of a brighter day but it has been dissipated speedily by some new or unpopular idea Our family have all gone to their meetings and as I am to officiate as cook find I make a rambling kind of story by hav -ing to leave it so often 25th Baldwin Chapman & children Susan Brown & daughter come so that I laid this aside and yesterday after our secon^d^ days work went to Glenwood to Williams on a visit and today have been fully occupied our men all at South to work and you may not have forgotten what women folks have to do at such times however the girls have gone to John Velsors this afternoon and as there seems to be no immediate suffering among the out of door family just now will scribble a little while before any thing turns up Restore and Rhoda Lamb were at the Monthly Meeting he said his mission for a number of weeks had been to visit prisons [Continues on page 2 with line beginning "and he found"] [Text in upper half of left margin and top margin, written upward] We went to Jericho found Mother better than she had been for some days Joseph went over to Uncle Jacobs found him comfortable and Matild was reading the paper to him said she read to him a good deal he because interested from the first in the [Burdile?] affair and still likes to keep up with it Matilda confines herself very closely to make it comforta -bler for him she deserves a [Continues in top margin of page 3 with line beginning "debt of"] [Text normal] and he found among the great multitude incarcerated a very large proportion were brought to commit crime by the use of intoxicating drinks and that tobacco was an almost universal stimulant and gave a real strong antitobacco discourse and temperance one too only he very unfairly gave a blow at the main law said in travelling through that state he found it to be a dead letter that liquor was sold at little shantis [sic] by the road side and this proved it to be a failure that signing a pledge was useless that it would not do to rely on what man could do independent of Divide aid Rhoda gave a slap at Spiritualism but it was of no account They were quite acceptable to the majority I should judge from the cordiality manifested The Quarterly has passed too and nothing remarkable Aaron C. Macey from Hudson was the most liberal speaker Richard Cromwell as usual poured forth of the bitterness which if we may judge from his countenance and manner covers his entire being to the exclusion of all the gentle and lovely attributes of the Saviour he says so much of I desire not to judge harshly but I cannot see the fruits whi -ch characterise the christian James and Phebe Haviland and Lydia Seaman have been around on a visit seemed pleasant and we had an agreeable visit from them but think they rem -ain as hostile in feeling to reform's generally and Spiritualism in particular as ever We have heard that when Rachel Moore was at Brooklyn meeting sometime ago James Phebe and Deborah Feild called on her and told her among other things their dis -unity with her bible views &c &c I said to a liberal friend from N Y I suppose those who had felt themselves aggrieved somewhat on the music question had become more liberal towa^rd^ others that had been denounced by the ruling power's the reply was we do not see any evidence of that being the fact but beleive [sic] they are as illiberal as ever We perceive they are as uncharitable towards James Miller as can be and if reports are true they have not done as they would be done unto You may probably know all the history he is a speaker not acknow -ledged yet and very unfortunately he and wife are very dissimilar [Continues on page with line beginning "she has her"] [Text in top margin, written upward] debt of gratitude from all for her assiduous attention she will be rewarded spiritualy [sic] if our faith is correct hastily Mary we are expecting Javob & Jeanine to come here first and make it their abiding place [Text normal] she has her life in parties gaiety &c he the revese [sic] but I never heard as he tried to curtail her liberty well it was bad enough I suppose for finally she left the house and a note saying that she had no expectation of ever returning and bidding him farewell forever that she did not wish to see him again &c Well he told Henry Haydock how it was she gone &c Henry thought better talk with some others which he did ad it appears they have acted very ingenerously to say the least I cannot go into particulars as I have heard them at present twould take more space than I can spare Dorinda and children have been up staid [sic] with us three weeks the children have been poorly since their return home It has been a beautiful summer so cool and frequent showers that it has had an aspect of spring but now it seemse [sic] quite like Autumn so cool night and morning and the Fall s^o^unds greet the car particularly in the eveing Katy did's have commencd [sic] a little but crickets and other chirpers whose names I do not know are in full chorus I hope our flowers will not be all gone before Jennie comes have had an abundance of them and angry now out but fear they will not last many days our wax plant has outdone itself in the profusion of its gift of flowers and the Oleander has flowered constantly for months they are both bidding us gradually adieu as only a few bunches are out I forgot to say Steven was delighted with the Progressive meeting and with many he met there W L Garrison most of all I had told him previouly [sic] he should know him if he did he could not fail to love him (he had never been interested in him much thought him too severe) he is now as warm in his praise as even I could wish Steven is a spiritualist and is rejoicing in it Suppose Mrs Hatch will be in Rochester about this time I dont know if you have ever heard her It is amusing to see the avidity opposers grasp at the idea of an expose at Boston that it is all done up now _ I get almost vexed at the wilful [sic] ignora^nce^ of some of these harping in the occasional tricking of a medium and bringing up the most shallow objections to it but then it does not pay to get vexed at these who are determined not to beleive [sic] no matter what evidence but the world moves nevertheless and spiritu alism too [Continues on page 4 with line beginning "26 Another bright"] (Page 4) [Text in top margin, written upward] the papers which come daily What a wonderful woman Mrs [Cunning?] Sam shows herself to be I think she will establish her quite in the minds of the commu nity altho she may escape the punishment attached to crime still the way of the tran -sgression is hard We have had a great feast of whortle =berrys [sic] we wishe to go this afternoon but think it doubtful whether we do [Text normal] 26 Another bright and bea Westbury 8 moth 23rd /57^tiful morning so quiet and yet^ so filled with music all nature both animate and inanimate is offering a thanksgiving for the bounteous gifts of sunlight and shower which are lavished upon them no discord if man the noblest work of the creative hand would progress in the scale designed what a glorious world this would be but discord wrong and outrage mar the beautiful order We have been trying some to get signers to the call for the National convention but do not succeed very well the fear of disturbing the harmony of this glorious union is too great to admit of signing such a call We do not hear of you having antislavery meetings much in your section this summer at the East they are active and zealous as ever that was a great speech of W Phillips you read it of course and what a shame to bring that old slander up again agains^t^ Parker Pillsbury when it had been denied and explained at the time There is nothing too mean for some men to resort to to [sic] blacken the character of an abolitionist Suppose you are working for the good cause the girls and self are doing what we find time for and hope to have ^do^ more than ever before you are aware probably of a little fair which has for several years been held in NY the proceeds of which has principly [sic] been devoted to aiding fugitives but we have decided not to apply it so exclusively as heretofore many have worked for it who would not at first for the general cause there was dissatisfaction last year from both extremes as to the applica -tion of the funds If we could have a little society here it would be very pleasant but that is not the case so we must cheer each other to labor alone Uncle John and aunt Sarah went to Purchace [sic] last week aunt remains there R Rs family are boarding near Stephens he remains in Cannada [sic] as far as I know writes cheerfully speaks of enjoying himself but has not spoken of coming home It seems singular to say the least I have not spoken of Jacob H Willets death supposing you have heard the particu lars unless I did when I wrote before which I think i did Sarah seems won -derfully supported cousin Samuel is more broken by this than any former affliction Hannah H Frost is very low and it would not suppri se [sc[ the at any time to have the summos come Docia Downing passed away last week and just about the same time Latitia Willis son aged 16 without knowing of either the time was appointed for both at 3 [oc?] I expected Joseph would have done something towards filling this but he has been pretty fully occupied and all share time he wants to read
Abolitionism
Anti-Tobacco Movement
Quakers
Spiritualism
Temperance Movement
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/945febd9081cb4967c8045e2bfc8ef13.jpg
cc905286ebb6c6b0a8490cdeb7702d4c
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9e0d93884f1dd776dcf76d6879001ac0.jpg
fbd0f564c22a08634d7e3b4139b6b766
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/49838fb3cd81f830d14a3fd6e2e6a213.jpg
3e9105210cf47ede4c0a7e3e9fe6f3a2
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/074d811c1f795ab6f75f0a6cf85eb8a8.jpg
dec80ae67670116642e2a787b89070cb
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ca6d27f4fe717562afb63b2454d40a0a.xml
48f3cd1c796f5abc22c1a1138debe540
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> Kings Ferry [illegible] Cay Co N.Y.<br /><br /> April 29<sup>th</sup> 1857<br /> My dear Friend Amy<br /> I am about to tax thee with a demonstra=<br />tion_ of my tender regards in the shape of a letter <br />because the season has arrive'd when we<br />have a right to expect a revival of nature<br />and we are a part of her domain so I will<br />send my thoughts westward to greet my<br />long tried friends the <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Post</span>s who I trust are<br />still s<span style="text-decoration:underline;">tandin</span>g _ Whether my children have<br />given you a call of late I know not as<br />Abbie did not say much about R. ^in a letter from Mich.^ perhaps<br />they did not see "the friends" at all_ but the<br />fact of their having staid [sic] one night in R.<br />and my following them thither in my mind<br />has reviv'd in me a fresh desire to see or<br />hear from you_ I have preserv'd a sweet<br />recollection of your kindness toward me on<br />all occasion, and need not say how I prize<br />the priviledge [sic] of your friendship _ and i<br />suppose there have been many seasons when I<br />whould have thus made manifest my <span style="text-decoration:underline;">love if</span><br />I had not feard [sic] to intrude on your time &c&c<br /><br />(Page 2)<br /><br /> I have spent the winter with my children on ^(or near<br />the banks of the Owaseo_ with improvd [sic] health and<br />am now with E J Jacobs at Venice I find myself<br />happily quite useful attending to a lovely young<br />babe 3 mnths [sic] of age she is healthy and her mother<br />has improv'd in health & spirits since her<br />birth_ my son Isaac Jacob has a lame<br />knew [sic] but his health is better than usual otherwise<br />our worthy friends I [G<sup>ser</sup>?] & wife enjoy a tolerable state <br />of health Anna still an invalid _ My dear<br /> Phebe is apparently <span style="text-decoration:underline;">now</span> recovring [sic] her health<br />slowly she is still at Geneva think, she may<br />be able to go to Aubun [sic] to sojourn with [Dorcas?]<br />in may_ We are looking toward Y.M. in june<br />and are casting about to see who will be disposd [sic]<br />to join in the meeting there _ How do you<br />feel with respect to Spiritualism as it is manifested<br />in conventions and the like: not withstanding<br />N Clark is not what we could desire yet he<br />has I think done good in Auburn [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">Cy</span>?]<br />by getting up (with the assistance of some<br />noble soals [sic] unhealthy excitement in that<br /> place <br /><br />(Page 3)<br /><br /> I feel it a blessing to me that I was able to<br />attend when miss Bebee [sic] was there _ also the<br />convention of two days _ there was much good<br />speaking and I never enjoyed quaker meeting<br />with so pure a zest I thought of you my<br />precious friends then and longed to be near<br />you I have known and felt such sympathy<br />in your society as I know in none other<br />neither of my children are fully commited [sic] <br />to' H & [Dorcas?] go with me sometimes and<br />E & Isaac J are to some extent convinced yet<br />E is still in doubt as to the influence of her<br />lost baby how delighful would it be if I could<br />make them feel as I do but I must not be<br />impatient the way may open yet for them to see &<br />feel more fully I should be glad to have<br />a few lines from you if it were only a recog<br />nition that you were still in the same field<br />of labour _ My own field has been so full of labors<br />and so arduous have been the conflicts thro' which<br />I have travail'd since we parted that like my<br />dear Mother I have felt best to keep my cares <br />to myself rather than elicit the <span style="text-decoration:underline;">prayer</span>s even of<br /><br />(Page 4)<br /><br />of [sic] my dearest friends on this <span style="text-decoration:underline;">planet </span><br />but now that some ^trying^ scenes have been enacted<br />and I find myself still in working trim<br />I will _ try to aspire to a more natural<br />state and what I cannot help _ endeavor<br />to improve by _ my home is very quiet<br />now for removd [sic] from the bustle of life<br />and so I will bid my friends a good<br />bye with much love and a hope of<br />hearing from you some time this<br />spring If Genesee it pays Isaac must<br />pay himself for his cutlery<br /> my kind regard to Sarah Willis<br /> and other enquirers<br /> Sarah E Thayer<br />Isaac & Amy Post<br /> Rochester</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Thayer, Sarah E. Letter to Amy Kirby Post. (1857-04-29)
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Sarah E Thayer to Amy Kirby Post, April 29, 1857.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Thayer, Sarah E
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1857-04-29
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1156
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Kings Ferry [illegible] Cay Co N.Y. April 29th 1857 My dear Friend Amy I am about to tax thee with a demonstra= tion_ of my tender regards in the shape of a letter because the season has arrive'd when we have a right to expect a revival of nature and we are a part of her domain so I will send my thoughts westward to greet my long tried friends the Posts who I trust are still standing _ Whether my children have given you a call of late I know not as Abbie did not say much about R. ^in a letter from Mich.^ perhaps they did not see "the friends" at all_ but the fact of their having staid [sic] one night in R. and my following them thither in my mind has reviv'd in me a fresh desire to see or hear from you_ I have preserv'd a sweet recollection of your kindness toward me on all occasion, and need not say how I prize the priviledge [sic] of your friendship _ and i suppose there have been many seasons when I whould have thus made manifest my love if I had not feard [sic] to intrude on your time &c&c I have spent the winter with my children on ^(or near the banks of the Owaseo_ with improvd [sic] health and am now with E J Jacobs at Venice I find myself happily quite useful attending to a lovely young babe 3 mnths [sic] of age she is healthy and her mother has improv'd in health & spirits since her birth_ my son Isaac Jacob has a lame knew [sic] but his health is better than usual otherwise our worthy friends I [Gser?] & wife enjoy a tolerable state of health Anna still an invalid _ My dear Phebe is apparently now recovring [sic] her health slowly she is still at Geneva think, she may be able to go to Aubun [sic] to sojourn with [Dorcas?] in may_ We are looking toward Y.M. in june and are casting about to see who will be disposd [sic] to join in the meeting there _ How do you feel with respect to Spiritualism as it is manifested in conventions and the like: not withstanding N Clark is not what we could desire yet he has I think done good in Auburn [Cy?] by getting up (with the assistance of some noble soals [sic] unhealthy excitement in that place I feel it a blessing to me that I was able to attend when miss Bebee [sic] was there _ also the convention of two days _ there was much good speaking and I never enjoyed quaker meeting with so pure a zest I thought of you my precious friends then and longed to be near you I have known and felt such sympathy in your society as I know in none other neither of my children are fully commited [sic] to' H & [Dorcas?] go with me sometimes and E & Isaac J are to some extent convinced yet E is still in doubt as to the influence of her lost baby how delighful would it be if I could make them feel as I do but I must not be impatient the way may open yet for them to see & feel more fully I should be glad to have a few lines from you if it were only a recog nition that you were still in the same field of labour _ My own field has been so full of labors and so arduous have been the conflicts thro' which I have travail'd since we parted that like my dear Mother I have felt best to keep my cares to myself rather than elicit the prayers even of of [sic] my dearest friends on this planet but now that some ^trying^ scenes have been enacted and I find myself still in working trim I will _ try to aspire to a more natural state and what I cannot help _ endeavor to improve by _ my home is very quiet now for removd [sic] from the bustle of life and so I will bid my friends a good bye with much love and a hope of hearing from you some time this spring If Genesee it pays Isaac must pay himself for his cutlery my kind regard to Sarah Willis and other enquirers Sarah E Thayer Isaac & Amy Post Rochester
Family
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/257843eec2ca1a5a4496ea50ff9ea7ac.jpg
4ee2008317310ea1cdde1f3c78e8f261
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1aee7eadd84ac57ef090ed3040bf7902.jpg
3b3a62fc08fd46a899aa7420adc3d438
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5fd32bdc5d3a5b621b21dee34c335bc9.jpg
52e3d5f27b225a3c1e714bea2a4438fc
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ae09b3a379eabf617ed2bc2856a26726.jpg
d0bf87caaf1410a434a34d1ba9c3e14a
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, January 19, 1857.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1857-01-19
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1144
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Domestic Servants
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/2836188e547f99f0e6ea040215b9b3b3.jpg
90d0b67ee77f12ff55771133947f648c
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c4c141a9affa79ec32c16329c19b6fbd.jpg
19b388df56c8b12781f35f9a35ddd630
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/4c377a49594a72bde06587b5bd491c11.jpg
f041fcec76e48b915d1495eb2f4e72f8
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/074d03bc7ba64f25f7b0cc1476d9aee0.jpg
45afed15a683b35f0814ead024a66f72
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/88489b99101173ce7dbe8d8a5dfd7170.xml
4760e3516991a64342949e7f141e3fc9
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> [Text in top margin, continued from Page 4 with line ending “a long time to think”]<br /> of but it has passed very comfortably by me I think that there has<br /> been some improvement in figures if nothing more we are placed <br /> in classes acording [sic] to our abilitys [sic] to learn some are a head of <br /> me in figures the smater [sic] boys are <br /> the best writers and know the most <br /> about grammer [sic] Thine affectionately JKP<br /><br /> [Text Normal]<br /> Buckram January 14<sup>th</sup> 1857<br /><br /> Dear Mother <br /> written to [n?] I think it a long time since thee has<br /> written to me that note by Aunty Mary was well enough<br /> as far as it went but it was not has ^as^ long as it aught<br /> to have been under the circumstance Aunty Mary said<br /> thee had but very little time I did feel a little out <br /> of patince [sic] when I xpected [sic] some long letters and get only<br /> one short one I went last Seventh day to Uncle Josephs <br /> and found them them [sic] Uncle and Aunt going to Uncle<br /> Isaac Rushmores I went with them First day I was at<br /> Aunty Mrys Edmund came to Uncle Josephs and took <br /> his pair of twins and carriad [sic] me half way back saw Un<br /> cle James Post at Uncle Josephs he can talk as fast <br /> and steady as ever Cinthya Osbern can talk very well<br /> with Uncl [sic] Jimmy or nearly as fast as he can some of <br /> the boys in the act of skating fell and hurt themselves<br /> one boy fell and knocked a tooth so hard as to break it<br /> in two two boys have broken through and one got wet all <br /> over [W<sup>m</sup>?] he not hogs but we boys had a burlesque Law suite<br /> here last night a druggist son in New York City by name<br /> Haydock a quakers son Dutchess Co name L M Haight<br /> wer [sic] Lawyers the case was between two quakers one from <br /> Dutchess county W Frost the other was Powell Farmingdale<br /> The honerable [sic] Mr Post from Rochester judge who <br /> presided with his usual dignity on the occasion <br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> Robert Hicks coresponds [sic] with W W Titus f rom<br /> Nine pardners his letter fegan [sic] Hill of Science he spoke<br /> as if they wer [sic] learnind [sic] something for some of the boys <br /> got up one night lately and went to the pie closet<br /> and took twenty pies They allow none but members<br /> there this winter so the theft is done by thir [sic] own folks<br /> they used to lay such things to those not members now<br /> that consolation is gone it must set snug I recevd. a letter<br /> from Geo W Doty sixth day last he speaks as if he likes<br /> his school very much one boy here named William Frost<br /> does not give Potter Georges Teacher a very good name<br /> school has now called noon I may say something to night<br /> do not now [sic] When I shall send this school is out for <br /> night if this is ready it goes this night O while I thin<br /> k of it the boys that are here and have been too [sic] Nine<br /> pardners say the common name of her school is Quaker <br /> Jale [sic] when school commenced all that could parse well<br /> wer [sic] in the first class those that could not wer [sic] put in the<br /> second class New Years week one other and myself wer [sic] put<br /> into the first class I am at the head of the philosophy <br /> class which Lot calls the first class The scholars often<br /> send mail nights from 15 to 25 letters almost keep the <br /> Post Office up Lot is much oposed [sic] to tobacco in any<br /> form but not withstanding that some three or four<br /> chew and smoke but they do it very slily [sic] aunt M<br /> ary Willis sayes [sic] she likes a woman teacher best they<br /> are so much cleaner than the men but Lot is very<br /> cleanly in his habits if the boys make any dirt they<br /> have too [sic] sweep it out not allowd [sic] to spit on the floor<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> I find that nonresitance [sic] will do for some places better <br /> than others it may do for home but come to a boarding <br /> school and nonresistance has too [sic] be laid one side<br /> oncee [sic] in a while when I came here to Lots some of the boys<br /> got rather roughly used by Mr Post but now <br /> any of the boys will do me a favor as willingly<br /> as <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">any</span> for any of the scholars some want to borr<br /> ow skates some offer to lend me their skates but<br /> I tell them that I came here to learn not too [sic] play <br /> it is now so dark that I can hardly see the line <br /> Well come near another window I have not hit <br /> the line all the time I should think it was most<br /> time for William and Mary to answer me I <br /> answerd [sic] theirs in a shorter time than they do <br /> They ought to find more to write about than <br /> I do and answer in less time Joseph too has three<br /> or four weeks to write about I think longer<br /> Some one has just been counting the letters<br /> and sayes [sic] there are 25 letters with mine<br /> to go to night I have one to<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">o</span> answer too Edm<br /> mund [sic] and then I will be eaven [sic] with my cor<br /> espondents [sic] only thre [sic] will be something owing<br /> too [sic] me in the letter line O I have a new correspond<br /> dent a young lady Alice Dawly I was surprised<br /> to receive a letter from her she is my only female cores<br /> pondent [sic] away from home that I have There are more<br /> mstakes [sic] in this sheet than usual but next time ill<br /> try to do better next time and write when I have more<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> this was commenced at Noon to day and all was <br /> written out of school at this particular time. <br /> there is hardly any kind of nois [sic] but what we can <br /> get up a small edition though in general Lot<br /> keeps us or them rather quite still some times thew [sic]<br /> get over bounds just now there is some conversation<br /> in rgard psic[ to who should go to the Post Office to night<br /> all wanted go it being very pleasant they finily [sic] agree<br /> too [sic] have the smallest and the largest scholars in the<br /> ho<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">y</span>useto go the smalest [sic] one from N Y citty [sic] the larger one<br /> a Dutchess County boy he stands some three inches higher <br /> than I do O while I think of it they have had the ich [sic]<br /> at the Quaker Jail and brain fever we here have<br /> been free from sickness none have had more than a <br /> Cold Mother I wish thee would get W Mumford Ca<br /> rpenter too [sic] write to me Lot for a great treat one <br /> day last week went out and spent the evening Mar<br /> y kept evening School in his place for the first since<br /> ive bee [sic] here I guess she is as good a teacher as we see<br /> every day do not forget too [sic] have all the folks <br /> write to me all that are named here Write soon<br /> and tell me all about the good folks in Rochester<br /> The largest boy in school is named Mabbitt som [sic] <br /> relation Loreso we call him sheruf [sic] we made up my<br /> mind that 44 weeks more will pass off very smoothly<br /> only think ive away from home 16 weeks a long time to think
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Jacob Kirby. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Jacob Kirby Post to Amy Kirby Post, January 14, 1857.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Jacob Kirby
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1857-01-14
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1142
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. [Text in top margin, continued from Page 4 with line ending "a long time to think"] of but it has passed very comfortably by me I think that there has been some improvement in figures if nothing more we are placed in classes acording [sic] to our abilitys [sic] to learn some are a head of me in figures the smater [sic] boys are the best writers and know the most about grammer [sic] Thine affectionately JKP [Text Normal] Buckram January 14th 1857 Dear Mother written to [n?] I think it a long time since thee has written to me that note by Aunty Mary was well enough as far as it went but it was not has ^as^ long as it aught to have been under the circumstance Aunty Mary said thee had but very little time I did feel a little out of patince [sic] when I xpected [sic] some long letters and get only one short one I went last Seventh day to Uncle Josephs and found them them [sic] Uncle and Aunt going to Uncle Isaac Rushmores I went with them First day I was at Aunty Mrys Edmund came to Uncle Josephs and took his pair of twins and carriad [sic] me half way back saw Un cle James Post at Uncle Josephs he can talk as fast and steady as ever Cinthya Osbern can talk very well with Uncl [sic] Jimmy or nearly as fast as he can some of the boys in the act of skating fell and hurt themselves one boy fell and knocked a tooth so hard as to break it in two two boys have broken through and one got wet all over [Wm?] he not hogs but we boys had a burlesque Law suite here last night a druggist son in New York City by name Haydock a quakers son Dutchess Co name L M Haight wer [sic] Lawyers the case was between two quakers one from Dutchess county W Frost the other was Powell Farmingdale The honerable [sic] Mr Post from Rochester judge who presided with his usual dignity on the occasion Robert Hicks coresponds [sic] with W W Titus f rom Nine pardners his letter fegan [sic] Hill of Science he spoke as if they wer [sic] learnind [sic] something for some of the boys got up one night lately and went to the pie closet and took twenty pies They allow none but members there this winter so the theft is done by thir [sic] own folks they used to lay such things to those not members now that consolation is gone it must set snug I recevd. a letter from Geo W Doty sixth day last he speaks as if he likes his school very much one boy here named William Frost does not give Potter Georges Teacher a very good name school has now called noon I may say something to night do not now [sic] When I shall send this school is out for night if this is ready it goes this night O while I thin k of it the boys that are here and have been too [sic] Nine pardners say the common name of her school is Quaker Jale [sic] when school commenced all that could parse well wer [sic] in the first class those that could not wer [sic] put in the second class New Years week one other and myself wer [sic] put into the first class I am at the head of the philosophy class which Lot calls the first class The scholars often send mail nights from 15 to 25 letters almost keep the Post Office up Lot is much oposed [sic] to tobacco in any form but not withstanding that some three or four chew and smoke but they do it very slily [sic] aunt M ary Willis sayes [sic] she likes a woman teacher best they are so much cleaner than the men but Lot is very cleanly in his habits if the boys make any dirt they have too [sic] sweep it out not allowd [sic] to spit on the floor I find that nonresitance [sic] will do for some places better than others it may do for home but come to a boarding school and nonresistance has too [sic] be laid one side oncee [sic] in a while when I came here to Lots some of the boys got rather roughly used by Mr Post but now any of the boys will do me a favor as willingly as any for any of the scholars some want to borr ow skates some offer to lend me their skates but I tell them that I came here to learn not too [sic] play it is now so dark that I can hardly see the line Well come near another window I have not hit the line all the time I should think it was most time for William and Mary to answer me I answerd [sic] theirs in a shorter time than they do They ought to find more to write about than I do and answer in less time Joseph too has three or four weeks to write about I think longer Some one has just been counting the letters and sayes [sic] there are 25 letters with mine to go to night I have one too answer too Edm mund [sic] and then I will be eaven [sic] with my cor espondents [sic] only thre [sic] will be something owing too [sic] me in the letter line O I have a new correspond dent a young lady Alice Dawly I was surprised to receive a letter from her she is my only female cores pondent [sic] away from home that I have There are more mstakes [sic] in this sheet than usual but next time ill try to do better next time and write when I have more this was commenced at Noon to day and all was written out of school at this particular time. there is hardly any kind of nois [sic] but what we can get up a small edition though in general Lot keeps us or them rather quite still some times thew [sic] get over bounds just now there is some conversation in rgard psic[ to who should go to the Post Office to night all wanted go it being very pleasant they finily [sic] agree too [sic] have the smallest and the largest scholars in the hoyuseto go the smalest [sic] one from N Y citty [sic] the larger one a Dutchess County boy he stands some three inches higher than I do O while I think of it they have had the ich [sic] at the Quaker Jail and brain fever we here have been free from sickness none have had more than a Cold Mother I wish thee would get W Mumford Ca rpenter too [sic] write to me Lot for a great treat one day last week went out and spent the evening Mar y kept evening School in his place for the first since ive bee [sic] here I guess she is as good a teacher as we see every day do not forget too [sic] have all the folks write to me all that are named here Write soon and tell me all about the good folks in Rochester The largest boy in school is named Mabbitt som [sic] relation Loreso we call him sheruf [sic] we made up my mind that 44 weeks more will pass off very smoothly only think ive away from home 16 weeks a long time to think
Education
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/7e45744ec03c1ca9f86269434ea776c1.jpg
a5f94ec05d4e583166ad04e0774ac988
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/40dbacf55eec7febd8051e6ad4a589b4.jpg
f5865bf9c46406776e0daaa00d6a7a20
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/99b36643615fce3e21008f4925779df6.xml
4c33be9c57fdeb639cf30ab8971d2c96
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> I received the draft in thy letter and<br /> have indorsed [sic] the Interest on thy note<br /> First day 17<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> of the month seting [sic] by the fire<br /> We were somewhat disappointed in not<br /> seeing you <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">at</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">New</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">York</span> as I was expected<br /> ing [sic] you would come untill [sic] we received <br /> your letter and then on geting [sic] at N york<br /> and finding Amy had not come we were<br /> much disappointed. Hope you well [sic] make<br /> us a good visit together this summer<br /> We have had a very cold and backward<br /> spring been dry untill [sic] the 3 or 4 weeks<br /> which has been quit [sic] whet [sic] some great<br /> rains blossoms just coming out cherrys [sic]<br /> and some others pretty much out apples <br /> not much out Coles Jackson was duried [sic]<br /> last 3 day very short illness disease of<br /> the brain they are takeing [sic] measures to<br /> dispose of effects immediately.<br /> Four weeks ago to I was with Stimoson<br /> Powell at Sing Sing Prison attend their<br /> meeting a large room full they told<br /> us their [sic] was 1000 prisoners I suppose<br /> nearly all in the room S. had much<br /> to say and they appeared very attentive<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> I thought it very suitable the prison<br /> inspectors were there that day one of <br /> them told me they were glad to have us<br /> come but with the preaching they are<br /> not enough satisfied with their lot not<br /> to try to get away. I thought when we<br /> were their [sic] they might overpower the<br /> keepers if they were disposed there were<br /> so few of the I beleive [sic] not more<br /> than 12 or 15 in the room and no arms<br /> that I saw. after meeting with the men<br /> we visited the Sick and then the women<br /> meeting about 85 some of them looked<br /> very inteligent [sic] I perceived no distintion [sic]<br /> of colour all mixed together black<br /> and white. After the meetings were<br /> over I concluded I had rather take<br /> trouble to get to Steven Archers than<br /> stay at a publick house I walk the<br /> rail road 4 ½ mile to Tarry town and got<br /> a man to carry me to Dobbs Ferry 5 miles<br /> found them home and had a very pleasen [sic]<br /> visit. Stimonsons daughter and some<br /> other company were along he stayed<br /> with them. We want Jacob to bring<br /> his wife to see us thee speaks of her<br /> being a lovely woman we want to get<br /> acquainted with her to [sic]<br />
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, 1857?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1857?
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1140
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. I received the draft in thy letter and have indorsed [sic] the Interest on thy note First day 17th of the month seting [sic] by the fire We were somewhat disappointed in not seeing you atNewYork as I was expected ing [sic] you would come untill [sic] we received your letter and then on geting [sic] at N york and finding Amy had not come we were much disappointed. Hope you well [sic] make us a good visit together this summer We have had a very cold and backward spring been dry untill [sic] the 3 or 4 weeks which has been quit [sic] whet [sic] some great rains blossoms just coming out cherrys [sic] and some others pretty much out apples not much out Coles Jackson was duried [sic] last 3 day very short illness disease of the brain they are takeing [sic] measures to dispose of effects immediately. Four weeks ago to I was with Stimoson Powell at Sing Sing Prison attend their meeting a large room full they told us their [sic] was 1000 prisoners I suppose nearly all in the room S. had much to say and they appeared very attentive I thought it very suitable the prison inspectors were there that day one of them told me they were glad to have us come but with the preaching they are not enough satisfied with their lot not to try to get away. I thought when we were their [sic] they might overpower the keepers if they were disposed there were so few of the I beleive [sic] not more than 12 or 15 in the room and no arms that I saw. after meeting with the men we visited the Sick and then the women meeting about 85 some of them looked very inteligent [sic] I perceived no distintion [sic] of colour all mixed together black and white. After the meetings were over I concluded I had rather take trouble to get to Steven Archers than stay at a publick house I walk the rail road 4 1/2; mile to Tarry town and got a man to carry me to Dobbs Ferry 5 miles found them home and had a very pleasen [sic] visit. Stimonsons daughter and some other company were along he stayed with them. We want Jacob to bring his wife to see us thee speaks of her being a lovely woman we want to get acquainted with her to [sic]
Personal
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a3def04d04d868fddc00d2ed15947f14.jpg
e480c04435822006067285eb30588c10
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/74999fa227b345dba69c656718a9c660.jpg
98bb9d11dbf74c85aa474cfae109b610
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/848b67756a9e533d465738e3f5cccbe2.jpg
75594188cae0969f0cdf6a09cee95730
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/455f29dca1d59feb8107621ca854d6d1.jpg
3fab4f37c07ee8fb957d7b4528f41795
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/8f6641327ff64294a16af54af1b91326.xml
b12d392ce800746726f7ba3364fab563
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> with the exclusiveness of sect I want to ackn<br /> -owledge the good let it come from whom it may<br /> all that live up to their highist [sic] convictions<br /> unmindful of professions I told him I thought<br /> there was no need to be affraid [sic] of the paper<br /> it would strengthen him in them and I thought<br /> would be a means to set him free from the<br /> bondage of sect he said education or tradition<br /> was very strong in him yet He told us lately<br /> perhaps in the Q M that ^Jesus^ did not wish his<br /> deciples [sic] to be taken out of the world but to<br /> labor in it and that in our day it was des<br /> -irable that we should labor <span style="text-decoration:underline;">in</span> the world<br /> to remove the great evils that so much abo<br /> -unded that he thought it unnecessary to<br /> wait for any special revelation to prompt <br /> to feed the hungry or to clothe the naked<br /> and that it was not right to judge and condem^n^<br /> those who were laboring for the elevation of man<br /> Others who spoke were all it seemed to me<br /> more sounding abstractions mystical words<br /> which my dull comprehension cannot fatho^m^<br /> to make at all to coincide with the plain<br /> teachings of the lovely Nazarene<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> Richard Cromwell I understand thinks the<br /> negro race are only fitted for slavery <br /> as they are very little above monkeys in <br /> intellect and he has sometimes almost<br /> wished his <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">was</span> ^skin was colored that he might be^ a slave he thought he wou<br /> ld be so good and obedient to his master<br /> that it would be a benefit to himself<br /> He need not wait for his skin to grow dark<br /> as that would be no objection and his mind<br /> is sufficiently clouded for bondage if this<br /> is a sample of its quality And then to have<br /> his sustained by a respectable community is<br /> too bad at Maria Farrington s funeral they<br /> tell us he was very objectionable even to <br /> those who discountenance spiritualism<br /><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">but</span> they thought he needed eldering for<br /> treating on that subject was very lengthy<br /> and confessed he knew nothing himself and<br /> no one else could know any thing about the<br /> after state J D Wright we hear continues to<br /> speak occasionally against it We have not<br /> heard any thing in a long time Rachel has<br /> been very circumspect lately and said nothing<br /> against any reform She has been attending Phil<br /> Y M this week A and C Willet accompanied her hope<br /> she will not feel called to it on her return
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, 1857?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1857?
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1139
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. with the exclusiveness of sect I want to ackn -owledge the good let it come from whom it may all that live up to their highist [sic] convictions unmindful of professions I told him I thought there was no need to be affraid [sic] of the paper it would strengthen him in them and I thought would be a means to set him free from the bondage of sect he said education or tradition was very strong in him yet He told us lately perhaps in the Q M that ^Jesus^ did not wish his deciples [sic] to be taken out of the world but to labor in it and that in our day it was des -irable that we should labor in the world to remove the great evils that so much abo -unded that he thought it unnecessary to wait for any special revelation to prompt to feed the hungry or to clothe the naked and that it was not right to judge and condem^n^ those who were laboring for the elevation of man Others who spoke were all it seemed to me more sounding abstractions mystical words which my dull comprehension cannot fatho^m^ to make at all to coincide with the plain teachings of the lovely Nazarene Richard Cromwell I understand thinks the negro race are only fitted for slavery as they are very little above monkeys in intellect and he has sometimes almost wished his was ^skin was colored that he might be^ a slave he thought he wou ld be so good and obedient to his master that it would be a benefit to himself He need not wait for his skin to grow dark as that would be no objection and his mind is sufficiently clouded for bondage if this is a sample of its quality And then to have his sustained by a respectable community is too bad at Maria Farrington s funeral they tell us he was very objectionable even to those who discountenance spiritualismbut they thought he needed eldering for treating on that subject was very lengthy and confessed he knew nothing himself and no one else could know any thing about the after state J D Wright we hear continues to speak occasionally against it We have not heard any thing in a long time Rachel has been very circumspect lately and said nothing against any reform She has been attending Phil Y M this week A and C Willet accompanied her hope she will not feel called to it on her return
Enslaved people
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/237ed6fae83b262d4efe4848aa834d3b.jpg
aac7cb89d821db3105993faa1566ae0e
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1b1c05a6292941e6a7e854175d1d6f65.jpg
273b70ea86e4ddca1825552e2c6ddc68
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/47511561802168e91fd4611e112b7dea.jpg
c10298effd20850e4a9f62d34c879d81
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/0c512752d10c632792801b80d1d518f9.xml
ff3a4e74cdde0d7767dae16c69dfc49c
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> Troy Dec 8 1856<br /> Isaac Post<br /> Dear Friend<br /> This was duly recd<br /> and Miss Beebe will in the course of her<br /> westward progress make Your place a visit<br /> when she left here she could not name the<br /> time When she would be there but said that<br /> as soon as she could fix the day she would<br /> write thee &let thee Know she was with us<br /> a week ago Yesterday and gave verry [sic] good satis<br /> =faction Yesterday she was to lecture in Courtland<br /> =ville & next week in Utica _ She was with<br /> us here in Troy seven weeks last Winter and we<br /> became verry [sic] much attach<sup>d</sup> to her and I<br /> hope she will be equally as successful in<br /> Your City _ Thee was mistaken in thy<br /> supposition that W<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>m</sup></span> Renouf is My Father in<br /> law_ it was my brother who married his <br /> daughter_ Bother W<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>m</sup></span> & Wife are earnest belie<br /> =vers in Spiritualism and I think enjoy it<br /> much better than they ever did Quakerism and<br /> so do I_ It is true they feed their followers on<br /> husks and they are indeed "verry [sic] dry"<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> I was at Glens Falls last summer on a visit<br /> and whilst there the Queensbury quarterly meeting<br /> was held there - I thought I would go and hear<br /> some preaching_ Well I listen<sup>d</sup> about one hour<br /> to Rachel Hicks and a half hour to Aaron C<br /> Macy and after they set down I tried to<br /> settle the question in my own mind_whether<br /> they had always preach<sup>d</sup> such nonsense or<br /> whether I had only of late learn<sup>d</sup> rightly to<br /> apreciate [sic] it, but it did surprise me that a<br /> Woman should come all the way from Long<br /> Island only to tell a story of some man who<br /> from concientious [sic] motives let his beard grow<br /> and found peace therein _ but said she "My<br /> friends what do they let their beard grow for<br /> now days" And all that I could sift out<br /> of Macy's discourse was that in his early <br /> life he had some two or three Children and<br /> his mind became verry [sic] anxious how he was<br /> to provide for them & God took them from<br /> him _ Oh that they could have their eyes <br /> open<sup>d</sup> and learn not to charge God with<br /> murdering their Children & friends just out of<br /> spite because they loved them. Oh What blasp<br /> =hemy what nonsense and Yet they arrogate<br /> to themselves all the truth & that no new<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> truth can be given _ Well let them work<br /> the day will Yet come when they will progress<br /> out of that old shell - Spiritualism is<br /> in a flourishing condition with us at present<br /> We have lectures every First day P M and [evening?]<br /> and they are generally well attended and<br /> at each meeting we find new faces who<br /> are anxious to learn the truth _<br /> Truly thy friend<br /> Benj<sup>n</sup> Starbuck
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Starbuck, Benjamin. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Benjamin Starbuck to Isaac Post, December 8, 1856.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Starbuck, Benjamin
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1856-12-08
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1138
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Troy Dec 8 1856 Isaac Post Dear Friend This was duly recd and Miss Beebe will in the course of her westward progress make Your place a visit when she left here she could not name the time When she would be there but said that as soon as she could fix the day she would write thee &let thee Know she was with us a week ago Yesterday and gave verry [sic] good satis =faction Yesterday she was to lecture in Courtland =ville & next week in Utica _ She was with us here in Troy seven weeks last Winter and we became verry [sic] much attachd to her and I hope she will be equally as successful in Your City _ Thee was mistaken in thy supposition that Wm Renouf is My Father in law_ it was my brother who married his daughter_ Bother Wm & Wife are earnest belie =vers in Spiritualism and I think enjoy it much better than they ever did Quakerism and so do I_ It is true they feed their followers on husks and they are indeed "verry [sic] dry" I was at Glens Falls last summer on a visit and whilst there the Queensbury quarterly meeting was held there - I thought I would go and hear some preaching_ Well I listend about one hour to Rachel Hicks and a half hour to Aaron C Macy and after they set down I tried to settle the question in my own mind_whether they had always preachd such nonsense or whether I had only of late learnd rightly to apreciate [sic] it, but it did surprise me that a Woman should come all the way from Long Island only to tell a story of some man who from concientious [sic] motives let his beard grow and found peace therein _ but said she "My friends what do they let their beard grow for now days" And all that I could sift out of Macy's discourse was that in his early life he had some two or three Children and his mind became verry [sic] anxious how he was to provide for them & God took them from him _ Oh that they could have their eyes opend and learn not to charge God with murdering their Children & friends just out of spite because they loved them. Oh What blasp =hemy what nonsense and Yet they arrogate to themselves all the truth & that no new truth can be given _ Well let them work the day will Yet come when they will progress out of that old shell - Spiritualism is in a flourishing condition with us at present We have lectures every First day P M and [evening?] and they are generally well attended and at each meeting we find new faces who are anxious to learn the truth _ Truly thy friend Benjn Starbuck
Personal
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/939e36d5824d63c7dd045af9951a06bc.jpg
ddd6d493b2636ac49f274acd4acf2658
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/de8151429742b78f2e474b1468851c62.jpg
3dd8eeb2c558b222df3d1ca57ce1bf27
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/dec0b6b591b26c1cc0316d4995122a97.jpg
feefd510094a80d05c4cd15b7de9a586
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/682ed839c2cca01ac9ebc0d091c6b453.jpg
959e40b00a9c67fbd2e5997d99553958
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, July 31, 1856.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1856-07-31
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1125
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/84c441e118b6145a064f8b6485313280.jpg
affc1c19fc1af58b54c4e92fb98539f8
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/75876916a287bce5150b20accc1cf4d9.jpg
5093495716c54184e767dd2bd7011313
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/229d1b4fd3ee06eea2db6ab56b0287ad.jpg
95665a7492b041fd0449374ea88324db
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d485a3d47e210d18d704169cca3d82c7.jpg
1a46459f1fcf187307bf8b2f13a52279
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c1a5d73ecb86a34e05898de45be51300.xml
bd089a45a5432a61e8ecb987cebcfbc8
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1) <br /><br /> Rochester May 10 1856<br /> Dear Parents<br /> Read Father’s letter the<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">y</span> same<br /> day that it was mailed<br /> We have just had a two days rain which stoped [sic] <br /> in the night to day bids fair to be pleasant <br /> I do not see but that we get along very well<br /> considering that you are both away if a person<br /> with any thing [sic] like Mary Johnson’s temperament <br /> was to come in to No 38 to day they might with<br /> some propriety suspect Marys pet phrase <span style="text-decoration:underline;">I</span> ne<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ver</span> <br /> s<span style="text-decoration:underline;">e</span>e s<span style="text-decoration:underline;">uc</span>h <span style="text-decoration:underline;">a</span> d<span style="text-decoration:underline;">irt</span>y h<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ous</span>e housekeeper sayes [sic] that they <br /> will be through by next Thirsday [sic] if not before<br /> Joseph and I found the boat Joseph Cochrain on <br /> the East side of the Gennesee [sic] river the goods wer [sic]<br /> with us on the other side we wer [sic] told that <br /> they would not shove to the west side till morn-<br /> ing we came home about ten oclock Josey went<br /> down in the morning I believe that the things wer [sic] <br /> put a board but she did not sail till Wed-<br /> nesday Joseph and Mary Jane have gone <br /> to North street they seldom say when they may <br /> be Expected back Alise has another bile comming [sic] <br /> Eunice White and David Doty perhaps Father<br /> has told all about her [illegible] while at dinner<br /> the next day after Father left us Aunt <br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> had come from Applebys Expecting to return<br /> to Macedon in the afternoon Mary Dotys<br /> benigh a regular seven by nine , comtinuance [sic]<br /> came in the she and fower went to Elias Carpenters<br /> took supper stayed at Post Hotel all night<br /> went home upon the noon train taking Master<br /> Willet with them for a visit Willey went as though<br /> he did it a good deal more to please David than <br /> to suit himself thought that he should not stay <br /> long hope he will conclude to stop out there<br /> till you get home <br /> Eunice went home yesterday taking the doctors<br /> Louisa and Cynthia Ashley with her to make <br /> a professional call upon William Quail whome [sic] the<br /> doctors have been Experimenting upon since last<br /> fall As soon as Willet had gone Tiger was <br /> missing for three days came home yesterday <br /> Alonzo Frost has arrived home he looks considerable<br /> better than he did last fall understand that ^he^ gamed [sic]<br /> nine pounds while absent Cornelia he left in<br /> Baltimore Edward and Sarah are going down af<br /> ter her in a week or two when we get warm weath_<br /> er her [sic] Joseph and I did talk of going to William <br /> Hallocks tomorow [sic] but ground is so muddy that we <br /> shall not go I guess<br /> Sarah Burtis received a letter from Lewis on <br /> the 8<sup>th</sup> May saying that his trees wer [sic] delained [sic] at<br /> Toledo and advising the boys to send by Steamer<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> I presume that Roberts trees will arrive at <br /> Chicago sooner than Lewises although Lewises<br /> started by RR a day the soonest<br /> Susan Ann Carpenter preached last Sabbath<br /> had but little to say not being there cannot write<br /> of what she spoke I guess that there will be a stormy<br /> time at the next Preparetory [sic] meeting I guess that <br /> there will be a scene in appointing Elders I <br /> should not be much surprised if they choose Saml <br /> Warring Benings neighbor<br /> Lucy Coleman’s daughter sayes [sic] that she would die<br /> if she had to teach schoole [sic] another week she <br /> Expects her Mother Mrs Thomas Jefferson nobody <br /> home to day as soon as she comes to our house<br /> we will deliver that letter that Father droped in <br /> the dinning room if he cannot carry letters better <br /> than this he had better change his name<br /> I rode up to Post & Burtis nursery this afternoon <br /> found about ten men busy at work it looked <br /> like small business to see so many men putting <br /> out sush [sic] small trees three inches high Turpens<br /> mason man <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">is</span> has got the cellar foundation up <br /> to the top of the ground guess that the men<br /> will not be able to move into the house in several <br /> weeks William Hallowell agreed to come in <br /> and help fill this to you guess that I shall <br /> have to send this off and wait not for him<br /> William Tippets is now in the store talking <br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> with Joseph I believe that they both con-<br /> clude that he is one very much abused man<br /> in which I have nothing to say not having <br /> made up my mind on that delicate subject<br /> I think that the least sympathy I have with <br /> Eather [sic] party the better I am off <br /> To day has been so fine that most of the <br /> mud has dried up guess that we shall see <br /> Rush tomorow [sic] Susan is Keeping Mothers<br /> present till she comes home to enjoy it I am <br /> afraid that the long it is Kept the worse it<br /> will taste Affectionately you [sic] son JKPost
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Jacob Kirby. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Jacob Kirby Post to Isaac Post, May 10, 1856.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Jacob Kirby
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1856-05-10
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1119
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Rochester May 10 1856 Dear Parents Read Father's letter they same day that it was mailed We have just had a two days rain which stoped [sic] in the night to day bids fair to be pleasant I do not see but that we get along very well considering that you are both away if a person with any thing [sic] like Mary Johnson's temperament was to come in to No 38 to day they might with some propriety suspect Marys pet phrase I never see such a dirty house housekeeper sayes [sic] that they will be through by next Thirsday [sic] if not before Joseph and I found the boat Joseph Cochrain on the East side of the Gennesee [sic] river the goods wer [sic] with us on the other side we wer [sic] told that they would not shove to the west side till morn- ing we came home about ten oclock Josey went down in the morning I believe that the things wer [sic] put a board but she did not sail till Wed- nesday Joseph and Mary Jane have gone to North street they seldom say when they may be Expected back Alise has another bile comming [sic] Eunice White and David Doty perhaps Father has told all about her [illegible] while at dinner the next day after Father left us Aunt had come from Applebys Expecting to return to Macedon in the afternoon Mary Dotys benigh a regular seven by nine, comtinuance [sic] came in the she and fower went to Elias Carpenters took supper stayed at Post Hotel all night went home upon the noon train taking Master Willet with them for a visit Willey went as though he did it a good deal more to please David than to suit himself thought that he should not stay long hope he will conclude to stop out there till you get home Eunice went home yesterday taking the doctors Louisa and Cynthia Ashley with her to make a professional call upon William Quail whome [sic] the doctors have been Experimenting upon since last fall As soon as Willet had gone Tiger was missing for three days came home yesterday Alonzo Frost has arrived home he looks considerable better than he did last fall understand that ^he^ gamed [sic] nine pounds while absent Cornelia he left in Baltimore Edward and Sarah are going down af ter her in a week or two when we get warm weath_ er her [sic] Joseph and I did talk of going to William Hallocks tomorow [sic] but ground is so muddy that we shall not go I guess Sarah Burtis received a letter from Lewis on the 8th May saying that his trees wer [sic] delained [sic] at Toledo and advising the boys to send by Steamer I presume that Roberts trees will arrive at Chicago sooner than Lewises although Lewises started by RR a day the soonest Susan Ann Carpenter preached last Sabbath had but little to say not being there cannot write of what she spoke I guess that there will be a stormy time at the next Preparetory [sic] meeting I guess that there will be a scene in appointing Elders I should not be much surprised if they choose Saml Warring Benings neighbor Lucy Coleman's daughter sayes [sic] that she would die if she had to teach schoole [sic] another week she Expects her Mother Mrs Thomas Jefferson nobody home to day as soon as she comes to our house we will deliver that letter that Father droped in the dinning room if he cannot carry letters better than this he had better change his name I rode up to Post & Burtis nursery this afternoon found about ten men busy at work it looked like small business to see so many men putting out sush [sic] small trees three inches high Turpens mason man is has got the cellar foundation up to the top of the ground guess that the men will not be able to move into the house in several weeks William Hallowell agreed to come in and help fill this to you guess that I shall have to send this off and wait not for him William Tippets is now in the store talking with Joseph I believe that they both con- clude that he is one very much abused man in which I have nothing to say not having made up my mind on that delicate subject I think that the least sympathy I have with Eather [sic] party the better I am off To day has been so fine that most of the mud has dried up guess that we shall see Rush tomorow [sic] Susan is Keeping Mothers present till she comes home to enjoy it I am afraid that the long it is Kept the worse it will taste Affectionately you [sic] son JKPost
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5c963ca19e904ddc4188c931f11aa469.jpg
d9004e721836c4ab83ebbce06d427178
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c37e086a9804c12aff6d596f1027fed8.jpg
6591a1f1b7e5494897d2d8583b7c4fc5
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, January 28, 1856.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1856-01-28
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1111
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d60fb9af14aff11292de353594342ec1.jpg
5229b6c3d0450a9212eddc96fc651356
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/7d5dd55c3ebb8ca5b2a8609824951de6.jpg
fa61034d90297d22a91932cd5ea1541f
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/be2dfdd290de48f491bdf3c4a11e1d30.jpg
df62cab5a4b01b1f93132a0e3f745507
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d3475c06088fc66a3611e8ed38dade93.jpg
1be26fd7663b6062b43cc95d2e7fee8f
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Willis, Mary W Kirby. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary W Kirby Willis to Amy Kirby Post, October 4, 1855.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Willis, Mary W Kirby
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1855-10-04
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1088
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Enslaved people
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/175327a12d4f5b08c69bfa8f946b7e76.jpg
a0fb68b40d307082fabb5bc9d655451c
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/4b720f9d2b553aa24ccc57ad4bca1527.jpg
c21bfd8a4f7257af1c6cbf745ea9355a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/65ad1a7cd13c0caf8df18b0401db699a.jpg
2ed7a69d5694c5cc4d0c9067f24a00f5
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/61245412b36c9289484dfbe64773a307.jpg
f42f4f298acde5787eb642e6fa1fc2c7
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c2d77994e52f581538c826959924ca65.xml
207eb0422f170d60b7f216c88011b903
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /> 10 month 6<sup>th</sup> 1825<br /> My precious parents <br /> I have once more taken my <br /> pen to address you and tho I feel myself inadequate <br /> to the task yet I feel it a duty incumbent on me <br /> to give you some account of ourselves since we <br /> parted with <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">yourselves</span> our dear friends who feel increase =<br /> = ingly dear to us – we landed at Albany the ensuing <br /> morning about 9 O clock which was rather later than <br /> usual owing I believe to head wind and a strong <br /> current which rather obstructed our progress. 3 stages<br /> stood waiting for us, we got directly into one with all<br /> our baggage and rode to Skenectady [sic], rainy ^some^ of <br /> the way, there we stayed untill [sic] night, went on <br /> board and got but 2 miles that night, owing to <br /> the Canal having been broken away and boats detained, <br /> we understood there was one hundred boats waiting to go<br /> through the locks, it looked pretty discouragin [sic] for <br /> us to get along as we wished, talked a little of taking<br /> the stage ^to^ Utica but conclude to venture the Canal <br /> as it was so much easier with the babe, whose comp=<br /> laint continued yet he remained quiet all the way home<br /> we frequently had to wait for each other and with <br /> some scolding and some swearing we landed at Weeds <br /> Bason [sic] about 8 o clock 1<sup>st</sup> day morning there we hired a <br /> waggon [sic] and driver to bring us home where we found <br /> all pretty well and very glad to see us, cousin H<br /> said she could hardly get out quick enough, Mary <br /> appeared glad to see us but said but very little for some <br /> length of time, seemed to stand and look with astonish<br /> =ment, she is very much delighted with her presents <br /> from her aunts and cousins for several days she seemed<br /> to be no trouble at all, sit and amuse herself with <br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> her things for hours togeather [sic] tho it w’d [would?] have been a <br /> pleasure to her friends to have seen her, I believe it is <br /> better for her that she [tarried?] at home, as she would have<br /> been made so much of, it is so likely she would have been <br /> indulged too much for her good. we found things cleaned <br /> and comfortable at home still I found enough to do as our<br /> girrl [sic] was not willing to stay longer than 2<sup>d</sup> day a fortunate <br /> thing for us that we had Caty to take her place, Catherine<br /> and Eliza both out to work, Quarterly Meeting is past <br /> which has been large and I trust satisfactory to most <br /> Cousin Elias found much to do amongst us said we were<br /> in a very week [sic] state which is true enough- 5<sup>th</sup> day<br /> came ind [sic] our appartment [sic] and spoke on the education <br /> of children which seem to devolve more particularly on <br /> mothers that of schooling them in a suitable way and <br /> many other subjects most excelently, [sic] he has stayed with <br /> us nights and most of the time ^days^ when at liberty, and his <br /> company has been truly acceptable, the meeting house <br /> very much crowded 6<sup>th</sup> day and many that did not get in <br /> J [Tallbot?] and wife have dreaded his [coming?] very much <br /> thought he would set other people against friends <br /> but it appears to be <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">to be</span> rather to the contrary <br /> he was very much respected by people who <br /> stile [style?] themselves great and wealthy & he dined with<br /> [L J Mott?] ^1<sup>st</sup> day^ who made him excedingly [sic] wealcom, [sic] and <br /> kept with him as much as she could -<br /> he took leave of me 6<sup>th</sup> day before meeting in a very <br /> tender and afectionate [sic] maner [sic], said it had been very plea=<br /> sant to him to be with us, dined to John Merrits 7<sup>th</sup><br /> day evening had a meeting at Auburn in the Court House <br /> 1<sup>st</sup> day at Skaneatles [sic] the evening in the vilage [sic] all large<br /> and I did not here [hear?] but satisfactory a number went <br /> from Scipio John and Anna Searing Benjamin P [obliterated]<br /> Harmony [Howland?] and several others, the last we heard <br /> of him he had turned his face towards [Duyriter?] Dear <br /> old man how I love him, I trust he has left a lasting <br /> and sweet savour behind him ---<br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> we hear that A Braithwait has arrived, Sarah Hicks seemed to <br /> think that war was approaching and she was afraid [sic] it wou<br /> -ld begin wilst [sic] they were absent D. K. asked her if she was <br /> prepared for battle, she seemed to think an open contest <br /> was better than so much underhanded work, cousin E<br /> gently admonished her ^to^ keep out of it if posible [sic] and<br /> study to be quiet as he did - here thought I is the mark <br /> of a Christian indeed. Oh how much instruction and how<br /> much to be prized is his company as well as his gospel <br /> labours, I forget to mention that we thought Q..M. 5<sup>th </sup> day <br /> was as large as last year, a [few?] friends from Farmington <br /> [illegible] --- we understand that Amy [McNeel?] said she had<br /> wish to invite cousin E over to Hector but she thought<br /> it would be doing wrong to do it, (tho [sic] it would have<br /> been much easier than to not) –-- we found our friends <br /> on the [illegible] hand when we returned home [Thos. Alsup?]<br /> and Benjamin Wilbur both better, Thomas Esters buried 2 <br /> weeks previous to our return, Abby Gifford [illegible] so as <br /> to be out at M. meeting looks miserably her cough very <br /> troublesom, Lora May, I believe boards their,[sic]and she <br /> remarked to cousin H .L she should not be surprized (sic)<br /> if she did not live but a few months, the weather has<br /> been warm and pleasant since we have been [obliterated]<br /> last evening a thunder shower and considerable [obliterated]<br /> this morning cool, very little frost yet pumpkin vines <br /> green <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">yet </span> Aaron Frosts wife buried not long since<br /> died with the hasty consumption it is likely sister A <br /> knows who she was, Timothy Dorlands Daughter has no chil =<br /> dren – Joseph Frost keeps up his usual practice of runing [sic]<br /> about and some say worse than ever, his wife has maid [sic] <br /> a great change in the house, she expects her mother and <br /> two sisters to spend the winter with her have made some <br /> little addition to the house on the account, yesterday J<br /> Searing fell down the saw mill [flue?] and hurt his back <br /> considerable, B. Howland brought him home in a waggon [sic], for <br /> some time very much distressed after taking a little blood<br /> and some other outward applications obtained some relief <br /> this morning so as to be walking about but feels inward<br /> =ly bruised and sore, we have got the same girl we had <br /> <br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> this summer to help us finish spining [sic] and help us to get <br /> up with our backward work. think likely she will stay a <br /> few weeks longer she now appears to be obliging, though it <br /> was a little hard to have her back again, as she toled [sic] C Foster<br /> she would not stay [obliterated] M’s time if I had no body to help <br /> me – my letter has been written by peices [sic] which I think <br /> you will perceive, I often look back ^on my visit^ with pleasure, on <br /> Long Island, should be very glad if I had Elizabeth to spend the <br /> winter with us though I know thou could not spare her - <br /> the children both have colds and M. has been very hoarse <br /> please send this scroll to sister Mary ask her pleas [sic] to <br /> accept it as if directed to her, we feel very anxious to <br /> here [sic] from E. and M Post and all the rest of our friends, Aunt <br /> Parsons’ death we have heard of – Elijah and Caty do well<br /> E in particular J.P. says he does not wish him different- <br /> Words aligned vertically in the middle of Page 4<br /> Jacob Kirby<br /> Jericho attention <br /> Long Island of <br /> John Merrit <br /> I conclud [sic] this letter in much love to all my friends <br /> the 11<sup>th</sup> day of 10<sup>th</sup> month your affectionate <br /> daughter <br /> H Post<br />
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Amy Kirby Post to Isaac Post, June 14, 1855.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1855-06-14
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1078
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. 10 month 6th 1825 My precious parents I have once more taken my pen to address you and tho I feel myself inadequate to the task yet I feel it a duty incumbent on me to give you some account of ourselves since we parted with yourselves our dear friends who feel increase = = ingly dear to us - we landed at Albany the ensuing morning about 9 O clock which was rather later than usual owing I believe to head wind and a strong current which rather obstructed our progress. 3 stages stood waiting for us, we got directly into one with all our baggage and rode to Skenectady [sic], rainy ^some^ of the way, there we stayed untill [sic] night, went on board and got but 2 miles that night, owing to the Canal having been broken away and boats detained, we understood there was one hundred boats waiting to go through the locks, it looked pretty discouragin [sic] for us to get along as we wished, talked a little of taking the stage ^to^ Utica but conclude to venture the Canal as it was so much easier with the babe, whose comp= laint continued yet he remained quiet all the way home we frequently had to wait for each other and with some scolding and some swearing we landed at Weeds Bason [sic] about 8 o clock 1st day morning there we hired a waggon [sic] and driver to bring us home where we found all pretty well and very glad to see us, cousin H said she could hardly get out quick enough, Mary appeared glad to see us but said but very little for some length of time, seemed to stand and look with astonish =ment, she is very much delighted with her presents from her aunts and cousins for several days she seemed to be no trouble at all, sit and amuse herself with her things for hours togeather [sic] tho it w'd [would?] have been a pleasure to her friends to have seen her, I believe it is better for her that she [tarried?] at home, as she would have been made so much of, it is so likely she would have been indulged too much for her good. we found things cleaned and comfortable at home still I found enough to do as our girrl [sic] was not willing to stay longer than 2d day a fortunate thing for us that we had Caty to take her place, Catherine and Eliza both out to work, Quarterly Meeting is past which has been large and I trust satisfactory to most Cousin Elias found much to do amongst us said we were in a very week [sic] state which is true enough- 5th day came ind [sic] our appartment [sic] and spoke on the education of children which seem to devolve more particularly on mothers that of schooling them in a suitable way and many other subjects most excelently, [sic] he has stayed with us nights and most of the time ^days^ when at liberty, and his company has been truly acceptable, the meeting house very much crowded 6th day and many that did not get in J [Tallbot?] and wife have dreaded his [coming?] very much thought he would set other people against friends but it appears to be to be rather to the contrary he was very much respected by people who stile [style?] themselves great and wealthy & he dined with [L J Mott?] ^1st day^ who made him excedingly [sic] wealcom, [sic] and kept with him as much as she could - he took leave of me 6th day before meeting in a very tender and afectionate [sic] maner [sic], said it had been very plea= sant to him to be with us, dined to John Merrits 7th day evening had a meeting at Auburn in the Court House 1st day at Skaneatles [sic] the evening in the vilage [sic] all large and I did not here [hear?] but satisfactory a number went from Scipio John and Anna Searing Benjamin P [obliterated] Harmony [Howland?] and several others, the last we heard of him he had turned his face towards [Duyriter?] Dear old man how I love him, I trust he has left a lasting and sweet savour behind him --- we hear that A Braithwait has arrived, Sarah Hicks seemed to think that war was approaching and she was afraid [sic] it wou -ld begin wilst [sic] they were absent D. K. asked her if she was prepared for battle, she seemed to think an open contest was better than so much underhanded work, cousin E gently admonished her ^to^ keep out of it if posible [sic] and study to be quiet as he did - here thought I is the mark of a Christian indeed. Oh how much instruction and how much to be prized is his company as well as his gospel labours, I forget to mention that we thought Q..M. 5th day was as large as last year, a [few?] friends from Farmington [illegible] --- we understand that Amy [McNeel?] said she had wish to invite cousin E over to Hector but she thought it would be doing wrong to do it, (tho [sic] it would have been much easier than to not) --- we found our friends on the [illegible] hand when we returned home [Thos. Alsup?] and Benjamin Wilbur both better, Thomas Esters buried 2 weeks previous to our return, Abby Gifford [illegible] so as to be out at M. meeting looks miserably her cough very troublesom, Lora May, I believe boards their,[sic]and she remarked to cousin H .L she should not be surprized (sic) if she did not live but a few months, the weather has been warm and pleasant since we have been [obliterated] last evening a thunder shower and considerable [obliterated] this morning cool, very little frost yet pumpkin vines green yet Aaron Frosts wife buried not long since died with the hasty consumption it is likely sister A knows who she was, Timothy Dorlands Daughter has no chil = dren - Joseph Frost keeps up his usual practice of runing [sic] about and some say worse than ever, his wife has maid [sic] a great change in the house, she expects her mother and two sisters to spend the winter with her have made some little addition to the house on the account, yesterday J Searing fell down the saw mill [flue?] and hurt his back considerable, B. Howland brought him home in a waggon [sic], for some time very much distressed after taking a little blood and some other outward applications obtained some relief this morning so as to be walking about but feels inward =ly bruised and sore, we have got the same girl we had this summer to help us finish spining [sic] and help us to get up with our backward work. think likely she will stay a few weeks longer she now appears to be obliging, though it was a little hard to have her back again, as she toled [sic] C Foster she would not stay [obliterated] M's time if I had no body to help me - my letter has been written by peices [sic] which I think you will perceive, I often look back ^on my visit^ with pleasure, on Long Island, should be very glad if I had Elizabeth to spend the winter with us though I know thou could not spare her - the children both have colds and M. has been very hoarse please send this scroll to sister Mary ask her pleas [sic] to accept it as if directed to her, we feel very anxious to here [sic] from E. and M Post and all the rest of our friends, Aunt Parsons' death we have heard of - Elijah and Caty do well E in particular J.P. says he does not wish him different- Words aligned vertically in the middle of Page 4 Jacob Kirby Jericho attention Long Island of John Merrit I conclud [sic] this letter in much love to all my friends the 11th day of 10th month your affectionate daughter H Post
Domestic Servants
Family
Medicine
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/247b20a65bd8d3b69576a02ee2302a94.jpg
e200b26961daff9adfc8cfd4ba8255b6
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/fab6760f2971c60e78b3a60f093b7fcb.jpg
09cb4778377282d4f9efe2ce73827cc8
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f38acaa6fa1f3571ccdda7b8a1ca830f.jpg
36ec376fe7c481d9272495c7fed32ead
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/dd7926eec5f1b709245b39574ed86088.jpg
005a18f35e6b639f7c2e9778020bb181
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Willets, Edmund. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Edmund Willets to Isaac Post, April 15, 1855.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Willets, Edmund
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1855-04-15
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1068
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a6946c0f39cea13687d15223faa5766f.jpg
aaeda3b30e379c5c4581b8ab4da5c585
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/7729594d8e6d531ebce2634e4733c381.jpg
42716ff11921e324ce144a8a064689c4
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/e54c44aa7cef06313dbc07f78fb725ba.jpg
0520f0993a024e7d9a7e65771ebc0504
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1761dcef8f2dae9012cb8c347bc561f7.jpg
36eafb0f4c1eee1b348664f7dd94d4b1
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Potter, Nathaniel Jr. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Nathaniel Jr Potter to Isaac Post, January 7, 1855.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Potter, Nathaniel Jr
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1855-01-07
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1054
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Abolitionism
Enslaved people
Personal
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ad9ac95222c667a348beeee4417ae3e4.jpg
684ba41b48e66ffd158ad1f39dc9cd1f
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/b22b1b3729bd07b883df8137cc9047ed.jpg
4fb439a3f9449757954b200341073e59
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Willets, Ann M. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Ann M Willets to Isaac Post, June 7, 1854.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Willets, Ann M
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1854-06-07
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1027
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/528957296240e8c27140b7c640108bd1.jpg
b1b0dc64f70897c55ae78ddb07b7a124
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/b70a8f7b000ae6dcf133ba0b3f944dec.jpg
564a0fb199c956a88c73763d7f4f10ff
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/0e1f41713ca4ddba4a8966eea968b86f.jpg
bca508b8a523823fd7d1c8df1897e731
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/eda66edb8ebeba00941d64a66975a5b5.jpg
b4be67f45dc42cacab3b7a65cb10a132
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Titus, Esther. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Esther Titus to Isaac Post, February 26, 1854.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Titus, Esther
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1854-02-26
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1014
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Abolitionism
Personal
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ea0a8058d1ab6afa644a057c662cedb6.jpg
c1c8d4634bd77adcecef19185c45641c
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/0f85e15939d2f02ec6528bc57a212ae5.jpg
523224ad013c75ae54b1d31ecae3f7e2
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/cf2fd0614735883655c664b28899856f.jpg
d704720a6d4380d2926416600e7dfe5d
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/350dd22efe1809da122505fce35e9db7.jpg
98dc5dbc4de3e66ee01608f2fb82913a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c2fafd46609184057787050c6357841d.jpg
f2f1f12b75bb21816482701d89fb6908
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/6e9672d97a9bf15206ed4b2949fb340f.jpg
6ceb9e62bb86eb8cd3737edc8c0f9cc7
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Willis, Sarah L Kirby Hallowell. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Sarah L Kirby Hallowell Willis to Amy Kirby Post, January 8, 1853.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Willis, Sarah L Kirby Hallowell
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1853-01-08
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
970
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Domestic Servants
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/2c77414fb435f0c0d2eca68b5714ec10.jpg
1ca6e91c4d0c12a5435397b10b7a3d3a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/e779417d7c645a72930eb10774a5c300.jpg
e9fbea98d4f4dcb28ce99678e07bcbed
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9cb3b9dae9bbf874b37aff86057a2a2d.xml
22cbe17cf2ae48653156fbd9b98fa5c8
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /><br /> <br /> Westbury 12 mo 24 1852<br /><br /> Dear Brother <br /> It is a rainy day and I have so many notions that<br /> want looking after , I hardly know what to do first. so <br /> like the man I have heard of that concluded to go fishing <br /> I am in the house, and what I shall scrible [sic] proberly [sic] will<br /> not be worth much, but as you know <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">my</span> me you will make<br /> the nesary [sic] alloughance [sic]. So far we have had a very mild<br /> winter with much rain and <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">mud</span> freeing [sic] and thawing <br /> makes it very mudy [sic] and bad roads for this section , but<br /> very favourable on account of the [illegible] it does not take so much<br /> in warm weather, hay has been seling [sic] as high as I <br /> ever knew it for so long time, has sold as high a [sic] [15?]/ per [illegible]<br /> but is now about 12/ but instead of helping us makes us <br /> feel as though our buisness [sic] was very poor but as we are<br /> at it we do not expect to change yet awhile.<br /> ^I mean neighborhood^<br /> As to our position in Society I think it seems more lonly [sic] if<br /> posible [sic]. and what the result will be I know not, it<br /> may be like the morning, as the darkest time is just <br /> before day. we may yet experience [sic] more unity of feeling<br /> with those around us, but as we feel assured that our position<br /> is right –am in hope we shall not go to them, but that their [sic] will<br /> be an increase on our side. I sometimes have faith to<br /> believe [sic] their [sic] will but at other times it very small. yet<br /> I think as to our neighbourly kindness such as borrowing and <br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /><br /> lending and when we visit talk about worldly matters such<br /> as the price of cows horses wheat stocks &c <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">and when<br /> Society</span> I think as much kindness and good will toward us<br /> as ever. And when Society matters come up if ^we^ will only let our<br /> views go and talk of Friends as a peculiar people it all go well-<br /> but as we very seldom can make out to pass along in that way<br /> we are regarded as rather dangerous people although we try to walk<br /> so that they cannot find much falt [sic] with our conduct. <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">One of<br /> our boarders was</span> Elias Lewis [Jr?] has had a very hard time with a<br /> gathering in his ear for several days very sick when it broke<br /> he thought it run a teaspoonful at once is now better.<br /> he wants and I believe has made arraingments [sic] ^in part^ to go to<br /> New York. I think he has not sold his store yet has talked<br /> some of having an Auction and sell his goods in that<br /> way <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">what</span> his object I beleive [sic] to get money faster. some<br /> of us think as he is now doing prety [sic] well it would be better<br /> for him to be satisfied. William Hicks is not doing buisness [sic]<br /> in Josephs [sic] name, or some say Samuel Willets lets Joseph<br /> have money and hire William this winter and if the <br /> buisness [sic] answers to start William their [sic] again. some people<br /> have very little mercy for him have heard of one young woman<br /> saying he ought to be hung. What the church will do with him<br /> is not desided [sic] yet but think it most likely he will have to<br /> step out. It is now time to go to the mail so farewell<br /><br /> Joseph Post <br /><br /><br /><br /></p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, December 24, 1852.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1852-12-24
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
964
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Westbury 12 mo 24 1852 Dear Brother It is a rainy day and I have so many notions that want looking after, I hardly know what to do first. so like the man I have heard of that concluded to go fishing I am in the house, and what I shall scrible [sic] proberly [sic] will not be worth much, but as you know my me you will make the nesary [sic] alloughance [sic]. So far we have had a very mild winter with much rain and mud freeing [sic] and thawing makes it very mudy [sic] and bad roads for this section, but very favourable on account of the [illegible] it does not take so much in warm weather, hay has been seling [sic] as high as I ever knew it for so long time, has sold as high a [sic] [15?]/ per [illegible] but is now about 12/ but instead of helping us makes us feel as though our buisness [sic] was very poor but as we are at it we do not expect to change yet awhile. ^I mean neighborhood^ As to our position in Society I think it seems more lonly [sic] if posible [sic]. and what the result will be I know not, it may be like the morning, as the darkest time is just before day. we may yet experience [sic] more unity of feeling with those around us, but as we feel assured that our position is right -am in hope we shall not go to them, but that their [sic] will be an increase on our side. I sometimes have faith to believe [sic] their [sic] will but at other times it very small. yet I think as to our neighbourly kindness such as borrowing and lending and when we visit talk about worldly matters such as the price of cows horses wheat stocks &c and when Society I think as much kindness and good will toward us as ever. And when Society matters come up if ^we^ will only let our views go and talk of Friends as a peculiar people it all go well- but as we very seldom can make out to pass along in that way we are regarded as rather dangerous people although we try to walk so that they cannot find much falt [sic] with our conduct. One of our boarders was Elias Lewis [Jr?] has had a very hard time with a gathering in his ear for several days very sick when it broke he thought it run a teaspoonful at once is now better. he wants and I believe has made arraingments [sic] ^in part^ to go to New York. I think he has not sold his store yet has talked some of having an Auction and sell his goods in that way what his object I beleive [sic] to get money faster. some of us think as he is now doing prety [sic] well it would be better for him to be satisfied. William Hicks is not doing buisness [sic] in Josephs [sic] name, or some say Samuel Willets lets Joseph have money and hire William this winter and if the buisness [sic] answers to start William their [sic] again. some people have very little mercy for him have heard of one young woman saying he ought to be hung. What the church will do with him is not desided [sic] yet but think it most likely he will have to step out. It is now time to go to the mail so farewell Joseph Post
Agriculture
Personal
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9b390bb4a05f93638902ab7dbc27c682.jpg
a27036b83a9efcbbe0e4df7a04123482
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/614945c7021583d8999ae3efb2841f21.jpg
be75a28490f3f11be4e04bf112baf75d
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d4e18d3277a796aa5a7760a425434e6b.jpg
9c63d2961f99ad4fc9212d4dce41b715
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/97858db37639865cf6e9f1121cb2d8d1.xml
92c65942bdcf80914a86b0f00b58dcca
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> [Text in left margin, written upwards]<br /> The closing sentence may give a wrong impression – but I have no<br /> room to explain . It was not mrs W. that caused continued headache<br /><br /> [Text normal]<br /><br /> Cleaveland ,0. 10,, 29n 52<br /><br /> It is now the 10,, of 11,, Mo. _ Just now<br /> I opened the Bible. and found this paper -<br /> which reminded me, that I took my pen at<br /> the time of the first date to write a letter<br /> to thee: - but I suddenly felt i<span style="text-decoration:underline;">mpelle</span>d to go to<br /> to [sic] the Shaker settlement where I left my<br /> house while East. And finding a Shaker<br /> there, I seated myself in his wagon and<br /> wrote with a pencil until he was ready<br /> to start. _ and it may seem strange that<br /> I should keep writing letters from whence<br /> I receive no response. _ But I now<br /> write because it is pleasant to turn<br /> my mind to the place where I find a <br /> greater degree of religious liberty than<br /> I find in most other places. _ And I dont<br /> know as I ever realized thy kindness more<br /> than I did the last time I called on thee<br /> on my way to Webster _ For tho' I<br /> endeavoured to be cheerful yet I felt<br /> lower in spirit than usual. _ Hence<br /> I suppose I was better prepared to witness<br /> something new in the line of spirit<br /> manifestations as I did that evening. _ And<br /> perhaps I was the better prepared to sym-<br /> pathise with some who felt the loss of<br /> friends._ It is indeed good to be humble<br /> at all times ) And when I look to the<br /> end of seeming evils ) I am often almost<br /> ready to say with Pope "Whatever is, is right."<br /> For certainly seeming evils do often work<br /> out a greater good, <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">that</span> than well planed [sic]<br /> and systematic arrangements that appear<br /> to be all right. _ _ _ _<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> I am often led to query why I am led<br /> about as I am in a manner that adds nothing <br /> to my own personal interest. _ But when I see<br /> things without regard to self._ I often find<br /> less cause to marvel._ If the spirit of<br /> my Father holds the principle control over<br /> me_ Then I need not marvel that I was<br /> strongly impressed to visit Erie Co. when<br /> an other son of his, there [away?] was in <br /> danger of being deprived of his sight for<br /> the term of his mortal life. - -<br /> Then again, when at Rochester and<br /> within five miles of Wm Barker whom<br /> I wished to see on business:- yet instead<br /> of going there, I felt strongly impressed<br /> to return to my brothers- not knowing<br /> why - yet I found him in need of<br /> immediate attention & he would have<br /> suffered much if I had of remained<br /> absent a day longer.- My Father<br /> knew better than I, what was most<br /> important. Then again - in taking a<br /> boat for this City - Why was I lead [sic] <br /> to take a boat that brought me over<br /> the lake when it was rough and just<br /> between two pleasant days:- Well, by<br /> taking that boat- I was able to be a<br /> help & comfort to a sick family of<br /> my acquaintance.-who suffered much<br /> more than I did. And by the way<br /> the woman reminded me that I saved<br /> her life some years ago when she<br /> was sick. - I often see an under<br /> current- or rather a spiritual current<br /> which is safer to follow and judge by<br /> than superficial appearances.<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> O teach me what my duties are.--<br /> Good Spirit grant this humble prayer.<br /> N. Potter<br /><br /> "I'll teach thee what I'll have thee do,<br /> A privalege [sic] enjoyed by few-<br /> To read my law in nature pure<br /> Teaching love this will endure<br /> No forms of faith or creeds of man.<br /> Can enter in the gospel plan-<br /> But love, to man. and woman too-<br /> Then all the good ye can ye'll do.-<br /> Wisdom must with love combine,<br /> And raise from earth to things divine.<br /> Reciprocate the feelings then<br /> Which Angles breathe in souls of men<br /> The royal law ye must fulfil-<br /> Enjoy the good and shun the ill.,<br /> Wisdom will your ways direct-<br /> And Angels will from harm protect<br /> This is thy privalege [sic] my son -<br /> The crown is thine _ if thou wilt run."<br /> (Cleaveland, O. 10,, 25,, 1852) Spirit<br /><br /> I am again at Williamsons, in this<br /> city & she ^there^ informs me that she has not<br /> yet sent her letter to thee for want of time<br /> to finish it.- A.J. Davis has lectured<br /> here twice, and expects to return here in<br /> a few days to remain here several weeks<br /> I have heard Davis once and was<br /> pleased with his appearance - I also<br /> called on him (with Mrs. W.) at the<br /> American - I must close for the present<br /> for it is getting dark. but I must add more<br /> anon - - - - N. P.<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> 11,, 11,, 1852<br /> It is now scarcely light enough for me<br /> to write _ but Mrs. Williamson [P<span style="text-decoration:underline;">he</span>be, I should<br /> say] is out to see the sick - and as I am now in<br /> health I feel that I ought not to be idle. _____<br /> Jesus learned obedience by the things he<br /> suffered _ And I have sometimes learned in the<br /> same say. _ Indeed I often do, for I sel-<br /> dom remain long among friends who suffer<br /> without suffering with them unless I am ac-<br /> tively engaged for their relief - Formerly I<br /> was in the habit of relieving those in distress not<br /> only by giving medicine but often by laying on<br /> of hands_ but since I have been engaged in trav-<br /> eling I have nearly given up both - I often<br /> suffer by being in company with persons of<br /> a positive turn who are diseased either body or<br /> mind. _ There are right hand errors as well as<br /> left_ & I find - we exercise at times too little as<br /> well as too much of the positive.-<br /> I was treated with much kindness among the <br /> shakers:- But the individual who remained in<br /> the house to receive stranges [sic] is troubled with<br /> dispepsia [sic] - often complains of head ache - and then<br /> pain in his stomach & so down in his side. -<br /> He was of a positive turn and a great talker.<br /> and more than once threw his head ached upon<br /> me - Then some of his Shaker views were not<br /> congenial to me _ Having once given my views<br /> I did not wish to repeat them _ while he continued<br /> to reiterate & evidently thought I was nearly con-<br /> verted.- But I arose above that influence by being<br /> engaged in writing to a friend. _<br /> Monday I came here feeling pretty well. In the<br /> P.M. Mrs. W. complained of the headache - I felt<br /> impressed to put my hands upon her head and try<br /> to relieve it, but i did not _ but settled down in a<br /> quiet quaker silence - when suddenly she threw<br /> a bright glance of her eye towards me - with<br /> language altogether appropriate - but my head<br /> began to ache - & continued nearly two days - but<br /> what was humiliating I was relieved by her hand applied.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Potter, Nathaniel Jr. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Nathaniel Jr Potter to Isaac Post, November 10, 1852.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Potter, Nathaniel Jr
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1852-11-10
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
951
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. [Text in left margin, written upwards] The closing sentence may give a wrong impression - but I have no room to explain . It was not mrs W. that caused continued headache [Text normal] Cleaveland ,0. 10,, 29n 52 It is now the 10,, of 11,, Mo. _ Just now I opened the Bible. and found this paper - which reminded me, that I took my pen at the time of the first date to write a letter to thee: - but I suddenly felt impelled to go to to [sic] the Shaker settlement where I left my house while East. And finding a Shaker there, I seated myself in his wagon and wrote with a pencil until he was ready to start. _ and it may seem strange that I should keep writing letters from whence I receive no response. _ But I now write because it is pleasant to turn my mind to the place where I find a greater degree of religious liberty than I find in most other places. _ And I dont know as I ever realized thy kindness more than I did the last time I called on thee on my way to Webster _ For tho' I endeavoured to be cheerful yet I felt lower in spirit than usual. _ Hence I suppose I was better prepared to witness something new in the line of spirit manifestations as I did that evening. _ And perhaps I was the better prepared to sym- pathise with some who felt the loss of friends._ It is indeed good to be humble at all times ) And when I look to the end of seeming evils ) I am often almost ready to say with Pope "Whatever is, is right." For certainly seeming evils do often work out a greater good, that than well planed [sic] and systematic arrangements that appear to be all right. _ _ _ _ I am often led to query why I am led about as I am in a manner that adds nothing to my own personal interest. _ But when I see things without regard to self._ I often find less cause to marvel._ If the spirit of my Father holds the principle control over me_ Then I need not marvel that I was strongly impressed to visit Erie Co. when an other son of his, there [away?] was in danger of being deprived of his sight for the term of his mortal life. - - Then again, when at Rochester and within five miles of Wm Barker whom I wished to see on business:- yet instead of going there, I felt strongly impressed to return to my brothers- not knowing why - yet I found him in need of immediate attention & he would have suffered much if I had of remained absent a day longer.- My Father knew better than I, what was most important. Then again - in taking a boat for this City - Why was I lead [sic] to take a boat that brought me over the lake when it was rough and just between two pleasant days:- Well, by taking that boat- I was able to be a help & comfort to a sick family of my acquaintance.-who suffered much more than I did. And by the way the woman reminded me that I saved her life some years ago when she was sick. - I often see an under current- or rather a spiritual current which is safer to follow and judge by than superficial appearances. O teach me what my duties are.-- Good Spirit grant this humble prayer. N. Potter "I'll teach thee what I'll have thee do, A privalege [sic] enjoyed by few- To read my law in nature pure Teaching love this will endure No forms of faith or creeds of man. Can enter in the gospel plan- But love, to man. and woman too- Then all the good ye can ye'll do.- Wisdom must with love combine, And raise from earth to things divine. Reciprocate the feelings then Which Angles breathe in souls of men The royal law ye must fulfil- Enjoy the good and shun the ill., Wisdom will your ways direct- And Angels will from harm protect This is thy privalege [sic] my son - The crown is thine _ if thou wilt run." (Cleaveland, O. 10,, 25,, 1852) Spirit I am again at Williamsons, in this city & she ^there^ informs me that she has not yet sent her letter to thee for want of time to finish it.- A.J. Davis has lectured here twice, and expects to return here in a few days to remain here several weeks I have heard Davis once and was pleased with his appearance - I also called on him (with Mrs. W.) at the American - I must close for the present for it is getting dark. but I must add more anon - - - - N. P. 11,, 11,, 1852 It is now scarcely light enough for me to write _ but Mrs. Williamson [Phebe, I should say] is out to see the sick - and as I am now in health I feel that I ought not to be idle. _____ Jesus learned obedience by the things he suffered _ And I have sometimes learned in the same say. _ Indeed I often do, for I sel- dom remain long among friends who suffer without suffering with them unless I am ac- tively engaged for their relief - Formerly I was in the habit of relieving those in distress not only by giving medicine but often by laying on of hands_ but since I have been engaged in trav- eling I have nearly given up both - I often suffer by being in company with persons of a positive turn who are diseased either body or mind. _ There are right hand errors as well as left_ & I find - we exercise at times too little as well as too much of the positive.- I was treated with much kindness among the shakers:- But the individual who remained in the house to receive stranges [sic] is troubled with dispepsia [sic] - often complains of head ache - and then pain in his stomach & so down in his side. - He was of a positive turn and a great talker. and more than once threw his head ached upon me - Then some of his Shaker views were not congenial to me _ Having once given my views I did not wish to repeat them _ while he continued to reiterate & evidently thought I was nearly con- verted.- But I arose above that influence by being engaged in writing to a friend. _ Monday I came here feeling pretty well. In the P.M. Mrs. W. complained of the headache - I felt impressed to put my hands upon her head and try to relieve it, but i did not _ but settled down in a quiet quaker silence - when suddenly she threw a bright glance of her eye towards me - with language altogether appropriate - but my head began to ache - & continued nearly two days - but what was humiliating I was relieved by her hand applied.
Medicine
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d7b1bf89798623deca94882377667e99.jpg
41ac9c2210131b71648a8b3eef941cae
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/2397900a7b149a5f33bd28d1d1c1384b.jpg
38c27c91c091a739d966b46ef7e9d8fd
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/7f3fd4522711baadf2316f73910d16bf.xml
33b9e5db20741d6922036ca366788ac7
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>[Text written by Joseph Post is on the same sheet of paper and is transcribed as Letter as Letter 919, dated March 18, 1852]<br /><br /> (Page 1)<br /><br /> 19<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> I have been looking over what has been written and am almost<br /> ready to smile at. the desponding feeling which is manifested by<br /> my generally cheerful and hopeful Post if it had been my production<br /> it would not have been any thing strange for I am often clothed with<br /> discouragement and may acknowledge that it was prevailed abundan^tly^<br /> for the past few weeks and I have wished so ardently for some<br /> one of you to council and unburthen [sic] our l<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ittle</span> difficulties unto<br /> you can understand us and appreciate our motives but who is<br /> there beside that can? I have a hope that the time is near at<br /> hand when we may grasp your hands and give you a welcom [sic] to our<br /> hearts and home and trust all gloom will be banished by your<br /> beloved presence yes I feel that we should no longer feel alone<br /> but be able to chase a thousand and combined could put ten<br /> thousand annoying and vexatious circumstances to flight<br /> We have had a few pleasant spring days when the peepers and <br /> robin birds made their sweet and musical sounds to gladden<br /> the heart but all are hushed and the secene [sic] has changed to<br /> winter in its most unlovely aspect But indoors it is cozy and <br /> bright so I will not dwell on the disagreeable longer and<br /> retire for the night and perhaps I shall feel cheerful and can<br /> fill this more to my liking so farewell First day eve the shades<br /> of evening are gathering around me but no brightness is reflected from<br /> the setting sun which is hidden by dark and gloomy clouds which<br /> overspread the entire firmament and have I fear imparted some<br /> what of their gloom to my mind for on taking the pen I feel no insp<br /> iration for it and I dont know if it were not for the reward we<br /> anticipate would lay it aside and rest for I am nearly prostrated<br /> by exertion and a fright we had this afternoon in consequence of<br /> information we had that Mary R house was on fire I ran so<br /> fast as I could until we came in sight of the house and to<br /> our great joy found it was only the chimney since which I am<br /> all unstrung I have had the asthma for a week more than usual<br /> which did not abate by the exertion Matilda is in New York<br /> has been more unwell for several weeks and the family want<br /> to be trying something and I dont know but she is willing<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> to too so they went down on 3rd day last to get advice from<br /> several Dr's and she is now under the care of Dr Grey have<br /> not heard what opinion they gave of her but I do not xepect [sic]<br /> she will be benefitted by the treatment for she has tried<br /> all the <span style="text-decoration:underline;">path</span>ys to some extent and has continued to decline<br /> Jehiel and Phebe are desirious she should go South and they could<br /> persuade Stephen and Matilda if approved by a Dr but their<br /> friends generally would disapprove it as utterly vain<br /> Samuel Hicks remains somewhat of an invalid but is out<br /> on pleasant days Elisabeth Mott has been quite poorly with kidney<br /> complaint is better I have not seen her in a long while<br /> We are feeling quite tried about our school affairs<br /> in a letter from Cynthia sometime ago she xpressed [sic] her willingn^ess^<br /> to teach for the summer and suppose she is at liberty to come<br /> from any private hindrance but what she will do now I know<br /> not we have invited her to come and teach our girls or come and<br /> spend the Summer which ever she prefers but whether she will do<br /> either I am indignant at the mean pittiful [sic] objections made aga^inst^<br /> her and what think you it can be? Why it is because she puts on<br /> occasionally the Bloomer dress that all this mighty effort has been<br /> made electioneering and speaking disparigingly [sic] of her I feel like taking<br /> my departure sometimes from such a proscriptive place then too<br /> she is too liberal in her sentiments of reform and if not Orthodox<br /> alltogether [sic] she shall not come and at any rate if she did come<br /> "<span style="text-decoration:underline;">she should not wear a Bloomer</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">in the scho</span>ol" I told Joseph I<br /> was thankful we had a l<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ittle</span> power left we can invite such as<br /> we choose to visit us let them dress or beleive [sic] as they may but<br /> if they go on at this rate we may not long have this privilege<br /> We were very much pleased with your description of meeting s &c<br /> and also in relation to Antislavery Frederick and indeed all<br /> was a rich treat we percieve [sic] <span style="text-decoration:underline;">your</span> friends the Fosters are<br /> in your section have as yet seen no appointments for<br /> your city Your said nothing about William & Marys<br /> visiting us we are hoping form what we hear to quit<br /> then but it is so dark I cannot see one line from another<br /> so must leave Do write soon very soon to your brother<br /> and sister tho I feel as though this was too poor to<br /> merit a reply but do it for your love sake Mary</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, March 18, 1852.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1852-03-18
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
918
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions.[Text written by Joseph Post is on the same sheet of paper and is transcribed as Letter as Letter 919, dated March 18, 1852] 19th I have been looking over what has been written and am almost ready to smile at. the desponding feeling which is manifested by my generally cheerful and hopeful Post if it had been my production it would not have been any thing strange for I am often clothed with discouragement and may acknowledge that it was prevailed abundan^tly^ for the past few weeks and I have wished so ardently for some one of you to council and unburthen [sic] our little difficulties unto you can understand us and appreciate our motives but who is there beside that can? I have a hope that the time is near at hand when we may grasp your hands and give you a welcom [sic] to our hearts and home and trust all gloom will be banished by your beloved presence yes I feel that we should no longer feel alone but be able to chase a thousand and combined could put ten thousand annoying and vexatious circumstances to flight We have had a few pleasant spring days when the peepers and robin birds made their sweet and musical sounds to gladden the heart but all are hushed and the secene [sic] has changed to winter in its most unlovely aspect But indoors it is cozy and bright so I will not dwell on the disagreeable longer and retire for the night and perhaps I shall feel cheerful and can fill this more to my liking so farewell First day eve the shades of evening are gathering around me but no brightness is reflected from the setting sun which is hidden by dark and gloomy clouds which overspread the entire firmament and have I fear imparted some what of their gloom to my mind for on taking the pen I feel no insp iration for it and I dont know if it were not for the reward we anticipate would lay it aside and rest for I am nearly prostrated by exertion and a fright we had this afternoon in consequence of information we had that Mary R house was on fire I ran so fast as I could until we came in sight of the house and to our great joy found it was only the chimney since which I am all unstrung I have had the asthma for a week more than usual which did not abate by the exertion Matilda is in New York has been more unwell for several weeks and the family want to be trying something and I dont know but she is willing to too so they went down on 3rd day last to get advice from several Dr's and she is now under the care of Dr Grey have not heard what opinion they gave of her but I do not xepect [sic] she will be benefitted by the treatment for she has tried all the pathys to some extent and has continued to decline Jehiel and Phebe are desirious she should go South and they could persuade Stephen and Matilda if approved by a Dr but their friends generally would disapprove it as utterly vain Samuel Hicks remains somewhat of an invalid but is out on pleasant days Elisabeth Mott has been quite poorly with kidney complaint is better I have not seen her in a long while We are feeling quite tried about our school affairs in a letter from Cynthia sometime ago she xpressed [sic] her willingn^ess^ to teach for the summer and suppose she is at liberty to come from any private hindrance but what she will do now I know not we have invited her to come and teach our girls or come and spend the Summer which ever she prefers but whether she will do either I am indignant at the mean pittiful [sic] objections made aga^inst^ her and what think you it can be? Why it is because she puts on occasionally the Bloomer dress that all this mighty effort has been made electioneering and speaking disparigingly [sic] of her I feel like taking my departure sometimes from such a proscriptive place then too she is too liberal in her sentiments of reform and if not Orthodox alltogether [sic] she shall not come and at any rate if she did come "she should not wear a Bloomerin the school" I told Joseph I was thankful we had a little power left we can invite such as we choose to visit us let them dress or beleive [sic] as they may but if they go on at this rate we may not long have this privilege We were very much pleased with your description of meeting s &c and also in relation to Antislavery Frederick and indeed all was a rich treat we percieve [sic] your friends the Fosters are in your section have as yet seen no appointments for your city Your said nothing about William & Marys visiting us we are hoping form what we hear to quit then but it is so dark I cannot see one line from another so must leave Do write soon very soon to your brother and sister tho I feel as though this was too poor to merit a reply but do it for your love sake Mary
Abolitionism
Family
Quakers
Women's Rights
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/0cfa861e60d69e42a3efaf8120908cdd.jpg
949a05e7ac3f0194737ef323bb234fff
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/e9aa62a1f45842e961a165144efb67ca.jpg
2162ef06d27536651f0dda13df89866e
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/414645aadad6a8ba006c431a5bd8e748.jpg
10703a36aec75f18a55a31c372e4ffad
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/01d9ae37bba456543d26487ac4f439a7.jpg
0e75d7840ce1a5d374d3b78fb22ad936
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/19c925a90ae364356bdd2e6a5c99deb4.xml
071a51ef51337e6c6f5788e542cafc2e
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> Ledyard 3 mo - 6 <sup>th</sup> 1852<br /><br /> Esteem Friend A Post<br /><br /> I am at this time drawn to address<br /> thee for the purpos [sic] of learning the true course of S. Ann C.<br /> Carpenters derangement hering [sic] that, She was with you<br /> G. Willets writes; It is to be from the affects [sic] of Spiritual<br /> influance [sic]. I do not concieve [sic] but there must have bin [sic] some<br /> cause that has affected her mental powers previous to her<br /> conclusion that; It was the Spirits that caussed [sic] her thus<br /> to be. her friends feels much grieved for her and Symphathy [sic]<br /> for her husband. S Dunlap. Is most wild about, It She is so<br /> situated that She cannot leave home or She would Soon be<br /> there Caroline is very unwell. Ann Maria gone to Dutches [sic]<br /> George is much complaning [sic]. It will confer a great favour<br /> for thee to write as soon as possible. her situation and<br /> what the Dr. thinks of her. Susan Ann told S Dunlap.<br /> last time there, She had such turns of her head She did<br /> not know but that, She would loose her Senses. Our family is<br /> in usual health. I do regret the looss [sic] of health <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">of</span> that S.<br /> Doty. is labouring under_ with love to Isaac. thy Children<br /> J. &. Joseph. who made us so pleasent [sic] a Visit.<br /> thy Friend as ever EH Prior<br /><br /> NB. Sibilla Winston as they say will be married next fifth<br /> day to Joseph Thurby son of R<span style="text-decoration:underline;">uscu</span>m Thurby. a great match<br /> for her_ William Brigs is marrid [sic] to one Smith.<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> Joseph Elderd one year ago requested to be<br /> released from Select <span style="text-decoration:underline;">me</span>e It was put put ^<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">off</span>^ recently the<br /> Select mee sent a complaint against him that he<br /> lost his usefullness [sic] as a minister; It so happened<br /> that all the old <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">ones</span> Stiff ones was In the Select mee<br /> they the mo_ mee sat there judgment aside<br /> and released him on his request (he had not<br /> attended the Select Committee <span style="text-decoration:underline;">me</span>e in more than a<br /> year; It is a Stroke to them. to think that the now<br /> disorderly p<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ar</span>t d<span style="text-decoration:underline;">on</span>t r<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ise</span> in t<span style="text-decoration:underline;">im</span>e of p<span style="text-decoration:underline;">rai</span>n [sic] and are<br /> not affraid [sic] of ex<span style="text-decoration:underline;">amin</span>ing n<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ew</span> th<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ink</span>s [sic]<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> [Blank]<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> [Text in center of page, written upward]<br /><br /> Mar 8<br /> NY<br /><br /> Amy Post<br /><br /> To the Care of Rochester<br /> Isaac Post</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Prior, E H. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from E H Prior to Amy Kirby Post, March 6, 1852.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Prior, E H
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1852-03-06
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
916
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Ledyard 3 mo - 6 th 1852 Esteem Friend A Post I am at this time drawn to address thee for the purpos [sic] of learning the true course of S. Ann C. Carpenters derangement hering [sic] that, She was with you G. Willets writes; It is to be from the affects [sic] of Spiritual influance [sic]. I do not concieve [sic] but there must have bin [sic] some cause that has affected her mental powers previous to her conclusion that; It was the Spirits that caussed [sic] her thus to be. her friends feels much grieved for her and Symphathy [sic] for her husband. S Dunlap. Is most wild about, It She is so situated that She cannot leave home or She would Soon be there Caroline is very unwell. Ann Maria gone to Dutches [sic] George is much complaning [sic]. It will confer a great favour for thee to write as soon as possible. her situation and what the Dr. thinks of her. Susan Ann told S Dunlap. last time there, She had such turns of her head She did not know but that, She would loose her Senses. Our family is in usual health. I do regret the looss [sic] of health of that S. Doty. is labouring under_ with love to Isaac. thy Children J. &. Joseph. who made us so pleasent [sic] a Visit. thy Friend as ever EH Prior NB. Sibilla Winston as they say will be married next fifth day to Joseph Thurby son of Ruscum Thurby. a great match for her_ William Brigs is marrid [sic] to one Smith. Joseph Elderd one year ago requested to be released from Select mee It was put put ^off^ recently the Select mee sent a complaint against him that he lost his usefullness [sic] as a minister; It so happened that all the old ones Stiff ones was In the Select mee they the mo_ mee sat there judgment aside and released him on his request (he had not attended the Select Committee mee in more than a year; It is a Stroke to them. to think that the now disorderly part dont rise in time of prain [sic] and are not affraid [sic] of examining new thinks [sic] [Blank] [Text in center of page, written upward] Mar 8 NY Amy Post To the Care of Rochester Isaac Post
Personal
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/3acb9fbe8916190dc7d4ae17f2da64ef.jpg
b87c4ed683e56371029d8e657df1f501
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/08f0513fa937b5331bb4f6b8fb08e623.jpg
1c8693fb2599d5cd6a046084679f6a9a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/57397e71d2825e0213c47dd31b975ad3.xml
beabfaf08e46ae37de816fd66fd75a29
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> 11th month 25 1851<br /> Dear Brother and Sister<br /> Have just come out of the woods in a hard snow storm<br /> the girls has given me an invitation to send a line with them<br /> the ground is white with snow but I think it will<br /> likely soon turn to rain which will suit us much better<br /> as we have concluded to prepare for building a barn in<br /> the spring and would like to get the timber carted this<br /> winter last 5<sup>th</sup> day we <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">went</span> attended Jericho monthly<br /> meeting and in the afternoon the Charity Society<br /> some months ago several members being wanted we<br /> concluded to invite our women to join us 5 of six ^members^<br /> attended and I do not know but they help to make the<br /> men in earnest for we had quite discoussion [sic] on the buisness [sic]<br /> that came before us. After meeting Edward Hicks<br /> Journal was talked about. I told them plainly that<br /> I thought it a pernicious book in the evenings<br /> we went to R Seamans they asked how we liked it<br /> I spoke pretty quick I did not like it Robert remar-<br /> =ked he thought it like E Hicks I told him then I<br /> had been very much disappointed in the man alth=<br /> =ough the very part of his life he did appear<br /> to change I told him that if his communication by<br /> thee could be put in the last part of the book I should<br /> not have so much objection to it then By the way if<br /> Jacob or Joseph one of them is willing ^to coby [sic]^ I should glad<br /> to have a copy of the peice [sic] thee had with thee<br /> when on the Island with us. Robert seemed to<br /> think the spiritual intercourse would have a ten=<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> =tency to make people worse for if they only felt<br /> sure they would received a state capalbe [sic] of spirtual [sic]<br /> progression they would not try so much to prepare<br /> for entering the new life but I could not see that<br /> it would have that tendency he named Wil Weeks<br /> as an interest instance that had lived an abanded [sic]<br /> life, and now the accounts from him is, he is trying<br /> to mend his way, he thought people would be more<br /> likely to go on in sin if these Ideas were only beleived [sic]<br /> in I yesterday saw Samuel Sith from Bethpage he<br /> is much interested Davis<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">e</span> writings and also the account<br /> of the rapings [sic] appears to be a firm beleiveer [sic] and say<br /> he reads evry [sic] thing on the subject that he can get<br /> he has a second wife. If thee could get a communication [sic]<br /> from his departed wife worth sending he would enjoy it<br /> I think much. He had a son in California has not heard<br /> from him in a long time but thinks he is not living<br /> from the accounts publish in the News papers as the<br /> name and age corresponded with his son. <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">However I think</span><br /> I have scrible [sic] on and I think the above is not worth<br /> sending but it will show that the spiritual Idie [sic] often<br /> enters my mind. I think the above is not worth sending<br /> but as Mary is not at home to send something better and<br /> this will come free of expence [sic] it may show that your [sic] are <br /> not forgoten [sic] by us. Matilda has not been as well for a<br /> week past has been considerable more poorly although<br /> she rides out some <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">she</span> I think she is rather falling<br /> ^back^ most of the time cannot see much change from day to<br /> day but in looking back from month to month we can<br /> see she is not so smart. James Mott s here gets along quit [sic]<br /> slow with his new house had not got it couverd [sic] a few day<br /> age it may be by the time but I go J Post<br />
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, November 25, 1851.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1851-11-25
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
902
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. 11th month 25 1851 Dear Brother and Sister Have just come out of the woods in a hard snow storm the girls has given me an invitation to send a line with them the ground is white with snow but I think it will likely soon turn to rain which will suit us much better as we have concluded to prepare for building a barn in the spring and would like to get the timber carted this winter last 5th day we went attended Jericho monthly meeting and in the afternoon the Charity Society some months ago several members being wanted we concluded to invite our women to join us 5 of six ^members^ attended and I do not know but they help to make the men in earnest for we had quite discoussion [sic] on the buisness [sic] that came before us. After meeting Edward Hicks Journal was talked about. I told them plainly that I thought it a pernicious book in the evenings we went to R Seamans they asked how we liked it I spoke pretty quick I did not like it Robert remar- =ked he thought it like E Hicks I told him then I had been very much disappointed in the man alth= =ough the very part of his life he did appear to change I told him that if his communication by thee could be put in the last part of the book I should not have so much objection to it then By the way if Jacob or Joseph one of them is willing ^to coby [sic]^ I should glad to have a copy of the peice [sic] thee had with thee when on the Island with us. Robert seemed to think the spiritual intercourse would have a ten= =tency to make people worse for if they only felt sure they would received a state capalbe [sic] of spirtual [sic] progression they would not try so much to prepare for entering the new life but I could not see that it would have that tendency he named Wil Weeks as an interest instance that had lived an abanded [sic] life, and now the accounts from him is, he is trying to mend his way, he thought people would be more likely to go on in sin if these Ideas were only beleived [sic] in I yesterday saw Samuel Sith from Bethpage he is much interested Davise writings and also the account of the rapings [sic] appears to be a firm beleiveer [sic] and say he reads evry [sic] thing on the subject that he can get he has a second wife. If thee could get a communication [sic] from his departed wife worth sending he would enjoy it I think much. He had a son in California has not heard from him in a long time but thinks he is not living from the accounts publish in the News papers as the name and age corresponded with his son. However I think I have scrible [sic] on and I think the above is not worth sending but it will show that the spiritual Idie [sic] often enters my mind. I think the above is not worth sending but as Mary is not at home to send something better and this will come free of expence [sic] it may show that your [sic] are not forgoten [sic] by us. Matilda has not been as well for a week past has been considerable more poorly although she rides out some she I think she is rather falling ^back^ most of the time cannot see much change from day to day but in looking back from month to month we can see she is not so smart. James Mott s here gets along quit [sic] slow with his new house had not got it couverd [sic] a few day age it may be by the time but I go J Post
Family
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f186388127921632bb97e69195b9c876.jpg
2f4009e252ddce527beb2bd73137b59d
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/03768afdf7e9fa42c087ae0a3c8719c3.jpg
e6cf47d6a04a9b69d6e1ba5dcf152e96
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/493191676c2946adcc577a23bcfcf978.jpg
fb1618e0073a6a19b12e9b5c5148fb58
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f24065c014f50963478c666605811ca4.jpg
943bdb47638c4790fe90a0e071694196
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Potter, Nathaniel J R. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Nathaniel J R Potter to Isaac Post, November 3, 1850.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Potter, Nathaniel J R
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1850-11-03
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
867
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Abolitionism
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/3ec41be5cf26135402816a8c987cd217.jpg
a62d6fc225f08fa7f6d82c41f2571997
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f8410ab77d5820ec9d122498b0eb0ee4.xml
eb03fba1fde40c52d082c699bedee8fd
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> 10 mo 2<sup>n<span style="text-decoration:underline;">d</span></sup> 50<br /> Quite a long time has passed since your departure with –<br /> out a word from us, we often think of your to us pleasent [sic]<br /> visit. I <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">was</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">glad</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">when</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">I</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">hear</span> often think what a hapy [sic]<br /> circumstances it was your geting [sic] here before our sending<br /> you word of our entended [sic] visit to you (some would<br /> almost call it proverdential [sic]) although I have ceased<br /> to look upon such events as any act of special providence<br /> R Johnson left N.Y. and arrived at Dobbs Ferry found<br /> Steven their waiting for us and gave us a verry [sic] cordial<br /> reception , on first day we attempted to cross the river<br /> to visit the palisades but owing to low tide and strong<br /> wind we did not succeed, we visited hills around Stevens<br /> a very pretty prospect and with a ride in the afternoon spent<br /> a very pleasent [sic] and I hope a profitable day without <br /> going to any meeting on 2<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>nd</sup></span> day morning R left at 7½ <br /> oclock train we expecting to follow in the next train<br /> but afterwards concluded to visit the palisades which<br /> was much more wonderful than I expected the highth [sic]<br /> and view <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">much</span> ^most^ <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">more</span> grand we returned got dinner<br /> and 10 minutes before 2 oclock left Dobbs Ferry and arrived<br /> at chamber S<sup>t</sup> ¼ before 3 and then home that evening<br /> having made to us a very peasent [sic] visit and <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">more</span> ^much^ expession [sic]<br /> of the same from the visited 4<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> of the month evening have<br /> been to south after hay I think the road seems as long<br /> as ever , I <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">am</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">in</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">hopes</span> think the bargain for geting [sic] ^the hay^ just<br /> about eaqual [sic] to have had it got on shares the usual<br /> way have <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">oldly</span> ^only^ carted flour loads yet . yesterday very hard<br /> wind from the northwest no frost yet to kill vines <br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> [Text above written by Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post and is transcribed as 861_10_02_1850]<br /><br /> [Text at bottom of page]<br /><br /> Have just returned from Joshua’s tuck [sic] the paper up to <br /> add a little and found Mary had filled it and much better than I <br /> could have done it. we have quite a time about elders again<br /> I suppose Silas Carle will be appointed again as his name has<br /> been brought forward but there is a strong feeling against him I am <br /> more and more confirmed of the impropriety of the select meetings <br />
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, October 2, 1850.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1850-10-02
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
860
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. 10 mo 2nd 50 Quite a long time has passed since your departure with - out a word from us, we often think of your to us pleasent [sic] visit. I wasgladwhenIhear often think what a hapy [sic] circumstances it was your geting [sic] here before our sending you word of our entended [sic] visit to you (some would almost call it proverdential [sic]) although I have ceased to look upon such events as any act of special providence R Johnson left N.Y. and arrived at Dobbs Ferry found Steven their waiting for us and gave us a verry [sic] cordial reception, on first day we attempted to cross the river to visit the palisades but owing to low tide and strong wind we did not succeed, we visited hills around Stevens a very pretty prospect and with a ride in the afternoon spent a very pleasent [sic] and I hope a profitable day without going to any meeting on 2nd day morning R left at 7 1/2; oclock train we expecting to follow in the next train but afterwards concluded to visit the palisades which was much more wonderful than I expected the highth [sic] and view much ^most^ more grand we returned got dinner and 10 minutes before 2 oclock left Dobbs Ferry and arrived at chamber St 1/4; before 3 and then home that evening having made to us a very peasent [sic] visit and more ^much^ expession [sic] of the same from the visited 4th of the month evening have been to south after hay I think the road seems as long as ever, I aminhopes think the bargain for geting [sic] ^the hay^ just about eaqual [sic] to have had it got on shares the usual way have oldly ^only^ carted flour loads yet . yesterday very hard wind from the northwest no frost yet to kill vines [Text above written by Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post and is transcribed as 861_10_02_1850] [Text at bottom of page] Have just returned from Joshua's tuck [sic] the paper up to add a little and found Mary had filled it and much better than I could have done it. we have quite a time about elders again I suppose Silas Carle will be appointed again as his name has been brought forward but there is a strong feeling against him I am more and more confirmed of the impropriety of the select meetings
Agriculture
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/59b3ebf03d5dee4345df2c396b0f3d57.jpg
5e9ca615a16c0548559d66024c709635
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f7162ca6954ab7785d9557cb91ff693f.jpg
72487a1c3aea105c736277407084370a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9746a9701aaa571bdce39088119ce353.jpg
87c792ad025c9994052f727ea672b314
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/63818b25a258856061e55faa8225cdcd.jpg
413dc1dc7c515804a9ff3599c5852915
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/45d20042b2d0b4ca00226d15ba56196f.xml
427eabbba4eba7f6fd1c7e182fdf0a40
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> Our Dear Relatives Westbury 10 mo 1<sup>st</sup> x 50<br /> Think not you are forg<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">g</span>otten by your brother and sister<br /> that we have been so long silent I can assure you this has not been the case<br /> and I felt it in my heart to reply to brothers kind remembrance's but a var<br /> -iety of causes have operated against the fulfilment [sic] of the wish until the presen^t^<br /> and even now I cannot take much time as the sun is about to sink below the<br /> horizon and my eyes are too weak to allow me to write this evening We have<br /> seen but little of Jacob and still less of Edmund hope they will give us a<br /> greater portion of the remainder of their time I rejoice that your visit was<br /> satisfactory and pleasant to us it was unusually so and I love to recall<br /> the happy hours spent ^<span style="text-decoration:underline;">in</span>^ social communion with you they are bright spots on<br /> memory's tablet We are just home from a delightful visit to our<br /> dear friends Steven and Deborah Archer we had long contemplated pay_<br /> -ing them a visit (and contrary to our usual experience of long talked<br /> of visits) it was exceedingly pleasant and it seldom falls to our lot<br /> to be made so welcom [sic] they done all in their power to render it att<br /> -ractive and profitable I could tell you of many beautiful nights we ^saw^<br /> calculated to fill the mind with rapturous delight especially the view<br /> from the Pallisades [sic] is as grand and magnificent far exceeding my<br /> expectations of it we looked from the dizzy hight [sic] down into the river<br /> from <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">a</span> perpendicular rock's more than three hundred feet high eagles<br /> were flying in circles over our heads and many other objects both dis-<br /> -tant and near of great interest and beauty the only draw back<br /> to our enjoyment was the limited time we had to devote to them<br /> The walk was rough and in some places almost dangerous over rocks<br /> and loose stones in some places beautiful rills of water were runn<br /> -ing through stones and leaping from rock to rock in its decent [sic] to<br /> the beautiful river at the base of mountain and rock but farewel [sic] for to night<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> 4th I have since I commenced this gone through my usual cleaning process in-<br /> -cident to changing help and this morning I am introducing my new assista<br /> nt into the mysteries of my domestic arrangement a profess I always dislike<br /> but so far I get on admirably the adage a "new broom sweeps clean" I have<br /> often found true and I fear it may be in this case but I will hope on<br /> We have made a visit to Henry's on fourth day found Jacob there but decl<br /> -ined coming home with us as he wished to go to the Fair yesterday They<br /> had all been a fishing the day before John and May came in the evening<br /> and we had some plain talk about elders and I though Mary was a<br /> little hurt they are up for the appointment as well as aunt Mary father<br /> mother Robert Seaman Selah Hubbs and Sarah Powell, Eliza Seaman has for<br /> years been one she is left off at Westbury I dont know but suppose<br /> all will be appointed but to Silas Carle the opposition is great in<br /> his own meeting Edward S Willets and Edward L Frost are added to<br /> the former list When shall we see a reform in these things when there<br /> will be no priveleged [sic] class to usurp authority over the mass It seems<br /> as though there was a design in having the number increased and<br /> also in having them of corresponding sentiments they will carry<br /> all before them and liberal enlarged views will have but small<br /> change of being promulgated at least with their sanction _ but we<br /> shall see what we shall wee Isaac Hicks s house was struck with<br /> lightning last sixth day night and it appeared the east part of the<br /> house every room except one bore traces of it by tearing loose windows<br /> caseings [sic] and some other marks ^also^ in the garret both front and back stoop<br /> but no one injured further than a severe electric shock Isaac ^says^<br /> he does not think the house much injured Edmund Rushmore<br /> got home last evening believe he has improved in health Cynthia<br /> is away with her friends has a vacation of five weeks the last<br /> of the five she will probably spend with us in Philadelphia and<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> parts adjacent in attending the State meeting at West Chester<br /> unless Joseph and the girls should happen to have the mumps there<br /> was one of Steven Archer's boarders had them and was with us some<br /> time ere we knew about it (the girls do not expect to go) I do<br /> not much want to be disappointed but still would like the girls to<br /> get through with all such diseases while <span style="text-decoration:underline;">I</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">am</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">personal</span>ly with them<br /> We perceive by the paper's that the Rochester rappings say John C<br /> Calhoun is now in favor of emancipation I would much rather he<br /> had given evidence while here for his testimony now is not of much<br /> value as so few will believe without greater evidence than they can<br /> have through this medium I would be so glad to be convinced rela<br /> tive to this matter whether it really be what it purports to be I can<br /> not help doubting but I must stop again as it is time to get our dinner<br /> Well dinner is over and I am just in from picking grapes with<br /> which our vines are laden but they are not as good as at some<br /> former times as they do not ripen well beleive [sic] it is universally<br /> the case in these parts but there are many very sweet and<br /> good and I wished it were possible while I was in the<br /> garden for me to send you a boquet [sic] of flowers I think<br /> I could cull one which would do Long Island credit at<br /> least in the opinion of the <span style="text-decoration:underline;">natives</span> without being rare they<br /> possess the charm <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">of</span> which early associations give to objects loved<br /> in childhood Has Sarah returned from her Canadian visit<br /> I felt a little disappointed in not having her this way but<br /> doubt not Phebe was rejoiced to have her with them and perhaps<br /> our turn will come ere long my love to her with an invitation<br /> to visit us The fugitive slave bill and the eagerness to<br /> carry it out is carrying fear and sorrow into many a heart<br /> and family the arrest in New York and attempted arrest<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> has caused great sensation and among a class too who before<br /> have been quite indifferent to the subject I verily believe if it<br /> is possible for the Northern mind to be aroused from its lethargy<br /> and hardness of heart these outrages of the rights of freedom will<br /> do it I have a strong hope that this infamous act will act<br /> as an engine against the evil it is designed to perpetuate and secure<br /> but before this is done how many hopes and aspirations will be brok<br /> -en how many homes made desolate by this ruthless invader Oh I am<br /> sad when I think of it but the inducement is still greater to labor<br /> on all occasions in season and out for the destruction of the<br /> vile system of slavery Aunt Phebe Carpenter is rather dec<br /> -lining have not seen her since she went to Brooklyn<br /> Matilda does not gain as fast as we hoped she would but is<br /> about We attended the funeral last sixth day of Samuel Mott<br /> Leonard's son quite a promising young man it appeared to be a<br /> great trial to them I wondered at the time what their views<br /> of death were whether the same dark and sad ^view^ which the mass<br /> of mankind hold or those ^of a^ bright and progressive life which takes<br /> from death its sting and from the grave its victory I wished for<br /> their sake's it might be the latter Samuel Seaman son of Elizab<br /> is gone has suffered much and his desire for life was such he<br /> would be willing to be in an scituation [sic] even to be a slave could<br /> he only live Oh sad deplorable condition how afflictive to be with<br /> him left a wife and three little girls Have just got the first vol<br /> of the Great Harmonia have not read much ^of it^ yet the philosophy<br /> of Death I think I shall like the best his ideas are I think<br /> destined to change long established beliefs in regard to death<br /> progression and happiness of all I have scribble on until<br /> I find I am at the bottom of my sheet and will close after<br /> xpressing [sic] the hope you will not follow my xample [sic] and defer<br /> time after time ere you write to us you have done well heretofor<br /> that is one of <span style="text-decoration:underline;">the</span>e
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, October 1, 1850.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1850-10-01
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
859
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Our Dear Relatives Westbury 10 mo 1st x 50 Think not you are forggotten by your brother and sister that we have been so long silent I can assure you this has not been the case and I felt it in my heart to reply to brothers kind remembrance's but a var -iety of causes have operated against the fulfilment [sic] of the wish until the presen^t^ and even now I cannot take much time as the sun is about to sink below the horizon and my eyes are too weak to allow me to write this evening We have seen but little of Jacob and still less of Edmund hope they will give us a greater portion of the remainder of their time I rejoice that your visit was satisfactory and pleasant to us it was unusually so and I love to recall the happy hours spent ^in^ social communion with you they are bright spots on memory's tablet We are just home from a delightful visit to our dear friends Steven and Deborah Archer we had long contemplated pay_ -ing them a visit (and contrary to our usual experience of long talked of visits) it was exceedingly pleasant and it seldom falls to our lot to be made so welcom [sic] they done all in their power to render it att -ractive and profitable I could tell you of many beautiful nights we ^saw^ calculated to fill the mind with rapturous delight especially the view from the Pallisades [sic] is as grand and magnificent far exceeding my expectations of it we looked from the dizzy hight [sic] down into the river from a perpendicular rock's more than three hundred feet high eagles were flying in circles over our heads and many other objects both dis- -tant and near of great interest and beauty the only draw back to our enjoyment was the limited time we had to devote to them The walk was rough and in some places almost dangerous over rocks and loose stones in some places beautiful rills of water were runn -ing through stones and leaping from rock to rock in its decent [sic] to the beautiful river at the base of mountain and rock but farewel [sic] for to night 4th I have since I commenced this gone through my usual cleaning process in- -cident to changing help and this morning I am introducing my new assista nt into the mysteries of my domestic arrangement a profess I always dislike but so far I get on admirably the adage a "new broom sweeps clean" I have often found true and I fear it may be in this case but I will hope on We have made a visit to Henry's on fourth day found Jacob there but decl -ined coming home with us as he wished to go to the Fair yesterday They had all been a fishing the day before John and May came in the evening and we had some plain talk about elders and I though Mary was a little hurt they are up for the appointment as well as aunt Mary father mother Robert Seaman Selah Hubbs and Sarah Powell, Eliza Seaman has for years been one she is left off at Westbury I dont know but suppose all will be appointed but to Silas Carle the opposition is great in his own meeting Edward S Willets and Edward L Frost are added to the former list When shall we see a reform in these things when there will be no priveleged [sic] class to usurp authority over the mass It seems as though there was a design in having the number increased and also in having them of corresponding sentiments they will carry all before them and liberal enlarged views will have but small change of being promulgated at least with their sanction _ but we shall see what we shall wee Isaac Hicks s house was struck with lightning last sixth day night and it appeared the east part of the house every room except one bore traces of it by tearing loose windows caseings [sic] and some other marks ^also^ in the garret both front and back stoop but no one injured further than a severe electric shock Isaac ^says^ he does not think the house much injured Edmund Rushmore got home last evening believe he has improved in health Cynthia is away with her friends has a vacation of five weeks the last of the five she will probably spend with us in Philadelphia and parts adjacent in attending the State meeting at West Chester unless Joseph and the girls should happen to have the mumps there was one of Steven Archer's boarders had them and was with us some time ere we knew about it (the girls do not expect to go) I do not much want to be disappointed but still would like the girls to get through with all such diseases while Iampersonally with them We perceive by the paper's that the Rochester rappings say John C Calhoun is now in favor of emancipation I would much rather he had given evidence while here for his testimony now is not of much value as so few will believe without greater evidence than they can have through this medium I would be so glad to be convinced rela tive to this matter whether it really be what it purports to be I can not help doubting but I must stop again as it is time to get our dinner Well dinner is over and I am just in from picking grapes with which our vines are laden but they are not as good as at some former times as they do not ripen well beleive [sic] it is universally the case in these parts but there are many very sweet and good and I wished it were possible while I was in the garden for me to send you a boquet [sic] of flowers I think I could cull one which would do Long Island credit at least in the opinion of the natives without being rare they possess the charm of which early associations give to objects loved in childhood Has Sarah returned from her Canadian visit I felt a little disappointed in not having her this way but doubt not Phebe was rejoiced to have her with them and perhaps our turn will come ere long my love to her with an invitation to visit us The fugitive slave bill and the eagerness to carry it out is carrying fear and sorrow into many a heart and family the arrest in New York and attempted arrest has caused great sensation and among a class too who before have been quite indifferent to the subject I verily believe if it is possible for the Northern mind to be aroused from its lethargy and hardness of heart these outrages of the rights of freedom will do it I have a strong hope that this infamous act will act as an engine against the evil it is designed to perpetuate and secure but before this is done how many hopes and aspirations will be brok -en how many homes made desolate by this ruthless invader Oh I am sad when I think of it but the inducement is still greater to labor on all occasions in season and out for the destruction of the vile system of slavery Aunt Phebe Carpenter is rather dec -lining have not seen her since she went to Brooklyn Matilda does not gain as fast as we hoped she would but is about We attended the funeral last sixth day of Samuel Mott Leonard's son quite a promising young man it appeared to be a great trial to them I wondered at the time what their views of death were whether the same dark and sad ^view^ which the mass of mankind hold or those ^of a^ bright and progressive life which takes from death its sting and from the grave its victory I wished for their sake's it might be the latter Samuel Seaman son of Elizab is gone has suffered much and his desire for life was such he would be willing to be in an scituation [sic] even to be a slave could he only live Oh sad deplorable condition how afflictive to be with him left a wife and three little girls Have just got the first vol of the Great Harmonia have not read much ^of it^ yet the philosophy of Death I think I shall like the best his ideas are I think destined to change long established beliefs in regard to death progression and happiness of all I have scribble on until I find I am at the bottom of my sheet and will close after xpressing [sic] the hope you will not follow my xample [sic] and defer time after time ere you write to us you have done well heretofor that is one of thee
Abolitionism
Domestic Servants
Family
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/4d6eae11d522ed292cfcca14f657b529.jpg
2c0f4164f09d9c687d61c2f2f7c7c825
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/777e3c8a0f4b5b41610456d80bdb18b9.jpg
d9344e1b1e6e424e67d0afe346dbd038
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f95441f168cdc2c59845731171ca4ef8.jpg
9ab33e35670b0bd5169ec1a5378c304e
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/2ff6773a9b727fc39f211ff27273c233.jpg
84cc14e48607b9fcac77a6cce810a019
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9e5ca7fdce00ab6995229244cfca7c6a.xml
8b838fe27aa84a0d1fd489c45fafc9f6
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> Westbury 9 Mo<sup>th</sup> 16<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> 1850<br /> Dear William & Mary<br /> I hope you will excuse me for not hav<br /> -ing acknowledged ere this the reception of Williams much valued<br /> testimonial or remembrance it was most grateful to our feelings please<br /> accept our thanks for the favor I commenced a sheet and partly filled<br /> it many weeks ago but from various excuses it was not quite finished<br /> and now it is quite too stale to think of sending I regret the circu<br /> -mstance as there is at present but little <span style="text-decoration:underline;">news</span> to communicate in<br /> the way but very much which it would be delightful to talk over toge<br /> -ther among other things let me say your father and mother have told<br /> us so many wonderful things that if not fully convinced we have certain<br /> -ly become much ^more^ ready to hear and if in our way to examine into these mis<br /> -terious [sic] sounds which they hear and which they prize so highly but still I<br /> cannot see any great good to come from it "but wait a little longer" perhaps<br /> I shall in time understand better _ _ they made us a very pleasant<br /> visit we enjoyed it greatly but they are gone and distance has set its<br /> barrier between us it quite difficult to feel satisfied to have so<br /> many of ^our^ dear one's located so f<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ar</span> away it would be so pleasant to<br /> form a little community where there would be no discordant feelings<br /> and interests to mar the harmony and love which I should want to cem<br /> -ent all together I fear few are prepared to carry out this idea even on<br /> a limited plan which of us have not witnessed the estrangement of friends<br /> once very dear in whose stedfast [sic] integrity and generous affection we had<br /> garnered up our hearts I feel sad to think that friendship does not prove<br /> more enduring that a difference of sentiment so generally weakens the<br /> bond of union and in many cases an opposite feeling takes possession<br /> of the breast The last week New York and parts adjacent have been in<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> quite an excited state on account of Jenny Lind first advint [sic] at Castle<br /> Garden she is winning g<span style="text-decoration:underline;">old</span>en opinions and then how generously giving<br /> it back to charitable institutions she must understand the feelings of the<br /> world pretty well for it is probably no other course would have made her<br /> so great a favourite I hope she will remember the slave and their friends next<br /> time Dont you regret Frederick Bremer's position that she whome we all<br /> delighted and loved to honor should in any way falter is cause of the dee<br /> -pest regret we have allways [sic] xpected [sic] to find her on side of the oppressed<br /> and never as an eulogist of a slaveholder Suppose you have seen Rebecc^a^<br /> Capon's [sic] address we were quite pleased with it _ it was sent us from<br /> Pennysylvania it was published in the Westchester Register & Examiner and<br /> by the by dont you think of being at the meeting to be held at West Cheste [sic]<br /> I should think you would like it Rowland Johnson has been up<br /> and made us a delightful visit we took him to Cow Neck meeting he<br /> came out reformer like against many things held as sacred against the<br /> veneration for the bible for Jesus &c &c that a conformity to the dicipline [sic]<br /> the wearing a broad brimed [sic] hat and a plain coat were too often substituted <br /> for justice mercy and truth that there was danger of being too spiritual on<br /> the whole it was a first rate sermon spoke up was slavery and intemperance<br /> and cautioned against censuring and condemning those whose ideas of<br /> some things differed from the poplar beleif [sic] they were called infidels<br /> that among this class were to be found some of the purest minds &c<br /> it is weeks ago and I do not remember particularly enough to give any<br /> kind of an idea it was of such a character as I thought required consider<br /> -able moral courage to face the opposition which will be arroused [sic]<br /> against him what will be done with him is more than I can tell<br /> one thing is certain the New York Monthly Meeting are creating a large<br /> number of e<span style="text-decoration:underline;">lder</span>s and nearly all are of the illiberal order William<br /> C White who is quite tolerant has not been brought forward I think<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> I have heard there was about twenty proposed this looks like doing<br /> something to keep order I will now lay this aside and take a ride<br /> to Isaac Rushmore's have written this in the room with company who<br /> are talking and I must join in with the talk sometimes so I have made<br /> many mistakes they have just gone and I must say good night<br /> 17 I am just in from a walk this bright and beautiful morning how invigor<br /> -ating to the soul to go forth and commune with nature amidst the beauties<br /> which are spread before us the earth is covered with the freshness and verdure<br /> of spring and a large collection of bright and beautiful flowers adorn both<br /> garden and field "yes month of my heart Septemper [sic] mild<br /> Thy transient reign is passing bright-" Oh that you<br /> were here we might then walk together on our <span style="text-decoration:underline;">hills</span> and enjoy much of na<br /> -ture in its quiet appearance as presented from them I enjoy the view in<br /> the early morning also when the king of day is sinking below the western<br /> horizon tinging the sky with golden hues these hours are among some of<br /> the most cherished seasons of my life I have felt inspired by a sense of the<br /> presence ^of God^ and felt elevated above the discords of life and prepared to worship<br /> I trust acceptably our benevolent Father in spirit We made a pleasant<br /> call at Isaac's Matilda not quite as well as usual but pleasant and int<br /> resting as ever what a beautiful and hopeful spirit she is, she infuses joy and<br /> light through the house Samuel and Catharine were there on first day and with them<br /> Nestor Houton he requested at New York last spring I dont know what he is I should think<br /> he went with neither party however he preached at our meeting whether it was<br /> his first attempt I dont know Catharine is remarkably well it is really aston<br /> -ishing to see her so actively engaged in domestic duties<br /> We have received Isaac's letter and were very glad to hear of Edmund's improvem^ent^<br /> suppose we shall soon have him with us hope he will stay sometime it may<br /> be an advantage to him to rest from money getting<br /> Cynthia left us yesterday morning to visit her friends will be absent<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> from her school five weeks we miss her very much she lightens many<br /> a silent home by her cheerful and enquiring mind we shall greet her<br /> again with pleasure We contemplate visiting Stephen Archer<br /> in company with Rowland Johnson in two weeks we anticipate<br /> a rare treat of intellectual dainties We perceive Frederica<br /> Bremer has visited Frederick Douglass did she visit you or did you<br /> meet with her anywhere? And how is Frederic I hope he will be more<br /> careful of his health else he will wear our ere slavery is abolished<br /> How graphically Henry C Wright describes his visit to<br /> see the [gaso?] spring the midnight scene is very striking few<br /> possess the gift to delineate so accurately and yet so interestingly<br /> all the little minutia [sic] of such a scene<br /> There may have been many things I would like to have<br /> noticed in your letter but as I have not got it by me and probably<br /> they have been answered long ago by some one else I will not trouble you<br /> at this late period with any but I think I may venture to say if you<br /> will condescend to write again I will not delay so long unless I have<br /> a first rate <span style="text-decoration:underline;">excuse</span> for it The health of our friends in this vicinity<br /> is generally pretty good Daniel Underhill has began to walk with crutches<br /> Wiliams Willets is better whether permanently I do not know I have been<br /> rather unwell for some days at turns quite so with great distress in my<br /> stomach I expect Joseph would like to have put in a word but he is out<br /> and will loose the chance to do so if I do not stop Love to all our<br /> friends Do write and tell us whether you begin to give ear to rap's and <br /> manifestations I think I would go <span style="text-decoration:underline;">onc</span>e again if in Williams place and test it if<br /> possible In the bonds of affection I am truly yours Mary W Post
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to William R Hallowell.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to William R Hallowell, September 10, 1850.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1850-09-10
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
William R Hallowell
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
857
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Westbury 9 Moth 16th 1850 Dear William & Mary I hope you will excuse me for not hav -ing acknowledged ere this the reception of Williams much valued testimonial or remembrance it was most grateful to our feelings please accept our thanks for the favor I commenced a sheet and partly filled it many weeks ago but from various excuses it was not quite finished and now it is quite too stale to think of sending I regret the circu -mstance as there is at present but little news to communicate in the way but very much which it would be delightful to talk over toge -ther among other things let me say your father and mother have told us so many wonderful things that if not fully convinced we have certain -ly become much ^more^ ready to hear and if in our way to examine into these mis -terious [sic] sounds which they hear and which they prize so highly but still I cannot see any great good to come from it "but wait a little longer" perhaps I shall in time understand better _ _ they made us a very pleasant visit we enjoyed it greatly but they are gone and distance has set its barrier between us it quite difficult to feel satisfied to have so many of ^our^ dear one's located so far away it would be so pleasant to form a little community where there would be no discordant feelings and interests to mar the harmony and love which I should want to cem -ent all together I fear few are prepared to carry out this idea even on a limited plan which of us have not witnessed the estrangement of friends once very dear in whose stedfast [sic] integrity and generous affection we had garnered up our hearts I feel sad to think that friendship does not prove more enduring that a difference of sentiment so generally weakens the bond of union and in many cases an opposite feeling takes possession of the breast The last week New York and parts adjacent have been in quite an excited state on account of Jenny Lind first advint [sic] at Castle Garden she is winning golden opinions and then how generously giving it back to charitable institutions she must understand the feelings of the world pretty well for it is probably no other course would have made her so great a favourite I hope she will remember the slave and their friends next time Dont you regret Frederick Bremer's position that she whome we all delighted and loved to honor should in any way falter is cause of the dee -pest regret we have allways [sic] xpected [sic] to find her on side of the oppressed and never as an eulogist of a slaveholder Suppose you have seen Rebecc^a^ Capon's [sic] address we were quite pleased with it _ it was sent us from Pennysylvania it was published in the Westchester Register & Examiner and by the by dont you think of being at the meeting to be held at West Cheste [sic] I should think you would like it Rowland Johnson has been up and made us a delightful visit we took him to Cow Neck meeting he came out reformer like against many things held as sacred against the veneration for the bible for Jesus &c &c that a conformity to the dicipline [sic] the wearing a broad brimed [sic] hat and a plain coat were too often substituted for justice mercy and truth that there was danger of being too spiritual on the whole it was a first rate sermon spoke up was slavery and intemperance and cautioned against censuring and condemning those whose ideas of some things differed from the poplar beleif [sic] they were called infidels that among this class were to be found some of the purest minds &c it is weeks ago and I do not remember particularly enough to give any kind of an idea it was of such a character as I thought required consider -able moral courage to face the opposition which will be arroused [sic] against him what will be done with him is more than I can tell one thing is certain the New York Monthly Meeting are creating a large number of elders and nearly all are of the illiberal order William C White who is quite tolerant has not been brought forward I think I have heard there was about twenty proposed this looks like doing something to keep order I will now lay this aside and take a ride to Isaac Rushmore's have written this in the room with company who are talking and I must join in with the talk sometimes so I have made many mistakes they have just gone and I must say good night 17 I am just in from a walk this bright and beautiful morning how invigor -ating to the soul to go forth and commune with nature amidst the beauties which are spread before us the earth is covered with the freshness and verdure of spring and a large collection of bright and beautiful flowers adorn both garden and field "yes month of my heart Septemper [sic] mild Thy transient reign is passing bright-" Oh that you were here we might then walk together on our hills and enjoy much of na -ture in its quiet appearance as presented from them I enjoy the view in the early morning also when the king of day is sinking below the western horizon tinging the sky with golden hues these hours are among some of the most cherished seasons of my life I have felt inspired by a sense of the presence ^of God^ and felt elevated above the discords of life and prepared to worship I trust acceptably our benevolent Father in spirit We made a pleasant call at Isaac's Matilda not quite as well as usual but pleasant and int resting as ever what a beautiful and hopeful spirit she is, she infuses joy and light through the house Samuel and Catharine were there on first day and with them Nestor Houton he requested at New York last spring I dont know what he is I should think he went with neither party however he preached at our meeting whether it was his first attempt I dont know Catharine is remarkably well it is really aston -ishing to see her so actively engaged in domestic duties We have received Isaac's letter and were very glad to hear of Edmund's improvem^ent^ suppose we shall soon have him with us hope he will stay sometime it may be an advantage to him to rest from money getting Cynthia left us yesterday morning to visit her friends will be absent from her school five weeks we miss her very much she lightens many a silent home by her cheerful and enquiring mind we shall greet her again with pleasure We contemplate visiting Stephen Archer in company with Rowland Johnson in two weeks we anticipate a rare treat of intellectual dainties We perceive Frederica Bremer has visited Frederick Douglass did she visit you or did you meet with her anywhere? And how is Frederic I hope he will be more careful of his health else he will wear our ere slavery is abolished How graphically Henry C Wright describes his visit to see the [gaso?] spring the midnight scene is very striking few possess the gift to delineate so accurately and yet so interestingly all the little minutia [sic] of such a scene There may have been many things I would like to have noticed in your letter but as I have not got it by me and probably they have been answered long ago by some one else I will not trouble you at this late period with any but I think I may venture to say if you will condescend to write again I will not delay so long unless I have a first rate excuse for it The health of our friends in this vicinity is generally pretty good Daniel Underhill has began to walk with crutches Wiliams Willets is better whether permanently I do not know I have been rather unwell for some days at turns quite so with great distress in my stomach I expect Joseph would like to have put in a word but he is out and will loose the chance to do so if I do not stop Love to all our friends Do write and tell us whether you begin to give ear to rap's and manifestations I think I would go once again if in Williams place and test it if possible In the bonds of affection I am truly yours Mary W Post
Abolitionism
Family
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/007bdc6bcfea2dc722873796c67200bd.jpg
2e060326be93491bfb0c71f4fd328a06
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/98fb153177db9e44618b73faf3493f68.jpg
5524025672be05cfb55a59d4dd1b7525
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/2526ddbc2fae62d57c759bc0b3bb14c2.jpg
7613d5ad5ddfaf58579a2a4489513f29
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c8e9c23b0aff5b65a8c08d552bc7d433.jpg
c2325bfaac56b8bbaa8232a356a5e6f1
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/409b52a75ae9ad9f3ed3297772104cdf.xml
a60e19b483aba56fecdfff344b1fef17
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> J Post Jericho 7<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>mo</sup></span> 3<sup>d</sup> 1850<br /> My dear fr<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ien</span>d Thine of last month came duly to<br /> hand but I have not until now found opportunity<br /> to answer it to my own satisfaction, having been so<br /> taken up by so many one thing or others that have<br /> crouded [sic] themselves upon my attention. In the first<br /> place I went on a little traveling tour with our friend<br /> Ardon Seaman towards the Eastern part of our Island<br /> A has had an impression of duty for a considerable time<br /> to make this visit, but having imbibed some of the<br /> liberal notions of the day, his spiritual care-takers<br /> have been rather backward in trusting him with<br /> so important a concern - How but he at length obtained<br /> a <span style="text-decoration:underline;">minut</span>e, and as our ministers must have co<span style="text-decoration:underline;">mpanions</span><br /> it fell to the lot of thy friend to be his armor bearer<br /> Well, we went and I though he was quite favoured._<br /> whether some guardian angels from the Spirit land were<br /> hovering around to lend their aid I cannot say. In short<br /> it seemed to me a satisfactory visit both to visitors and<br /> visited_ Our labours were on the south side of the Island<br /> as far as Quogue where we were kindly entertained<br /> by some of the Post family - (your relatives I believe) __<br /> And now let me acknowlege [sic] thy favour,_ for such I<br /> esteem it_ of the information respecting your sp<span style="text-decoration:underline;">iritua</span>l<br /> concerns. I am not disposed to join with those who<br /> strive to ridicule every thing of their nature; and in<br /> this case it often has seemed to me to be used as a kind<br /> of subterfuge where opponents have found themselves at<br /> a loss for sober arguments to meet undeniable facts _<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> At the same time I am not quite prepared to enter my<br /> name on the list of converts, perhaps if I were to attend<br /> some of your D<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>r</sup></span>. Franklin meetings I might be fully<br /> confirmed_ I am inclined candidly and honestly to<br /> enquire into the matter as way opens for it and feel<br /> much obliged by the information contained in thy<br /> letter and should be glad of more from the same source<br /> shen thou feels inclined thus to favour me. There is<br /> one thing that inclines me to think there is no intentional<br /> deception in the case (of the rappings I mean) and that is<br /> not only the strict investigation which has been submited [sic]<br /> to <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">in the case</span>, but the weakness of all the efforts that I<br /> have seen to expose the humbug_ Those who have under-<br /> _taken this tho' with much seeming confidence, have all<br /> so far as I have seen, seemed to me to expose their own<br /> weakness more than any thing else _ It is truly an age of<br /> discovery and new developments of various kinds, so that<br /> it is necessary to be careful how we presume to doubt<br /> any thing that is new or strange _ _ My better half wishes<br /> me to c<span style="text-decoration:underline;">orrect</span> some of our friend IP<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>s</sup></span> ideas_ I ask her to do<br /> it but she declines, so I suppose the matter will have to<br /> be left to his own good sense after all; in short if that<br /> will not do it I shall look upon it as rather a hopeless<br /> case _ _ _ We understand that Joseph A Dugdale is likely<br /> to visit this part of the vineyard should be truly glad to<br /> see him _ got a slight acquaintance with him in N York<br /> some time ago but thought he had returned home after<br /> visiting your part of the country _ I have never heard him<br /> in public but have heard much of him. I suppose our<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> law and order folks must look a little sideways at him<br /> as a matter of course but I want the common people<br /> to hear and judge for themselves. There is now and then<br /> some disturber of the quiet comes round amongst us, much<br /> to the annoyance of our sober conservatives who, as it is thier [sic]<br /> wont to look backwards instead of forwards are startled at any<br /> thing that looks like inovation [sic] - thier [sic] name for progression-<br /> but the world will some how continue to role [sic] onward<br /> notwithstanding all these efforts to hold its wheels. Well,<br /> we must not censure those pullbackers, many of them<br /> are no doubt actuated by good motives but are brought<br /> into their present position thro' the impulse of fear<br /> and timidity; and it may be there is absolute need of<br /> some such to keep things properly balanced and as<br /> long as there is a disposition to live and let live (rather a<br /> scarce article by the way) we can get along very well<br /> We have heard but little about the Junius meeting<br /> I have expected my friend Susan R. _ would have told<br /> us before now but I suppose she finds more important<br /> matters to occupy her attention _ I have from the<br /> first felt much interest in the prosperity of this move _<br /> -ment, and well satisfied with the ground they have<br /> taken and were I in that vicinity should doubtless<br /> give it my personal countenance according to my<br /> little measure_ I believe in the usefulness of some<br /> such organization- call it religious or moral as you<br /> please- but the difficulty is to unite in a way not<br /> to surrender individual rights to the keeping of the<br /> brotherhood, and it appears ^to me^ this has been attained to<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> more fully in this organization than any that has preceeded [sic]<br /> it but ^as^ progression moves onward no doubt improvements will<br /> be made in this as in other matters and in my opinion the reason<br /> why this movement is not more generally falen [sic] in with is prin-<br /> -cipally because it is in advance of the age. even many of the<br /> most enlightened let in their doubts and their fears: some<br /> think there is not enough of sectarian cement in it to hold it<br /> together _ others looking backwards for instruction immagine [sic]<br /> it will grow into sectarian despotism as other riligious [sic] organ-<br /> -izations have almost invariably done before it. Now I think<br /> this is rather assuming trouble that may never come, but<br /> should it come, the renovating principle will again be at hand<br /> to correct the evil so I will not worry myself about that but<br /> rather look to present good and leave the rest for coming<br /> generations to take care of for themselves. This I am satisfied of,<br /> that in the union of congenial minds and feelings there is<br /> comfort and profit in proportion as they are pure and elevated<br /> in their character-<br /> Lo here comes a Note from J A Dugdale dated yesterday at<br /> Milton requesting us to meet them at Hicksville 6<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> day evening.<br /> they attended a large meeting at Ninepartners last first day<br /> notice being given for several miles arround [sic] - says it went off well<br /> yesterday they had an appointment at Marlboro<br /> 5<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> day morn the 4<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> I did not get my letter of yesterday so will add<br /> a line this morning _ I suppose you have seen H.C. Wrights<br /> new work - "The Science of Man", and what do you think of it?<br /> Perhaps you may repeat the question_ Well, I think that Henry<br /> one of the strong men of the age and that he is doing a great<br /> work in his day _ he seems to have got upon a high hill and<br /> to be becconing [sic] the rest of us onward and upward _ the<br /> traditions of the Elders seem to have lost thier [sic] hold on him<br /> and he goes forth unfettered by the superstitions of by-gone<br /> days_ His book will have an effect I have no doubt. It is<br /> though by some to be already quite discoverable in some of our-<br /> late preaching tho' I did not hear it_ the preacher had seen the<br /> book and appeared quite anxious to counteract the poison<br /> -so I am told_ and I have no doubt it will afford some very<br /> interesting Galery [sic] topics for some time to come_ Well, let the folks<br /> think and things will work right in the end _ _<br /> Rebecca joins me in love to you all as if named<br /> J Ketcham<br /><br /> Please write as often as convenient<br />
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Ketcham, John. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from John Ketcham to Isaac Post, July 3, 1850.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Ketcham, John
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1850-07-03
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
848
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. J Post Jericho 7mo 3d 1850 My dear friend Thine of last month came duly to hand but I have not until now found opportunity to answer it to my own satisfaction, having been so taken up by so many one thing or others that have crouded [sic] themselves upon my attention. In the first place I went on a little traveling tour with our friend Ardon Seaman towards the Eastern part of our Island A has had an impression of duty for a considerable time to make this visit, but having imbibed some of the liberal notions of the day, his spiritual care-takers have been rather backward in trusting him with so important a concern - How but he at length obtained a minute, and as our ministers must have companions it fell to the lot of thy friend to be his armor bearer Well, we went and I though he was quite favoured._ whether some guardian angels from the Spirit land were hovering around to lend their aid I cannot say. In short it seemed to me a satisfactory visit both to visitors and visited_ Our labours were on the south side of the Island as far as Quogue where we were kindly entertained by some of the Post family - (your relatives I believe) __ And now let me acknowlege [sic] thy favour,_ for such I esteem it_ of the information respecting your spiritual concerns. I am not disposed to join with those who strive to ridicule every thing of their nature; and in this case it often has seemed to me to be used as a kind of subterfuge where opponents have found themselves at a loss for sober arguments to meet undeniable facts _ At the same time I am not quite prepared to enter my name on the list of converts, perhaps if I were to attend some of your Dr. Franklin meetings I might be fully confirmed_ I am inclined candidly and honestly to enquire into the matter as way opens for it and feel much obliged by the information contained in thy letter and should be glad of more from the same source shen thou feels inclined thus to favour me. There is one thing that inclines me to think there is no intentional deception in the case (of the rappings I mean) and that is not only the strict investigation which has been submited [sic] to in the case, but the weakness of all the efforts that I have seen to expose the humbug_ Those who have under- _taken this tho' with much seeming confidence, have all so far as I have seen, seemed to me to expose their own weakness more than any thing else _ It is truly an age of discovery and new developments of various kinds, so that it is necessary to be careful how we presume to doubt any thing that is new or strange _ _ My better half wishes me to correct some of our friend IPs ideas_ I ask her to do it but she declines, so I suppose the matter will have to be left to his own good sense after all; in short if that will not do it I shall look upon it as rather a hopeless case _ _ _ We understand that Joseph A Dugdale is likely to visit this part of the vineyard should be truly glad to see him _ got a slight acquaintance with him in N York some time ago but thought he had returned home after visiting your part of the country _ I have never heard him in public but have heard much of him. I suppose our law and order folks must look a little sideways at him as a matter of course but I want the common people to hear and judge for themselves. There is now and then some disturber of the quiet comes round amongst us, much to the annoyance of our sober conservatives who, as it is thier [sic] wont to look backwards instead of forwards are startled at any thing that looks like inovation [sic] - thier [sic] name for progression- but the world will some how continue to role [sic] onward notwithstanding all these efforts to hold its wheels. Well, we must not censure those pullbackers, many of them are no doubt actuated by good motives but are brought into their present position thro' the impulse of fear and timidity; and it may be there is absolute need of some such to keep things properly balanced and as long as there is a disposition to live and let live (rather a scarce article by the way) we can get along very well We have heard but little about the Junius meeting I have expected my friend Susan R. _ would have told us before now but I suppose she finds more important matters to occupy her attention _ I have from the first felt much interest in the prosperity of this move _ -ment, and well satisfied with the ground they have taken and were I in that vicinity should doubtless give it my personal countenance according to my little measure_ I believe in the usefulness of some such organization- call it religious or moral as you please- but the difficulty is to unite in a way not to surrender individual rights to the keeping of the brotherhood, and it appears ^to me^ this has been attained to more fully in this organization than any that has preceeded [sic] it but ^as^ progression moves onward no doubt improvements will be made in this as in other matters and in my opinion the reason why this movement is not more generally falen [sic] in with is prin- -cipally because it is in advance of the age. even many of the most enlightened let in their doubts and their fears: some think there is not enough of sectarian cement in it to hold it together _ others looking backwards for instruction immagine [sic] it will grow into sectarian despotism as other riligious [sic] organ- -izations have almost invariably done before it. Now I think this is rather assuming trouble that may never come, but should it come, the renovating principle will again be at hand to correct the evil so I will not worry myself about that but rather look to present good and leave the rest for coming generations to take care of for themselves. This I am satisfied of, that in the union of congenial minds and feelings there is comfort and profit in proportion as they are pure and elevated in their character- Lo here comes a Note from J A Dugdale dated yesterday at Milton requesting us to meet them at Hicksville 6th day evening. they attended a large meeting at Ninepartners last first day notice being given for several miles arround [sic] - says it went off well yesterday they had an appointment at Marlboro 5th day morn the 4th I did not get my letter of yesterday so will add a line this morning _ I suppose you have seen H.C. Wrights new work - "The Science of Man", and what do you think of it? Perhaps you may repeat the question_ Well, I think that Henry one of the strong men of the age and that he is doing a great work in his day _ he seems to have got upon a high hill and to be becconing [sic] the rest of us onward and upward _ the traditions of the Elders seem to have lost thier [sic] hold on him and he goes forth unfettered by the superstitions of by-gone days_ His book will have an effect I have no doubt. It is though by some to be already quite discoverable in some of our- late preaching tho' I did not hear it_ the preacher had seen the book and appeared quite anxious to counteract the poison -so I am told_ and I have no doubt it will afford some very interesting Galery [sic] topics for some time to come_ Well, let the folks think and things will work right in the end _ _ Rebecca joins me in love to you all as if named J Ketcham Please write as often as convenient
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a0edec3e9339abdcca283098fdb7bc84.jpg
9781df1a3bd782f3562074b283f0808e
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/7c5896451da313ed5cf8abaaf71c3934.jpg
dba9ffaccedf2c1a7dacdeea7785fe2a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/6295eeef38c005eb626e58abf39a0168.jpg
5f1ee104373f8f09b39445b8eb1c838b
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/18e3a0b3f2ae7b10a32271e2fcb897aa.jpg
ac11adc3085386bb4c1978ef268b2e02
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, February 19, 1850.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1850-02-19
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
831
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Abolitionism
Domestic Servants
Family
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/eeaa216c7bd4ce8f833d1fc1f175a8ee.jpg
4370279886e14498eaa7ae5f2e472601
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5f833775e0b47682fd8563163f4ae60e.jpg
86aab87df2b17adf8b5106ef05ab6a59
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ec47f2131cfef250984eeb896ceef852.jpg
e4a20a7e47e98042aa9bac96c7db6935
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/57516289e18a1609d7fe9be6a8f179fa.jpg
d32c2b3c2d665f41313095885208c5c0
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/825d6921abe3756c89a8f71a41ad40f7.xml
61a8ad43892fa327f7c9f208bf2fc33d
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> Grand Blanc Feb, 12 ~50<br /> My dear sister Amy.<br /> I suppose that so<br /> ^many^ objects of interest are constantly popping before<br /> you that is calculated to beguile time,<br /> you cannot realize that only a few days have<br /> passed since I wrote you _ but my monotonous<br /> kind of life ennables [sic] me to keep a more correct<br /> note of time _ I have been much with you<br /> this winter in you [sic] bustle and hurry for<br /> your Fair, annual meeting & the latter which<br /> presented it seems, the same meagre numbe [sic]<br /> as usual: How strange that with all the light<br /> that is pour[d?] upon that city, so very few receive<br /> it. I think that Garrison was correct in his<br /> judgment respecting Rochesters not being<br /> the place for the greatest good to be derived<br /> from Fredericks paper, _ I was gratified that<br /> Sarah Fish offerd [sic] the resolution which I<br /> had in my mind to send _ It is very desirable<br /> that there should be some provision made<br /> for the poor destitute refugee _ Often in<br /> my reveries have I picturd [sic] the pleasure I<br /> should feel, aiding one of these poor children<br /> of oppression _ Last fall my little nephew ran<br /> to me saying that a colord [sic] man was at<br /> the gate right from s<span style="text-decoration:underline;">lav</span>ery and wanted<br /> help" I sent for him to come in as a severe<br /> pain in my head preventd [sic] me from going<br /> to see him _ he said he was too sick as he lay in<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> the woods all last night"- at length he came<br /> in, told a straight story respecting his master,<br /> his escape from Maryland - his being directed<br /> by Arthur Tappan, Gerret Smith &c and he was<br /> going to the County seat where his sistr [sic] had preceded<br /> him with the promise of employment_ He was<br /> in a most pitiable condition calculated to e<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">s</span>c_<br /> cite [sic] sympathy_ still a thought flash[d?] cross my<br /> mind that he was an impostor_ I sickened, tho<br /> feeling and gave him money to make him<br /> more comfortable; and after eating breakfast<br /> started on, I soon heard that he opent [sic] the after_<br /> noon before at a tavern in toon [sic] dancing and taking<br /> his pay in whisky; and at night sent to an aboli_<br /> tionists [sic] to spend the night, & to me to get assistance;<br /> that is the last I have heard of him who calld [sic] himself<br /> Charles Westley, a refugee _ I have heard sad news of<br /> Nathaniel, what has become of the poor child? I hop [sic]<br /> he is not irreclaimably lost on acount of his color<br /> Am rejoiced to hear of the properity of the North<br /> Star which I circulate and hope in due time fruits<br /> will be seen from _ I intended to have sent you<br /> something, but imperious demand upon my<br /> charities within sight ^has prevented^. hope another year to do<br /> something as I shall ever feel a pleasure in iden_<br /> tifying myself with you in this most important<br /> cause_ And how is your society in its temper and<br /> tone of conduct? I hope more peaceful than a year<br /> ago We had reason to feel as the old reformers<br /> did when adjusting their creed &c and got quarrel<br /> ing _ they sincerely hoped the affair would not get<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> out among their enemies"- Were you not<br /> delighted with Fredericks report of the Syra_<br /> cuse convention? the very kind manner in<br /> which he spoke of his opponents particularly of<br /> that purest minded man of which (I think) this<br /> land can boast, Gerret Smith. I think you<br /> must have converted him- please remember<br /> m [sic] kindly to him & his family_ How delightd [sic]<br /> I should be to enjoy your intellectual feast of<br /> lectures this winter which I understand you [are]<br /> highly favord [sic] with_ Living in the midst [obliterated]<br /> intellectual spirits will increase your re[spons?]<br /> ibility to co<span style="text-decoration:underline;">m</span>m<span style="text-decoration:underline;">uni</span>cate to those who sit is da[rk?]<br /> ness, and extend your forbearance to all of us [who?]<br /> are so far behind that the [sic] can only receive th[e?]<br /> faint mist of your abundant showers, to keep<br /> the germ alive_ My situation has its advantages<br /> which I value hightly, q<span style="text-decoration:underline;">uiet</span>ude for reading,<br /> although I am not as fully supplied as I could<br /> wish_ have just finish[d?] Prescotts Conquest of Mexico<br /> which is an enchanting and beautifuly [sic] written<br /> thing, portraying the most painful incients<br /> and all for the sake of the glofy of the <span style="text-decoration:underline;">cros</span>s un_<br /> der which Cortes made all his unrivalld [sic] conq_<br /> uests with the most conscientious motives<br /> The great question with me is, how shall we<br /> k<span style="text-decoration:underline;">no</span>w <span style="text-decoration:underline;">wha</span>t tr<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ut</span>h is when we h<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ave reach</span>ed it,<br /> all are sanguine that htey have reached the good<br /> Now my dear friend what did your meeting of spirits<br /> last fall amount to? should like to know _ Oh there is<br /> very much that I wish to tell about and it<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> seems as if I might see you _ If people get to flying<br /> through the air by next may as is predicted<br /> dont be surprised if I light down at your<br /> hospitable door at any time without sending you<br /> word, I dont think I should go & see brother Isaac<br /> at all_ Dont forget about going to New York with<br /> me. How is my much lovd [sic] friends Sarah & Mary<br /> [Text in center of page, verrtical, upwards]<br /> Grand Blanc 10<br /> Mich July 13<br /><br /><br /> Mrs Isaac Post<br /> Rochester<br /> Monroe County<br /> NY<br /> [Text normal]<br /> My best love to them with your husband and<br /> others whom you know I love. Do tell me if Harriet<br /> Jacobs is happy & doing well. I feel a great interest<br /> for her_ _Has Wendell Phillips been to R this wniter<br /> as was expected Mrs Murray wrote you expected him to<br /> give you a Lecture. I should be dlighted to see him<br /> and Garrison above all the men in our county &<br /> George Tompson & Koosuth beyon [sic] the great waters - I enclose<br /> $2, one you will receiv [sic] on my account & the other please<br /> hand to our dear friend Mrs B whom I hope you see often to<br /> comfort and cheer in her loneliness. write soon Ever Yours ^Sarah^<br />
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
_____, Sarah. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Sarah _____ to Amy Kirby Post, February 12, 1850.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
_____, Sarah
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1850-02-12
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
828
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Grand Blanc Feb, 12 ~50 My dear sister Amy. I suppose that so ^many^ objects of interest are constantly popping before you that is calculated to beguile time, you cannot realize that only a few days have passed since I wrote you _ but my monotonous kind of life ennables [sic] me to keep a more correct note of time _ I have been much with you this winter in you [sic] bustle and hurry for your Fair, annual meeting & the latter which presented it seems, the same meagre numbe [sic] as usual: How strange that with all the light that is pour[d?] upon that city, so very few receive it. I think that Garrison was correct in his judgment respecting Rochesters not being the place for the greatest good to be derived from Fredericks paper, _ I was gratified that Sarah Fish offerd [sic] the resolution which I had in my mind to send _ It is very desirable that there should be some provision made for the poor destitute refugee _ Often in my reveries have I picturd [sic] the pleasure I should feel, aiding one of these poor children of oppression _ Last fall my little nephew ran to me saying that a colord [sic] man was at the gate right from slavery and wanted help" I sent for him to come in as a severe pain in my head preventd [sic] me from going to see him _ he said he was too sick as he lay in the woods all last night"- at length he came in, told a straight story respecting his master, his escape from Maryland - his being directed by Arthur Tappan, Gerret Smith &c and he was going to the County seat where his sistr [sic] had preceded him with the promise of employment_ He was in a most pitiable condition calculated to esc_ cite [sic] sympathy_ still a thought flash[d?] cross my mind that he was an impostor_ I sickened, tho feeling and gave him money to make him more comfortable; and after eating breakfast started on, I soon heard that he opent [sic] the after_ noon before at a tavern in toon [sic] dancing and taking his pay in whisky; and at night sent to an aboli_ tionists [sic] to spend the night, & to me to get assistance; that is the last I have heard of him who calld [sic] himself Charles Westley, a refugee _ I have heard sad news of Nathaniel, what has become of the poor child? I hop [sic] he is not irreclaimably lost on acount of his color Am rejoiced to hear of the properity of the North Star which I circulate and hope in due time fruits will be seen from _ I intended to have sent you something, but imperious demand upon my charities within sight ^has prevented^. hope another year to do something as I shall ever feel a pleasure in iden_ tifying myself with you in this most important cause_ And how is your society in its temper and tone of conduct? I hope more peaceful than a year ago We had reason to feel as the old reformers did when adjusting their creed &c and got quarrel ing _ they sincerely hoped the affair would not get out among their enemies"- Were you not delighted with Fredericks report of the Syra_ cuse convention? the very kind manner in which he spoke of his opponents particularly of that purest minded man of which (I think) this land can boast, Gerret Smith. I think you must have converted him- please remember m [sic] kindly to him & his family_ How delightd [sic] I should be to enjoy your intellectual feast of lectures this winter which I understand you [are] highly favord [sic] with_ Living in the midst [obliterated] intellectual spirits will increase your re[spons?] ibility to communicate to those who sit is da[rk?] ness, and extend your forbearance to all of us [who?] are so far behind that the [sic] can only receive th[e?] faint mist of your abundant showers, to keep the germ alive_ My situation has its advantages which I value hightly, quietude for reading, although I am not as fully supplied as I could wish_ have just finish[d?] Prescotts Conquest of Mexico which is an enchanting and beautifuly [sic] written thing, portraying the most painful incients and all for the sake of the glofy of the cross un_ der which Cortes made all his unrivalld [sic] conq_ uests with the most conscientious motives The great question with me is, how shall we know what truth is when we have reached it, all are sanguine that htey have reached the good Now my dear friend what did your meeting of spirits last fall amount to? should like to know _ Oh there is very much that I wish to tell about and it seems as if I might see you _ If people get to flying through the air by next may as is predicted dont be surprised if I light down at your hospitable door at any time without sending you word, I dont think I should go & see brother Isaac at all_ Dont forget about going to New York with me. How is my much lovd [sic] friends Sarah & Mary [Text in center of page, verrtical, upwards] Grand Blanc 10 Mich July 13 Mrs Isaac Post Rochester Monroe County NY [Text normal] My best love to them with your husband and others whom you know I love. Do tell me if Harriet Jacobs is happy & doing well. I feel a great interest for her_ _Has Wendell Phillips been to R this wniter as was expected Mrs Murray wrote you expected him to give you a Lecture. I should be dlighted to see him and Garrison above all the men in our county & George Tompson & Koosuth beyon [sic] the great waters - I enclose $2, one you will receiv [sic] on my account & the other please hand to our dear friend Mrs B whom I hope you see often to comfort and cheer in her loneliness. write soon Ever Yours ^Sarah^
Abolitionism
Personal
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9b64e6906edd8cc1905a93a02c23197c.jpg
dd15b538c2948c2353abb9e5f633d9fa
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/7ee73815aec503db67f7d48d1ad21de5.jpg
fbe37079ac8cd4f9ee1243585eed49cc
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ea58aec2b995ba0e290d44fe45a69ff0.jpg
867ae821125553d0a006e99116ab2aca
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1956e57189e1546efccbc2e39bd7f0ea.xml
1fa443b6c0db4510cc95e6b7b5b064b5
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /> Buffalo City 2.,12.,1850.<br /> Respected Friend-<br /> I received thy kind letter<br /> while at Burlington last fall - I visited<br /> Washington City but have nothing marvelous<br /> to write and not now time to write it if<br /> I had. L. P. Mott sold out her entire<br /> place at Burlington and started for<br /> the West the latter part of 10,, Mo<br /> but from what I have since heard I<br /> presume she returned to that place<br /> for the winter.<br /> Priscilla Hunt made a religious<br /> visit through Illinois last summer<br /> after her return, she though she had<br /> enjoyed better health than she had<br /> for thirty years before.<br /> I heard Mrs. Bushnel lecture last<br /> evening- Her views are not new to me.<br /> having believed in them almost from<br /> childhood._ I mean as to the essentials,-<br /> of Spiritualism.<br /> It is barely possible that I may visit<br /> Rochester before I go to Ohio_ but I think not<br /> probably. My Address here is E. Hamburg ,<br /> Share my love with family B. Fish &C.<br /> In Best Affection .<br /> Isaac Post Nathaniel Potter<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> The Ohio Legislature have passed Freesoil<br /> Resolutions of instruction to their Senators &c<br /> in Congress-<br /> I see that Chase, Hale & Seward<br /> voted to receive petitions to Dissolve the<br /> union - This was right - tho' I do not favour<br /> a Dissolution. But the Question should be met<br /> fairly and not by any gag rule. -<br /> I have already written more than<br /> I expected as I go to E. Hamburg to night<br /> N. P.<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> Bufflo. 1850<br /><br /> Good Spirit_ Do thou be my life_<br /> Save from unavailing strife.<br /> Save from jealousy and wrath,<br /> A<span style="text-decoration:underline;">n</span>d gu<span style="text-decoration:underline;">i</span>de <span style="text-decoration:underline;">m</span>y fe<span style="text-decoration:underline;">e</span>t i<span style="text-decoration:underline;">n</span> Wi<span style="text-decoration:underline;">s</span>d<span style="text-decoration:underline;">o</span>ms p<span style="text-decoration:underline;">a</span>th.<br /> Let not Earthly selfish gain _<br /> Or transient joy that ends in pain,<br /> Or love of popular applause<br /> Turn me aside from Wisdoms laws<br /><br /> If here on Earth awhile I stay,<br /> May I commune with thee each day -<br /> Guide me by the law of love,<br /> An<span style="text-decoration:underline;">d</span> s<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ea</span>l <span style="text-decoration:underline;">m</span>e f<span style="text-decoration:underline;">o</span>r <span style="text-decoration:underline;">t</span>hy co<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ur</span>ts a<span style="text-decoration:underline;">bo</span>ve.<br /> And when I leave this mundane sphere,<br /> And all that flesh & blood holds dear,<br /> To find a clime more pure & free -<br /> O then good Spirit _ be with me<br /><br /> Good Spirit: - Shall I meekly wait,<br /> And seek for truth at Wisdoms gate;<br /> y faith & patience, truth and love,<br /> Prepare for joys untold above?<br /> With kindred Spirits gone before,<br /> Thy goodness then I shall adore;<br /> Where love & life are pure & free,<br /> And all in harmony with thee.<br /> N. P.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Potter, Nathaniel Jr. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Nathaniel Jr Potter to Isaac Post, February 12, 1850.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Potter, Nathaniel Jr
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1850-02-12
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
827
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Buffalo City 2.,12.,1850. Respected Friend- I received thy kind letter while at Burlington last fall - I visited Washington City but have nothing marvelous to write and not now time to write it if I had. L. P. Mott sold out her entire place at Burlington and started for the West the latter part of 10,, Mo but from what I have since heard I presume she returned to that place for the winter. Priscilla Hunt made a religious visit through Illinois last summer after her return, she though she had enjoyed better health than she had for thirty years before. I heard Mrs. Bushnel lecture last evening- Her views are not new to me. having believed in them almost from childhood._ I mean as to the essentials,- of Spiritualism. It is barely possible that I may visit Rochester before I go to Ohio_ but I think not probably. My Address here is E. Hamburg , Share my love with family B. Fish &C. In Best Affection . Isaac Post Nathaniel Potter The Ohio Legislature have passed Freesoil Resolutions of instruction to their Senators &c in Congress- I see that Chase, Hale & Seward voted to receive petitions to Dissolve the union - This was right - tho' I do not favour a Dissolution. But the Question should be met fairly and not by any gag rule. - I have already written more than I expected as I go to E. Hamburg to night N. P. Bufflo. 1850 Good Spirit_ Do thou be my life_ Save from unavailing strife. Save from jealousy and wrath, And guide my feet in Wisdoms path. Let not Earthly selfish gain _ Or transient joy that ends in pain, Or love of popular applause Turn me aside from Wisdoms laws If here on Earth awhile I stay, May I commune with thee each day - Guide me by the law of love, And seal me for thy courts above. And when I leave this mundane sphere, And all that flesh & blood holds dear, To find a clime more pure & free - O then good Spirit _ be with me Good Spirit: - Shall I meekly wait, And seek for truth at Wisdoms gate; y faith & patience, truth and love, Prepare for joys untold above? With kindred Spirits gone before, Thy goodness then I shall adore; Where love & life are pure & free, And all in harmony with thee. N. P.
Abolitionism
Personal
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/6dbf25d7b8699e5321258e28c9cd22cc.jpg
5fd494ef25f43cac8532a88e49b15fb6
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/607df402afb38516f94af382bba119cc.jpg
b5e6f43b906f2c857c9ef2e53dcfa684
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d6788e492600a472dccdf6be83a29c87.jpg
32d7b918b61206ecfb1bad058647ad67
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/6b0e505ae33a16dbf6b6174de534932f.jpg
6c34a662a1b4eb02def65cd590ac34bc
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/3b43ae2183361b369ca5ac89582d2e71.xml
0c2fac14c863870504da589c2a22fb2a
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> 2<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>nd</sup></span> month 8<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> 1850<br /> Dear Relatives<br /> We received Isaac's letter dated 25 of 12 mo<br /> which was very exceptable [sic] and I have no other excuse for not <br /> wrighting [sic] sooner than negligance [sic]. We are geting [sic] along much as<br /> usual in our neighbourhood as respects worldly buisness [sic], and <br /> I think among those that are called the worlds people<br /> ar [sic] those that seem care the least about society their [sic]<br /> seems to be a little more toleration toward the reforms of the<br /> day, But on the part of the would leaders in this sextion [sic]<br /> of our Isreal [sic] as they term it. I think no abatement of their<br /> hostility to what seems to be good. and especially the antislavery<br /> and nonresistance movments, Our Rachel does not ye^a^ld [sic] in<br /> her position to those who differ from her on the subject of<br /> slavery. In our last monthly meeting she arose with saying<br /> she was more and more confirmed that Abolitionism as now<br /> promulgated was out of the truth and that morral [sic] reform<br /> was only another name for a departure from the ^foundation which God has laid^ <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">truth</span><br /> and then said much to strenghen [sic] her views, which to me seemed<br /> very weak. she has said much a little time back against those<br /> that said any thing agains [sic] the governments. <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">that</span> that it<br /> was the duty of those that had not seen beyond the force<br /> that if it were not for the laws we proberbly [sic] could not<br /> meet as we then were in the quiet, nor enjoy our fireside<br /> in peace, and yet she holds up the view that we have<br /> no right to judge an other. that it is right for a person<br /> to do whatever they beleive [sic] it right to do. And some<br /> of her admirers try to defend her <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">to</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">the</span> in her extreamest [sic]<br /> views. I had conversation with one lately who said if a person<br /> thought it right to hold slave we out [sic] not to judge him,<br /> but had to acknowledge that if one of his children were<br /> in slavery he would think it wrong and would want<br /> assistance to get his child again. I told him that my doctrine<br /> was to judge aman [sic] by his fruits. that however much<br /> a man might plead duty if his fruits were not ^good^ I should<br /> condemn him. that I knew of no better way, and felt justfied [sic]<br /> in condemning a person whoes [sic] fruits were not good<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> We have heard much about the raps of late ^in these parts^ but I suppose not all<br /> that has been said ^in the papers^ as we do not take the Tribune ^which has said the most on the subject^ have heard of<br /> a book that has been published at Auburn on the subject but<br /> wither [sic] that will give ^us^ <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">any light or adr</span> more than we have<br /> had I know not. If the spirits of our departed Friends are watch<br /> ing over us for good and are willing to communicate with us<br /> it seems strange to us, it should be nessary [sic] to go to two or three<br /> girls to have the raps explained. as we have always undestood [sic]<br /> that the raps are heard by all that may be in the room<br /> now as you understand the language and can here [sic] the <br /> raps why cannot you talk ^with the spirit^ when the girls are not by<br /> is not your faith strong enough yet. do enquir [sic] of the spirits<br /> the cause and why it is nessary [sic] to come to Rochester to <br /> hear from the spirits of our departed friends, as the language<br /> is now undersood [sic] it seems to me we might learn it<br /> so that we need not be under the nesesity [sic] of going to another<br /> We hear of chairs tables &c moveing [sic] do they ever move when<br /> their [sic] is a lighted candle in the room or in the day time<br /> as we understand unbeleivers [sic] hear the noise do they ever<br /> see things move about the room without visible<br /> asistance [sic]. Timothy Titus was buried on the last day of last<br /> month had been sick about 10 days suffered much. was in his<br /> 85<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> year. Uncle Robert <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">is complains</span> much of cough trouble<br /> ing [sic] him does not get to meeting more than half of the<br /> time. Susan Willis has been sick for some weeks past<br /> and Sarah Post has been their [sic] for housekeeper, Stephen<br /> Hewlet. Samuel Smith and Edmund Smith at south have<br /> all gone to their long home with a few weeks all old<br /> men. We have not seen any thing of Samuel Post ad family <br /> yet. they went from N York to Dutches County without <br /> coming on the Island. I suppose they will make us a<br /> visit yet. unless they do as we did when we were at Rochester<br /> Willet. S. told us a little time ago that the desition [sic] was<br /> against them in Jeffries buisness [sic]. will the accounts <br /> be settled up now or is their [sic] more lawsuits defending<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> Townsend Rushmore paid me 1$ for the North S^t^arr [sic] the<br /> 13<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> of last month please pay it over. E Lewis says James<br /> Mott does not take the North Starr [sic] from the office nor<br /> has not from the commencement. I think they had better not<br /> be sent. If the paper is paid for it had better be sent to some<br /> body that will read it if such a person can be found.<br /> First day 10<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> of the month went to meeting to day found William Healy their [sic]<br /> and quit [sic] a large corlection [sic] of People I suppose information had been<br /> given after a time he arose in his solemn manner and began<br /> by quoting scripture and then said he had prayed to God<br /> that he might be divested of all human simpathy [sic] he cared<br /> nothing about the sufferings of the world so that Zion might<br /> prosper said many good things. but the principle part of his<br /> concern we had no unity with. had much to say against those<br /> that doughted [sic] the ^inspiration of the^ bible, if any one was led to dought [sic] any part of<br /> the bible he wanted ^him^ to pause and consider for any one that was<br /> led by inspiration it would corrispond [sic] with the Prophets and<br /> Apostes [sic] of old. on the whole I thought it a very Orthodoy [sic] sermon<br /> entirely behind even what Hicksite doctrine was a few years<br /> ago ^and even Orthodoxy would not own some of it I think^ Realy [sic] it does seem very discouraging to see the [obliterated]<br /> be good ones holding back from all or nearly all that<br /> we consider so very nesary [sic] for a Christian life and<br /> what makes it more discouraging those that do not approve<br /> of what is passing are so loth [sic] to speak out to say anythng [sic]<br /> to them they say o try to keep along hopes it will be<br /> better soon, I sometimes think they are but little better<br /> off than we are, for we have some satisfaction in speak-<br /> =ing out our sentiments, and they are in nearly as low repute<br /> as we are. Martha Coles was reccommended [sic] as Minister some<br /> time ago, she being of the right stamp but in my opinion<br /> a rather small concern. I ^think^ cousin Edmund will not receive<br /> the pass very soon although much more of a Minister I think<br /> he sometimes does quit [sic] a little journey attending meeting<br /> which the rulers do not approve of and Stimanson does<br /> not draw so well in the traces as the desire so I think he<br /> to [sic] will have to be content to be a common man some<br /> time longer unless he changes. all of which I am glad of<br /> it may be some of them may come out against the select meeting<br /> [Continues in right margin]<br /> in consequence which would be fine<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> We have heard that William and Mary are going in Pensylvania [sic] on<br /> a visit of couse [sic] we shall expect them here to visit us I want<br /> William to arraign [sic] his buisness [sic] so as to make us a good long visit<br /> we want to see them very much, and all the rest of you<br /> Some times think <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">think</span> we may again look in upon you but<br /> when the time will come I cannot at peasent [sic] see. O if you <br /> were nearer us so that we could stept [sic] in often and have a little<br /> interchange of sentiment it would be very pleasent [sic] We have had a <br /> very mild winter so far no snow of any conciquence a few sleds out<br /> a few days but waggoning [sic] good while the snow lasted. one week ago<br /> ponds all open came cold today so that we filed [sic] our ice house and now<br /> the ponds are all open again very little frost if any in the ground<br /> [Continues below with line beginning "How is it"]<br /><br /> [Text in middle of page, written upwards]<br /><br /> North Hempstead Feb 11''<br /><br /> 10<br /><br /> Isaac Post<br /> Rochester<br /> New York<br /><br /><br /> [Text at bottom of page, written normal]<br /> How is it likely to be with thee in respect to money matters this spring<br /> is their any prospect of haveing [sic] any for H Post. how does thee<br /> get along with the old property on corn hill. and how is property <br /> in general is their [sic] any demand for it. I have seen many farms<br /> advertised in this section of county this spring and here of<br /> but few that want places I think the prices that have<br /> been asked cannot be sustained. Wheat is low, also almost all<br /> kinds of produce we have to spair [sic]. except oats and potatoes which<br /> do prety [sic] well at about 40 cts per bushel and potatoes from 4 to 6 S<br /> Please wright [sic] often we love to here from our absent friend<br /> J Post</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, February 8, 1850.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1850-02-08
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
825
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. 2nd month 8th 1850 Dear Relatives We received Isaac's letter dated 25 of 12 mo which was very exceptable [sic] and I have no other excuse for not wrighting [sic] sooner than negligance [sic]. We are geting [sic] along much as usual in our neighbourhood as respects worldly buisness [sic], and I think among those that are called the worlds people ar [sic] those that seem care the least about society their [sic] seems to be a little more toleration toward the reforms of the day, But on the part of the would leaders in this sextion [sic] of our Isreal [sic] as they term it. I think no abatement of their hostility to what seems to be good. and especially the antislavery and nonresistance movments, Our Rachel does not ye^a^ld [sic] in her position to those who differ from her on the subject of slavery. In our last monthly meeting she arose with saying she was more and more confirmed that Abolitionism as now promulgated was out of the truth and that morral [sic] reform was only another name for a departure from the ^foundation which God has laid^ truth and then said much to strenghen [sic] her views, which to me seemed very weak. she has said much a little time back against those that said any thing agains [sic] the governments. that that it was the duty of those that had not seen beyond the force that if it were not for the laws we proberbly [sic] could not meet as we then were in the quiet, nor enjoy our fireside in peace, and yet she holds up the view that we have no right to judge an other. that it is right for a person to do whatever they beleive [sic] it right to do. And some of her admirers try to defend her tothe in her extreamest [sic] views. I had conversation with one lately who said if a person thought it right to hold slave we out [sic] not to judge him, but had to acknowledge that if one of his children were in slavery he would think it wrong and would want assistance to get his child again. I told him that my doctrine was to judge aman [sic] by his fruits. that however much a man might plead duty if his fruits were not ^good^ I should condemn him. that I knew of no better way, and felt justfied [sic] in condemning a person whoes [sic] fruits were not good We have heard much about the raps of late ^in these parts^ but I suppose not all that has been said ^in the papers^ as we do not take the Tribune ^which has said the most on the subject^ have heard of a book that has been published at Auburn on the subject but wither [sic] that will give ^us^ any light or adr more than we have had I know not. If the spirits of our departed Friends are watch ing over us for good and are willing to communicate with us it seems strange to us, it should be nessary [sic] to go to two or three girls to have the raps explained. as we have always undestood [sic] that the raps are heard by all that may be in the room now as you understand the language and can here [sic] the raps why cannot you talk ^with the spirit^ when the girls are not by is not your faith strong enough yet. do enquir [sic] of the spirits the cause and why it is nessary [sic] to come to Rochester to hear from the spirits of our departed friends, as the language is now undersood [sic] it seems to me we might learn it so that we need not be under the nesesity [sic] of going to another We hear of chairs tables &c moveing [sic] do they ever move when their [sic] is a lighted candle in the room or in the day time as we understand unbeleivers [sic] hear the noise do they ever see things move about the room without visible asistance [sic]. Timothy Titus was buried on the last day of last month had been sick about 10 days suffered much. was in his 85th year. Uncle Robert is complains much of cough trouble ing [sic] him does not get to meeting more than half of the time. Susan Willis has been sick for some weeks past and Sarah Post has been their [sic] for housekeeper, Stephen Hewlet. Samuel Smith and Edmund Smith at south have all gone to their long home with a few weeks all old men. We have not seen any thing of Samuel Post ad family yet. they went from N York to Dutches County without coming on the Island. I suppose they will make us a visit yet. unless they do as we did when we were at Rochester Willet. S. told us a little time ago that the desition [sic] was against them in Jeffries buisness [sic]. will the accounts be settled up now or is their [sic] more lawsuits defending Townsend Rushmore paid me 1$ for the North S^t^arr [sic] the 13th of last month please pay it over. E Lewis says James Mott does not take the North Starr [sic] from the office nor has not from the commencement. I think they had better not be sent. If the paper is paid for it had better be sent to some body that will read it if such a person can be found. First day 10th of the month went to meeting to day found William Healy their [sic] and quit [sic] a large corlection [sic] of People I suppose information had been given after a time he arose in his solemn manner and began by quoting scripture and then said he had prayed to God that he might be divested of all human simpathy [sic] he cared nothing about the sufferings of the world so that Zion might prosper said many good things. but the principle part of his concern we had no unity with. had much to say against those that doughted [sic] the ^inspiration of the^ bible, if any one was led to dought [sic] any part of the bible he wanted ^him^ to pause and consider for any one that was led by inspiration it would corrispond [sic] with the Prophets and Apostes [sic] of old. on the whole I thought it a very Orthodoy [sic] sermon entirely behind even what Hicksite doctrine was a few years ago ^and even Orthodoxy would not own some of it I think^ Realy [sic] it does seem very discouraging to see the [obliterated] be good ones holding back from all or nearly all that we consider so very nesary [sic] for a Christian life and what makes it more discouraging those that do not approve of what is passing are so loth [sic] to speak out to say anythng [sic] to them they say o try to keep along hopes it will be better soon, I sometimes think they are but little better off than we are, for we have some satisfaction in speak- =ing out our sentiments, and they are in nearly as low repute as we are. Martha Coles was reccommended [sic] as Minister some time ago, she being of the right stamp but in my opinion a rather small concern. I ^think^ cousin Edmund will not receive the pass very soon although much more of a Minister I think he sometimes does quit [sic] a little journey attending meeting which the rulers do not approve of and Stimanson does not draw so well in the traces as the desire so I think he to [sic] will have to be content to be a common man some time longer unless he changes. all of which I am glad of it may be some of them may come out against the select meeting [Continues in right margin] in consequence which would be fine We have heard that William and Mary are going in Pensylvania [sic] on a visit of couse [sic] we shall expect them here to visit us I want William to arraign [sic] his buisness [sic] so as to make us a good long visit we want to see them very much, and all the rest of you Some times think think we may again look in upon you but when the time will come I cannot at peasent [sic] see. O if you were nearer us so that we could stept [sic] in often and have a little interchange of sentiment it would be very pleasent [sic] We have had a very mild winter so far no snow of any conciquence a few sleds out a few days but waggoning [sic] good while the snow lasted. one week ago ponds all open came cold today so that we filed [sic] our ice house and now the ponds are all open again very little frost if any in the ground [Continues below with line beginning "How is it"] [Text in middle of page, written upwards] North Hempstead Feb 11'' 10 Isaac Post Rochester New York [Text at bottom of page, written normal] How is it likely to be with thee in respect to money matters this spring is their any prospect of haveing [sic] any for H Post. how does thee get along with the old property on corn hill. and how is property in general is their [sic] any demand for it. I have seen many farms advertised in this section of county this spring and here of but few that want places I think the prices that have been asked cannot be sustained. Wheat is low, also almost all kinds of produce we have to spair [sic]. except oats and potatoes which do prety [sic] well at about 40 cts per bushel and potatoes from 4 to 6 S Please wright [sic] often we love to here from our absent friend J Post
Abolitionism
Agriculture
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/22515a3c25874410c712830c7d2f226f.jpg
cd95930b706a5da379ab85278bd7912e
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f6fbda141ba7084b7a5e1eb37a5363ca.jpg
5079b1ea49da8d5c92eb89ed8cd0e04a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/2572232c0d27723247d7eecea0fb7de8.xml
5f66c3e6f9263668ce94ac5048b724c1
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>[written upside down along top margin Page 1]<br /><br /> Since I asked about the fair I have seen in the Star the proceeds are small indeed compa<br /> red with the Boston but all things must have a beginning and hope they will not be dishe<br /> -artened by it have often thought of you this eve imagining you were [listening?] to<br /> Frederic’s lecture I have been reading his former one<br /> as the best [substitute?] farewell ever yours Mary<br /><br /> Westbury 1<sup>st</sup> Moth 6<br /> Our Dear Relatives<br /> At home again and how many bright<br /> and beautiful thoughts does that word awaken in the mind and<br /> especially to those of us who are blesed [sic] with all to make it what<br /> home should ever be the abode of confidence and peace where without<br /> jar or collision each <span style="text-decoration:underline;">may</span> fulfill their respective routine of duties<br /> unmoved by the din and tumult of the world through which we are<br /> passing probably you would be willing to know when we arrived at<br /> this home we so praise well it was on the eve of the third day<br /> of January <span style="text-decoration:underline;">1851</span> found all well and apparently glad of our return<br /> our domestics said “and sure you are welcom”[sic] It seems as though it<br /> was the right time for us to make the visit and I rejoice in its <br /> accomplishment -- it having been throughout (to us) very pleasant and<br /> the recollection ^of it^ sweet We had no accident or detention scarcely on<br /> our way but the night was wearisome enough but you all know that<br /> We got ^up to^ [Willis’s?] before 10 and in the afternoon home Samuel Willis went<br /> after Jacob seventh day in the afternoon they with Catharine (who had been<br /> a few days at Townsend Rushmores) came to see us had many questions <br /> to ask Samuel and Catharine do not seem to be prepared to believe on our<br /> report any more than before which I do not wonder at knowing it is im<br /> -possible to realise the manifestation unless witnessed have not read Mrs <br /> Draper’s communication yet First day James and Elisabeth came they <br /> too inquired relative to all these things Elisabeth would enjoy a visit to you<br /> greatly, she enters heart and soul into many things she scarcely expresses<br /> to all her home folks I told her of Aunt Phebe s communication she said<br /> how pleasant if I could believe it fully I think she very nearly belives [sic]<br /> Joseph had some talk with J P Hale he said some of his <br /> friends thought the application ^in his lecture^ too [pointed?] he thinks there<br /> is more antislavery feeling at the South than the North says the<br /> North will submit to any thing however oppressive &c &c<br /> It seemed quite strange on entering New York to see no snow but<br /> there was ice in ^the^ streets but on the side walks day as in summer<br /> the night we got home there was a little snow perhaps two inches<br /> so that it looked a little white it is nearly gone now but<br /> it is cloudy suppose you have an additional supply each day<br /><br /> [Page 2]<br /><br /> we hear there has been considerable since we left it may be a<br /> mistake <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">for </span>I think you had quite enough<br /> Uncle James would rejoice if in his power to visit you I should<br /> be glad to be present when he first heard the rappings. it wou^ld^<br /> furnish a theme for many an hours talk. But as we are to hear<br /> the sounds here he may have a chance without going to Rochester <br /> I really wish we could have the opportunity of hearing in the prese^nce^<br /> of some of our wise ones Charles Post has had quite a turn of rheuma<br /> -tism is better Elias been very lame and is still ran a pitch fork in<br /> his foot Eddy Rushmore is quite po^o^rly with a cold earache and gath<br /> -erings in his head been so two or three weeks have not seen Matilda<br /> yet Neither have we been to Jericho so that I cannot speak of their<br /> welfare Esther Titus has a son three weeks old call him Walter<br /> Uncle Robert rather <span style="text-decoration:underline;">smarte</span>r (how queer that word looks written)<br /> Joseph thought he would fill the ice house to day but the men <br /> thought it would be rather wet and went away he is sorry as it would<br /> have been a pretty nice day for it We have had a letter from Henry<br /> C Wright it was directed to Cynthia but he said intended for the whole<br /> family it is a treat to receive good letters and from loved friends far<br /> away doubly so, he is in Indiana Suppose you have read George<br /> Thompson’s speech at Fannel [sic] Hall at the time of the Bazar [sic] it is quite a<br /> different one from some other of his but shows great versatility of talent<br /> and eloquence of stile [sic] eaqual [sic] to any their Bazar seems to be success<br /> -ful beyond their highest expectations -- Did Frederic get to Buffalo<br /> or did the snow prevent the train from going through and how did<br /> their Fair succeed? we shall want to hear all the particulars about<br /> your meeting and Thompson the Fosters and all the eccetras [sic] which<br /> occur at home and in public do write soon I will stop pretty<br /> soon for there has been no happenings and I am two day in a <br /> cold sore throat head ache &c but have applyed [sic] cold water pretty<br /> freely and hope I shall soon conquer it how are Sarah Bridget and<br /> the other invalids of your family hope they are better <span style="text-decoration:line-through;"> it</span> colds are<br /> very prevalent here our girls been most sick with them I wish<br /> some one was here to add some to this as I do not like to send so<br /> little that is worth sending with love to all the household and the<br /> other dear friends with whome [sic] we have mingled so pleasantly I<br /> hope Edmund will not fail to improve the <br /> am yours affectionately Mary<br /> opportunity s [sic] offered to investigate and he will oblige us if he will report to us his<br /> progress. <br /><br /></p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Amy Kirby Post, 185-?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
185-?
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
818
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions.[written upside down along top margin Page 1] Since I asked about the fair I have seen in the Star the proceeds are small indeed compa red with the Boston but all things must have a beginning and hope they will not be dishe -artened by it have often thought of you this eve imagining you were [listening?] to Frederic's lecture I have been reading his former one as the best [substitute?] farewell ever yours Mary Westbury 1st Moth 6 Our Dear Relatives At home again and how many bright and beautiful thoughts does that word awaken in the mind and especially to those of us who are blesed [sic] with all to make it what home should ever be the abode of confidence and peace where without jar or collision each may fulfill their respective routine of duties unmoved by the din and tumult of the world through which we are passing probably you would be willing to know when we arrived at this home we so praise well it was on the eve of the third day of January 1851 found all well and apparently glad of our return our domestics said "and sure you are welcom"[sic] It seems as though it was the right time for us to make the visit and I rejoice in its accomplishment -- it having been throughout (to us) very pleasant and the recollection ^of it^ sweet We had no accident or detention scarcely on our way but the night was wearisome enough but you all know that We got ^up to^ [Willis's?] before 10 and in the afternoon home Samuel Willis went after Jacob seventh day in the afternoon they with Catharine (who had been a few days at Townsend Rushmores) came to see us had many questions to ask Samuel and Catharine do not seem to be prepared to believe on our report any more than before which I do not wonder at knowing it is im -possible to realise the manifestation unless witnessed have not read Mrs Draper's communication yet First day James and Elisabeth came they too inquired relative to all these things Elisabeth would enjoy a visit to you greatly, she enters heart and soul into many things she scarcely expresses to all her home folks I told her of Aunt Phebe s communication she said how pleasant if I could believe it fully I think she very nearly belives [sic] Joseph had some talk with J P Hale he said some of his friends thought the application ^in his lecture^ too [pointed?] he thinks there is more antislavery feeling at the South than the North says the North will submit to any thing however oppressive &c &c It seemed quite strange on entering New York to see no snow but there was ice in ^the^ streets but on the side walks day as in summer the night we got home there was a little snow perhaps two inches so that it looked a little white it is nearly gone now but it is cloudy suppose you have an additional supply each day [Page 2] we hear there has been considerable since we left it may be a mistake for I think you had quite enough Uncle James would rejoice if in his power to visit you I should be glad to be present when he first heard the rappings. it wou^ld^ furnish a theme for many an hours talk. But as we are to hear the sounds here he may have a chance without going to Rochester I really wish we could have the opportunity of hearing in the prese^nce^ of some of our wise ones Charles Post has had quite a turn of rheuma -tism is better Elias been very lame and is still ran a pitch fork in his foot Eddy Rushmore is quite po^o^rly with a cold earache and gath -erings in his head been so two or three weeks have not seen Matilda yet Neither have we been to Jericho so that I cannot speak of their welfare Esther Titus has a son three weeks old call him Walter Uncle Robert rather smarter (how queer that word looks written) Joseph thought he would fill the ice house to day but the men thought it would be rather wet and went away he is sorry as it would have been a pretty nice day for it We have had a letter from Henry C Wright it was directed to Cynthia but he said intended for the whole family it is a treat to receive good letters and from loved friends far away doubly so, he is in Indiana Suppose you have read George Thompson's speech at Fannel [sic] Hall at the time of the Bazar [sic] it is quite a different one from some other of his but shows great versatility of talent and eloquence of stile [sic] eaqual [sic] to any their Bazar seems to be success -ful beyond their highest expectations -- Did Frederic get to Buffalo or did the snow prevent the train from going through and how did their Fair succeed? we shall want to hear all the particulars about your meeting and Thompson the Fosters and all the eccetras [sic] which occur at home and in public do write soon I will stop pretty soon for there has been no happenings and I am two day in a cold sore throat head ache &c but have applyed [sic] cold water pretty freely and hope I shall soon conquer it how are Sarah Bridget and the other invalids of your family hope they are better it colds are very prevalent here our girls been most sick with them I wish some one was here to add some to this as I do not like to send so little that is worth sending with love to all the household and the other dear friends with whome [sic] we have mingled so pleasantly I hope Edmund will not fail to improve the am yours affectionately Mary opportunity s [sic] offered to investigate and he will oblige us if he will report to us his progress.
Domestic Servants
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/795e5926996c615d4cc32e955db856a6.jpg
7b0bd48ad9c110971584ec3df9e6328a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a201c13c84b7776e8c08c12046ad77a9.jpg
1793a8e219347fa9bac964962f348ca6
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9231bed68c31f60f1fbc2dad4810544a.jpg
2f6038aaa5e02ca1326eb11bfcdec417
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c7e923b99ad7502f7af9b75307efba04.jpg
2a319a8beaf5eaf9eb951e6771ca246f
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/4a801f714f8ff74a4bfb8fd6213f360d.jpg
ed61e82d812904ce1fe881b5bbcc06b2
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/3ff3f0a651d57af70a164fa102882a6e.jpg
d7645d4cf0abc199994d61cdd905d39e
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/42e0ceb80d91a579742fc21302e7941f.xml
877d02d2ecde59841a69948675bf6b49
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> [Text in top margin, written upside down]<br /> Father is better has been out to meeting I think we shall<br /> ride there to day I hope so it is a beautiful morning<br /><br /> [Text normal]<br /> Dear sister<br /> I have intended writing to thee ever since<br /> the reception of thy letter to us jointly, but about that<br /> time John escerted [sic] himself too much by lifting at<br /> butchering time a hog that was heavy, which affected<br /> his back in the weak part, and where he now thinks<br /> the origin of the disease has been and still is, in the<br /> kidney, and where the pain usually commences and<br /> esctends [sic] to the hip ancle [sic] & instep. D<sup>ctr</sup> Seaman "said<br /> It may have all originated from the stomach" probable [sic]<br /> it has for his throat and stomach has been affected<br /> for a year or two and he said he could not describe<br /> the feeling to any one except the soreness. I however<br /> think they have been better some time. On taking medicine<br /> twice lately it has affected him very much and brought<br /> away a good deal of offensive matter very much so indeed.<br /> & although ^he^ feels his weakness much this morning & very<br /> little appetite, I hope and trust strength will come<br /> in its stead. and since I have ^been^ writing he spoke<br /> about having a roasted potatoe [sic] which I got and put<br /> in the <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">ashes</span> embers, and he is so remarkable for keeping<br /> time that he could tell escactly [sic] when to take them out<br /> and seem to relish them, but when he will be able<br /> to sit long enough to answer thy letter I dont [sic] know.<br /> he lies down mostly it seems to mitigate the pain. using the<br /> limb often increases it. We often think of aunt Phebe<br /> heard lately by E.P. W. letter hope she continues mending<br /> my love is to her. I hope she will be able to write to me soon<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> Father has been very poorly lately mother thinks with an<br /> inflamation [sic] of the bowels and bilious affection [sic]. Willet went<br /> to D<sup>ctr</sup> Carl and discribed [sic] his great distress, (he sent some<br /> medicine for him to take that night as he does not go out nights,<br /> he did not get his clothes off for three nights, but has now<br /> got comfortable with the esception [sic] of some soreness of the<br /> bowels. I have not been to see him since. he sent for Henry<br /> Willis to go there I suppose on the subject of the free school law<br /> and Henry said he was pretty smart and seemed very pleasant<br /> The subject of the free school law, produces considerable escite-<br /> =ment [sic] in some districts, Jericho being a large district and<br /> a great deal of wealth went for free schools, being the first<br /> time I suppose that our Jericho friends never manifested any<br /> interest in district schools, (Jack _ Robbins says interest<br /> will get them out) Our district did not go for free schools<br /> the whole year, only the four months. [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">J</span>?] and the remander [sic]<br /> of the time the school is to be continued as heretofore, the poor<br /> go free, and the rich ones [obliterated] defray their own<br /> expenses, &c. 1<sup>st</sup> day, It is near a week since the forgoing [sic]<br /> was written. John has improved so that he walks out a<br /> little he sais[sic] his stomach is much better than it has been<br /> for a long time, and his affected limb is far from well<br /> but has less pain, Whenever we hear from Valentine N_<br /> for some time past he is not smart has a cold or something<br /> and aunt Abbie too is not very smart. but come to find out a<br /> little more it appears that the same thing has returned again<br /> "all their meat up here is a spoiling." &c. and we can imagine<br /> how it is with them. ^those^ who have seen for <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">our</span>^them^selves aunt Phebe<br /> can I expect ^imagine^ but they seem gaurded [sic] in their expressions on the subje [sic]<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> I percieve [sic] the N Star has commenced with the married life<br /> of ^[an?]^Mrs^ Mary Powell. I think her letters will remind aunt Phebe<br /> of <span style="text-decoration:underline;">her</span> friend who attends yearly meetings from Purchase or<br /> thereabouts, and takes her baggage to Richards S Williams house<br /> in the basement, & goes out among friends and finds them so beautifu [sic]<br /> and kind that she cannot get away &c Amy I read thy letter to<br /> Henry a few days ago. he said I think she gives a fair state=<br /> ment of things among you. but I thought from what followed<br /> that he with us considered them as <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">but</span> of small consequence<br /> [illegible] ^but may prove to^ to thee ^as^ little [foxes?] which spoil the<br /> tender vine. Oh how much I have desired that those things<br /> among you might be cast away, as the man formerly cast <br /> his idols of silver and gold which he made for himself to<br /> worship, to the moles and the bats, for fear of the Lord<br /> and for the glory of his magisty [sic]. thy talents sister ought<br /> to be devoted to more rational pursuits, if I may be judge<br /> only look back to thy tried feelings when thee was about to<br /> give up" and thee rallied thy strength [to see?] what trouble and<br /> vexation of spirit. perhaps my rebuke is to [sic] severe after<br /> all thy <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">pains and</span> kindness and trouble in writing so particu<br /> =lar to us. I have thought some of reading thy letter to Robert<br /> suppose thee would not object as it was a publick [sic] [examination?]<br /> Thomas and Phebe Hallowell are gone to Pensylvania [sic] left their boys<br /> William and Margaret are not well. the former we sometimes see<br /> at meeting the latter not at all. Phebe manifests a disposition<br /> to mingle with us both in a society ^and friendly^ capasity [sic]. it is really<br /> so pleasant to have her here and see her so much like<br /> herself so open so pleasant, that I cannot reconcile the idea<br /> of her returning to Canada again to live. Oh how very smart<br /> Catharine is she walks here and recommends uncle John to diet<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> strictly she is recieving [sic] so much benefit by it and cold bathing<br /> she is very active and sais [sic] she is able to keep doing something<br /> almost all the time. said she had work'd all the morning before<br /> walking here and back again. Mother W is smart much better<br /> John just asked if I had mentioned John Plummer prospect<br /> of taking Elizabeth Dodge for his wife the proposal came<br /> to our last Mo meeting. what is the reason sister Sarah<br /> is so pent up that we cannot hear from her. I hope she will<br /> take up the pen and tell us what she and Edmund are about<br /> I dont see that the rest of you intend to, and Mary and William<br /> ought to write to us. I cannot bear to become strangers<br /> to our own dear relatives, unless their [sic] is something of<br /> the kind there is much to fear ^on that account^. James Mott has been<br /> quite poorly for a number of weeks so that he sat up a<br /> very little. when I last heard he was better but not<br /> out. but Elisabeth left him and went to meeting. Cornell<br /> is kept to [Lot?] Cornelius school steadily. by report he is<br /> improving nicely. and manifest talent. 6<sup>th</sup> day 18<sup>th</sup> of the 1<sup>st</sup><br /> month. yesterday was our Monthly meeting which Joseph<br /> and Mary Post attended John Plummer seem to feel pretty <br /> cleaver [sic] to judge by his preaching. he and his intended being<br /> present and nothing appearing in the way for their proceed-<br /> =ure [sic] they propose consummating their intentions of Marriage<br /> on 7<sup>th </sup>day at her fathers. Mother thinks as he is a minister the<br /> marriage <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">out</span> ^ought^ to be at the meeting house where the elders can<br /> witness it. but they have been appointed a Minister to attend it<br /> viz [Whitehead?] Hicks I hoped J & M Post would have come<br /> here yesterday, but I suppose they could not as Willet<br /> S. wife is up been spending the week with them &<br /> they brought her with them to Jericho. I should like<br /> to give her a call if I can, but I am very much<br /> confined rather more than is good for my health I fear.<br /> I have intended looking for thos<span style="text-decoration:underline;">e papers thee recommended</span><br /> but have not succeeded as yet. I read so much now that<br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Mot</span>her<span style="text-decoration:underline;"> takes m</span>any<span style="text-decoration:underline;"> long breaths</span>. Isaac Mary F. & Rachel I escpect [sic]<br /><br /> (Page 5)<br /><br /> have gone to NY to see Gilbert their [sic] is no doubt but you are<br /> informed of his being placed in the Institute some time ago<br /> he has been home twice in the time. they say much of him<br /> as being an uncommon fine boy. which they <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">assign</span> ^attribute^ very much<br /> to careful attentive training. William Robbins son has had very<br /> little attention. aunt Esther sais [sic]. & we shall escpect [sic] to see more<br /> improvement in him if he is kept there but he dont like to stay<br /> very well I learn. Henry has just come in as he often does very accept<br /> =ably he has a cold in his head and feels poorly. 23<sup>rd</sup> of the month --<br /> If I send this at all it seems time that It is closed but<br /> it seems not worth sending ^at^ all but for acknowledging the<br /> acception [sic] of thine -- James and Elizabeth Mott were here<br /> [obliterated] couple days since very pleasantly, read thy letter to E--<br /> did not have an opportunity to read it to James on account<br /> of the presence of others. but he thinks if the noises break out<br /> here that he would endeavor to find where they originate, as unim<br /> =portant as it may be t<span style="text-decoration:underline;">o us</span>. James has thought considerable<br /> of going to the Harbor with his business but as he and [Hegeman?]<br /> differed so much in the valuation of property it appears to be sus=<br /> pended, Oh how I rejoice to see them so happy and devoted to<br /> each other, it had been a long time that they had not been to<br /> fathers, (owing to his sickness) and now he said he has come to go the<br /> rounds with E --- and she might visit all her friends.<br /> I think John is improving every day the pain abates he<br /> sais [sic] he is on a rigid diet and grows thin and weaker but<br /> that he dont mind that so much as hard pain has sat reading<br /> his paper all the morning without once taking the couch<br /> and now with love to all as if named in which my husband<br /> joins I am they affectionate sister M.W.W.<br /><br /><br /><br /> (Page 6)<br /><br /> [Text in center of page, written downward]<br /><br /><br /> Isaac Post<br /><br /> Rochester<br /> Monroe C. o N Y</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Willis, Mary W. Kirby. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary W. Kirby Willis to Isaac Post, 185-? Please note, this letter had previously been identified as being sent to Mary Post.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Willis, Mary W. Kirby
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
185-?
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Kirby
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
812
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. [Text in top margin, written upside down] Father is better has been out to meeting I think we shall ride there to day I hope so it is a beautiful morning [Text normal] Dear sister I have intended writing to thee ever since the reception of thy letter to us jointly, but about that time John escerted [sic] himself too much by lifting at butchering time a hog that was heavy, which affected his back in the weak part, and where he now thinks the origin of the disease has been and still is, in the kidney, and where the pain usually commences and esctends [sic] to the hip ancle [sic] & instep. Dctr Seaman "said It may have all originated from the stomach" probable [sic] it has for his throat and stomach has been affected for a year or two and he said he could not describe the feeling to any one except the soreness. I however think they have been better some time. On taking medicine twice lately it has affected him very much and brought away a good deal of offensive matter very much so indeed. & although ^he^ feels his weakness much this morning & very little appetite, I hope and trust strength will come in its stead. and since I have ^been^ writing he spoke about having a roasted potatoe [sic] which I got and put in the ashes embers, and he is so remarkable for keeping time that he could tell escactly [sic] when to take them out and seem to relish them, but when he will be able to sit long enough to answer thy letter I dont [sic] know. he lies down mostly it seems to mitigate the pain. using the limb often increases it. We often think of aunt Phebe heard lately by E.P. W. letter hope she continues mending my love is to her. I hope she will be able to write to me soon Father has been very poorly lately mother thinks with an inflamation [sic] of the bowels and bilious affection [sic]. Willet went to Dctr Carl and discribed [sic] his great distress, (he sent some medicine for him to take that night as he does not go out nights, he did not get his clothes off for three nights, but has now got comfortable with the esception [sic] of some soreness of the bowels. I have not been to see him since. he sent for Henry Willis to go there I suppose on the subject of the free school law and Henry said he was pretty smart and seemed very pleasant The subject of the free school law, produces considerable escite- =ment [sic] in some districts, Jericho being a large district and a great deal of wealth went for free schools, being the first time I suppose that our Jericho friends never manifested any interest in district schools, (Jack _ Robbins says interest will get them out) Our district did not go for free schools the whole year, only the four months. [J?] and the remander [sic] of the time the school is to be continued as heretofore, the poor go free, and the rich ones [obliterated] defray their own expenses, &c. 1st day, It is near a week since the forgoing [sic] was written. John has improved so that he walks out a little he sais[sic] his stomach is much better than it has been for a long time, and his affected limb is far from well but has less pain, Whenever we hear from Valentine N_ for some time past he is not smart has a cold or something and aunt Abbie too is not very smart. but come to find out a little more it appears that the same thing has returned again "all their meat up here is a spoiling." &c. and we can imagine how it is with them. ^those^ who have seen for our^them^selves aunt Phebe can I expect ^imagine^ but they seem gaurded [sic] in their expressions on the subje [sic] I percieve [sic] the N Star has commenced with the married life of ^[an?]^Mrs^ Mary Powell. I think her letters will remind aunt Phebe of her friend who attends yearly meetings from Purchase or thereabouts, and takes her baggage to Richards S Williams house in the basement, & goes out among friends and finds them so beautifu [sic] and kind that she cannot get away &c Amy I read thy letter to Henry a few days ago. he said I think she gives a fair state= ment of things among you. but I thought from what followed that he with us considered them as but of small consequence [illegible] ^but may prove to^ to thee ^as^ little [foxes?] which spoil the tender vine. Oh how much I have desired that those things among you might be cast away, as the man formerly cast his idols of silver and gold which he made for himself to worship, to the moles and the bats, for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his magisty [sic]. thy talents sister ought to be devoted to more rational pursuits, if I may be judge only look back to thy tried feelings when thee was about to give up" and thee rallied thy strength [to see?] what trouble and vexation of spirit. perhaps my rebuke is to [sic] severe after all thy pains and kindness and trouble in writing so particu =lar to us. I have thought some of reading thy letter to Robert suppose thee would not object as it was a publick [sic] [examination?] Thomas and Phebe Hallowell are gone to Pensylvania [sic] left their boys William and Margaret are not well. the former we sometimes see at meeting the latter not at all. Phebe manifests a disposition to mingle with us both in a society ^and friendly^ capasity [sic]. it is really so pleasant to have her here and see her so much like herself so open so pleasant, that I cannot reconcile the idea of her returning to Canada again to live. Oh how very smart Catharine is she walks here and recommends uncle John to diet strictly she is recieving [sic] so much benefit by it and cold bathing she is very active and sais [sic] she is able to keep doing something almost all the time. said she had work'd all the morning before walking here and back again. Mother W is smart much better John just asked if I had mentioned John Plummer prospect of taking Elizabeth Dodge for his wife the proposal came to our last Mo meeting. what is the reason sister Sarah is so pent up that we cannot hear from her. I hope she will take up the pen and tell us what she and Edmund are about I dont see that the rest of you intend to, and Mary and William ought to write to us. I cannot bear to become strangers to our own dear relatives, unless their [sic] is something of the kind there is much to fear ^on that account^. James Mott has been quite poorly for a number of weeks so that he sat up a very little. when I last heard he was better but not out. but Elisabeth left him and went to meeting. Cornell is kept to [Lot?] Cornelius school steadily. by report he is improving nicely. and manifest talent. 6th day 18th of the 1st month. yesterday was our Monthly meeting which Joseph and Mary Post attended John Plummer seem to feel pretty cleaver [sic] to judge by his preaching. he and his intended being present and nothing appearing in the way for their proceed- =ure [sic] they propose consummating their intentions of Marriage on 7th day at her fathers. Mother thinks as he is a minister the marriage out ^ought^ to be at the meeting house where the elders can witness it. but they have been appointed a Minister to attend it viz [Whitehead?] Hicks I hoped J & M Post would have come here yesterday, but I suppose they could not as Willet S. wife is up been spending the week with them & they brought her with them to Jericho. I should like to give her a call if I can, but I am very much confined rather more than is good for my health I fear. I have intended looking for those papers thee recommended but have not succeeded as yet. I read so much now thatMother takes many long breaths. Isaac Mary F. & Rachel I escpect [sic]lb/> have gone to NY to see Gilbert their [sic] is no doubt but you are informed of his being placed in the Institute some time ago he has been home twice in the time. they say much of him as being an uncommon fine boy. which they assign ^attribute^ very much to careful attentive training. William Robbins son has had very little attention. aunt Esther sais [sic]. & we shall escpect [sic] to see more improvement in him if he is kept there but he dont like to stay very well I learn. Henry has just come in as he often does very accept =ably he has a cold in his head and feels poorly. 23rd of the month -- If I send this at all it seems time that It is closed but it seems not worth sending ^at^ all but for acknowledging the acception [sic] of thine -- James and Elizabeth Mott were here [obliterated] couple days since very pleasantly, read thy letter to E-- did not have an opportunity to read it to James on account of the presence of others. but he thinks if the noises break out here that he would endeavor to find where they originate, as unim =portant as it may be to us. James has thought considerable of going to the Harbor with his business but as he and [Hegeman?] differed so much in the valuation of property it appears to be sus= pended, Oh how I rejoice to see them so happy and devoted to each other, it had been a long time that they had not been to fathers, (owing to his sickness) and now he said he has come to go the rounds with E --- and she might visit all her friends. I think John is improving every day the pain abates he sais [sic] he is on a rigid diet and grows thin and weaker but that he dont mind that so much as hard pain has sat reading his paper all the morning without once taking the couch and now with love to all as if named in which my husband joins I am they affectionate sister M.W.W. [Text in center of page, written downward] Isaac Post Rochester Monroe Co N Y
Family
Medicine
Quakers
Women's Rights
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/80885535fd9b371ab67d7b91eb62c2db.jpg
84ac282db0884ca20fba4d9e3d8f06fa
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a66ba39718b2c71c1fcf29725c01ba54.jpg
9789806ac6841b5ea68d072ab813a1c2
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1e00cc20fdb54cb77a5a93988e6a4e8b.jpg
4966b5c0d49806f045249f414e635c94
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f30856a9acdba50d8a09b26d968a8ba2.jpg
9ddd7e9e52f0a930ea3df9f7f9b3e797
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Text
Use for MSS Transcriptions (like Post)
Westbury 5 mo 5
Dear all
I have wanted to take my pen for many days for
the purpose of expressing my sympathy with you during this season of
anxiety and watching but have felt guile inadequate for the task we
too have been passing through a similar season which you have probably
heard ere this but all is past and our dear our loved and precious Mary
has entered on her higher life she had been more unwell for some
months still we all hoped she would be better again but we have
been sadly disappointed she might possibly have remained with us
a little bit longer had not another disease taken hold and aided in the
fatal work some weeks ago Mary [illegible] Hopkins’s husband did it was said
with the measles (they lived at Brooklin [sic]) the family were sick and distant
and were kindly removed to elias’s it was said they ahd the chicken pox
in two week Elias Patty and tan? Lewis all came down and Patty was very sick
Elisabeth Post was there to assist in taking care of them and in a few
days Elias jun was poorly but so as to be about and at the store some
Abby [Bushell?] washed for them was very sick the Dc there pronounced it the
real Small Pox they all recovered Elisabeth and May came down Mary
never broke out much and was soon taken with the bilious [illegible] ^and pain in her back^ which
remained very severe much of the time from fifth day night rental second
day near noon when she was kindly released from all pain was very sick at
her stomach too they describe her sufferings as being very intense and wha [sic]
made it doubly trying was that so few could go in I felt as tho I could
not stay away but [being?] circumstance as I was in relation to the school
and hoping it might be as the Dc encouraged us to think she might
recover they both ^[Des?]^ [illegible] nothing discouraging tho the symptoms they said
were not [guile?] so favourable [sic] as they had [illegible] ^told J so^ not more than two hours
before she expired she was peaceful and [calur?] sensible to the very last spoke
[Page 2]
of having no fear of death that all felt an assurance that all would be
were said I fell so peaceful in my mind I feel as tho I had never done any
thing wrong in my life bid them all farewell shortly before her close She
xpressed [sic] to Elias her desire to recover to be with him as he would be so
very lonely no mother or sister to take her place but then I leave thee with
other dear friends it seemed very trying to her not to see her not to see
us all again had I known at the time her frequent speaking of me and
that she beleived [sic] if I knew how sick she was I should come and see her I
should certainly have gone and I have deeply regretted I did not go but
vain one all my regrets she has passed away in the beautiful spring of her
life being ^aged^ 28 years and 2 days ^[devil]^ in the 28 of 4 Mo on the 29 her loved remain
-ns were intened [sic] and a very solemn meeting was held on the occasion
seldom if ever have I sat in one which seemed to me more so
[illegible] beautiful remenicencis [sic] live forever and memory has wandered
back through her childhoods fleeting hour and recalled many individuals
of her disinterested love her truthfulness and devotion to justice and right
how often has she gladdened my heart by her kindness and sympathy while
under trial and suffering both mental and physical how forcibly I have
felt that those we love make our life true we may exist surrounded by
the careless and indifferent but it hardly deserves the name of living I find
it impossible for me to love way one I cannot sympathise [sic] with them in their
feelings I frequently make an effort but my heart recoils from the attempt
and I despair of ever attaining what I desire then some pure and beautiful
influenced operates on me and I [illegible] again to gain all that is pure and holy
bereavements too have the same effect and called hom the wanderer from
I wish I might ^live^ so as to feel no regret that like our dear Mary pass tranquility
into the higher [obliterated] respected ^&^ loved by all I have been reading again Davis
Philosophy of Death and I feel greatly comforted thereby Have you ever read
it? if not I am sure you would like it it is most beautiful and I feel its
truth to pervade every feeling when such views predominate our bereavements
[Page 3]
are for less afflictive and overwhelming as we come to believe there is nothing test
by putting off mortality and leaving the [illegible] & [illegible] things of this would to pursue
lifes journey amid immortal beauties in the Spirit Land “I sometimes ask myself
whether the time will ever come when we shall cease to mourn for our friends
^5 mo 7^ our dear Matilda too has gone back very much not near as well as when she came
home she went back to NY a week agobut felt as tho it was too late to do her any perman^ant^
[illegible] she suffered so much from nervous excitement palpitation and her stomach
that she was anxious to return some of her friends do not approve it while in N York
before she consulted some of the regulars they corroborated Mary Nicols views of her case
but spoke discouragingly M N thought she might possibly be cured at any rate her
life lengthened by the water treatment Joseph was in N Y yesterday went to see her found
her more comfortable M N said she had lost a great deal while at home and if she did
not recover she should charge it to that cause It is quite sickly Measles Scarlet
fever +c have prevailed and have been fatal George Valentine has left two daughters ^with Scarlet Fever^
within a few days another and a boy have been very ill but hear today are better
Wc have received both of brothers letters and were much obliged for the contents
thanks to him for remembering us we have felt so anxious about Edumund
that we feared to open a letter hope now he will recover from his sore’s and
regain his health sufficiently to enjoy life (and reward his faithful Sarah
for the many weary hours and days of watchful love by going through the
farm of marriage they are I full beleive [sic] united truly and really ^in spirit^ and it is too
bad to stop show when the comfort and happiness of all [concerned?] would be
so greatly increased) don’t show this to them) Suppose the Anniversary once
[illegible] is now in session Oh how gladly would I be there I had [illegible] hope
I should but sickness in the vicinity and our loss made me feel less like it
still had I had company I think I should have gone Joseph said he wuld [sic] not
leave hope you will have a good time we have been waiting to see H
C Wrights communications in the Tribune suppose it much be quite start
-ling Adin Balon has had the subject introduced into his paper so that
[believers?] are multiplying We hope to see the girls here sometime I called
on them yesterday Joseph wants to hear more but seems at times doubling but in
[Page 4]
Reality his faith is pretty strong What do Henry and Catharine say to it I wait with
importance to hear Catharine had I think charged like the rest of us and almost
without being aware of it For myself it explains many things which I have
always been ready to doubt and I think it is a corrobaration [sic] of Davis and
others ^with^ similar views and I can as easily believe in communications in this
way as in many of their views which I embrace joyfully You see how greatly
I have changed I am not ashamed of changing but see more and more clearly that
I know very little am as a stranger even to myself I feel the deep mystery of my
Very being and live on from day to day the create of many influences beautifully
Has it been said “I know not what is time, nor can my spirit grasp the mean
-ing of eternity” but the feeling is present with me that guardiwn spirits are around
and that “ore my pathway daily an angel watches now,” Was pleased to
hear you had so nice a time at the [Louie?] hope that good
will result therefore and from G S visit in the West as for
the large Citys I dont know but their measure is nearly
full and will ^be^ punished by a terible [sic] retribution produced by
their great and accommodating weakness I am sad when I
think of the depravity and ignorance which abounds particularly
in New York it is the Sodom of the North There hase[ sic] been
lately an abundance of emigrants arriving last seventh day
four ship loads came in what an amount of sin and ignor^ance^
probably enough to make any place worse than it was
Oliver Johnson has come to NY expect him here [illegible] long
When Edmund gains some perhaps it might be beneficial to
Amy to come and spend some time with us and I have been thinki
ng whether it might not be so a welcom [sic] awaits her whenever
she can come DO give my love most affectionately to Edmund
I think of him in his weakness and suffering and wish it were in my
power to do something for his relief and comfort am very glad
Catharine is with him her cheerful and well balanced mind is
an acquisition in a sick room and I trust will cheer many a
weary [lom?] [sic] she and Sarah are also affectionately remembered as also
the whole household this is indeed a poor [servant?] I have been [illegible]
for I have not felt like writing so please be charitable love to
all the household William + Mary and all other write often to your
Mary
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, 185-?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
185-?
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
810
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
Medicine
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/58194db9351653381d6750a9412a85b5.jpg
4b41b6caaa3fd6c247ef33b6be1698a4
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/03880727108af4df8e658dcfcecf3d96.jpg
2ec5c3227e97e30b7b78f6a6d770f52c
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/36274b390bb38d155734b3a48986c480.jpg
f7b4dbf3409978a033a10c466062c797
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/477ca9cdd3ceadd4bf64158f99e268f7.jpg
bd3842db4701a9d5c544978faec25669
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/b285341af96d1bb12b329b1e08cc5e1e.xml
5f3f9a309684cc17bb880137539fc8fe
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)
[Text in top margin, written upside down]
There seems to be no passing to
the West this morning very likely this will have to
wait another day E Rushmore said his mother had just had
a letter from Mary and Isaac still affected with biles
I am sorry for him to have so many would not pills
[Text continues downward into left margin]
and strengthning [sic] diet be good for him Mary
[Text normal]
Seventh day Eve
While sitting up a little later than I wish wait=
-ing for our kitchen company to leave I looked out
on the beautiful moon shedding light on the
quiet scenes of earth which is apparently at rest
a similar feeling came to me all hushed and gentle
and absent dear ones both in and out of the form
came so lovingly to my remembrance that it is
precious to feel that while some annoyances
are at times known there is a communion
sometimes felt which banishes the discords of
our Earth lives and brings peace Brother’s
letter came in due time since which there
has been such a succession of Joys and care’s that
there has been but little time The act of the NY
meetings you have doubtless seen some act of The
Tribune gave quite full reports of the A S meetings
but to appreciate one must be present the spirits live
cannot be reported the interest and all and over
large but we certainly do miss some old familiar
who always in the years that are gone were as
the embodiment of the cause There certainly
seems to be work enough that needs being done by
(Page 2)
some body I did not discover there was any
declension of life manifested The Equal Rights
meeting we did not attend except the first day
home duties and Lizzie had concluded rather
suddenly to go on to Phila YM making it best
to be at home when she was fixing off she had
invited Kate Post to go with her but some circum
stances made it inconvenient so that I prevailed
on Joseph to go with her altho she felt quite
competent to go alone^I thought^It would be nice
for him to go accordingly they left home 1 day
morning J getting home again 3 day night
Lizzie will remain until 4 day next A
great many from our YM over 1 Doz from LI
E Willets & Anna Henry I Willets and sisters S J Underhill
W J Cork Edmund & Mary Seaman &c Lucretia seemed
quite feeble in NY but gained she thought con
-siderable and was out at the meetings alive
as ever to every good thing Going on ^home^ in the
night train and at the Select M on 7 day
The radical Peace meetings which were
held 2 days were quite small we only
attended one H C W read resolutions & spoke
on them in his old stile [sic] stringing together
(Page 3)
so long a catalogue of epithets if so & so
was so then they were murderers &c &c he had
no right to get any thing if at the expence [sic] of any
other human being education property health or com
fort Mr Toohey put some questions if that was a
[fait?] which H C W did not answer at that time
(perhaps he did after) Lucretia spoke some words
of cheer it was a cause she loved but she had no
idea that mankind would ever become so chang^d^ [sic]
that there would be a universal harmony but
in the enlightenment of the age resort would be
had to arbitration Our combattiveness [sic] & distinctive
-ness were given for wise purposes that we shou^ld^
stand up for our rights &c &c She is a wonderful
woman so just so uncompromising so faithful
let it be where it may she does not screen herself
2nd day Again rainy Joseph has gone to NY this
morning Yesterday was bright and quite warm
but needing fire to sit by had the company of
Cousin Edmund Martha & Mary ^Willets^ and & Rachel
Hicks Edward Rushmore and our Saml and & Kate
all very agreeable this social commingling
is very much to be prized without it how
shriveled in affection and feeling we should ^be^
(Page 4)
Sojourner as she walked into the ER meeting
after it had been in session some little time
made quite a sensation she was apparently a
stranger to most and no doubt they felt supprised [sic]
she should be so warmly greeted by nearly all
the prominent occupants of the platform rising
and shaking her hand Mrs Stanton stopped reading
her speech and amidst the clapping of hands her
name was announced the applause was repea
-ted when quiet reigned Mrs Stanton proceeded
I was very much interested in her lecture Mrs
Gage did not seem so happy in her remarks as
I could wish for her sake I feel anxious to keep
all little jealousies out of sight at least I
would gladly banish them from being exhibited
to the public who are ready enough to see the
faults of reformers Ann Titus is still from home
suppose at the South Jacob & Elizabeth have returned
from Europe have been in the country last week
foreign travel apparently has done less for them than
^some^ as they seem very much as formerly
Dr Truman expects to be at Gennesee [sic] YM and will
attend some of the meetings if he should come to
R I hope you will go and hear him To me he
and Lucretia stand first in my estimation or I
would go to hear them in prefference [sic] to any other
I know person al affection bias sometimes We were
very sorry to hear the fire had made you to suffer
in the loss of fixings but perhaps it may prove as I
see by the B of Light in some other place fire had
destroyed the Lyceum hall &c but they were feeling
it had awakened a greater interest and hoped it might
be in the result a blessing I have Lizzie’s birds to
take care of wh I find quite a change she has two
birds which are nearly grown and two tiny ones I begin to be
in a hurry for her to take them
[Continues upward into right margin]
off my hands
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, 185-?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
185-?
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
809
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions.[Text in top margin, written upside down] There seems to be no passing tothe West this morning very likely this will have to wait another day E Rushmore said his mother had just hada letter from Mary and Isaac still affected with bilesI am sorry for him to have so many would not pills[Text continues downward into left margin]and strengthning [sic] diet be good for him Mary[Text normal] Seventh day EveWhile sitting up a little later than I wish wait= -ing for our kitchen company to leave I looked out on the beautiful moon shedding light on the quiet scenes of earth which is apparently at resta similar feeling came to me all hushed and gentleand absent dear ones both in and out of the formcame so lovingly to my remembrance that it isprecious to feel that while some annoyancesare at times known there is a communionsometimes felt which banishes the discords ofour Earth lives and brings peace Brother'sletter came in due time since which therehas been such a succession of Joys and care's that there has been but little time The act of the NY meetings you have doubtless seen some act of The Tribune gave quite full reports of the A S meetingsbut to appreciate one must be present the spirits livecannot be reported the interest and all and over large but we certainly do miss some old familiar who always in the years that are gone were as the embodiment of the cause There certainly seems to be work enough that needs being done by
some body I did not discover there was anydeclension of life manifested The Equal Rightsmeeting we did not attend except the first dayhome duties and Lizzie had concluded rathersuddenly to go on to Phila YM making it bestto be at home when she was fixing off she had invited Kate Post to go with her but some circumstances made it inconvenient so that I prevailedon Joseph to go with her altho she felt quite competent to go alone^I thought^It would be nicefor him to go accordingly they left home 1 day morning J getting home again 3 day night Lizzie will remain until 4 day next Agreat many from our YM over 1 Doz from LIE Willets & Anna Henry I Willets and sisters S J UnderhillW J Cork Edmund & Mary Seaman &c Lucretia seemed quite feeble in NY but gained she thought con-siderable and was out at the meetings alive as ever to every good thing Going on ^home^ in thenight train and at the Select M on 7 day The radical Peace meetings which were held 2 days were quite small we onlyattended one H C W read resolutions & spokeon them in his old stile [sic] stringing together so long a catalogue of epithets if so & sowas so then they were murderers &c &c he hadno right to get any thing if at the expence [sic] of anyother human being education property health or comfort Mr Toohey put some questions if that was a [fait?] which H C W did not answer at that time(perhaps he did after) Lucretia spoke some words of cheer it was a cause she loved but she had no idea that mankind would ever become so chang^d^ [sic]that there would be a universal harmony but in the enlightenment of the age resort would be had to arbitration Our combattiveness [sic] & distinctive-ness were given for wise purposes that we shou^ld^stand up for our rights &c &c She is a wonderful woman so just so uncompromising so faithful let it be where it may she does not screen herself2nd day Again rainy Joseph has gone to NY this morning Yesterday was bright and quite warmbut needing fire to sit by had the company of Cousin Edmund Martha & Mary ^Willets^ and & Rachel Hicks Edward Rushmore and our Saml and & Kateall very agreeable this social comminglingis very much to be prized without it how shriveled in affection and feeling we should ^be^Sojourner as she walked into the ER meeting after it had been in session some little timemade quite a sensation she was apparently a stranger to most and no doubt they felt supprised [sic]she should be so warmly greeted by nearly all the prominent occupants of the platform rising and shaking her hand Mrs Stanton stopped reading her speech and amidst the clapping of hands her name was announced the applause was repea-ted when quiet reigned Mrs Stanton proceededI was very much interested in her lecture MrsGage did not seem so happy in her remarks as I could wish for her sake I feel anxious to keepall little jealousies out of sight at least Iwould gladly banish them from being exhibited to the public who are ready enough to see thefaults of reformers Ann Titus is still from home suppose at the South Jacob & Elizabeth have returned from Europe have been in the country last week foreign travel apparently has done less for them than^some^ as they seem very much as formerlyDr Truman expects to be at Gennesee [sic] YM and willattend some of the meetings if he should come toR I hope you will go and hear him To me heand Lucretia stand first in my estimation or I would go to hear them in prefference [sic] to any otherI know person al affection bias sometimes We werevery sorry to hear the fire had made you to suffer in the loss of fixings but perhaps it may prove as I see by the B of Light in some other place fire had destroyed the Lyceum hall &c but they were feeling it had awakened a greater interest and hoped it might be in the result a blessing I have Lizzie's birds to take care of wh I find quite a change she has two birds which are nearly grown and two tiny ones I begin to be in a hurry for her to take them[Continues upward into right margin]off my hands
Abolitionism
Family
Quakers
Temperance Movement
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/74bdd6cc7e42f3e86ae6739c3ebad31c.jpg
98e0a81768b982d87f1c37a553e2a695
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/80cb7870c1aeaf016ddb3c759f84fe5f.jpg
c1b1670ba2c95d850b0728db1b8ca642
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/7d0f0f04b49035133da4631258572f91.xml
2ca87705f132ea3b63d0bfbb0621785e
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> We have just returned from W ^P^ Titus had a talk with Ann on the<br /> rightfulness of voting she thinks friends ought to vote if they<br /> would only vote right. We are geting [sic] along much after the old sort<br /> in this neighbourhood difference of opinion on manny [sic] subjects<br /> I think some have been rather disposed to keep quiet for the sake<br /> of peace hopeing [sic] things would be better soon but one thing ^or another^ contin<br /> -ually raising up to disturb the harmony. I long ago thought<br /> it best not to give up a part of a good principle for the sake<br /> of peace for something would grow out of it that would make<br /> it worse and I am still more confirmed in the beleif [sic] that I<br /> am right. Pricilla on leaveing [sic] our house after Quarterly meeting<br /> said we must give her love to Isaac and Amy a heart full she<br /> wanted to see them very much, and she<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> gave me such a kind word of encouragement at parting that it <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">help</span> ^helped^<br /> to strengthen me to do what I beleive [sic] to be right. to have a <br /> word of encouragement from such a spiritual minded person<br /> ^does^ help much, I wish thee would inquire how it is that we cannot<br /> have some spiritual manifestation in this part of the country<br /> wither [sic] we are to [sic] unbelieving or what is the cause. the rappings<br /> told us last winter we might have some manifestation at<br /> Long Island before long. It is now very dry with us have had<br /> very little rain for a number of week our feilds [sic] most of them<br /> look very dry. have put our meadow out as last year. are<br /> now ready to enjoy a visit from you and will try to make it<br /> as agreeable as then if not more so your Joseph
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, 185-.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
185-
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
807
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. We have just returned from W ^P^ Titus had a talk with Ann on the rightfulness of voting she thinks friends ought to vote if they would only vote right. We are geting [sic] along much after the old sort in this neighbourhood difference of opinion on manny [sic] subjects I think some have been rather disposed to keep quiet for the sake of peace hopeing [sic] things would be better soon but one thing ^or another^ contin -ually raising up to disturb the harmony. I long ago thought it best not to give up a part of a good principle for the sake of peace for something would grow out of it that would make it worse and I am still more confirmed in the beleif [sic] that I am right. Pricilla on leaveing [sic] our house after Quarterly meeting said we must give her love to Isaac and Amy a heart full she wanted to see them very much, and she gave me such a kind word of encouragement at parting that it help ^helped^ to strengthen me to do what I beleive [sic] to be right. to have a word of encouragement from such a spiritual minded person ^does^ help much, I wish thee would inquire how it is that we cannot have some spiritual manifestation in this part of the country wither [sic] we are to [sic] unbelieving or what is the cause. the rappings told us last winter we might have some manifestation at Long Island before long. It is now very dry with us have had very little rain for a number of week our feilds [sic] most of them look very dry. have put our meadow out as last year. are now ready to enjoy a visit from you and will try to make it as agreeable as then if not more so your Joseph
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/93679ed20a28d1f30ac9ee2e68e21ec7.jpg
1693d6da62a68834f5afdf8bf6aad394
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/039e5654fed02b85b76ad68d55794605.jpg
a3a295da41154b4902e68334f3c651e5
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5840b72fab31c40f77945d67d99a6754.jpg
f4d88552435284e3e0cb08c4db0d2f62
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1aaaf92249843ad4a60e2f1fe93599be.jpg
12d5231f50bb78f3193eef5a5ee6e964
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)</p>
<p> </p>
<p> 4 mo<sup>th</sup> 27</p>
<p>Dear Isaac & Amy</p>
<p> A few days since we received the welcom [sic] messenger of love</p>
<p>which had been anticipated[<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">ed</span>] for some time and thanks dear brother for</p>
<p>the intention of writing sooner I can excuse delay sometimes knowing how</p>
<p>swiftly time passes on and how many hinderances [sic] there are to prevent writi^ng^</p>
<p>yet I would encourage to faithfulness in this particular it is so pleasant</p>
<p>to hear from you often and since we are so much separated it seems almost</p>
<p>a duty to keep each other acquainted in this way and to open freely one thoug</p>
<p>-hts and convictions on any subject which is claiming our attention – true</p>
<p>we may differ in sentiment on some things which are encircled in mys</p>
<p>-tery and doubt still lett [sic] us be true to our impressions and write that</p>
<p>which presents to our minds freely Isaacs letter was our first intimation</p>
<p>of E P Willis s arrival suppose he was at Jericho last first day have not seen</p>
<p>him but hope in a few days we shall have that pleasure yesterday and the</p>
<p>day before was our Quarterly meeting and Aunt Mary pleased me greatly with</p>
<p>a few words of inteligence [sic] which was that Amy was thinking some of being</p>
<p>at the Aniversary [sic] – I fell [sic] quite assured that we shall not be disappointed</p>
<p>and if practicable we shall be so glad to see both of you do try come</p>
<p> It appears it has been with some difficulty a place has been obtained</p>
<p>for the meetings and doubtless there will be a strong emphatic tertimo</p>
<p>-ny to go forth against Webster and I think very likely the New Yorkers will</p>
<p>not listen very quietly to the censure of the man they had idolized and</p>
<p>whome [sic] the papers still land as being worthy of redoubled honor – It appears</p>
<p>the religious press have on this spoken out more nobly than they have</p>
<p>been wont to which is encouraging William G Furness is advertised for</p>
<p>one of the speakers which will I think be hailed with satisfaction by all</p>
<p>again as last year C L Remond is not announced I wonder if he will give</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 2)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>another lesson in that subject this year – he has no reason to this time as</p>
<p>only the speakers at the aniversary [sic] are noticed and it may be excusable</p>
<p>[can?] in his eyes when so many others are left off the list who are eaqually [sic]</p>
<p>great Lucretia and others can attend again this year as their Y Meeting</p>
<p>is not until the week after Rowland Johnson I dont know whether</p>
<p>we have in any of our letters spoken of him and of his living in NY</p>
<p>he does and boards at Ann Lefferts attends Rose St meeting and often</p>
<p>speaks I dont know whether they know how fully [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">t</span>]he is Identified with</p>
<p>abolitionists they will soon probably he was up on 5th day spoke</p>
<p>excellently his text was Seekest thou great things seek them not enlarged</p>
<p>on it then alluded to the state of society as it now was that he feaared</p>
<p>many were satisfied if they attended meetings dressed plainly and confor^med^</p>
<p>in address to the requisitions of disipline [sic] while they were trampling</p>
<p>the testimonys [sic] of truth under their feet and were doing violence</p>
<p>to the spirit of God it was cheering indeed John Plummer followed</p>
<p>in a dry and to me tedious communication to show that the Almighty</p>
<p>had changed his dispensations to suit man in the various ages of the</p>
<p>world and that he felt it among[<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">s</span>] the first requestions [sic] to dress planly [sic]</p>
<p>and speak the and thou some said there was no religion in dress and in such</p>
<p>little things & Rowland spoke in the last meeting but so loud and distinct</p>
<p>that we could hear [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">as</span>] well said it was with reluctance that he again rose</p>
<p>not being fully identified with you in a [Fk?] capacity spoke of the iterest [sic]</p>
<p>he had felt while listening to the queries answers and the remarks made upon</p>
<p>the various subjects &c &c he would not willingly hold up a too discouraging</p>
<p>view but it appeared to him that we were not quite what we were represented</p>
<p>to be by the answers if we were so happy was it for us spoke more particularly</p>
<p>on Love and Unity which was represented to subsist among us unbroken he que</p>
<p>-ried what kind it was whether it was expansive and universal or whether</p>
<p>it was of the description which only loved those who love us whether</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 3)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>the hand of kindness and charity could be extended to those whose views</p>
<p>differ from our own and a willingness to assist them on their way Zion ward</p>
<p>or whether a different feeling was not more prevalent among the member’s</p>
<p>addressed the young beautifully The Cornwall people want to have their Q M</p>
<p>set back again suppose they think they have rid themselves of the difficulty</p>
<p>and can get on without foreign aid a committee to consider the subject was</p>
<p>ap<sup>t</sup> I beleive [sic] I told you Cousin Edmund had gone on business south</p>
<p>& West he was at last act at Chicago beleive [sic] he is on his homeward way</p>
<p>Stephen and Maria have lately been here Maria is very much interested in Free Produc [sic]</p>
<p>(and Stephen has been [consentious?] many years is [sic] ye know) were talking about Free good^s^</p>
<p>thinking strange about this one and that when in my plain way I asked S if it</p>
<p>was not inconsistent with their views and feelings to make their thousands</p>
<p>in trade at the South that years ago I was at Gideon Frosts he was dealing</p>
<p>in cotton goods extensively but with their food and raiment they were</p>
<p>particular not to partake of any but free produce and it seemed to me</p>
<p>to say the least very inconsistent &c &c &c they did not try to justify perhaps</p>
<p>they had not been told so plainly before Maria condemns Garrison severely</p>
<p>for not abstaining and encouraging others to do so and I wished more</p>
<p>particularly on that act to help her to see that some others are not</p>
<p>clear of inconsistencys [sic] perhaps it was not worth while to mentioned this</p>
<p>in this way but somehow my pen runs on with out much thought the first</p>
<p>thought which presents is put down Edward and Elizabeth Willis have been pre</p>
<p>-sented with two little girls on the 24 John and Elizabeth Valentine with one a</p>
<p>little before eleven years difference between their two children Mary Jane</p>
<p>and Amelia Post have made their Westbury friends a visit recently expect</p>
<p>to return home before long We too have had much windy cold weather</p>
<p>freezing almost every night but the last two days have been warmer and</p>
<p>damp and grain and grass alter their appearance rapidly the buds too</p>
<p>swell and give increased evidence that Spring is really here our men have</p>
<p>commenced to day planting corn and farmers are speaking of having much to do</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 4)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Isaac speaks of going to George Willets instead of the meeting house on first</p>
<p>day I must confess I was a little supprised [sic] that you should leave the meeting you</p>
<p>have prized so highly I now recollect you have not spoken of it lately can it be</p>
<p>possible that has been given up you have never informed us of it if it has</p>
<p>I hope you will hold fast to the good and the true – perhaps you will excuse</p>
<p>me for saying the more I hear [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">au</span>] ^about^ the rapping manifestation the less confidence</p>
<p>I feel in it as an agency from the spiritual state and the greater my hope</p>
<p>it will be left and our reliance placed wholly on God a portion of whose</p>
<p>spirit burns within us few indeed realize how happy it is possible to</p>
<p>become on earth by this intimate communion with the Father of our spirit^s^</p>
<p>heaven is indeed around and within us and many of my most hallowing</p>
<p>feelings ^[<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">I</span>]^ have been alone with nature, in the early morning when bird insect</p>
<p>and flowers [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">all</span>] send up [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">the</span>] homage and joyful fragrance to the author</p>
<p>of all their praise and thanksgiving have assended [sic] from the tablet of my</p>
<p>soul for his unspeakable gift that unfaithful and disobedient as I have</p>
<p>been still I am blessed with a portion of it and am not dependant [sic] on any</p>
<p>human being for this enjoyment but enough I did not mean to give a sermon</p>
<p>I will lay this aside and visit our school I have not been over in some time</p>
<p>and perhaps I can write when I return First day on my return from the school</p>
<p>we had company so I did not resume my pen have been to meeting Henry Edmund</p>
<p>and Catharine were at meeting have gone to Isaac’s will come here to tea on</p>
<p>third day we hope to meet William and Mary it is one of the greatest pleasur^es^</p>
<p>this mingling together in social intercourse would that we might oftener</p>
<p>enjoy such feasts I do ever regret our wide separation it would be so delight-</p>
<p>ful to have you here are you not rich enough to come back to Westbury</p>
<p>and enjoy life in its quietude a hearty welcom [sic] would be yours should</p>
<p>you do so Hannah Willets widow of Richard died in Phil some 3 weeks ago</p>
<p>was brought on and buried at Jericho – Rowland Mitchel and family expect</p>
<p>to leave Cincinnati and settle in NY Aunt Mary and family are delighted</p>
<p>with the prospect D[r?]’s health is better has been rather poor for months some</p>
<p>time ago they had an escape from fire they thought it took from the furnace</p>
<p>succeeded in putting it out but caused them much trouble removed all</p>
<p>the furniture from the house which was not a little dirtied and wet by</p>
<p>the super abundance of water pored [sic] on the fire (the house I mean)</p>
<p>Uncle John’s eye does not improve much he and aunt Sarah are now in NY</p>
<p>he goes down every week he gets almost discouraged Brother Stephen</p>
<p>has something coming over his eye so the [sic] he does not see much with it Lydia</p>
<p>Hicks has been quite poorly several days with a very sore hand it broke this morn</p>
<p>-ing and is now more comfortable Ruth too has had a felon which is [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">alas</span>] better</p>
<p>well I have got to the bottom of my page must leave writing more at pres</p>
<p>-ent and attend to some things before they come write soon but besure [sic] and come</p>
<p> if you can love to Sarah and the boys truly and affectionately your Mary –</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 5)</p>
<p> </p>
<p> Here it is the 10 and my messenger</p>
<p>remains in the drawr [sic] I meant to have</p>
<p>been quite prompt but forgot to send it</p>
<p>to the office when I finished it and since</p>
<p>I have felt as though it was not worth</p>
<p>the sending so it has not gone I bele-</p>
<p>ve [sic] our friends and neighbors are quite</p>
<p>pleased to have us home again they</p>
<p>have manifested quite a friendly dis</p>
<p>-position have had company daily xce</p>
<p>-pt [sic] yesterday which we employed</p>
<p>went to Jericho made Uncle Jacob</p>
<p>and aunt Mary a visit of two hours</p>
<p>then to fathers each had many</p>
<p>questions to ask relative to each of</p>
<p>you and also of the rapping</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 6)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>whether we had made any disco</p>
<p>-very of the cause &c &c John and</p>
<p>Rebecca came John would enjoy an</p>
<p>opportunity of witnessing these thin</p>
<p>-gs very much I should quite like</p>
<p>them all to as a discription [sic] fails</p>
<p>to convey much of an idea let it pr</p>
<p>-oceed from what cause it may</p>
<p> Nicholas Halloe is expected to be</p>
<p>at Jericho meeting on first day</p>
<p>suppose the quiet of some will be</p>
<p>disturbed by it or rather id he speaks</p>
<p>which no doubt he will Joseph</p>
<p>has gone to the city our milk bus</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 7)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>siness [sic] is rather dull milk so plenty</p>
<p>and money so scarce have had to</p>
<p>make butter some since getting</p>
<p>home for want of can’s to send it in</p>
<p>First day afternoon company and other</p>
<p>causes prevented my completing this on</p>
<p>the tenth so I really ‘dont know when’</p>
<p>it will reach you unless we send it</p>
<p>This is a bright beautiful day almost</p>
<p>spring like the glorious king of day shine^s^</p>
<p>so brightly that new life seems to invigo</p>
<p>rate all animate beings from man down</p>
<p>to the few birds and flies which linger am</p>
<p>ong us each manifest their joy according</p>
<p>to their capacities but here comes Uncle James</p>
<p>and inquires how home seems whether we are</p>
<p> satisfied with it and is</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 8)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>talking as fast as he can Jacob came up</p>
<p>yesterday we went to Isaac Rushmores</p>
<p>and Jacob with us he has now stept [sic] out</p>
<p>and I presume has gone down to Mary</p>
<p>he and I staid [sic] home from meeting our</p>
<p>Irish people are away to day Jacob read</p>
<p>David Copperfield by Dickens have you</p>
<p>read it there are many laughable scenes</p>
<p>described Suppose you know long ere</p>
<p>this the poor slave man is sent off from</p>
<p>New York how terrible to think of the mis</p>
<p>-ery and despair this diabolical law infli</p>
<p>-cts on the victims of it How many can</p>
<p>say with [lawper?] My ear is [famed?] My soul is</p>
<p>sick with every days repor [sic] of wrong and out</p>
<p>-rage with which earth is filled Evening</p>
<p>Edmund came back with Jacob each have</p>
<p>now gone to their respective home’s Joseph</p>
<p>and self are waiting for Cynthia she is at Joshua’s</p>
<p>Martha has a little party Silas has a very</p>
<p>sore neck a carbuncle been nearly two weeks</p>
<p>and there is no prospect of its breaking has to</p>
<p>sit up nearly all night for several of the last</p>
<p>he went home 7 day come back this afternoon</p>
<p>said he heard they had a large meeting that</p>
<p>Nicholas and some one else spoke after which</p>
<p>Henry Titus commenced when all went out befo [sic]</p>
<p>he got through suppose they broke up the</p>
<p>meeting E Post said Rachel thinks the colored</p>
<p>people had better keep their dollar than take the Star</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, 185-.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
185-
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
806
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/cce048263892f0ea681280093a93490f.jpg
0721afd990af7ea8a6b4db1ff0e2028f
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/394beddf518545b5fc3bb222c51451f5.jpg
e0c93d7112aa4d4ecc2f7ab2f9064819
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/7eb4708fa7f623f7e0b7e588db1f90a0.jpg
e44f0cea398b6158f91009aee8af6b21
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9ae16c15ee08944aab76d8ebb4c9700f.jpg
0aacaa99460749c517dc98bd97792917
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f977e2b2c45542e69ec1e2017669a96b.xml
aa3e7f983ef049b34a1c9555eaeb8292
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> First day afternoon the Girls and I have been at<br /> meeting it is a habit that seems almost like<br /> nature and a good practice if more of true<br /> toleration could be manifested, but we have so<br /> much that is intolerant, that I get verry [sic] much dis=<br /> couraged sometimes, yet I hardly find any Society<br /> even the nonresistant many of them do not come<br /> to my Ideas of right the AntiSavery [sic] folk many<br /> of them I think get wide of the right track. The spirit=<br /> =ualist too in my estimation. So I make up my mind<br /> that as we are social beings we must do as much<br /> good as we can. I feel a disposition to encourage<br /> the good where ever found. and discourage that which<br /> I think rong [sic] even in our Society I beleive [sic] my<br /> position is so well known that I could not<br /> do more good even should I withdraw from<br /> Society I beleive [sic] my membership does not prevent<br /> me from doing what I beleive [sic] it my place to<br /> do. Although some things has taken place of<br /> late that I hate in the Quarterly meeting that has<br /> just past the Orthodox spirit shewed itself<br /> as intolerant as ever Arden had a minute from<br /> his monthly meeting to visit some of the Quarter<br /> =ly meetings of Philidelphia [sic] Y.M. the N. York friends<br /> with R Cromwell at their head with the assist=<br /> =ance of some from our meeting manage to keep<br /> him at home among whom was your Nephues [sic] Hicks<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> We have had fine time to get our hay and harvest<br /> to gether not very hot although it was exsevily [sic]<br /> hot just before we commenced. very great crops<br /> of hay, much rain but no settled stroms [sic] other than<br /> showers <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">one</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">just</span> a ^day^ or two before we began to move<br /> one of the hardest I ever <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">rememer</span> remember the wa=<br /> ter ran like large brooks all around us. after the<br /> rain I was looking around to ^see^ hough [sic] things fared Uncle<br /> James boy came and said their home had been struck<br /> by lightning and Elizabeth was senceless [sic] we hurried<br /> their [sic] as quick as posible [sic] not thinking but she<br /> would recover and was much surprised to find that<br /> she had been kiled [sic] instantly never <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">stirred</span> moved <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">exc</span><br /> except her eyes rolled a few times a large spot<br /> on her stomack [sic] look very red as if burnt and other<br /> places on her body shoed [sic] marks Sarah much stuned [sic]<br /> and quit [sic] a large place on her hip blisterd [sic] Rachel<br /> was also some hurt Uncle J Aunt P and Catharine not<br /> hurt in the same room. the house to appearence [sic]<br /> ^at first^ not much injured but on examination the fluid <br /> had scaterd [sic] about the house very much. Their neighbours<br /> and friends simpathized [sic] with them very much very<br /> many called their [sic] the next day of the funeral we most ever had<br /> as large as Quarterly meeting is many times. Although<br /> many called there I beleive [sic] John and M.W did not<br /> not [sic] go to the ^house^ untill [sic] three weeks after after [sic] the <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">sec</span><br /> occurence [sic] and Henry not untill <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">after</span> the ^day of the^ funeral<br /> Aunt Phebe after her mothers death made a<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> have I any Brothers I thought she might again<br /> have said have I any Brothers. perhaps I <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">said</span> had<br /> better not said any thing [sic] about it but it seemed<br /> so strange to us it will keep raining up<br /> Two weeks ago yesterday we attended the funeral of<br /> Mary E Post in New York she had been a great sufferer<br /> for nearly 3 months her complaint I beleive [sic] was<br /> gatherings internally she ^suffred [sic]^ very much from sickness<br /> at the stomack [sic] especially the latter part of the<br /> time. I called their [sic] the morning after her death<br /> did not hear of it untill [sic] I got their [sic] Aunt Mary<br /> seemed pretty comfortable she and I beleive [sic] all<br /> the family seemed to think they had no cause to <br /> to [sic] mourn as the desease [sic] they thought incurable<br /> and she suffered so exceedingly They had a Preast [sic]<br /> that read over the Episcopal servis [sic] it seemed very<br /> dry and lifeless It did not seem as though Aunt <br /> Mary could not approve of custom, and yet it was<br /> not more out of place than some things that<br /> are said in our meeting house at funerals at Elizabeth<br /> Post funeral S. Thorn was very objectable [sic] indeed to<br /> some yes to many. For 3 or 4 days we have spent much<br /> time and some money in looking for a cow that <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">either</span> <br /> got out of the yard and eather [sic] went of her own accord<br /> or was dr^i^ven away wecannot [sic] find or here [sic] any thing<br /> of her so that we begin to think she was driven<br /> away but we may yet find but I almost dispare [sic]<br /> I suppose Rachel will say it is for some good as she<br /> some times says every that taks [sic] place is for our good<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> [Text in center of page, written upwards]<br /><br /> NoHempsted<br /> Aug 6, [2?]<br /><br /> Isaac Post<br /><br /> Rochester<br /> New York
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, 185-.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
185-
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
799
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. First day afternoon the Girls and I have been at meeting it is a habit that seems almost like nature and a good practice if more of true toleration could be manifested, but we have so much that is intolerant, that I get verry [sic] much dis= couraged sometimes, yet I hardly find any Society even the nonresistant many of them do not come to my Ideas of right the AntiSavery [sic] folk many of them I think get wide of the right track. The spirit= =ualist too in my estimation. So I make up my mind that as we are social beings we must do as much good as we can. I feel a disposition to encourage the good where ever found. and discourage that which I think rong [sic] even in our Society I beleive [sic] my position is so well known that I could not do more good even should I withdraw from Society I beleive [sic] my membership does not prevent me from doing what I beleive [sic] it my place to do. Although some things has taken place of late that I hate in the Quarterly meeting that has just past the Orthodox spirit shewed itself as intolerant as ever Arden had a minute from his monthly meeting to visit some of the Quarter =ly meetings of Philidelphia [sic] Y.M. the N. York friends with R Cromwell at their head with the assist= =ance of some from our meeting manage to keep him at home among whom was your Nephues [sic] Hicks We have had fine time to get our hay and harvest to gether not very hot although it was exsevily [sic] hot just before we commenced. very great crops of hay, much rain but no settled stroms [sic] other than showers onejust a ^day^ or two before we began to move one of the hardest I ever rememer remember the wa= ter ran like large brooks all around us. after the rain I was looking around to ^see^ hough [sic] things fared Uncle James boy came and said their home had been struck by lightning and Elizabeth was senceless [sic] we hurried their [sic] as quick as posible [sic] not thinking but she would recover and was much surprised to find that she had been kiled [sic] instantly never stirred moved exc except her eyes rolled a few times a large spot on her stomack [sic] look very red as if burnt and other places on her body shoed [sic] marks Sarah much stuned [sic] and quit [sic] a large place on her hip blisterd [sic] Rachel was also some hurt Uncle J Aunt P and Catharine not hurt in the same room. the house to appearence [sic] ^at first^ not much injured but on examination the fluid had scaterd [sic] about the house very much. Their neighbours and friends simpathized [sic] with them very much very many called their [sic] the next day of the funeral we most ever had as large as Quarterly meeting is many times. Although many called there I beleive [sic] John and M.W did not not [sic] go to the ^house^ untill [sic] three weeks after after [sic] the sec occurence [sic] and Henry not untill after the ^day of the^ funeral Aunt Phebe after her mothers death made a have I any Brothers I thought she might again have said have I any Brothers. perhaps I said had better not said any thing [sic] about it but it seemed so strange to us it will keep raining up Two weeks ago yesterday we attended the funeral of Mary E Post in New York she had been a great sufferer for nearly 3 months her complaint I beleive [sic] was gatherings internally she ^suffred [sic]^ very much from sickness at the stomack [sic] especially the latter part of the time. I called their [sic] the morning after her death did not hear of it untill [sic] I got their [sic] Aunt Mary seemed pretty comfortable she and I beleive [sic] all the family seemed to think they had no cause to to [sic] mourn as the desease [sic] they thought incurable and she suffered so exceedingly They had a Preast [sic] that read over the Episcopal servis [sic] it seemed very dry and lifeless It did not seem as though Aunt Mary could not approve of custom, and yet it was not more out of place than some things that are said in our meeting house at funerals at Elizabeth Post funeral S. Thorn was very objectable [sic] indeed to some yes to many. For 3 or 4 days we have spent much time and some money in looking for a cow that either got out of the yard and eather [sic] went of her own accord or was dr^i^ven away wecannot [sic] find or here [sic] any thing of her so that we begin to think she was driven away but we may yet find but I almost dispare [sic] I suppose Rachel will say it is for some good as she some times says every that taks [sic] place is for our good [Text in center of page, written upwards] NoHempsted Aug 6, [2?] Isaac Post Rochester New York
Abolitionism
Agriculture
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f9c53a2b58359560bebbe56297f84303.jpg
0ce5c9b62daab9125efa11f18b262c6d
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c4fada650503d7c1a701ccbc8aa995ee.jpg
edf2316d5d4ba7a7d291e3bc77f94e64
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/7b1bcfa30c90c63603feaa79f84f0272.xml
ac96d93e0fa1d0ec31409351e55856ab
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> First day the 11th have been to meeting two Sermons, Rachel has<br /> not appeared very offen [sic] since Abraham death and I think<br /> according to farmer views <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">not very </span>[<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">ex?</span>] prety [sic] good but some-<br /> =how something a little different suits me better I mean<br /> something more reformitory [sic]. To day she spoke of Davids early<br /> life being the most pure that in after life he commited [sic]<br /> many great sins. that the Lord is good. to forgive. We have<br /> had much such weather yesterday ^and to day [sic]^ as we had last year<br /> when we were with you very cold and windy hard frost<br /> roads very rough in many places. the harbour has not been<br /> clear of ice so that boats could untill [sic] day before<br /> yesterday and now froze again but like in a day or two will be<br /> oppen [sic]. We are persueing [sic] about the same routine of buisness [sic]<br /> as usual milking and feeding cows with other spring dutys [sic]<br /> such as cutting hedgses [sic] preparing for a summer course<br /> For all our hearing of people being out of employment and scarsity [sic]<br /> of work I think those with us who had established some<br /> character are geting [sic] a little more wedges than last year<br /> Patrick has been poorly much of the time this winter has<br /> not worked but little in two months complains of rhum-<br /> =atism [sic]. We have had quit [sic] a change in our neighbourhood<br /> within the past year. J.L. Townsend. Abraham Hicks Samuel J Titus<br /> removed from works to reward. leaving their places without any<br /> male head which makes it very differcult [sic] to find men<br /> suitable to take charge. M.P. Titus and E.P. Willets have<br /> sold their land that lies wouth of the turnpike for 65$<br /> per acre some think it very high others think they<br /> had better have keep it for if William makes a farmer<br /> he will want more land<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> Some places selling within our bordours [sic] Jacob Willis place<br /> at Ceder [sic] Swamp was sold last year the man died last fall<br /> it has been again sold for 9000$ 300$ less than last spring<br /> Hannah Underhill Widow of Jordon has also sold. Jacob Frost<br /> has bought the place that use [sic] to belong to Samuel Valintine[sic]<br /> the first place west of B. Treadwell. for 7000$ 200 acres<br /> much out of repair, will have a chance to do and build<br /> much he has the character of loveing [sic] to build has had<br /> two places before got them nicely fixed up then sells. his<br /> excuse now is to be near the Rail Road he owns much<br /> Property at Brooklyn go very often to look after it. often is<br /> building their and then wants to be there almost every day<br /> What do you think of Dana,s defence of E.G.Loreing dont<br /> you think it very strang [sic] him to do as he has done and in<br /> doing it to criminate Phillips to. I think Phillips reply<br /> must made him feel as if he had got in the ronge [sic]<br /> place by the extracts we have seen the Liberator<br /> I had supposed he was so much of an antislavery man<br /> that he would not help the slavery side along, but <br /> seems a Lawyer will take any side for money or prop<br /> popularity. 2<sup>nd</sup> day morning very dark morning storming snow<br /> and hail last evening Uncle James and wife Isaac & Samuel<br /> Hicks and wives were here they enquired after your<br /> welfare and wether [sic] you were not coming to visit <br /> us soon, and nearly may we look for you soon. It is quite<br /> encouraging to perceive, with what interest many people<br /> seem to take on the antislavery and temperance causes in these<br /> times some hope of the world J Post<br />
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, 185-?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
185-?
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
798
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. First day the 11th have been to meeting two Sermons, Rachel has not appeared very offen [sic] since Abraham death and I think according to farmer views not very [ex?] prety [sic] good but some- =how something a little different suits me better I mean something more reformitory [sic]. To day she spoke of Davids early life being the most pure that in after life he commited [sic] many great sins. that the Lord is good. to forgive. We have had much such weather yesterday ^and to day [sic]^ as we had last year when we were with you very cold and windy hard frost roads very rough in many places. the harbour has not been clear of ice so that boats could untill [sic] day before yesterday and now froze again but like in a day or two will be oppen [sic]. We are persueing [sic] about the same routine of buisness [sic] as usual milking and feeding cows with other spring dutys [sic] such as cutting hedgses [sic] preparing for a summer course For all our hearing of people being out of employment and scarsity [sic] of work I think those with us who had established some character are geting [sic] a little more wedges than last year Patrick has been poorly much of the time this winter has not worked but little in two months complains of rhum- =atism [sic]. We have had quit [sic] a change in our neighbourhood within the past year. J.L. Townsend. Abraham Hicks Samuel J Titus removed from works to reward. leaving their places without any male head which makes it very differcult [sic] to find men suitable to take charge. M.P. Titus and E.P. Willets have sold their land that lies wouth of the turnpike for 65$ per acre some think it very high others think they had better have keep it for if William makes a farmer he will want more land Some places selling within our bordours [sic] Jacob Willis place at Ceder [sic] Swamp was sold last year the man died last fall it has been again sold for 9000$ 300$ less than last spring Hannah Underhill Widow of Jordon has also sold. Jacob Frost has bought the place that use [sic] to belong to Samuel Valintine[sic] the first place west of B. Treadwell. for 7000$ 200 acres much out of repair, will have a chance to do and build much he has the character of loveing [sic] to build has had two places before got them nicely fixed up then sells. his excuse now is to be near the Rail Road he owns much Property at Brooklyn go very often to look after it. often is building their and then wants to be there almost every day What do you think of Dana,s defence of E.G.Loreing dont you think it very strang [sic] him to do as he has done and in doing it to criminate Phillips to. I think Phillips reply must made him feel as if he had got in the ronge [sic] place by the extracts we have seen the Liberator I had supposed he was so much of an antislavery man that he would not help the slavery side along, but seems a Lawyer will take any side for money or prop popularity. 2nd day morning very dark morning storming snow and hail last evening Uncle James and wife Isaac & Samuel Hicks and wives were here they enquired after your welfare and wether [sic] you were not coming to visit us soon, and nearly may we look for you soon. It is quite encouraging to perceive, with what interest many people seem to take on the antislavery and temperance causes in these times some hope of the world J Post
Abolitionism
Agriculture
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1a0dd2b712919ae69ab094d001e0b4b7.jpg
455799cbc589010564e760cabb965773
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/bfcb6ebf6e4621f1610e6be2fbbadd18.jpg
7c8c350b114dc951e31c2fec3b8ef8e1
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ff984a7aa47c0791be5884d68d928af0.xml
3f8eaff721c3ab71b23a4501252c264a
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> [Privite?] ) I went up to see Leah put her sleep to see Elias Hicks<br /> but without saying what I wished to enquire about of course<br /> she soon asked me ^after I spoke of him^ wither [sic] he was tall with a long neck &<br /> She talked about him very freely and apparently with him<br /> I told her some of ^us^ thought him almost equal to Jesus Christ<br /> she said <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">s</span>he was almost the^re^ she felt of her head & shewed [sic]<br /> where Jesus head was different from Elias. thought him<br /> Jesus in two points before him one error of E Hicks<br /> was he put the scriptures to [sic] much in the place of God<br /> signified his Ideas in regard to the Jewish wars was<br /> incorrect as tho he excused the Jews for saying<br /> god commanded wars that he never did. & he ^Elias^ was to [sic]<br /> much of a Sectarian to [sic] exclusive he now says<br /> the right way would be to meet perfectly free-<br /> each old & yong [sic] feel free to speak of the gods they feel<br /> without instruction & recommend living in Love &c<br /> it was truly instructing to hear her. said in these<br /> two particulars Jesus was before Elias but the<br /> latter to [sic] would have given up his life for his prin-<br /> cipals [sic]. Said she saw thee talking with some large<br /> man it looked like my brother and Elias Hicks<br /> was with thee helping thee talk with ^him^ said thy spi-<br /> rituality was large & by using it would increase<br /> I wish I could have written out what she said but<br /> I could not. On asking if he had any thing more<br /> to communicate she seemed to hesitate then asked<br /> if his name was Kirby I said Jacob <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Kir</span>by. oh yes<br /> she said he says he will soon be with me & that she<br /> did not mean a few days. I should think. but that<br /> at the end he would be admitted in his man-<br /> tion [sic] or company or whatever we may call it. I talked<br /> of other things some but as she had so much to do it seemed<br /> time to awake hr [sic] I ask her if it was ^time^ to awake her she<br /> said after thee comes come it would be well for her to<br /> come to our house <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">and then</span> about 3 times a week &<br /> then write down what may be communicated<br /> I turned her attention to the comming [sic] meeting at<br /> Waterloo wither [sic] it would be best for me to go she said<br /> there were those that would be glad to see me there she<br /> thought some Good would grow out of the<br /> meeting but not much at present<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> ^present^ but it looked to her that my attention would be required<br /> at home. or that I should ^be^ needed I then requested to her to awake<br /> feeling well she seemed to feel quite rested now I must go<br /> to tea She said she saw it very bright about George Willet<br /> thought things would soon be right with him & I went<br /> over to George, some day [sic] ago he had not been to<br /> the store as much as usual I went to see if he was<br /> sick he was not at home & poor Ann felt bad<br /> enough I asked if George was sick she said no<br /> only his mind but she thought he had [gon?]<br /> to our store I think he has felt better ever<br /> since he attends to the Cars every time they<br /> come in quite a relief to me but from what<br /> Leah says it would see he will not stay<br /> long with us What I mean by Such is I went [thr?]<br /> to read first and see wither [sic] certain parts or pieces had<br /> best be read to others I hear is thee what to do with my<br /> scralls after reading of course they are to be free to<br /> Sarah Edmund though by staying in N York Sixth<br /> day night he could not do buisness [sic] in Albany first<br /> therefore if he did not come from N York when he did<br /> he would have to remain untill [sic] First day night or<br /> 2<sup>nd</sup> day he therfor [sic] concluded to do or he did rather than<br /> wait as long however I think I should have reasoned<br /> differently Henry Cook was buried yesterday he had been<br /> failing for some time past Jacob one of the bearers<br /> This is now first day & a delightfull [sic] day summer <br /> like I went to Lewis Burtis this morning Sarah<br /> has very much recruited meeting quite full had<br /> very wordy preacher exortation [sic] from professer [sic]<br /> Lewis he adverted to his tryals [sic] and to some, adm<br /> inistering comforts to him in friendless situations<br /> he longed to have sectarian disunities done<br /> away and Love to fill their places &c E D [Grummond?]<br /> seems recruiting they have a nice team of boys<br /> and a snow covered wagon to go their Journey<br /> it [sic] there [sic] healths are good it looks as tho they may<br /> have a comfortable time I<br /> hope they will<br /><br /></p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Isaac. Letter to unknown recipient.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Isaac Post to unknown recipient, 185-?
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
185-?
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
unknown recipient
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
793
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. [Privite?] ) I went up to see Leah put her sleep to see Elias Hicks but without saying what I wished to enquire about of course she soon asked me ^after I spoke of him^ wither [sic] he was tall with a long neck & She talked about him very freely and apparently with him I told her some of ^us^ thought him almost equal to Jesus Christ she said she was almost the^re^ she felt of her head & shewed [sic] where Jesus head was different from Elias. thought him Jesus in two points before him one error of E Hicks was he put the scriptures to [sic] much in the place of God signified his Ideas in regard to the Jewish wars was incorrect as tho he excused the Jews for saying god commanded wars that he never did. & he ^Elias^ was to [sic] much of a Sectarian to [sic] exclusive he now says the right way would be to meet perfectly free- each old & yong [sic] feel free to speak of the gods they feel without instruction & recommend living in Love &c it was truly instructing to hear her. said in these two particulars Jesus was before Elias but the latter to [sic] would have given up his life for his prin- cipals [sic]. Said she saw thee talking with some large man it looked like my brother and Elias Hicks was with thee helping thee talk with ^him^ said thy spi- rituality was large & by using it would increase I wish I could have written out what she said but I could not. On asking if he had any thing more to communicate she seemed to hesitate then asked if his name was Kirby I said Jacob Kirby. oh yes she said he says he will soon be with me & that she did not mean a few days. I should think. but that at the end he would be admitted in his man- tion [sic] or company or whatever we may call it. I talked of other things some but as she had so much to do it seemed time to awake hr [sic] I ask her if it was ^time^ to awake her she said after thee comes come it would be well for her to come to our house and then about 3 times a week & then write down what may be communicated I turned her attention to the comming [sic] meeting at Waterloo wither [sic] it would be best for me to go she said there were those that would be glad to see me there she thought some Good would grow out of the meeting but not much at present ^present^ but it looked to her that my attention would be required at home. or that I should ^be^ needed I then requested to her to awake feeling well she seemed to feel quite rested now I must go to tea She said she saw it very bright about George Willet thought things would soon be right with him & I went over to George, some day [sic] ago he had not been to the store as much as usual I went to see if he was sick he was not at home & poor Ann felt bad enough I asked if George was sick she said no only his mind but she thought he had [gon?] to our store I think he has felt better ever since he attends to the Cars every time they come in quite a relief to me but from what Leah says it would see he will not stay long with us What I mean by Such is I went [thr?] to read first and see wither [sic] certain parts or pieces had best be read to others I hear is thee what to do with my scralls after reading of course they are to be free to Sarah Edmund though by staying in N York Sixth day night he could not do buisness [sic] in Albany first therefore if he did not come from N York when he did he would have to remain untill [sic] First day night or 2nd day he therfor [sic] concluded to do or he did rather than wait as long however I think I should have reasoned differently Henry Cook was buried yesterday he had been failing for some time past Jacob one of the bearers This is now first day & a delightfull [sic] day summer like I went to Lewis Burtis this morning Sarah has very much recruited meeting quite full had very wordy preacher exortation [sic] from professer [sic] Lewis he adverted to his tryals [sic] and to some, adm inistering comforts to him in friendless situations he longed to have sectarian disunities done away and Love to fill their places &c E D [Grummond?] seems recruiting they have a nice team of boys and a snow covered wagon to go their Journey it [sic] there [sic] healths are good it looks as tho they may have a comfortable time I hope they will
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/e842aee26efe1e28f5bc07e5ffe58fb1.jpg
de7eaf2781301da2d4425ae5e483db8f
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/40bee7fd6841805f26e05f94c73d813f.jpg
2282ff7eb33b9b22fe480d94b6a941fd
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/75bd2f000d1ce4d621980234283e373f.jpg
c0e451ffa57b754260263b5f067c2f14
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/fbef1dc78000b383951d10d1b92d2938.jpg
de04e2784efde140be1d236957ed7227
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f76bc8b65be90296ccd6c8822e6fcf37.xml
8a06a13cd9fc9f3416633651dd5d2540
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> [Text in left margin, written upwards]<br /> this poor letter and write as soon as the [sic] has time to thy<br /> aff-friend Phebe<br /> A sends love<br /> and we both<br /> desire to be<br /> remembered<br /> to all in - <br /> quiring<br /> friends<br /><br /> [Text normal]<br /> Philad May 8th<br /><br /> Dear Amy<br /> Though thy kind letter has lain<br /> so long unanswered, be a assured that<br /> it was none the less [sic] acceptable.<br /> Various reasons have prevented my<br /> writing, not the least among which<br /> was the weakness of my eyes.<br /> They are now better and I hope<br /> with the aid of glasses to have more<br /> service from them still _ My health<br /> otherwise is very good, and I have<br /> passed a pleasant 6 months here,<br /> though mingling but little in society<br /> L. Mott has kindly furnished us with<br /> all the Anti-slavery papers of the day<br /> and urges us to visit her house often<br /> but knowing that a person like her<br /> has so many demands on her time<br /> that we seldom go there without a<br /> special invitation _ Such as one<br /> she gave us last week, to meet some<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> friends, among whom was J. Dugdale's<br /> Mother, C. Johnson & wife G. Prior & Marga<br /> ret, and a room full beside. We enjoyed<br /> the evening highly and felt refreshed<br /> by the conversation between those ear-<br /> nest [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">minds</span>] loving persons.<br /> Lucretia spoke hopefully of her work<br /> in the Society of Friends, though see-<br /> ing daily their desire to find something<br /> to disown her for. I cannot say that I<br /> should have the bravery to face the<br /> disagreeables that she does, but I ad-<br /> mire it in her as she considers it her<br /> duty to remain among them.<br /> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">I</span> Yesterday I attended the first sitting<br /> of the Y.M. The house was crowded besides<br /> many who filled the yard. The preaching<br /> was commonplace, and went far from<br /> an explanation of the "friends" principles<br /> I should like to attend the Meeting<br /> of the Congregational friends at Chester<br /> Co. but shall not be able to do so.<br /> I suppose you will all have a good<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> Mt at Waterloo. I hope so.<br /> So C. Brown is gone at last, but<br /> in sending the body to Rochester, I<br /> suppose nothing was gained by way<br /> of honor to the departed. Leah will<br /> miss him in many ways no doubt.<br /> I wish for thine and Isaac's sake<br /> as well as Mother's that I could give<br /> you some interesting news as to the<br /> progress of Spiritualism, but not yet<br /> having become much improved in<br /> that line, I can not be of use in that<br /> way. <span style="text-decoration:underline;">I</span> hear but little of it, because I<br /> do not go to it. You must have hopes<br /> for me that I may become good like<br /> the rest some day_ It has been<br /> very pleasant to see Wm & Mary & Sarah<br /> and have enjoyed the time that I<br /> spent with them though it <span style="text-decoration:underline;">was</span> lim<br /> ited _ Probably we miss you more<br /> than you do us. I regretted much <br /> thy health had been so poor but from<br /> the tenor of Mother's letter hope thee<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> has recovered by this time. Really<br /> I think Rochester must be the seat<br /> of di<span style="text-decoration:underline;">scove</span>ry if it can boast of little<br /> else! Some news or wonderful thing<br /> being constantly brought to light<br /> there _ One can rightly hope that<br /> the good little City of R. will become<br /> the [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">sample</span>] <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Mod</span>el <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Cit</span>y in a few years<br /> By Mother's letter I perceive that<br /> she is enjoying another of her visits<br /> at your hospitable house, and I hope<br /> she may prove as useful to them in<br /> thy ill health as my dear Mother<br /> always d<span style="text-decoration:underline;">esire</span>s to be. Please remember<br /> me to Cousin J. E. M and say that I<br /> am sorry to learn of his loss & danger<br /> by fire I hope nothing invaluable was<br /> lost_ Sometimes I feel homesick<br /> but think I shall stay awhile longer<br /> but am not settled on account of<br /> my employers being in doubt.<br /> It seems that some were unable to<br /> be tossed by circumstances all their <br /> lives_ May they only be patient and<br /> cheerful under the dispensation. Excuse<br /> [Continues in left margin of page 1 with line beginning "this poor letter"]
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
_____, Phebe ?. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Phebe ? _____ to Amy Kirby Post, 185-?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
_____, Phebe ?
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
185-?
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
774
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. [Text in left margin, written upwards] this poor letter and write as soon as the [sic] has time to thy aff-friend Phebe A sends love and we both desire to be remembered to all in - quiring friends [Text normal] Philad May 8th Dear Amy Though thy kind letter has lain so long unanswered, be a assured that it was none the less [sic] acceptable. Various reasons have prevented my writing, not the least among which was the weakness of my eyes. They are now better and I hope with the aid of glasses to have more service from them still _ My health otherwise is very good, and I have passed a pleasant 6 months here, though mingling but little in society L. Mott has kindly furnished us with all the Anti-slavery papers of the day and urges us to visit her house often but knowing that a person like her has so many demands on her time that we seldom go there without a special invitation _ Such as one she gave us last week, to meet some friends, among whom was J. Dugdale's Mother, C. Johnson & wife G. Prior & Marga ret, and a room full beside. We enjoyed the evening highly and felt refreshed by the conversation between those ear- nest [minds] loving persons. Lucretia spoke hopefully of her work in the Society of Friends, though see- ing daily their desire to find something to disown her for. I cannot say that I should have the bravery to face the disagreeables that she does, but I ad- mire it in her as she considers it her duty to remain among them.I Yesterday I attended the first sitting of the Y.M. The house was crowded besides many who filled the yard. The preaching was commonplace, and went far from an explanation of the "friends" principles I should like to attend the Meeting of the Congregational friends at Chester Co. but shall not be able to do so. I suppose you will all have a good Mt at Waterloo. I hope so. So C. Brown is gone at last, but in sending the body to Rochester, I suppose nothing was gained by way of honor to the departed. Leah will miss him in many ways no doubt. I wish for thine and Isaac's sake as well as Mother's that I could give you some interesting news as to the progress of Spiritualism, but not yet having become much improved in that line, I can not be of use in that way. I hear but little of it, because I do not go to it. You must have hopes for me that I may become good like the rest some day_ It has been very pleasant to see Wm & Mary & Sarah and have enjoyed the time that I spent with them though it was lim ited _ Probably we miss you more than you do us. I regretted much thy health had been so poor but from the tenor of Mother's letter hope thee has recovered by this time. Really I think Rochester must be the seat of discovery if it can boast of little else! Some news or wonderful thing being constantly brought to light there _ One can rightly hope that the good little City of R. will become the [sample] Model City in a few years By Mother's letter I perceive that she is enjoying another of her visits at your hospitable house, and I hope she may prove as useful to them in thy ill health as my dear Mother always desires to be. Please remember me to Cousin J. E. M and say that I am sorry to learn of his loss & danger by fire I hope nothing invaluable was lost_ Sometimes I feel homesick but think I shall stay awhile longer but am not settled on account of my employers being in doubt. It seems that some were unable to be tossed by circumstances all their lives_ May they only be patient and cheerful under the dispensation. Excuse [Continues in left margin of page 1 with line beginning "this poor letter"]
Abolitionism
Family
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ccc90e2c84c90adb52c0a8bbe2a3d678.jpg
d55523ed3bb0a07e2a578bc82ba6793b
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/483a04675e604fa8a2258011c6a70876.jpg
527c4292f6cdb6e7a1310121c7816408
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)</p>
<p> </p>
<p> Jericho 10th 21st. 1849</p>
<p>Esteemed Brother and Sister</p>
<p> It is now first day morning and</p>
<p>our folks are fixing for Meeting, I have not been for several months, but I am in hopes of being able to go soon, –</p>
<p>as I think I am mending but verry [sic] slowley [sic] thure [sic] is</p>
<p>but verry [sic] little at our Meetings that would be interesting</p>
<p>to Rochester folks, for our Meetings are Genarly [sic] silent</p>
<p>and that would not suit Rochester folks for I think</p>
<p>[<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">for I think</span>] they like, singing praying preaching and</p>
<p>talking or any thing in preference to silent meetings,</p>
<p>altho [sic] our Meetings are mostley [sic] silent they are not always</p>
<p>so for our cousin Robert Seaman has of late appeared</p>
<p>several times in publick [sic], and Henry Willis says he thinks</p>
<p>that Robert is on the right track and he intends to take</p>
<p>charge of him himself and to keep him right he thinks</p>
<p>yong [sic] ministers have often been neglected and he says he</p>
<p>intends to ^take^ Robert under his particular care and not trust</p>
<p>him to [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">be open to be</span>] the Elders, I seem to have but</p>
<p>verry [sic] little to say at present but I have cut a pece [sic]</p>
<p>from the Journal of Commerce, and intend to enclose</p>
<p>in this letter it is for Amy particular benefit and</p>
<p>I wish he [sic] to read it carefuly [sic] and preserve it with much care,</p>
<p>and some times have the family all collected (and get in the</p>
<p>[quiet?] if that is posable [sic]) and have it read in the haring [sic] of</p>
<p>all; for I approve of most of the sentiments therein</p>
<p>expresed [sic], Willet and Matild J was her [sic] last evening and say</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 2)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>that Father and Mother are as will [sic] as usual, I [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">allo</span>]</p>
<p>take a piese [sic] from the Hempstead paper and send to</p>
<p>Jacob giving an account of the fair in Queens County</p>
<p>so that If he wants to see fire house he may</p>
<p>know where to come, I supose [sic] you recollect that Henry</p>
<p>Titus at Jerusalem commenced preaching some time ago</p>
<p>and was requested by the Elders to stop speaking in Publick [sic]</p>
<p>which advise offended him verry [sic] much, and he stoped [sic] going</p>
<p>to to [sic] meeting for a numbe [sic] of months he has at length</p>
<p>commenced going to Meeting and preaching again. our abolitio</p>
<p>ests [sic] dislike having Henry stoped [sic] preaching they said that the</p>
<p>Elders where [sic] interfearg [sic] with Henrys duty for they considered</p>
<p>him one of the best of preachers but how they will get</p>
<p>along with him now, I do not know, but I believe it is verry [sic]</p>
<p>difficult for a [seal?] hot abolitionest [sic] to say or do any thing</p>
<p>that theese [sic] brother abolitionist will not justify there in.</p>
<p>Henry Tirus lives with his son, Sylvanus Titus who</p>
<p>has lately had a Daughter married and in the evening</p>
<p>(I believe ^the^ wedding [duty?] was collected) some misctevous [sic]</p>
<p>boys collected around the house and made a great noise</p>
<p>which offended Henry verry [sic] much so much so that he took</p>
<p>his gun and went out to shoot them but as his gun was</p>
<p>an old musket she misfired but he snaped [sic] several times</p>
<p>at them bit fortuneately [sic] for the boys he did not get his</p>
<p>gun off If he had in all probility [sic] he would kiled [sic] one</p>
<p>or more of them. – now for a White man to shoote [sic] a</p>
<p>runaway slave is horrable [sic] and he ought to be sent to the</p>
<p>Devil fourth with [sic], but for a real Abolitiones [sic] to shoot</p>
<p>white boys because they make a noise around the house</p>
<p>is allegeathe [sic] a different thing for the boys might have</p>
<p>[hiped?] a way, Respectfuly [sic] yours, J. Willis</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[Rest of letter transcribed as letter 763]</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Willis, John. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from John Willis to Isaac Post, October 21, 1849.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Willis, John
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1849-10-21
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
762
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Abolitionism
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/123751204e822e720832fbd8877eee08.jpg
1ca9a5a1f0cc46e457e4e8a05f31698e
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ba6e16857f6a4a9e435dc048b65c7648.jpg
b18561a917745310d661e1d12a9f2aaa
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/31b1286fda8985b8cb2a8c8d4ee06959.jpg
35629e97558853f3d603b035fd087c3a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d2ca5b9e37019834e8f91901ea278d91.jpg
a8cb372acc83247a75c3b35dc9c95fbd
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Pay F. Duglass [sic] 2$ for Stephen Rushmore ^for the North Stare [sic]^ and charge to my account</p>
<p>I beleive [sic] J and L Mott were not in Ohio last fall [J?] P</p>
<p>so I am mistaken First day eve the 10 of 6 mo<sup>th</sup></p>
<p>Our dear Isaac and Amy This day is nearly spent and with the shades</p>
<p>of evening has come a feeling of loneliness stealing over my spirit as I sat</p>
<p>musing on the past and present as thought followed thought in rapid succ</p>
<p>-ession in some of which you were mingled most lovingly and sweetly has</p>
<p>my heard encircled you in that feeling which time cannot destroy nor distan^ce^</p>
<p>change – I need scarcely say how sadly we were disappointed and yet</p>
<p>I must else you may not realize to the full the extent thereof – We heard</p>
<p>you went to Boston on second day night but of no other conclusion Joseph and</p>
<p>self went to New York on fourth day on sixth day afternoon we got in the car’s</p>
<p>to return home and were looking about for seats in the distance I espied</p>
<p>Matilda we hastened to them I looked around for Amy but no where could</p>
<p>I see her and on enquiring found to our supprise [sic] and disappointment the</p>
<p>fact that our visit was finished and it had been so very short too I</p>
<p>could not but regret it I had been anticipating days of enjoyment in</p>
<p>reserve for us and to be thus suddenly deprived of the expectation was</p>
<p>not pleasant and it was difficult to be reconciled to it – for Isaac^s^</p>
<p>information will say that Amy’s company and communications</p>
<p>were acceptable and edifying tending to stir up to more zeal and faith</p>
<p>fullness in the several departments spoken of I trust her labors would</p>
<p>have ^been^ even more effectual had she been accompanied by her fellow</p>
<p>laborer and keeper in the same good cause. – Sarah remains at</p>
<p>Jericho hope she will come and stay with us soon – We have been pleased</p>
<p>with the account of the N England convention and think it must have</p>
<p>been exceedingly interesting and doubt not Amy feels fully repaid</p>
<p>for going I beleive [sic] it is good to do so when practicable and pledge</p>
<p>[<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">anew</span>] ^ourselves^ [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">our</span>] anew to labor and suffer whatever a faithful discharge</p>
<p>of duty may bring upon us I feel that it is little yes a very little that</p>
<p>I can do but then if the giving a cup of cold water only in the name of a dicipl [sic]</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 2)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>shall in no wise [lose?] their reward it is encouraging to such to do what we</p>
<p>can little tho [sic] it be to hasten the day when liberty shall be proclaimed through all</p>
<p>the land to all the inhabitants thereof” Stephen and Abby are in our borders Abby came</p>
<p>first we have not seen them yet they are at Jerusalem to day, it did not seem to</p>
<p>be best to go – on third day evening they are to be at Hempstead shall if practicable</p>
<p>go I will now leave for the morrow and listen to Joseph who has come in and taken</p>
<p>up our favourite paper “The glorious old Liberator” to read again so farewell for to night</p>
<p> Second day I resume my pen agreeably to my intention yesterday but without feeling</p>
<p>much like writing, Henry Willis dined here and has just gone home brought Sarah and</p>
<p>Catharine who are at Isaac Rushmores Henry went to Oyster bay seventh day evening</p>
<p>and Stephen and Abby home with him then to Jerusalem next day appears much inter</p>
<p>-ested with them they attended meeting in the morning at which Stephen preached</p>
<p>(Henry said) the gospel – in the afternoon they had an interesting meeting also –</p>
<p>[Whithead?] feels as though it was wrong to have the meeting house used and I</p>
<p>expect he will open the grievance to the monthly meeting for strength and assis</p>
<p>-tance to have it closed in future against abolitionists time will show whether</p>
<p>proscription and intolerance are to bear rule at Jerusalem also I tell our friends</p>
<p>their proffession [sic] of christianity [sic] is of small account so long as they bar the doors</p>
<p>of meeting houses against the slave and his advocates for the real kind of christian</p>
<p>-ity [sic] would induce them to do unto others what they would have done unto themselves</p>
<p>I am right sick of so much profession of being the peculiar favorites of heaven and of</p>
<p>bearing so consistent a testimony against all war slavery and intemperance</p>
<p>when we see no fruits I must judge by the rule given and conclude the tree can</p>
<p>not be what it appears – As I said before we went to New York on fourth day</p>
<p>I confess I felt very inclination to go but having some things to get and Josephs</p>
<p>desiring it I went and I do not regret having done so not from any satisfaction</p>
<p>or encouragement received but solely to see and feel for myself how things are</p>
<p>you will probably hear what an excellent Y M it was so much harmony and</p>
<p>love and the overshadowing wing of heavenly goodness so constantly felt to be</p>
<p>over the meeting &c &c true there was little to call forth or excite discussio^n^</p>
<p>or mar the harmony but why was it so have they not excommunicated denounce^ed^</p>
<p>and driven from society nearly all who do not submit quietly and was it</p>
<p>not more attributable to that than to any special favor that harmony</p>
<p>appeared to prevail? I was as fully convinced as I could be that the</p>
<p>same spirit of bitterness unkindness uncharitableness [sic] and I was going to</p>
<p>say hypocrisy remained in all its hatefulness as have at any former time</p>
<p>appeared as I was there only a short time of course I can only speak of that –</p>
<p>on fifth say morning there were two essays of Epistles read one for Gennessee [sic] and</p>
<p>one for Ohio the one for Ohio was quite long and among other things spoke of</p>
<p>a disposition being very prevalent among us to doubt divine revelation and to</p>
<p>depend on reason for a guide &c &c and the spirit of unbeleif [sic] was spreading</p>
<p>to an alarming extent &c (at present I do not remember much but the above</p>
<p>is the idea it was quite a long paragraph spoke in it of George Fox how much</p>
<p>he depended on the light and recommended it at all times John Woolman</p>
<p>too in advocating the cause of the oppressed was concerned at all times to</p>
<p>mind the light and not move faster than that directed &c &c I thought</p>
<p>there must be some cause for these allusions but knew not then what it was</p>
<p>well this epistle was pronounced very good especially the above ideas Marga</p>
<p>-ret Brown spoke on it said she had heard the modern reformers quote John Woolman</p>
<p>as an example and I tell them show me your John Woolmans and they cannot</p>
<p>I thought she would be puzzled to find any among friends except such as Lucretia</p>
<p>and they are as he was condemned by the majority but like him in the future</p>
<p>they will be praised for their consistency it is true as it was long ago the same</p>
<p>disposition to garnish the sepulchres ^or the memory^ of the righteous but persecute those who are</p>
<p>sent unto us but I have got off my story in the afternoon we were informed</p>
<p>that way had not opened to address the other Yearly meetings and proposed</p>
<p>this one should be sent to the other three which was approved of them</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 3)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>the clerk said it had been proposed that the one received from Ohio should</p>
<p>not be transmitted to subordinate meetings Rachel Barker spoke well</p>
<p>in favor of its going down with the others altho [sic] it touched on subjects</p>
<p>which had been exciting she felt no fear of its doing any harm but there</p>
<p>might be harm done to suppress it several approved its going then came</p>
<p>Rachel Hicks to the rescue said she could not approve its transmission</p>
<p>she would greatly prefer that none should go than have that go sanc</p>
<p>-tioned by this meeting containing as it did sentiments she could</p>
<p>not approve she beleived [sic] the meeting which sent it could</p>
<p>not have understood it or it would not have sent it &c &c after</p>
<p>quite a discussion R Barker wished it read again – my curiosity was</p>
<p>quite excited and was of course glad to hear this obnoxious docume^nt^</p>
<p>and just as I expected it was excellent and I could understand the several</p>
<p>allusions made in the reply It spoke of George Fox and early friends</p>
<p>bearing faithful testimonys [sic] against the evils that abounded in their</p>
<p>time then of John Woolman who labored for the oppressed indefata</p>
<p>gably [sic] through opposition and difficulty and finally said there are still</p>
<p>30000 of our fellow beings in chains and what are we doing to break</p>
<p>the chain which binds them to their civil servitude and which is far [obliterated]</p>
<p>than Egyptian bondage &c then spoke of intemperance and war in</p>
<p>a similar way and urged friends to do their part in suppressi^ng^</p>
<p>these great evils said the eulogizing the faithfulness of our ances</p>
<p>-tors in bearing the testimonys [sic] they did would not avail us</p>
<p>but would be as the manner of yesterday and counselled an att</p>
<p>-ention to the light which would direct and altho [sic] it might lead into</p>
<p>some changes which might be viewed as inovations [sic] on our long established</p>
<p>customs and views and as Elias Hicks truly said but I forget the</p>
<p>quotation exactly so will not give it I was much pleased with it it</p>
<p>was so much better than I expected could come from any meeting of</p>
<p>the kind – well some wished it to be printed and some not but Rachel</p>
<p>Barker spoke in submission and perhaps it had better not go as friends felt</p>
<p>R Hicks did not appear submissive Catharine Keese was decided against our</p>
<p>printing some and suppressing others it was raising a barrier between</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 4)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>and our Ohio friends which we would regret but Deborah W Larton seemed to</p>
<p>settle the point by saying that she was supprised [sic] at what she saw that in her YM</p>
<p>they sometimes sent down one Epistle sometimes all and at others only extracts and</p>
<p>they had never felt there was any disrespect in it but in the liberty which the truth</p>
<p>gives had felt freedom to do so – have heard ^of^ its ^being^ spoken of out of meeting as</p>
<p>being a lifeless thing that they did not beleive [sic] it was written by the meeting</p>
<p>and more of the same sort and it did not seem to me why it was they were this</p>
<p>suspicious until this minute and now it is clear to me James and Lucretia</p>
<p>were at that meeting I beleive [sic] and I suppose they or their influence or</p>
<p>sentiments [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">which</span>] caused such a lifeless production to be sent to the ap</p>
<p>-earance [sic] of an epistle too it is almost to much to think of –</p>
<p>Catharine Keese spoke on slavery feelingly said she felt that she stood</p>
<p>alone on this subject that there was no organization she could unite with</p>
<p>on this subject spoke well on the use of the produce – as soon as she took</p>
<p>her seat the attention of the meeting was called off by some other union</p>
<p>sentinel to ward off all attacks on the citadel for fear perchance it</p>
<p>may disturb the quiet – Catharine will either go to them or come on</p>
<p>further I think the intolerance will compl [sic] her to it they say she has</p>
<p>manifested a fault finding disposition. I do not perceive it in the least but</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[Text upside down, bottom of page]</p>
<p>thought she seemed very sweet and peaceful – but fear Samuel is lossing [sic] his</p>
<p>zeal whether through her quieting influence or from some other cause but</p>
<p>I fear it is so for those who once opposed him now speak quite favorably</p>
<p>and say he has improved and if he only improves in proportion as he has</p>
<p>for the last two years he will be about right hence I fear – I wanted</p>
<p>to see him but did not at all and would have said to him that when</p>
<p>our opposers [sic] speak well of us it is time to examine what we have done</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 3)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[Text upside-down, in margins of original text. Near blue wax seal]</p>
<p>My paper is full and my eyes warn me I must leave off as I can scarcely</p>
<p>[obliterated] but I have made so long a story about my Yearly Meeting that I have not</p>
<p>said all I would like to and I might take another piece of paper I had</p>
<p>not thought of that</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 4)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[Text sideways, center of page]</p>
<p>North Hempstead 10</p>
<p> June 12<sup>th</sup> </p>
<p> Isaac Post</p>
<p> Rochester</p>
<p> New York</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, June 10, 1849?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1849 ?-06-10
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
737
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Abolitionism
Quakers
Temperance Movement
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a7ab186a7ea7df614640e8823811858c.jpg
5c3ab115585a9e08beac2a9873d82a3f
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/df7c991c63ab2c786d8fecc307e111df.jpg
0556ca12d3b68a044b593e78a56a0b69
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/274513f557940b3142edd33bd4633eda.jpg
1e9d54901d5ba44e681864c7d7f29b4e
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9c79b12cd4e6f2c1ac4fe0769852612d.jpg
bcfb7ba54ea0c94af388edae05c5453f
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c02852ddf370ea898d334527a7f618af.xml
d2161fbecdb35a7c8a7d08e017c3fd3e
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> Rochester June 3<sup>[rd?]</sup> 1849<br /> Dear Sister<br /> Recvd [sic] a Letter from Amy day before<br /> yesterday Dated Boston & as she does not make<br /> her appearance which she might have done had she<br /> have come home soon after the Boston Meetings<br /> I am apprehensive she returend with Willett & Matilda<br /> to Long Island or possibly she may have stoped [sic] at Waterloo<br /> tho she said nothing about it in her letter she had written<br /> in great haste evidently. Shall be glad to welco-<br /> me thee & Aunt Phebe as soon as you can<br /> feel ready to come was quite disappointed to find<br /> Amy had left thee indeed I had no expe-<br /> ctation that Amy would feel such a wish<br /> to go to Boston as must have been the case<br /> I hope thee has had a good visit with Elisabeth<br /> and your dear Father & Mother I wish they<br /> could feel like coming with you and spend<br /> 6 Months or a year with us we would gladly<br /> give up our bedroom to them. Bridget has<br /> been quite unwell for two or three day past but<br /> has gone out this afternoon Willie has been<br /> to our house to day to dinner seemed as well<br /> and as hapy [sic] as ever. Joseph Dugdale & wife <br /> were at our house fifth day night they seem<br /> as good as ever had Samanthy Wight<br /> the same time & Harriet felt quite talkative<br /> I presume ther [sic] visit was at least satisfactory to<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> them & to us interesting they went in to Junious [sic]<br /> Meeting I expect we shall have a visit from<br /> them on there [sic] return when I hope thee & Aunt<br /> Phebe will be hear [sic] to enjoy ther [sic] company _<br /> Last evening we had one of the most terific [sic]<br /> Thunder storms that I ever witnessed the<br /> lightning streamed almost incesently [sic] & the<br /> Thunder roared so that I believe every one<br /> felt thrills of horror run through them<br /> two houses were somewhat shattered on our<br /> Street a little south of Hubbells -- the inmates<br /> much frightened but not Injured. I hear ano-<br /> ther fared the same fate on hill street and<br /> it is said Judge Buells house about one<br /> mile west is very much torn to pieces<br /> but I have heard of no one Injured To<br /> day it is mild a very growing time for vegi-<br /> tation. [sic] I omited [sic] to say at the proper place the<br /> rain fell in such torents [sic] that the streets<br /> were more ponded than I ever saw<br /> them Our friends a number of them have<br /> gone to Junious [sic] I have had several Invi-<br /> tations [sic] to accompany them that is ^a^ seat offerd [sic]<br /> but I did not think best to go — We are expecting Green<br /> of Greens Express here to morrow [sic] shall like to see<br /> him. & we are thinking of hiring an adjoining<br /> Store the one that fronts next to Irving ent-<br /> rance the back end of our store butts against<br /> it by makeing [sic] a door we can have room<br /> enough for all our things & perhaps for more<br /> I think we shall put the Sign of Greens Express<br /> at the North door it will be one door West of<br /> the Irving Entrance I am saying this to appologise [sic] for not going<br /></p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Isaac. Letter to Sarah L Kirby Hallowell Willis.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Isaac Post to Sarah L Kirby Hallowell Willis, June 6, 1849.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1849-06-06
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Sarah L Kirby Hallowell Willis
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
736
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Rochester June 3[rd?] 1849 Dear Sister Recvd [sic] a Letter from Amy day before yesterday Dated Boston & as she does not make her appearance which she might have done had she have come home soon after the Boston Meetings I am apprehensive she returend with Willett & Matilda to Long Island or possibly she may have stoped [sic] at Waterloo tho she said nothing about it in her letter she had written in great haste evidently. Shall be glad to welco- me thee & Aunt Phebe as soon as you can feel ready to come was quite disappointed to find Amy had left thee indeed I had no expe- ctation that Amy would feel such a wish to go to Boston as must have been the case I hope thee has had a good visit with Elisabeth and your dear Father & Mother I wish they could feel like coming with you and spend 6 Months or a year with us we would gladly give up our bedroom to them. Bridget has been quite unwell for two or three day past but has gone out this afternoon Willie has been to our house to day to dinner seemed as well and as hapy [sic] as ever. Joseph Dugdale & wife were at our house fifth day night they seem as good as ever had Samanthy Wight the same time & Harriet felt quite talkative I presume ther [sic] visit was at least satisfactory to them & to us interesting they went in to Junious [sic] Meeting I expect we shall have a visit from them on there [sic] return when I hope thee & Aunt Phebe will be hear [sic] to enjoy ther [sic] company _ Last evening we had one of the most terific [sic] Thunder storms that I ever witnessed the lightning streamed almost incesently [sic] & the Thunder roared so that I believe every one felt thrills of horror run through them two houses were somewhat shattered on our Street a little south of Hubbells -- the inmates much frightened but not Injured. I hear ano- ther fared the same fate on hill street and it is said Judge Buells house about one mile west is very much torn to pieces but I have heard of no one Injured To day it is mild a very growing time for vegi- tation. [sic] I omited [sic] to say at the proper place the rain fell in such torents [sic] that the streets were more ponded than I ever saw them Our friends a number of them have gone to Junious [sic] I have had several Invi- tations [sic] to accompany them that is ^a^ seat offerd [sic] but I did not think best to go -- We are expecting Green of Greens Express here to morrow [sic] shall like to see him. & we are thinking of hiring an adjoining Store the one that fronts next to Irving ent- rance the back end of our store butts against it by makeing [sic] a door we can have room enough for all our things & perhaps for more I think we shall put the Sign of Greens Express at the North door it will be one door West of the Irving Entrance I am saying this to appologise [sic] for not going
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/410654243d329a0b01a0a9270c6e16c0.jpg
ec563622a281d3f2c77c2bdd8c6070ac
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/035b342061bc44bf7e16ec0ce87a4e02.jpg
965e8c04829eb2493c24d643a65586f2
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9aacd403f85e180f3feadf9999a59b1c.jpg
81a6170d4be2c74b05548fa3e3ad233e
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/372389ff2429aa50ffbef597dbe691ae.jpg
886f4a4aa33a01654a43105656a3b714
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Isaac. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Isaac Post to Amy Kirby Post, May 22, 1849.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1849-05-22
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
734
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Abolitionism
Family
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c76067f690c489b00b5c2f5a7771b864.jpg
8394a92892c373179b8b0c8be7e6e3dd
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/bd85d4610457ba512fb07792d87e3aaf.jpg
8e0898cd584f20edd47039a8b8fe950c
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5f9ca03e590ec008675e7b894d378148.jpg
46faa1f00181ebd62387dac94855f60a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d859c18c30a14352c644371a1167b92c.jpg
b659c277c6e51f1a1b695e50b468459f
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ae464f982d3d79cea5de7fb973f8d9be.xml
3a7aa53e2ddbfafc035282e3f7419c4b
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> Rochester May 19<sup>th</sup> 1849<br /> Deaar [sic] Amy thine from Glen Cove was<br /> recived [sic] this morning it would be to [sic] tame to say it was<br /> welcome so I will try to say something else in regard to<br /> the sugar I think we can get that that Giles left at<br /> less cost than to get at N.Y. and less trouble there-<br /> fore I think thee had better leave it. The [sic] wished to know<br /> about Greens Express. Greens Express No7 Wall-<br /> Street near Broadway. I think it will be much<br /> better to send baggage by <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">Rail</span> Express then <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">quite</span><br /> charge is light to us besure [sic] and send them to the<br /> right Office Wells Office is across the Street from<br /> Greens Office. F Douglas[sic] Came home last<br /> 2nd Day I now recollect <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">now</span> of having written about<br /> it the other day. Last evening Frederik [sic] and the<br /> Girls were to Williams they with John Dick had<br /> been down to the Lower Falls on foot They ar [sic]<br /> real ramblers and come to have a chance to find<br /> them ^out^ the oldest is talented beyond common it was<br /> quite interesting to hear her and F D. talk They<br /> hapened [sic] to get talking about Adventism the Question <br /> was asked if Geret [sic] Smith had become a convert F. would<br /> be sorry if he had she did not see that should<br /> be regretted for some of the best or many of the best<br /> and learned of Episcopalians were of that view which<br /> led to quite an argument I wish F.D. would<br /> treat all that differ [sic] with him in bublic [sic] as<br /> kindly as he did her it seemes [sic] to me he would<br /> gain more They gave a very interesting acount [sic]<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> of ther [sic] evening meeting in New York. It seems<br /> they are going to set out for Philadelphia in <br /> a few days previous to ther [sic] going to Boston<br /> I dont see as he will have any time to have<br /> his examination with William & Edmund<br /> before he goes William feels well having<br /> sold a large quantiy [sic] of wool lately I believe they<br /> had 30 or 40,000 lb in hand as sheerring [sic] time was so<br /> near they were very anxious to sell and<br /> have for a very fair advance. Some man<br /> I dont know his name says he was at Thomas Hallowell<br /> yesterday that WIlliam Ketchum [sic] arrived there yesterday<br /> in the forenoon I beleive [sic] all were well. I dont feel<br /> but very little draft toward Boston I dont feel as tho<br /> I should enjoy myself there as well as at home & I see<br /> not that I should do others any good that is in a public<br /> capacity [We?] had made calculation to have F<br /> at our meeting tomorrow but understand he<br /> has a meeting appointed out in West Walworth<br /> tomorrow I believe the sisters are to accompany<br /> him. fifth day evening William Mary & E<br /> P Willis went to see them I believe it was 4<br /> day eve & to day [sic] I think they have been<br /> to Elias De Garmo I wish R Hicks could<br /> some how [sic] beome [sic] regenerated and see things<br /> as they really are and no longer act as an Angel<br /> of Light (to some) while she is doing the works<br /> of Darkness. how hapy [sic] she would be if<br /> she would let in the pure light to shine in<br /> her her [sic] heart what a burthen would fall<br /> from her and then she would go in her way<br /> rejoicing encouraging her fellow heirs to<br /> immortality in every good word and work<br /> and be prepared for a high montain [sic] in the<br /> spiritual state for I bilieve [sic] she has fine talents<br /> committed to her care and set out and run<br /> well for a season & then like the apostle told the<br /> Lord she saw other casting out Devels [sic] in They [sic] name and I forbid<br /><br /> [Continued upward in right margin]<br /><br /> them because they follow not with us how exactly her case<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> First day afternoon I went as I expected home with<br /> L Burtis Sarah is quite weak but moves around slowly<br /> there [sic] trees show an abundance of blossoms it is won-<br /> derfull [sic] how very much they have grown only<br /> think 3 years ago the little whips of trees were set out<br /> and now it looks as tho they may have hundreds of<br /> bushels of Peaches. & cherries Plumbs [sic] Apricots<br /><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">Apricots</span> ^Quinces^ Nectrons [sic] currents [sic] Goosberries [sic] Rasberries [sic]<br /> & Apple in considerable quantities & Grapes & an ab-<br /> undance of Strawberries. and beside his grounds are<br /> finely prepared for gardening operations has planted<br /> his corn & potatoes. this morning came in & stoped<br /> became rainy Lewis came on to our house be-<br /> fore Meeting I of course rode with him--I called<br /> at the store & Edmund handed thy letter I went<br /> to the Room & as it continued rainy & but few<br /> came I read it was very much interested in<br /> its contents I was in hopes something would<br /> have appeard [sic] to have made something look<br /> encourageing [sic] in regard to the Star but did<br /> not find find [sic] it I suppose [Ward?] feels very anxious<br /> about the paper he is concernd [sic] in what work<br /> Jealousy Sectarianism and Envy does make with<br /> otherwise bright & Good Men as exibited [sic] in [their?]<br /> account of the Coloured Meeting I feel sorry that<br /> it ended so tumultuously I dont know but NY<br /> was filled with Mob or unruly spirits<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> our numbers at meeting was quite small so<br /> rainy Elias & Rhoda were ther [sic] as you may<br /> suppose they have gained some still Elias looks<br /> feeble I hope he will not take cold being out in<br /> the rain to day. when we came home found Willie<br /> he is quite well ate a hasty dinner & was soon ready<br /> to go back biding [sic] us goodby [sic] &c you did not<br /> say when you were going up on the Island<br /> but I suppose yesterday nor any thing about<br /> Aunt Phebe coming home with you how<br /> is that I thought that was her fixed intention<br /> did you frighten her with your talk about eating<br /> with coloured persons so that she will not like to<br /> come I think she would not be troubled long for<br /> I wish our family all behaved as well ^as^ Harriet<br /> for I dont believe she would object sleeping with<br /> her after three days acquaintance it is now<br /> half past [4?] Harriet has gone with Dorcas [Collins?]<br /> to see Frances Bridget is Kindling fire Jacob<br /> up stairs with Robert De Garmo Joseph siting [sic]<br /> by me just been talking about going west<br /> begins to feel quite like a journeyman --<br /> [Printer?] sends his respects to you & other Friends<br /> It has cleared away quite fine. John [Nurn?]<br /> has not been here to do day I suppose he<br /> is with his wife and it was so rainy that <br /> no one was down from Asa Anthonys<br /> I believe Griffin & wife expect to live at<br /> Elias De Garmo while they are away ----</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Isaac. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Isaac Post to Amy Kirby Post, May 19, 1849.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1849-05-19
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
733
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Rochester May 19th 1849 Deaar [sic] Amy thine from Glen Cove was recived [sic] this morning it would be to [sic] tame to say it was welcome so I will try to say something else in regard to the sugar I think we can get that that Giles left at less cost than to get at N.Y. and less trouble there- fore I think thee had better leave it. The [sic] wished to know about Greens Express. Greens Express No7 Wall- Street near Broadway. I think it will be much better to send baggage by Rail Express then quite charge is light to us besure [sic] and send them to the right Office Wells Office is across the Street from Greens Office. F Douglas[sic] Came home last 2nd Day I now recollect now of having written about it the other day. Last evening Frederik [sic] and the Girls were to Williams they with John Dick had been down to the Lower Falls on foot They ar [sic] real ramblers and come to have a chance to find them ^out^ the oldest is talented beyond common it was quite interesting to hear her and F D. talk They hapened [sic] to get talking about Adventism the Question was asked if Geret [sic] Smith had become a convert F. would be sorry if he had she did not see that should be regretted for some of the best or many of the best and learned of Episcopalians were of that view which led to quite an argument I wish F.D. would treat all that differ [sic] with him in bublic [sic] as kindly as he did her it seemes [sic] to me he would gain more They gave a very interesting acount [sic] of ther [sic] evening meeting in New York. It seems they are going to set out for Philadelphia in a few days previous to ther [sic] going to Boston I dont see as he will have any time to have his examination with William & Edmund before he goes William feels well having sold a large quantiy [sic] of wool lately I believe they had 30 or 40,000 lb in hand as sheerring [sic] time was so near they were very anxious to sell and have for a very fair advance. Some man I dont know his name says he was at Thomas Hallowell yesterday that WIlliam Ketchum [sic] arrived there yesterday in the forenoon I beleive [sic] all were well. I dont feel but very little draft toward Boston I dont feel as tho I should enjoy myself there as well as at home & I see not that I should do others any good that is in a public capacity [We?] had made calculation to have F at our meeting tomorrow but understand he has a meeting appointed out in West Walworth tomorrow I believe the sisters are to accompany him. fifth day evening William Mary & E P Willis went to see them I believe it was 4 day eve & to day [sic] I think they have been to Elias De Garmo I wish R Hicks could some how [sic] beome [sic] regenerated and see things as they really are and no longer act as an Angel of Light (to some) while she is doing the works of Darkness. how hapy [sic] she would be if she would let in the pure light to shine in her her [sic] heart what a burthen would fall from her and then she would go in her way rejoicing encouraging her fellow heirs to immortality in every good word and work and be prepared for a high montain [sic] in the spiritual state for I bilieve [sic] she has fine talents committed to her care and set out and run well for a season & then like the apostle told the Lord she saw other casting out Devels [sic] in They [sic] name and I forbid [Continued upward in right margin] them because they follow not with us how exactly her case First day afternoon I went as I expected home with L Burtis Sarah is quite weak but moves around slowly there [sic] trees show an abundance of blossoms it is won- derfull [sic] how very much they have grown only think 3 years ago the little whips of trees were set out and now it looks as tho they may have hundreds of bushels of Peaches. & cherries Plumbs [sic] ApricotsApricots ^Quinces^ Nectrons [sic] currents [sic] Goosberries [sic] Rasberries [sic] & Apple in considerable quantities & Grapes & an ab- undance of Strawberries. and beside his grounds are finely prepared for gardening operations has planted his corn & potatoes. this morning came in & stoped became rainy Lewis came on to our house be- fore Meeting I of course rode with him--I called at the store & Edmund handed thy letter I went to the Room & as it continued rainy & but few came I read it was very much interested in its contents I was in hopes something would have appeard [sic] to have made something look encourageing [sic] in regard to the Star but did not find find [sic] it I suppose [Ward?] feels very anxious about the paper he is concernd [sic] in what work Jealousy Sectarianism and Envy does make with otherwise bright & Good Men as exibited [sic] in [their?] account of the Coloured Meeting I feel sorry that it ended so tumultuously I dont know but NY was filled with Mob or unruly spirits our numbers at meeting was quite small so rainy Elias & Rhoda were ther [sic] as you may suppose they have gained some still Elias looks feeble I hope he will not take cold being out in the rain to day. when we came home found Willie he is quite well ate a hasty dinner & was soon ready to go back biding [sic] us goodby [sic] &c you did not say when you were going up on the Island but I suppose yesterday nor any thing about Aunt Phebe coming home with you how is that I thought that was her fixed intention did you frighten her with your talk about eating with coloured persons so that she will not like to come I think she would not be troubled long for I wish our family all behaved as well ^as^ Harriet for I dont believe she would object sleeping with her after three days acquaintance it is now half past [4?] Harriet has gone with Dorcas [Collins?] to see Frances Bridget is Kindling fire Jacob up stairs with Robert De Garmo Joseph siting [sic] by me just been talking about going west begins to feel quite like a journeyman -- [Printer?] sends his respects to you & other Friends It has cleared away quite fine. John [Nurn?] has not been here to do day I suppose he is with his wife and it was so rainy that no one was down from Asa Anthonys I believe Griffin & wife expect to live at Elias De Garmo while they are away ----
Abolitionism
Domestic Servants
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/8250cf98b32ccb7fae45a6043b1ad5e7.jpg
95800ae48778f4c83f627e7cea7629af
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/8afabde1f500abe7853607f397db181a.jpg
00469edcb66a53f83ffe6a11eafe36ae
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/70066b94c2edafb5edfcc708545d8bba.jpg
aacd24451dba96d9acdbffc9deeb42f2
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a8e0d5f888bf3cd237ffc58f92abb154.jpg
f79dd93ea097365d9b119f640e3d18a5
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/545830316f9e9fb2ee8f9303c7193b00.xml
486ff51fe5e5f2361f94cf2d9df5d57d
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> Jericho 1<sup>st</sup> Mo 12<sup>th</sup> 1849<br /><br /> I was highly delighted with thy<br /> letter brother Isaac written some weeks since, which<br /> I fully intended to have replied to long before this, but<br /> the disposition to put off for a qualification pre<br /> vailing, has robbed me of what little I then had in<br /> store. I think this is but seldom a better time<br /> than when the letter is received. thee expressed a<br /> wish to hear from John Plummer after his return<br /> he has quite recently arrived after an absense [sic] of<br /> 6 weeks I think, he went into Virginia as far<br /> as their [sic] were any friends and meetings being remote<br /> that it took more time than he anticipated, he<br /> sais[sic] Slavery is death to all enterprize [sic] ^there^ they have<br /> no bridges over the streams ^and rivers^ of water so that at one<br /> time he and a friend being travelling in a Car<br /> riage and coming to a river <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">the</span> it was to [sic] high<br /> to cross with the waggon [sic]and they could not cross<br /> over, but John inquired the distance to the<br /> nearest friends house? the answer was ten miles.<br /> he then said I will take off my over coat and<br /> go on foot. A drover being in waiting also<br /> with cattle said to him take my horse and<br /> leave him at the Friends house untill [sic] I come<br /> and insisted on his taking him, but J … commenced<br /> his journey on foot and alone about fifteen minutes<br /> before 3 P.M. and pursued his course over the –<br /> [Continues on page 2 beginning “mountain and arrived”]<br /><br /><br /> [Text left margin running top to bottom]<br /><br /> have you heard of Thomas Wrights death of [Hudson?] and that Jacob Willets son of Joseph seems on<br /> the decline by the suffering of those [sores] called scrofula and scurvy<br /><br /> [Text top margin inverted]<br /><br /> If this does not [tire?] thy patience<br /> too much I hope for a contin<br /> uation it is indeed desirable<br /> to hear often from you<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> mountain and arrived to the destined place a little<br /> after five, with a shirt wet to his back but recieving [sic]<br /> a hearty welcome that he got before bed time [illegible]<br /> and felt ready nesct [sic] morning to pursue his journey<br /> twenty miles to the meeting accompanied and taken<br /> by his friend where he lodged, he sais [sic] many Slaveholders<br /> are convinced of the injustice [obliterated] of ^slavery^ he had a meeting<br /> among them in a court-house very many assembled<br /> filling the house and a great many colored ones came<br /> also many more than could get in the house, he<br /> looked over the <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">mul</span> multitude as they sat stair<br /> =ing [sic] him in the face, for they seemed as if they would<br /> stare a man out of countenance, he said a thought<br /> presented what will be the consequence. however after<br /> a time he felt something to communicate and they<br /> became quiet so that they might almost have heard<br /> a pin fall on the flour [sic]. the colored people are nearly<br /> all very light color he saw only four or five of a dark hue<br /> among them, he went to see Rebecca [Naushurst?] Sons<br /> they are settled on a large farm of 400 hundred acres with two<br /> dwelling houses on it one of log and the other a frame<br /> building each of which they inhabit and are situated<br /> about 18 miles from Washington he sais[sic] the land is good and<br /> there are a number of farms for sale in those parts which<br /> he considers may be bought cheap. he gives an interesting<br /> history much more than ^I can^ give thee an idea of. he has not returned<br /> his [minute?] yet. but as the subject has taken up much of the<br /> paper I must leave it to make room for something subjects<br /> Judith Fleet died a week ago have lived to the advanced age of 85 years<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> four of which she has sat up in which position she quietly<br /> ceased to breath [sic] while her son James and Daniels new wife<br /> were sitting by her on percieiving [sic]a little change of breathing<br /> they took the candle to her and percieved [sic]it to be the last breath.<br /> two days after a meeting of friends was held at their house<br /> in which Rachel Hicks bore testimony. but of which we<br /> did not witness, it being on meeting day and as we had sat with<br /> the family the day previous to it we felt esccused [sic], it was an exceed<br /> =ing rainy time. On seventh day last the remains of Sam<br /> =uel Leggett of Whitestone was committed to the grave which<br /> was very sudden news to us. he had inflamation [sic] of the lungs<br /> on third day evening seemed more unwell and about ten<br /> O Clock he died very unescpected [sic] to the family and thus he is<br /> gone while aunt Esther Lawrence yet remains very gradual<br /> declining. Joseph sits by me a talking about brother George<br /> who is on a visit to NY and he thinks he will be up here soon<br /> as it is snowing nicely and has been during the night so that<br /> their [sic] is a prospect of sleighing. We think from appearances we<br /> shall loose [sic] J ….. after a while by his frequent visits to West=<br /> bury. A. E Thurston sais [sic] in a letter to me “that we hear report<br /> about your present Joseph relative to matrimony, perhaps<br /> he may settle himself in that line much sooner than his<br /> namesake and predecessor, and to get a Westbury girl too<br /> he will evince his good judgment, and reap the benefit<br /> of it also.”-- Father Kirby’s leg and ankle looks better the<br /> swelling is considerably abated, but the pain and distress in<br /> the bottom of his foot continues to trouble him he walks but<br /> little and poorly otherwise he seems well with the escception [sic]<br /> of a cold. he goes out but little sometimes a pleasant day he gets out to<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> [Text normal top margin]<br /><br /> meeting and he and mother went to see cousin Isaac [Downey?]<br /> on a cold day and on frozen ground but they returned safely<br /> they found him very poorly but pleased to see them and<br /> said he had been thinking that he should never see them<br /> again. I felt rejoiced that they had been although if I <br /> had known of their prospect I should have feard [sic] the under<br /> taking. mother seems active and in usual health with the esception [sic] of cold<br /><br /> [Text middle running bottom to top]<br /><br /> Jericho N.Y.<br /> Jan 12<sup>th</sup><br /> Isaac Post<br /> Rochester<br /> Monroe County N.Y.<br /><br /> [Text bottom margin inverted]<br /><br /> Although out of place and but little room T… [Pleasants?] of Virginia sais[sic] in<br /> reply to G. Frost on the subject of friends emigrating to Virginia who is adverse<br /> to it. ”that of all the northern people, friends [profess?] more of the<br /> confidence of Slaveholders than any other class; more even than<br /> the” northern men <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">of</span> with Southern feelings”. <span style="text-decoration:underline;">no roo</span>m <span style="text-decoration:underline;">for</span> m<span style="text-decoration:underline;">an</span> brother<br /> Henrys family ^are^ nearly as usual in regard to health. how are my sisters<br /> and what engages their particular attention so entirely that they do<br /> not feel inclined to write to us sister E.. Mott has been to fathers [sic] the<br /> past two weeks engaged in quilting. with much love and affection for<br /> all as if named I remain MWW.</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Willis, Mary W Kirby. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary W Kirby Willis to Isaac Post, January 12, 1849.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Willis, Mary W Kirby
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1849-01-12
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
725
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Jericho 1st Mo 12th 1849 I was highly delighted with thy letter brother Isaac written some weeks since, which I fully intended to have replied to long before this, but the disposition to put off for a qualification pre vailing, has robbed me of what little I then had in store. I think this is but seldom a better time than when the letter is received. thee expressed a wish to hear from John Plummer after his return he has quite recently arrived after an absense [sic] of 6 weeks I think, he went into Virginia as far as their [sic] were any friends and meetings being remote that it took more time than he anticipated, he sais[sic] Slavery is death to all enterprize [sic] ^there^ they have no bridges over the streams ^and rivers^ of water so that at one time he and a friend being travelling in a Car riage and coming to a river the it was to [sic] high to cross with the waggon [sic]and they could not cross over, but John inquired the distance to the nearest friends house? the answer was ten miles. he then said I will take off my over coat and go on foot. A drover being in waiting also with cattle said to him take my horse and leave him at the Friends house untill [sic] I come and insisted on his taking him, but J... commenced his journey on foot and alone about fifteen minutes before 3 P.M. and pursued his course over the - [Continues on page 2 beginning "mountain and arrived"] [Text left margin running top to bottom] have you heard of Thomas Wrights death of [Hudson?] and that Jacob Willets son of Joseph seems on the decline by the suffering of those [sores] called scrofula and scurvy [Text top margin inverted] If this does not [tire?] thy patience too much I hope for a contin uation it is indeed desirable to hear often from you mountain and arrived to the destined place a little after five, with a shirt wet to his back but recieving [sic] a hearty welcome that he got before bed time [illegible] and felt ready nesct [sic] morning to pursue his journey twenty miles to the meeting accompanied and taken by his friend where he lodged, he sais [sic] many Slaveholders are convinced of the injustice [obliterated] of ^slavery^ he had a meeting among them in a court-house very many assembled filling the house and a great many colored ones came also many more than could get in the house, he looked over the mul multitude as they sat stair =ing [sic] him in the face, for they seemed as if they would stare a man out of countenance, he said a thought presented what will be the consequence. however after a time he felt something to communicate and they became quiet so that they might almost have heard a pin fall on the flour [sic]. the colored people are nearly all very light color he saw only four or five of a dark hue among them, he went to see Rebecca [Naushurst?] Sons they are settled on a large farm of 400 hundred acres with two dwelling houses on it one of log and the other a frame building each of which they inhabit and are situated about 18 miles from Washington he sais[sic] the land is good and there are a number of farms for sale in those parts which he considers may be bought cheap. he gives an interesting history much more than ^I can^ give thee an idea of. he has not returned his [minute?] yet. but as the subject has taken up much of the paper I must leave it to make room for something subjects Judith Fleet died a week ago have lived to the advanced age of 85 years four of which she has sat up in which position she quietly ceased to breath [sic] while her son James and Daniels new wife were sitting by her on percieiving [sic]a little change of breathing they took the candle to her and percieved [sic]it to be the last breath. two days after a meeting of friends was held at their house in which Rachel Hicks bore testimony. but of which we did not witness, it being on meeting day and as we had sat with the family the day previous to it we felt esccused [sic], it was an exceed =ing rainy time. On seventh day last the remains of Sam =uel Leggett of Whitestone was committed to the grave which was very sudden news to us. he had inflamation [sic] of the lungs on third day evening seemed more unwell and about ten O Clock he died very unescpected [sic] to the family and thus he is gone while aunt Esther Lawrence yet remains very gradual declining. Joseph sits by me a talking about brother George who is on a visit to NY and he thinks he will be up here soon as it is snowing nicely and has been during the night so that their [sic] is a prospect of sleighing. We think from appearances we shall loose [sic] J... after a while by his frequent visits to West= bury. A. E Thurston sais [sic] in a letter to me "that we hear report about your present Joseph relative to matrimony, perhaps he may settle himself in that line much sooner than his namesake and predecessor, and to get a Westbury girl too he will evince his good judgment, and reap the benefit of it also."-- Father Kirby's leg and ankle looks better the swelling is considerably abated, but the pain and distress in the bottom of his foot continues to trouble him he walks but little and poorly otherwise he seems well with the escception [sic] of a cold. he goes out but little sometimes a pleasant day he gets out to [Text normal top margin] meeting and he and mother went to see cousin Isaac [Downey?] on a cold day and on frozen ground but they returned safely they found him very poorly but pleased to see them and said he had been thinking that he should never see them again. I felt rejoiced that they had been although if I had known of their prospect I should have feard [sic] the under taking. mother seems active and in usual health with the esception [sic] of cold [Text middle running bottom to top] Jericho N.Y. Jan 12th Isaac Post Rochester Monroe County N.Y. [Text bottom margin inverted] Although out of place and but little room T... [Pleasants?] of Virginia sais[sic] in reply to G. Frost on the subject of friends emigrating to Virginia who is adverse to it. "that of all the northern people, friends [profess?] more of the confidence of Slaveholders than any other class; more even than the" northern men of with Southern feelings". no room for man brother Henrys family ^are^ nearly as usual in regard to health. how are my sisters and what engages their particular attention so entirely that they do not feel inclined to write to us sister E.. Mott has been to fathers [sic] the past two weeks engaged in quilting. with much love and affection for all as if named I remain MWW.
Abolitionism
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a6b0cb99ed42188adae0d34294ffad0d.jpg
c5773198bea09bc53f18b37755fb1c85
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ea1c80cb9172dc6f1bc6a809d370c086.jpg
364019a109b954e82ec86d315b3850aa
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/0cab8896f79248294bd876c987dd3571.jpg
f4c344b6d5975d4b16548150bbff9d2b
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a0b48b188203d21fd87f18ae1732ada1.jpg
1bfcfe3bd7f21565667f7f09e9d660d4
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/be2f413018eccd1264492663d007a303.xml
a919dfca3fa0af03c66c45304330394f
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> [Previous pages written by Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post and transcribed as 713_09_12_1848]<br /><br /> I have just been reading the Boston letter in the standard I think it excelent [sic]<br /> pretty severe on the third party as Quincy always is . I had been thinking of <br /> going to hempstead to see and hear Van Buren but wether [sic] I shall concluded or not<br /> I have not determined feeling as Edmund Quincy says , that being seen in company<br /> that I do not unite with I shall be considered of them , as it is to be<br /> political meeting I think if I go I shall feel somewhat out of my place , Yet as we<br /> are desirous of having others attend our meetings . and we proclaim the doctrine<br /> of doing unto others as we would that they do unto us, and they say they are Anti=<br /> =slavery I feel some like going so as to judge for myself. It still continues very<br /> dry I think I never remember the fields to look bearer at this season of the year<br /> we have been giveing [sic] our cows hay twice a day for some weeks . and keep our horses<br /> that we work up night and day , we have large corps of English hay which helps<br /> us very much , south hay light not more than two thirds of a usual crop water<br /> is geting [sic] scarce with us well very low also cistern the pond east of the house nearly <br /> dry , we yesterday got about half the mud out , the large pond very low has been <br /> considerable man got out of that<br /><br /> [Text in center of page, written upward]<br /><br /> 10 North Hempstead<br /> Sep 18<br /><br /> Isaac Post <br /> Rochester <br /> NY<br /><br /> [Text at bottom of page written normal]<br /><br /> Just returned from meeting and ^heard from A H^ one I was going to say the most inconsistent sermons but as we<br /> have so many of them I do not know as it will do to say the most but she of many very<br /> quere [sic] concerns she began with the scripture account of the birth of Jesus and went<br /> on as well as she could, she paused a little some may ask why was Jesus born out of the <br /> usual course , although she believed we were not bound to believe what we could not<br /> understand , yet we ought not to reason on the subject , that although the mother of Jesus wanted<br /> him be doing something he did not go forth on his mission untill [sic] he was commanded that <br /> when his mission was fulfilled and he betrayed he said to Pilate he had no power except what<br /> was given him of God <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">that</span> she said much on the subject she then address those <br /> that were anxious about accomplishing something to gain their points that <br /><br /> [Text at bottom of page, written upside down between previous lines]<br /><br /> they need not feel so anxious for the Alm^i^ghty did not allough [sic] any thing to tak [sic] palce <br /> that was not right . all things that take place is for the good of man which I think take<br /> away freeagency [sic] and established Predestination doctrine I think contrary to the Quaker<br /> principle to reason and Christianity , Mary had not been to meeting for several meetings <br /> she said she would have been better off at home to day what it will all amount to I <br /> do not know , [Gidon?] Frost was here the other day he tryed [sic] very much to encourage us<br /> to hold on to to [sic] the society , I cannot see why Rachel feels so much about the socity [sic] and<br /> to preach so much for it presivation [sic] if all things that take place is right which view<br /> seems to believe in as she hold it up so much
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, September 12, 1848.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1848-09-12
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
714
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. [Previous pages written by Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post and transcribed as 713_09_12_1848] I have just been reading the Boston letter in the standard I think it excelent [sic] pretty severe on the third party as Quincy always is . I had been thinking of going to hempstead to see and hear Van Buren but wether [sic] I shall concluded or not I have not determined feeling as Edmund Quincy says, that being seen in company that I do not unite with I shall be considered of them, as it is to be political meeting I think if I go I shall feel somewhat out of my place, Yet as we are desirous of having others attend our meetings . and we proclaim the doctrine of doing unto others as we would that they do unto us, and they say they are Anti= =slavery I feel some like going so as to judge for myself. It still continues very dry I think I never remember the fields to look bearer at this season of the year we have been giveing [sic] our cows hay twice a day for some weeks . and keep our horses that we work up night and day, we have large corps of English hay which helps us very much, south hay light not more than two thirds of a usual crop water is geting [sic] scarce with us well very low also cistern the pond east of the house nearly dry, we yesterday got about half the mud out, the large pond very low has been considerable man got out of that [Text in center of page, written upward] 10 North Hempstead Sep 18 Isaac Post Rochester NY [Text at bottom of page written normal] Just returned from meeting and ^heard from A H^ one I was going to say the most inconsistent sermons but as we have so many of them I do not know as it will do to say the most but she of many very quere [sic] concerns she began with the scripture account of the birth of Jesus and went on as well as she could, she paused a little some may ask why was Jesus born out of the usual course, although she believed we were not bound to believe what we could not understand, yet we ought not to reason on the subject, that although the mother of Jesus wanted him be doing something he did not go forth on his mission untill [sic] he was commanded that when his mission was fulfilled and he betrayed he said to Pilate he had no power except what was given him of God that she said much on the subject she then address those that were anxious about accomplishing something to gain their points that [Text at bottom of page, written upside down between previous lines] they need not feel so anxious for the Alm^i^ghty did not allough [sic] any thing to tak [sic] palce that was not right . all things that take place is for the good of man which I think take away freeagency [sic] and established Predestination doctrine I think contrary to the Quaker principle to reason and Christianity, Mary had not been to meeting for several meetings she said she would have been better off at home to day what it will all amount to I do not know, [Gidon?] Frost was here the other day he tryed [sic] very much to encourage us to hold on to to [sic] the society, I cannot see why Rachel feels so much about the socity [sic] and to preach so much for it presivation [sic] if all things that take place is right which view seems to believe in as she hold it up so much
Abolitionism
Agriculture
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d35789c40e385cc7ea000e887b367437.jpg
9d80fc1cf39f1fd2a738ba9c5b40f07d
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/6d571a1b2b482fcd4c1208f78f925b75.jpg
f5cdd04f2aee82feb2e7d150f7bcd382
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d5f36182fc378ef5e72f562a624acc83.jpg
56e4671a521d08b996062322ce0f56fc
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/47b34d5e8925bd2576d80749dcae09fa.jpg
c5053d91b0311231694fc9e351d8cb24
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/505210487d4f18d55140bd18e19e3146.xml
2ecf02f2e4473cef400c5c235ae37f47
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> Jercho [sic] 8 of 9<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> month 1848 plaes [sic] date<br /> yours<br /> Dear Children<br /> perhaps the time never seam’d longer to me<br /> that we did not here [sic] from you than the past th<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ree</span> m<span style="text-decoration:underline;">on</span>ths only o<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ne</span><br /> letter from you; but yesterday it was announced here is a l<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ett</span>er<br /> I heard of the hard time of thy knee being out now I desire the [sic] to try<br /> a bandige [sic] around it for it will be weak I expect as my wrist is<br /> I cant [sic] go without one, this morning my JK has pounded my remedy<br /> as it is yet very weak at times sharp darting pain. I have applide [sic]<br /> the wite [sic] of an egg with one table spoonfull [sic] of cold water beat to a good<br /> froth bound tight on, ^spred [sic]on a cotton [ball?]^ I desire the [sic] to remember it for a fresh sprain<br /> it gave me relief, but did not [heal?] it for several weeks after my [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">illegible</span>]<br /> hurt, I am very glad to here [sic] of dear Willet’s walking I feard [sic] his back<br /> was weak. as to spreading the report aluded [sic] to I can say<br /> I never have mentiond [sic] it to no one. but my only S<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ister</span> E and said to<br /> her the [sic] nead [sic] not mentione [sic] it till [sic] the [sic] heres [sic] it other ways, and I have<br /> admired that I have not been as<span style="text-decoration:underline;">k</span>ed more times respecting it.<br /> John [Kectham’s ?] letter to his family spred [sic] the information and Anna [Jeffeys?]<br /> was here and asked the ques<span style="text-decoration:underline;">tio</span>n I replied to her we have had some reason<br /> to think so-- was all my annswer [sic] and I believe to only <span style="text-decoration:underline;">one</span> other person<br /> abought [sic] the same. I accept the causion [sic] good <span style="text-decoration:underline;">or</span> w<span style="text-decoration:underline;">e</span>ll and intend to observe<br /> it, altho [sic] I concider [sic] it very weak in them, and feel sorry for the party<br /> concernd [sic] and hope they will not be over much troubled. it is exceed<br /> -ingly desirably [sic] to have the love and unity & good feeling kept up<br /> and I rejoice that I can say I believe I have acted prudently, exc<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ept</span><br /> I may have communicated some to y<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ou</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">m</span>y ende<span style="text-decoration:underline;">red </span>[sic] daughters that<br /> has showd [sic] my weaknes [sic], and hoped you would cover it with the<br /> mantil [sic] of C<sup>^ </sup>h^arity -- as much as I have longed to see Sarah I am very glad<br /> she did not set out alone to come, I feel that I should hardly enjoy her to<br /> come and go alone, my hand is tired I will rest for the day<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> second day the 11 yesterday we had the company our children E & MR<br /> Kirby, E Mott & two children all in health E left her Father and Phebe<br /> to Stephens & <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">He</span> we found she & the children when we returned from meet<br /> =ing Phebe seamd [sic] pleasant & said to Matilda [Eliza?] had made out v<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ery</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">well</span><br /> & E said she did get along very well, and, ^she^ was very glad to ^[see?]^ Phebe altho all<br /> went on smothly [sic] with f<span style="text-decoration:underline;">athe</span>r and <span style="text-decoration:underline;">al</span>l, she said she bakes 30 loves [sic]of bread<br /> in one week, but she was w<span style="text-decoration:underline;">el</span>l and seams [sic] very cheerfull [sic]. J & Mary Post here<br /> a week past, I exprest [sic] my anxiety in not hering [sic] from you to them, yesterday by<br /> E they sent us Isaac last letter to them, how kind. I <span style="text-decoration:underline;">felt it</span> so Stephen Rus<br /> =more very poorly a week past-- with a gatheren [sic] low down on the back bone.<br /> I expect he does suffer much, his daughters I. Hicks & Mary R both their [sic]-- we<br /> here [sic] the Dr Fredrick conciders [sic] him in a critical state we have not been to see<br /> him, we here[sic] often-- and I do feel more fearful to ride than formaly. [sic]<br /> but have been to meeting three times, and this morning- father and I <br /> rode down to Vallentine’s, he had a very alarming turn of palpation [sic] of the<br /> heart 3 days past so that they went for Dr. [illegible] in the night, but ere the [sic—they?}<br /> arrived he was much relieved, this morning walked down stairs to see us<br /> perty [sic] comfotaly [sic], did not see Abigail she had laid down, said her head was<br /> so tired, appeared to feel no alarm or concern when he was so ill V sais [sic]<br /> she is not as well as when they came up, their prospect now is soon to<br /> move down to the [illegible] Phebe has been scik [sic] 3 weeks, yesterday she walk a few<br /> steps, so they hope to down soon, our other neighbors in usual helth [sic] as far as<br /> I know. Catherine W I have not seen, scince [sic] I have been out, herd [sic] lately of her<br /> being to Wheatly on a visit a<span style="text-decoration:underline;">n</span>d their [sic] told them that E and Sarah was a going<br /> to be [married?], so its no privacy, my hand feels so weak it must rest<br /> only see my pen has laid still two weeks today, M W Post said they had writen [sic] & C<br /> Willis said Isaac was about; that I conclude you were not [fasting?] last week we<br /> made a short but plesent [sic] visit to J. Mott’s all well ^their [sic] I saw Mary Post^ we expect E here to<br /> cut & dry app^e^ls [sic] for herself. she has a clever coulard [sic] girle [sic] of 12 years and she<br /> gets along nicely. Amy as respects my Nephew WW I here [sic] but little E Kirby said<br /> he asked Andrew. he replied the last he heard of him he was up at Sing Sing<br /> his wife at her brothers at Oyster bay or near [there?], its said he wanted her property cause<br /> the separation [sic] believe it is thought but she keeps her own<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> Stephen Rushmore yet confind [sic] to his bed we cald [sic] to see him on our return from<br /> James then they thought it ready to open again it having been once<br /> Lanced [sic] very deep, they had wrot [sic] for Jane Willets, thinking she mite[sic]<br /> come with the[Shotwell’s ?] after the Death Joseph S Shotwell who requested<br /> that the body should be deposited their, [sic] I called in to B. Underhills a few<br /> days past Caroline looks cheerfull [sic] and pleasent [sic], she took me around. I saw no<br /> lack of any thing the two east rooms [carpeted?] alike [ingrain?], [illegible] on<br /> both the entrys [sic] it was carpeted all over- four rag ones I suspect the old<br /> sideboard that yused [sic] to be at Samuels, in the common [sic], and handsom [sic] chairs<br /> & sopha [sic] in the parlor ((she shows her situation plainly)). this morning I [saw?]<br /> the callicho [sic] the [sic] gave to our Betty on a little boy two days old and she was<br /> siting [sic] up and [look?] smart she seamd [sic] much pleasd [sic] with thy present<br /> Betty only left us one week, now Matilda gets along alone, my help is<br /> but very little, father & I together make our bed, and we get along [very?]<br /> cheerfully _____ a nock [sic] at the door and who did I meet but Cousin<br /> Deborah Underhill as used to be and her ^now^ Husband Samuel [Height ?] only<br /> a pleasent[sic] call between 11 & 12 oclock I think they seam [sic] agreeably yoaked[sic]<br /> & suitable for sise, [sic] his first visit to us but not hers. she informed us that<br /> Cousin Anna Mott had returnd sic] from Providence to NY in comfortable<br /> health---her Daughter Mary U Hicks at Westby her Robert has a <br /> Parilices [sic] affiction [sic] speach [sic] conciderably [sic] impared [sic] & walks poorly with help<br /> Lydia Seaman walks with help acoss [sic] the room, not one s^t^ep alone<br /> but they say she does improve. not heard of Sister Phebe’s return<br /> from Duches [sic] Co. I expect it is quite a tryal [sic] to Dr Sears to have V and<br /> Abigail Hicks to live with him its thought they are rather oppressive on<br /> him & he thinks it is greatly so on his Carolines health, but Phebe will<br /> not have them their, [sic] & it unsetels [sic] [Cares?] [help?] too, but the dear little Dr<br /> has to submit. --- it is some sickly around with the Desentey [sic} {Dysentery?]& fever but<br /> none in our imediate [sic] neighborhood<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> we noticed all the contents of your letters with much interest<br /> and leave you to persue [sic] the way you think right for you<br /> without any breach of friendship on my part. I have been<br /> reading old writings of friends, in George Fox’s time there was<br /> those who left friends and set up meetings by themselves but<br /> they seamd [sic] to not continue long but di^e^d away ---I have heard<br /> Henry Titus & Adam [Avery?] at Jeruslem [sic] has had meeting at their<br /> houses on first day. but wether [sic] these do [continue?] not able to say<br /> henry does not attend with us att [sic]all, so we too are in a sorrowful<br /> state. perhaps the w<span style="text-decoration:underline;">her</span>l-<span style="text-decoration:underline;">win</span>d [sic]will pass by-- & and we may<br /> settel [sic] in the right thing & way ere long<br /><br /> [Text in center of page]<br /><br /> Amy Post<br /> Rochester<br /> Monroe Co NY<br /><br /> [Text in bottom third]<br /><br /> the men are busy sowing wheat---but it is dry wether [sic] again we<br /> had a very acceptable rain 10 or 12 days ago, the fields look brown<br /> like winter, not one grape on the vine appels [sic] perty [sic] plenty<br /> Oh what a long walk L. & May had my letter ^is^ of old date but<br /> may add we are in usual health and love to all and every branch<br /> of your family, and friends their [sic] 26 of 9 month<br /> you [sic] Mother</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Kirby, Mary R. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary R Kirby to Amy Kirby Post, September 8, 1848.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Kirby, Mary R
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1848-09-08
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
712
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Jercho [sic] 8 of 9th month 1848 plaes [sic] date yours Dear Children perhaps the time never seam'd longer to me that we did not here [sic] from you than the past three months only one letter from you; but yesterday it was announced here is a letter I heard of the hard time of thy knee being out now I desire the [sic] to try a bandige [sic] around it for it will be weak I expect as my wrist is I cant [sic] go without one, this morning my JK has pounded my remedy as it is yet very weak at times sharp darting pain. I have applide [sic] the wite [sic] of an egg with one table spoonfull [sic] of cold water beat to a good froth bound tight on, ^spred [sic]on a cotton [ball?]^ I desire the [sic] to remember it for a fresh sprain it gave me relief, but did not [heal?] it for several weeks after my [illegible] hurt, I am very glad to here [sic] of dear Willet's walking I feard [sic] his back was weak. as to spreading the report aluded [sic] to I can say I never have mentiond [sic] it to no one. but my only Sister E and said to her the [sic] nead [sic] not mentione [sic] it till [sic] the [sic] heres [sic] it other ways, and I have admired that I have not been asked more times respecting it. John [Kectham's ?] letter to his family spred [sic] the information and Anna [Jeffeys?] was here and asked the question I replied to her we have had some reason to think so-- was all my annswer [sic] and I believe to only one other person abought [sic] the same. I accept the causion [sic] good or well and intend to observe it, altho [sic] I concider [sic] it very weak in them, and feel sorry for the party concernd [sic] and hope they will not be over much troubled. it is exceed -ingly desirably [sic] to have the love and unity & good feeling kept up and I rejoice that I can say I believe I have acted prudently, except I may have communicated some to youmy endered [sic] daughters that has showd [sic] my weaknes [sic], and hoped you would cover it with the mantil [sic] of C^ h^arity -- as much as I have longed to see Sarah I am very glad she did not set out alone to come, I feel that I should hardly enjoy her to come and go alone, my hand is tired I will rest for the day second day the 11 yesterday we had the company our children E & MR Kirby, E Mott & two children all in health E left her Father and Phebe to Stephens & He we found she & the children when we returned from meet =ing Phebe seamd [sic] pleasant & said to Matilda [Eliza?] had made out verywell & E said she did get along very well, and, ^she^ was very glad to ^[see?]^ Phebe altho all went on smothly [sic] with father and all, she said she bakes 30 loves [sic]of bread in one week, but she was well and seams [sic] very cheerfull [sic]. J & Mary Post here a week past, I exprest [sic] my anxiety in not hering [sic] from you to them, yesterday by E they sent us Isaac last letter to them, how kind. I felt it so Stephen Rus =more very poorly a week past-- with a gatheren [sic] low down on the back bone. I expect he does suffer much, his daughters I. Hicks & Mary R both their [sic]-- we here [sic] the Dr Fredrick conciders [sic] him in a critical state we have not been to see him, we here[sic] often-- and I do feel more fearful to ride than formaly. [sic] but have been to meeting three times, and this morning- father and I rode down to Vallentine's, he had a very alarming turn of palpation [sic] of the heart 3 days past so that they went for Dr. [illegible] in the night, but ere the [sic--they?} arrived he was much relieved, this morning walked down stairs to see us perty [sic] comfotaly [sic], did not see Abigail she had laid down, said her head was so tired, appeared to feel no alarm or concern when he was so ill V sais [sic] she is not as well as when they came up, their prospect now is soon to move down to the [illegible] Phebe has been scik [sic] 3 weeks, yesterday she walk a few steps, so they hope to down soon, our other neighbors in usual helth [sic] as far as I know. Catherine W I have not seen, scince [sic] I have been out, herd [sic] lately of her being to Wheatly on a visit and their [sic] told them that E and Sarah was a going to be [married?], so its no privacy, my hand feels so weak it must rest only see my pen has laid still two weeks today, M W Post said they had writen [sic] & C Willis said Isaac was about; that I conclude you were not [fasting?] last week we made a short but plesent [sic] visit to J. Mott's all well ^their [sic] I saw Mary Post^ we expect E here to cut & dry app^e^ls [sic] for herself. she has a clever coulard [sic] girle [sic] of 12 years and she gets along nicely. Amy as respects my Nephew WW I here [sic] but little E Kirby said he asked Andrew. he replied the last he heard of him he was up at Sing Sing his wife at her brothers at Oyster bay or near [there?], its said he wanted her property cause the separation [sic] believe it is thought but she keeps her own Stephen Rushmore yet confind [sic] to his bed we cald [sic] to see him on our return from James then they thought it ready to open again it having been once Lanced [sic] very deep, they had wrot [sic] for Jane Willets, thinking she mite[sic] come with the[Shotwell's ?] after the Death Joseph S Shotwell who requested that the body should be deposited their, [sic] I called in to B. Underhills a few days past Caroline looks cheerfull [sic] and pleasent [sic], she took me around. I saw no lack of any thing the two east rooms [carpeted?] alike [ingrain?], [illegible] on both the entrys [sic] it was carpeted all over- four rag ones I suspect the old sideboard that yused [sic] to be at Samuels, in the common [sic], and handsom [sic] chairs & sopha [sic] in the parlor ((she shows her situation plainly)). this morning I [saw?] the callicho [sic] the [sic] gave to our Betty on a little boy two days old and she was siting [sic] up and [look?] smart she seamd [sic] much pleasd [sic] with thy present Betty only left us one week, now Matilda gets along alone, my help is but very little, father & I together make our bed, and we get along [very?] cheerfully _____ a nock [sic] at the door and who did I meet but Cousin Deborah Underhill as used to be and her ^now^ Husband Samuel [Height ?] only a pleasent[sic] call between 11 & 12 oclock I think they seam [sic] agreeably yoaked[sic] & suitable for sise, [sic] his first visit to us but not hers. she informed us that Cousin Anna Mott had returnd sic] from Providence to NY in comfortable health---her Daughter Mary U Hicks at Westby her Robert has a Parilices [sic] affiction [sic] speach [sic] conciderably [sic] impared [sic] & walks poorly with help Lydia Seaman walks with help acoss [sic] the room, not one s^t^ep alone but they say she does improve. not heard of Sister Phebe's return from Duches [sic] Co. I expect it is quite a tryal [sic] to Dr Sears to have V and Abigail Hicks to live with him its thought they are rather oppressive on him & he thinks it is greatly so on his Carolines health, but Phebe will not have them their, [sic] & it unsetels [sic] [Cares?] [help?] too, but the dear little Dr has to submit. --- it is some sickly around with the Desentey [sic} {Dysentery?]& fever but none in our imediate [sic] neighborhood (Page 4) we noticed all the contents of your letters with much interest and leave you to persue [sic] the way you think right for you without any breach of friendship on my part. I have been reading old writings of friends, in George Fox's time there was those who left friends and set up meetings by themselves but they seamd [sic] to not continue long but di^e^d away ---I have heard Henry Titus & Adam [Avery?] at Jeruslem [sic] has had meeting at their houses on first day. but wether [sic] these do [continue?] not able to say henry does not attend with us att [sic]all, so we too are in a sorrowful state. perhaps the wherl-wind [sic]will pass by-- & and we may settel [sic] in the right thing & way ere long [Text in center of page] Amy Post Rochester Monroe Co NY [Text in bottom third] the men are busy sowing wheat---but it is dry wether [sic] again we had a very acceptable rain 10 or 12 days ago, the fields look brown like winter, not one grape on the vine appels [sic] perty [sic] plenty Oh what a long walk L. & May had my letter ^is^ of old date but may add we are in usual health and love to all and every branch of your family, and friends their [sic] 26 of 9 month you [sic] Mother
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a7b59afe1887e125b191534f35e38841.jpg
38450e4ac9e0b4b12cc2d208a7fe7256
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9b8ad0d069f89301a47f760dd16ed3c3.jpg
121c5760437b4c749a326f2cfe1a4759
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> Westbury 4<sup>th</sup> moth [sic] 12<sup>th</sup> 1848<br /> Dear Brother<br /> Mary is now at Jericho so that I cannot<br />put the wrighting [sic] on her, and as thee gave me the agency<br />for the North Star and I received eight dollars last<br />night for five copys [sic] to be directed to Frederick S<br />Cunningham, Aaron Bunn, Edward Cobb, Eliak^i^m Levi<br />Abraham Smith. North Hempstead I desire thee<br />to do the needful and I will settle with Edmund<br />when he comes. [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">they</span>] I want thee to attend soon for they<br />feel in a hurry to have [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">them</span>] the papers. We have been<br />looking for a letter sometime although some of our friends<br />I beleive [sic] are looking for you here now I conclude you<br />will let us know when you expect to come, we to [sic] are<br />looking for you this ^spring or^ summer. We are geting [sic] on much<br />after the old way. I think some of our opposers [sic] seem<br />a little more disposed to enquire or rather to lisen [sic]<br />than they did at one time. I suppose they think now<br />the political parties are discusing [sic] the subject of slavery<br />it is geting [sic] to be the right time, yet they seem to have<br />holy horrow [sic] of doing any thing to help the cause along<br />I beleive [sic] Mary has told you our schoolhouse was burnt. we or<br />rather our neighbours have made quite an effort to join<br />the orthodox have had several meetings. It seems now<br />most likely something will be done. their house is so<br />small it is nessery [sic] to ^have a^ larger in trying to raise money<br />I told them I would give 15$, and if it might be used<br />for abolition and temperance meetings they might put<br />it down 30 but they marked the smalest [sic] sum. William<br />Titus say he should not have any object^i^on and is willing<br />to leave it to the trustees who may have the management<br />of the school, but is verry [sic] careful not to committ [sic] [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">on<br />the</span>] himself, thinks it will ^not^ do to promise beforehand<br />that the house may be used for that purpose [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">it is</span>]<br />the Hicks’s do not say any thing except Joseph who takes much<br />the same ground that W. Titus does, so I conclude they feel<br />a strong objection, so I think I shall not have to pay but 15$
(Page 2)<br /><br />Last evening William Robbins came here from court where he has<br />been two days as a juryman and prober^b^ly [sic] will be some days longer<br />says they have got a very long case before them a man charge with<br />haveing [sic] his buildings ensured [sic] for more than they were worth<br />and then burning them, he says they have much buisness [sic] before<br />them among the rest one or more charge with murder [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">what</span><br /><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">or how it will</span>] wither in the first degree do not know according<br />to the views of some of our woud [sic] be leaders, I see ^not^ why friends<br />should be excused because they say the law is as good as the<br />people are prepared for, that they dare not call in question<br />what is permitted to take place, which I think is to say all<br />that does take place is right. that it is ^not^ right for a person to<br />change his course of life unless it is a ^special^ reverlation [sic] and not by the<br />^light^ of reason, O that we could persuade the people to become<br />nonresistance and return good for evil, a droctrine [sic] I think<br />that will stand the test to all comeing [sic] time. I think every<br />person when he volentarily [sic] does good for evil or does his neighbour<br />that is disposed to enjure [sic] him a kindness feels much more<br />happy than when he retaliates, for when he retaliates it brings<br />a kind of masterly feeling that does not feel as comfortible [sic]<br />as far as my experience goes, Timothy Titus has had another<br />^attack^ of paralices [sic]. he seems gaining strength his mind seems some<br />impaired. Uncle Robert I think has changed but little of<br />late yet he has oltered [sic] very much from what he once was<br />his left hand nearly helpless. he sits when there at the<br />head of our meeting and very sleepy, which does not look<br />well ^for those who^ profess to be a spirtual [sic] people, but [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">I do not know</span>]<br />but proberbly [sic] beter [sic] be asleep than to feel as some do<br />and some of our elders I think not more fit to judge of the<br />ministry than I am. and according to my judgment do not<br />^judge^ as correctly, I think if it was not for the redeeming ones up<br />and down in the Society I should give up to [sic], the principle<br />of the society I think true and will stand, if all men forsake <br />it. it is about time fore [sic] the mail love to all the family<br />and enquiring friends Affectionately thy Brother Joseph Post
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, April 12, 1848.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1848-04-12
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
707
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Abolitionism
Education
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/fa4fa65b196a30fc1705699ee58bd213.jpg
6e75844573fa7fbc92ef115962714385
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5b4dd0f5878c0df0fe10c04dd6d8461f.jpg
6e976443acd66ba916040c102085646b
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/86d584ee088d07e39ddb2b31d9b31ef7.jpg
35ffd208a42e88b2ade0c214e367ce8b
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/00997c8a5aed1f82fee94d741d6789d7.jpg
dc6ca1b61ed3046f91b4aa993ae34d9c
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d9e1f105a73e3c77c42e1d5445bd5ac4.jpg
041fb6ff594007f41c84009a4e54dea5
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/02625a0bc51d6554c7ace1606c466694.jpg
be2428ddb75b94002e2b001e11872f6e
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1e80e711cecc6993afdb71d4012bdaac.xml
98fd850c824df8c13df130b29620f7d4
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> Jericho 3 M 5<sup>th</sup> 1848<br /> Esteemed Brother and Sister<br /> We have lately received an exceptable [sic]<br /> letter from <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">you</span> ^thee^, althou I had prity [sic] much concluded to<br /> write to you about a month ago, <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">tha</span> and give you some<br /> account how things are getting on here, but the concern seemed<br /> rather to cool off but after receiving one from Rochester it has<br /> somewhat revived but not with ^that^ cleaness [sic] that I should like<br /> but I am in hopes as I proceed things will print that may<br /> gratify if nothing more, in the first place I will go back to<br /> our Quarterly Meeting that was held in New York in first<br /> month last, but I supose [sic] Meeting maters will be uninterest<br /> ing to you, but I will mix a little Abolition without to make<br /> it more palateable [sic], in the first place we had a pretty good<br /> Meeting, Henry Ridgway a member of Crosswicks Monthly M<br /> on New jersey a lovely interesting minutes, (reminded me some<br /> of Stephen Tredwell,) he preached well on bouth [sic] days, he and<br /> his companion put up at John A Wrights with us he is a <br /> very interesting little man in conversation, John asked him many<br /> questions in regard to ^his^ views on different subjects, and also the refers<br /> that he had heard of him, at different times and Henry was very<br /> free to give the whole history which was very interesting and<br /> instructive, John observed he had heard at one time that he<br /> (Kenny) had pretty much left the society of friends, had joined the<br /> Abolitionist, Moral reform, and Temperance ^societies^ and was going<br /> about lecturing on the different subjects, Henry admitted<br /> that he had taken a prity [sic] active part in those things but<br /> not to that extent that had been reported of him, he mentioned<br /> that at one time he was attending and appointing meetings in<br /> Pennsylvania and at one meeting he had appointe[sic] at friends M<br /> house at a certain hour and thence being a number of Aboli<br /> tionists belonging to that Meeting and Charles C Bubly being<br /> in ^that^ rigion [sic] they had a meeting appointed for him at the same<br /> time and place and unbeknown to Henry, Charles lectured<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> and Henry preached and so the Meeting ended and it was<br /> reported that he and Charles were going about lecturing on<br /> abolition when he new nothing of Charles being there untill [sic]<br /> he came in the meeting houses at an other time John said<br /> he heard that Henry Ridgway was rather backing out from<br /> taking such an active part in Abolition, moral reform and<br /> [obliterated], and was coming back to the society of friends, Henry admitted<br /> that what he had heard was nearly correct, that he had been<br /> convinced that to be to active in these things would lead from<br /> the truth, and he had to come out of them, although he was<br /> in favour of abolition and of moral reform but he did not find it<br /> his place to join those different societies, _________ in reading the<br /> queries and answers, the answers in regard to attending places of<br /> diversion came up clear from all the Monthly Meetings a friend<br /> from the country said he could not see how New York friends society<br /> answer the query clear for at every pace he visited in the city<br /> they had acknowledge [sic] that yong [sic] friends in the city was in the<br /> practice of attending places of musich [sic] and dancing which was<br /> considered to by places of diversion and how friend could answ^er^<br /> that query clear he could not see, the overseers I believe to a man<br /> said they did not know of a single instance of a friend attending<br /> a place of diversion and whenever they did they always reported it to the <br /> quarterly meeting, I thought they wood[sic] soon have our country friend<br /> floored, but he was backed by a friend of New York Meeting, and so <br /> the subject droped [sic], but I learnt[sic] aftermeeting [sic] that country friends did<br /> not understand what musick [sic] and dancing was, it appears that<br /> yong [sic] friends are in the habbit of attending parties at friends houses<br /> and will have a little good singing and some handsome musick [sic]<br /> plyed[sic] by some of company on come nice instrument and step about<br /> the room a little was not considered a place of diversion but<br /> old fation [sic] country plays of selling pasons [sic] and kising [sic] the girls<br /> and I expect William Hallowell will think that New York friends<br /> are perty [sic] near right on that subject, as I believe he likes to hear<br /> good singing himself. There was a committee appointed some months<br /> ago that way opened to prepare a memorial for George D [Whla?]<br /> and produce to a future meeting they produced to the monthly<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> meeting last fourth day and is said to by [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">illegible</span>] ^a^ good me<br /> I supose [sic] it will come to our next quarterly meeting _________<br /> in thy letter thee seames [sic] to think that friends rather stand in the<br /> way of reform instead of advancing the good causes, now I think very<br /> different, I suppose thee thinks because we dont go to abolition meetings<br /> and temperance meetings and make a great Cheering and pass some<br /> very strong resolutions and sing some abolition songs and temperance<br /> songs and make a great harrowing we are doing nothing for the good<br /> cause ferry differen [sic] I think, for I do beliefe [sic] that I do more my<br /> self in advancing the cause of temperance ^than^ thee and Amy and Sarah<br /> all put together I expect that you are not doing much but talking<br /> and punishing your selves with drinking [illegible] water, now I go<br /> and for the right use of these good things and not the abuse of any<br /> thing, we have commenced cleaning our nice cider I hope it will<br /> be verry [sic] fine so that the Newyorkers when they git[sic] it, they will<br /> desferice [sic] with all distilled Liquor, which has been the case I<br /> believe in several instances and more we make the more we<br /> shal [sic] endeavor to spread the cause of temperance, this thee sees<br /> is practical work something that can be seen not all mind _______<br /> we hear that Mary Hallowell has been disowned for not attending<br /> meetings. and that William has resigned his right, I do not know<br /> that I can blame William for if friends where to disown my wife<br /> I would resign my right at once<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> Henry continued lame has 2 crutches but thinks he is gitting [sic] better<br /> the smelling is pretty much gone out and the soriness [sic] shifts about<br /> in different places but that is much better than it has been yet<br /> it is verry [sic] difficult for him to bear any weight on his lame foot<br /> it is now first day evening and the 12 of the month Henry contin<br /> ues lame walks with 2 crutches goes verry slow, Catherine<br /> about as usual not any better perhaps not quite as well as<br /> some times [sic], Mary has gone to Milbury Samuel Hecks little<br /> boy is quite sick with the inflammation on the lungs they<br /> sent for Mary this morning, Abigail Willets wife of Jacob<br /> our neighbor has been very poorly for about 2 weeks we<br /> have just heard that she has a little girl some 2 or 3 hours<br /> old, I am in hopes she will soon be better, but Mary has<br /> been fearfull [sic] that she would not get up again, Mother<br /> Kirby is not verry [sic] smart but genarly[sic] so as to be about<br /> father is quite smart health good except lame,____________<br /> Thomas Whitson and Mary Willets proposals of Marriage<br /> came to our prepatire [sic] Meeting last fifth day, our<br /> Jericho and Westbury yong [sic] folks have seamed [sic] to have got quite<br /> in the spirit of getting Married this season, Thomas Whitson<br /> is the son of Thomas Whitson that lived at Flushing.<br /> (I wrote something that Many said words<br /> not do to send and I cut it off)<br /> [Inserted Page]<br /><br /> (Page 5)<br /><br /> Read the enclose first<br /><br /> Jericho 3 M 12<sup>th</sup> 1848.<br /> I comenced [sic] writing to thee [obliterated] truly more than a week ago<br /> but have not sent yet had perty[sic] much gave out as Mary fund[sic]<br /> so much ^fault^ with my letter but as she is gone from home I <br /> thought I would send it. thee may tell Edmund P. that<br /> his father has sold his [fat?] open for $8 per 100 lb they are<br /> butcherd [sic] at Oysterbay the one that was slaughtered last<br /> week weighed 1008 lb I think this the lightest one the<br /> other to be slaughtered this week. Henry bought them last<br /> 8 Mo. for 63 dollars and now gets about 163$ for them that<br /> is the way to make money on long hand, Henry and his<br /> boys have got to be quite in the spirit of farming they have<br /> had about 400 bush of wheat sold it for 10/6 ts 11/ per buss<br /> have them [earn?] mostly on hand Samuel thought last<br /> fall they should have about 1500 bush of [ears?] they<br /> have oats at 50. C but are none waiting for the price to get up<br /> corn is worth about 5/. last winter 8 and 9 shilling<br /> what a difference; Isaac Willis has gone to spend the<br /> Evining [sic] with some nice pirty [sic] girls, at Robert Seamans<br /> we begin to think there is some hope of Isaac. but as<br /> for Samuel he will just wink at them and that is about<br /> all, Joseph [Shotwell?] has bough [Doltes?] Rodgers old plce [sic]<br /> at Jericho for his son Joseph, they expect to move ^in^ about<br /> the first of next month he gave about 120 dollars per<br /> acre a fair price, Chickens are north in New York about<br /> 8 and 10/ per fair turkies [sic] 2 dollars and 18/ a piece if a man<br /> wants to make money by farming Long Island is the<br /> place we have just sold a lot of Locust timber from<br /> 6/ to 8/ a foot according to the sise [sic] I believe they want<br /> it to build the <span style="text-decoration:underline;">war</span> steemers [sic] so they can have them to<br /> kill the Mexicans with unless they make peace which I <br /> hope they will. for I think they have been thrashed<br /> quite enough perhaps as much as they deserved<br /> from your brother J Willis. please excuse every imperfection<br /><br /> (Page 6)<br /><br /> [Text in top margin, written upside down]<br /><br /> Velvet Ribbons [illegible]<br /> communication connection with<br /> Persevere ye honest men ever keep<br /> the precepts tin commission<br /> omission<br /><br /> [Text normal]<br /><br /> Willet E Post<br /><br /> Isaac Post<br /> & son Rochester<br /> New York<br /><br /> [Text in middle of page, written upside down]<br /><br /> AP IIP Joseph Post<br /> controvert contraband contrite<br /> prevent [perponderence?] [preconcerted?]<br /> many men of many winds</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Willis, John ?. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from John ? Willis to Isaac Post, March 5, 1848.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Willis, John ?
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1848-03-05
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
705
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Jericho 3 M 5th 1848 Esteemed Brother and Sister We have lately received an exceptable [sic] letter from you ^thee^, althou I had prity [sic] much concluded to write to you about a month ago, tha and give you some account how things are getting on here, but the concern seemed rather to cool off but after receiving one from Rochester it has somewhat revived but not with ^that^ cleaness [sic] that I should like but I am in hopes as I proceed things will print that may gratify if nothing more, in the first place I will go back to our Quarterly Meeting that was held in New York in first month last, but I supose [sic] Meeting maters will be uninterest ing to you, but I will mix a little Abolition without to make it more palateable [sic], in the first place we had a pretty good Meeting, Henry Ridgway a member of Crosswicks Monthly M on New jersey a lovely interesting minutes, (reminded me some of Stephen Tredwell,) he preached well on bouth [sic] days, he and his companion put up at John A Wrights with us he is a very interesting little man in conversation, John asked him many questions in regard to ^his^ views on different subjects, and also the refers that he had heard of him, at different times and Henry was very free to give the whole history which was very interesting and instructive, John observed he had heard at one time that he (Kenny) had pretty much left the society of friends, had joined the Abolitionist, Moral reform, and Temperance ^societies^ and was going about lecturing on the different subjects, Henry admitted that he had taken a prity [sic] active part in those things but not to that extent that had been reported of him, he mentioned that at one time he was attending and appointing meetings in Pennsylvania and at one meeting he had appointe[sic] at friends M house at a certain hour and thence being a number of Aboli tionists belonging to that Meeting and Charles C Bubly being in ^that^ rigion [sic] they had a meeting appointed for him at the same time and place and unbeknown to Henry, Charles lectured and Henry preached and so the Meeting ended and it was reported that he and Charles were going about lecturing on abolition when he new nothing of Charles being there untill [sic] he came in the meeting houses at an other time John said he heard that Henry Ridgway was rather backing out from taking such an active part in Abolition, moral reform and [obliterated], and was coming back to the society of friends, Henry admitted that what he had heard was nearly correct, that he had been convinced that to be to active in these things would lead from the truth, and he had to come out of them, although he was in favour of abolition and of moral reform but he did not find it his place to join those different societies, _________ in reading the queries and answers, the answers in regard to attending places of diversion came up clear from all the Monthly Meetings a friend from the country said he could not see how New York friends society answer the query clear for at every pace he visited in the city they had acknowledge [sic] that yong [sic] friends in the city was in the practice of attending places of musich [sic] and dancing which was considered to by places of diversion and how friend could answ^er^ that query clear he could not see, the overseers I believe to a man said they did not know of a single instance of a friend attending a place of diversion and whenever they did they always reported it to the quarterly meeting, I thought they wood[sic] soon have our country friend floored, but he was backed by a friend of New York Meeting, and so the subject droped [sic], but I learnt[sic] aftermeeting [sic] that country friends did not understand what musick [sic] and dancing was, it appears that yong [sic] friends are in the habbit of attending parties at friends houses and will have a little good singing and some handsome musick [sic] plyed[sic] by some of company on come nice instrument and step about the room a little was not considered a place of diversion but old fation [sic] country plays of selling pasons [sic] and kising [sic] the girls and I expect William Hallowell will think that New York friends are perty [sic] near right on that subject, as I believe he likes to hear good singing himself. There was a committee appointed some months ago that way opened to prepare a memorial for George D [Whla?] and produce to a future meeting they produced to the monthly meeting last fourth day and is said to by [illegible] ^a^ good me I supose [sic] it will come to our next quarterly meeting _________ in thy letter thee seames [sic] to think that friends rather stand in the way of reform instead of advancing the good causes, now I think very different, I suppose thee thinks because we dont go to abolition meetings and temperance meetings and make a great Cheering and pass some very strong resolutions and sing some abolition songs and temperance songs and make a great harrowing we are doing nothing for the good cause ferry differen [sic] I think, for I do beliefe [sic] that I do more my self in advancing the cause of temperance ^than^ thee and Amy and Sarah all put together I expect that you are not doing much but talking and punishing your selves with drinking [illegible] water, now I go and for the right use of these good things and not the abuse of any thing, we have commenced cleaning our nice cider I hope it will be verry [sic] fine so that the Newyorkers when they git[sic] it, they will desferice [sic] with all distilled Liquor, which has been the case I believe in several instances and more we make the more we shal [sic] endeavor to spread the cause of temperance, this thee sees is practical work something that can be seen not all mind _______ we hear that Mary Hallowell has been disowned for not attending meetings. and that William has resigned his right, I do not know that I can blame William for if friends where to disown my wife I would resign my right at once Henry continued lame has 2 crutches but thinks he is gitting [sic] better the smelling is pretty much gone out and the soriness [sic] shifts about in different places but that is much better than it has been yet it is verry [sic] difficult for him to bear any weight on his lame foot it is now first day evening and the 12 of the month Henry contin ues lame walks with 2 crutches goes verry slow, Catherine about as usual not any better perhaps not quite as well as some times [sic], Mary has gone to Milbury Samuel Hecks little boy is quite sick with the inflammation on the lungs they sent for Mary this morning, Abigail Willets wife of Jacob our neighbor has been very poorly for about 2 weeks we have just heard that she has a little girl some 2 or 3 hours old, I am in hopes she will soon be better, but Mary has been fearfull [sic] that she would not get up again, Mother Kirby is not verry [sic] smart but genarly[sic] so as to be about father is quite smart health good except lame,____________ Thomas Whitson and Mary Willets proposals of Marriage came to our prepatire [sic] Meeting last fifth day, our Jericho and Westbury yong [sic] folks have seamed [sic] to have got quite in the spirit of getting Married this season, Thomas Whitson is the son of Thomas Whitson that lived at Flushing. (I wrote something that Many said words not do to send and I cut it off) [Inserted Page] Read the enclose first Jericho 3 M 12th 1848. I comenced [sic] writing to thee [obliterated] truly more than a week ago but have not sent yet had perty[sic] much gave out as Mary fund[sic] so much ^fault^ with my letter but as she is gone from home I thought I would send it. thee may tell Edmund P. that his father has sold his [fat?] open for $8 per 100 lb they are butcherd [sic] at Oysterbay the one that was slaughtered last week weighed 1008 lb I think this the lightest one the other to be slaughtered this week. Henry bought them last 8 Mo. for 63 dollars and now gets about 163$ for them that is the way to make money on long hand, Henry and his boys have got to be quite in the spirit of farming they have had about 400 bush of wheat sold it for 10/6 ts 11/ per buss have them [earn?] mostly on hand Samuel thought last fall they should have about 1500 bush of [ears?] they have oats at 50. C but are none waiting for the price to get up corn is worth about 5/. last winter 8 and 9 shilling what a difference; Isaac Willis has gone to spend the Evining [sic] with some nice pirty [sic] girls, at Robert Seamans we begin to think there is some hope of Isaac. but as for Samuel he will just wink at them and that is about all, Joseph [Shotwell?] has bough [Doltes?] Rodgers old plce [sic] at Jericho for his son Joseph, they expect to move ^in^ about the first of next month he gave about 120 dollars per acre a fair price, Chickens are north in New York about 8 and 10/ per fair turkies [sic] 2 dollars and 18/ a piece if a man wants to make money by farming Long Island is the place we have just sold a lot of Locust timber from 6/ to 8/ a foot according to the sise [sic] I believe they want it to build the war steemers [sic] so they can have them to kill the Mexicans with unless they make peace which I hope they will. for I think they have been thrashed quite enough perhaps as much as they deserved from your brother J Willis. please excuse every imperfection [Text in top margin, written upside down] Velvet Ribbons [illegible] communication connection with Persevere ye honest men ever keep the precepts tin commission omission [Text normal] Willet E Post Isaac Post & son Rochester New York [Text in middle of page, written upside down] AP IIP Joseph Post controvert contraband contrite prevent [perponderence?] [preconcerted?] many men of many winds
Abolitionism
Agriculture
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/49022f395846d17e091a65e643b0d501.jpg
96d3c0b2f17112e55e3cce70c4231f09
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/fd316b8bc70728ef3911c0e7cbfec50c.jpg
ad2dfdc4a027aaf0e4549c4478a3706e
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/40e2e62077c0477646f07de9ab041748.jpg
7064a5225928f83bdbe852d5385af286
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/83bef5ba9cbf8d5b39465076cf613df1.jpg
3d01d1af4e8d37fd96dc00ce0e33b295
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/27b61148853826ccecd65835e4605b3a.xml
0b62d91d87512fb88d1f19e34caec02d
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> Richmond I. .a. 9,, 26,, 47<br /><br /> Respected Friend,<br /> In doing as I would be done by<br /> I am led to write a few lines tho [sic] thou art<br /> not always careful to reply to what I write & I<br /> may not now expect it unless I get an an-<br /> swer at Buffalo, as I expect to be there<br /> soon, if life and health permit. __<br /> I told sister Sarah I would send her<br /> “tracts for the Million” when I got to Cincinnati<br /> and after I had ordered them_ I told the printer<br /> how much you were doing among you _ <br /> for the poor slave - and I would not be<br /> surprised if he should send thee a few<br /> numbers of their reform papers. _____<br /> I did expect to be ^at^ <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">and</span> the quarterly mee-<br /> ting to be held at Mendon next week but<br /> it is doubtful, because I expect to remain<br /> here until fifth day: - <br /> Both yearly meeting houses were crowded<br /> today each 40 - by 60 feet _ Eleanor Havilon<br /> and Geo. Hatton preached in the old house<br /> Elizabeth Piert & Lucretia Mott preached in<br /> the new house.(both in the same yard)<br /> Of course the spirit led me where I heard<br /> the women. The new house was nearly<br /> empty when Lucretia walked in but I should<br /> think in five minutes it was crowded- mostly by<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> the younger class - It was quiet and interesting --<br /> each of the women spoke against war and<br /> slavery- Lucretia spoke for fifty minutes- E-<br /> precided [sic] her nearly the same length of time<br /> A friend remarked at the dinner table that<br /> L. gave the best lecture against War & Slavery<br /> that he ever heard- L. attended a reform mee-<br /> ting at the Methodist chapel at 4. P.M. and spoke<br /> near an hour to a crowded house:-<br /> You have no doubt heard of Ohio Yearly <sup>M.</sup><br /> how they refused to read the Epistle from<br /> Indiana yearly meeting –the same of the<br /> one from Green plains- I mean the men – the<br /> women read both-<br /> E. Havilon & Elizabeth Piert have an ap-<br /> pointed meeting this evening- but I have a <br /> headache and thought I would not go-<br /> Levi Knight is here from Salem, Washington<br /><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">is here</span> & puts up at the same house I do. <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">and </span><br /> He says Priscilla has been poorly all summer and<br /> part of the time quite low, but was so much<br /> improved that he urged her to attend yearly-<br /> meeting. but she thought she could not.<br /> I would fill the sheet if I felt well<br /> but I do not therefore I must close-<br /> Share my love with thy family-<br /> Isaac Post Shy Friend<br /> I am at Robert Morrison’s. Nathl,, Potter<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> Second day morning 27,,<br /> I feel much better this morning- Therefore I will add<br /> a little more- Lucretia Mott said in the reform meeting<br /> that W<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>m</sup></span> L. Garrison was sick but did not say where<br /> very likely with you as I see by the Buffalo Republic<br /> of the 15<sup>th</sup> Jun. that he was in Buffalo City at that<br /> time- Lucretia is troubled with the Reumatism [sic] which <br /> makes it difficult for her to get about as much as usual for<br /> her – but it don’t appear to affect her tongue – She is invited<br /> to speak at a meeting appointed for Thomas Corwin this<br /> after noon – The Friends about here appear to be<br /> Whigs and decidedly in favour of Corwin for the next<br /> president. I contributed my <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">my</span> mite last spring in<br /> the state of Ohio- to lesson the unhallowed zeal that<br /> was raging in favour of General Taylor for the next<br /> presidency. And now I feel to rejoice that a change has<br /> come o’e’r the state and nearly equal zeal is manifest<br /> in favour of Thomas Corwin. While General Taylor is left<br /> in the back ground. Ohio will no doubt present the<br /> claims of Corwin before the Whig convention- And now<br /> we have lost the strong man of the north from the<br /> Democratic ranks - there will be a much better choice<br /> for the election of Corwin.- Martin Vanburen can<br /> not draw off from the Abolition party as Silas W.<br /> would have done.- While Corwin I think will draw<br /> largely upon that class- as the liberty party press in Cinc.<br /> has defended Corwin against both Whig + Democratic papers<br /> who have denounced his course with regard to the war<br /> with Mexico- Read that article on “The Presidency” by Hine<br /> in I think the sixth No. “Tracts for the Million” and o that <br /> a million would read it.<br /> I wish to visit with some friends before meeting a little<br /> Elcy Allen has laboured with me for not wearing better clothes<br /> I promised her that I would get me some new clothes at<br /> the earliest convenience but very likely that will not be<br /> before I see you. I told her I attracted the more attention by<br /> dressing as I do, for I often find individuals who over rate my ability to speak.<br /> No doubt they think I don’t look so bad for nothing.<br /> N. Potter<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> [Text in center of page, written upward]<br /><br /> Isaac Post<br /> Rochester City<br /> N.Y.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Potter, Nathaniel Jr. Letter to Isaac To Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Nathaniel Jr Potter to Isaac to Post, September 26, 1847.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Potter, Nathaniel Jr
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1847-09-26
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Isaac To Post
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
691
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Richmond I. .a. 9,, 26,, 47 Respected Friend, In doing as I would be done by I am led to write a few lines tho [sic] thou art not always careful to reply to what I write & I may not now expect it unless I get an an- swer at Buffalo, as I expect to be there soon, if life and health permit. __ I told sister Sarah I would send her "tracts for the Million" when I got to Cincinnati and after I had ordered them_ I told the printer how much you were doing among you _ for the poor slave - and I would not be surprised if he should send thee a few numbers of their reform papers. _____ I did expect to be ^at^ and the quarterly mee- ting to be held at Mendon next week but it is doubtful, because I expect to remain here until fifth day: - Both yearly meeting houses were crowded today each 40 - by 60 feet _ Eleanor Havilon and Geo. Hatton preached in the old house Elizabeth Piert & Lucretia Mott preached in the new house.(both in the same yard) Of course the spirit led me where I heard the women. The new house was nearly empty when Lucretia walked in but I should think in five minutes it was crowded- mostly by the younger class - It was quiet and interesting -- each of the women spoke against war and slavery- Lucretia spoke for fifty minutes- E- precided [sic] her nearly the same length of time A friend remarked at the dinner table that L. gave the best lecture against War & Slavery that he ever heard- L. attended a reform mee- ting at the Methodist chapel at 4. P.M. and spoke near an hour to a crowded house:- You have no doubt heard of Ohio Yearly M. how they refused to read the Epistle from Indiana yearly meeting -the same of the one from Green plains- I mean the men - the women read both- E. Havilon & Elizabeth Piert have an ap- pointed meeting this evening- but I have a headache and thought I would not go- Levi Knight is here from Salem, Washingtonis here & puts up at the same house I do. and He says Priscilla has been poorly all summer and part of the time quite low, but was so much improved that he urged her to attend yearly- meeting. but she thought she could not. I would fill the sheet if I felt well but I do not therefore I must close- Share my love with thy family- Isaac Post Shy Friend I am at Robert Morrison's. Nathl,, Potter Second day morning 27,, I feel much better this morning- Therefore I will add a little more- Lucretia Mott said in the reform meeting that Wm L. Garrison was sick but did not say where very likely with you as I see by the Buffalo Republic of the 15th Jun. that he was in Buffalo City at that time- Lucretia is troubled with the Reumatism [sic] which makes it difficult for her to get about as much as usual for her - but it don't appear to affect her tongue - She is invited to speak at a meeting appointed for Thomas Corwin this after noon - The Friends about here appear to be Whigs and decidedly in favour of Corwin for the next president. I contributed my my mite last spring in the state of Ohio- to lesson the unhallowed zeal that was raging in favour of General Taylor for the next presidency. And now I feel to rejoice that a change has come o'e'r the state and nearly equal zeal is manifest in favour of Thomas Corwin. While General Taylor is left in the back ground. Ohio will no doubt present the claims of Corwin before the Whig convention- And now we have lost the strong man of the north from the Democratic ranks - there will be a much better choice for the election of Corwin.- Martin Vanburen can not draw off from the Abolition party as Silas W. would have done.- While Corwin I think will draw largely upon that class- as the liberty party press in Cinc. has defended Corwin against both Whig + Democratic papers who have denounced his course with regard to the war with Mexico- Read that article on "The Presidency" by Hine in I think the sixth No. "Tracts for the Million" and o that a million would read it. I wish to visit with some friends before meeting a little Elcy Allen has laboured with me for not wearing better clothes I promised her that I would get me some new clothes at the earliest convenience but very likely that will not be before I see you. I told her I attracted the more attention by dressing as I do, for I often find individuals who over rate my ability to speak. No doubt they think I don't look so bad for nothing. N. Potter [Text in center of page, written upward] Isaac Post Rochester City N.Y.
Abolitionism
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1f6086204f3c5191f321e85d949bd874.jpg
16913d7a80d36847a6598b5852cbe2f7
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/86fd0b79a58586b5c45f8aaacce39a24.jpg
a4e8e802e7fe34d93851c6204a9cbddf
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f57149f75370b71cffff961a7e212235.jpg
626f9a8d8efb0ec1241989b3da8173b3
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1f7b2586ce6bd37922baf539bc19150a.jpg
f61591ae80be9a4538fb2de2880c59cb
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[Stamp, upper left corner]</p>
<p>OWEN & HURLBUT</p>
<p>So.Lee</p>
<p>MASS</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[Text normal]</p>
<p> Westbury 8 month 20<sup>th</sup> 47</p>
<p>My dear William and Mary will probably be supprised [sic] to receive a</p>
<p>scrawl from aunt Mary as it is quite a novel circumstance for her to</p>
<p>make such an attempt besides never having invited her to do so it must</p>
<p>of cource [sic] follow as a necessary consequence. I will in the first place int-</p>
<p>-roduce myself to you as I am now situated seated in our sitting room by</p>
<p>the window [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">in illegible</span>] our men are on the meadow’s and I am sitting</p>
<p>entirely alone awaiting their arrival Ann and the girls having all</p>
<p>retired to their respective apartments and they are all the company I</p>
<p>have except the cricket caty did’s [sic] and other busy watchers of the night</p>
<p>and these are enough for the present at least to while away the time</p>
<p>ere our men return I have been enjoying the beauties of this evening</p>
<p>in all its quiet loveliness there is ever an elevating purifying sentimen^t^</p>
<p>connected therewith which I have ever loved Sweet hour of Night, to all bosoms ^dear^</p>
<p> Thou bearest a spell on thy viewless win^gs^</p>
<p> That drives from the human breast all fear</p>
<p> And nerveth the soul to mighty things</p>
<p>I have not heard of your arrival in New York tho [sic] doubtless you did sometime</p>
<p>ago how I wished you would just slip up[<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">p</span>] to Westbury if it were only one</p>
<p>night I had so many regrets to tell you that you were not at Norristown</p>
<p>as well as so much of an agreeable character that I flatter myself we</p>
<p>should have enjoyed it greatly – but as you did not see fit to do so I hope</p>
<p>to hear what good excuse you can make for your absence from the afforsaid [sic]</p>
<p>meeting I think it was good to be there even tho [sic] at considerable sacrifice</p>
<p>of social intercourse [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">and</span>] I do not in the least doubt your wish to have</p>
<p>partaken with us of this intellectual feast but as you have one in anticip</p>
<p>-ation I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did the other and give us a</p>
<p>little sketch of it – but I must lay this aside as our men have arrived</p>
<p>tired and hungry and perhaps I may resume it tomorrow evening under</p>
<p>similar circumstances, good night 24 this is the 4 evening since I laid</p>
<p>this aside and no opportunity has occurred to add a line until now</p>
<p>when I am similarly situated as before only the evening is more</p>
<p>beautiful almost too beautiful to attempt any thing besides enjoy-</p>
<p>-ing it – Seventh day Henry and Catharine were here and informed us</p>
<p>you had not arrived in New York the week before and that Jacob had</p>
<p>gone on we feel anxiously uncertain as to the cause –</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 2)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>We have just heard D and Mary Post have been bereaved of their little</p>
<p>darling daughter it is doubtless a severe affliction to them – we were</p>
<p>expecting them up on a visit very shortly this may disappoint us – it is</p>
<p>considerably sickly particularly among children dysentery and fever’s</p>
<p>too Rachel Hicks is quite ill Gideon and Mary W Frost called here this</p>
<p>afternoon on their way home from Greenport they have been from home</p>
<p>a month in hope’s it might be beneficial to Mary but there is no</p>
<p>favourable change except she is considerably stronger – it look’s</p>
<p>as though she might remain here but a short time but I hope she</p>
<p>may be they will be so lonely without her cheerful presence</p>
<p> Our last Monthly Meeting was held at Matinecock and somehow</p>
<p>it has happened that our friend Rachel’s revelations have not been of</p>
<p>so satisfactory a character as those held at Westbury generally are</p>
<p>or more correctly speaking was more objectionable than usual She began</p>
<p>by saying that there was a spirit spreading in the world and particularly in</p>
<p>our own country to lay waste civil government which she looked upon as</p>
<p>a great blessing our early friend often went to those in power and assured</p>
<p>them of their peaceful intentions in relation to it that they considerd [sic]</p>
<p>it necessary but that if there were any requirement we could not comply</p>
<p>with patently [sic] submit that she looked in the civil Government and religion</p>
<p>as the two greatest blessings we had &c – that abolitionists were</p>
<p>publickly [sic] trying to break down the government and that members of society</p>
<p>attended such meetings where the doctrine was advocated that the</p>
<p>government and the religion of this country stood in their way and it</p>
<p>was not right to connive at members doing this things she appealed to</p>
<p>the warm abolitionists (who by the by when all counted amounted to the number</p>
<p>of Two) and those who encouraged them in it to consider what they</p>
<p>were doing (and so on until she came to a great and good personage whom</p>
<p>she had loved almost to veneration namely Elias Hicks had in his great</p>
<p>zeal on the subject of using Slave produce ^said^ that if the reason was</p>
<p>convinced it was not necessary to wait for further revelation</p>
<p>which she never had united with that she thought it was necessary</p>
<p>to feel the command to refrain from the use it had been greatly in the</p>
<p>cross for her to do so as well as a tax on the pocket that this sentiment [sic]</p>
<p>of Elias Hicks was held up as a reason why men might engage</p>
<p>in doing something for Liberty – yes the word Liberty had a wonder-</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 3)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>-ful effect associations of various [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">Uin</span>] do for the extension of Liberty</p>
<p>abounded in this day spoke of the odd Fellows society and the poor Mormon</p>
<p>too come in for a share said they had been dangerous to the government</p>
<p>but they had been overcome, what a shame to express such a sentiment</p>
<p>they have truly been overcome but how and by what means? by mob</p>
<p>violence their rights taken from them and then for a quaker [sic]</p>
<p>preacher to speak of it approvingly – but abolition disunionists [sic] were</p>
<p>the most to be condemed [sic] from her sermon it was to be infered [sic] that</p>
<p>it was her opinion such members should be cut off from the body</p>
<p>lest the body should be brought to suffer – (I think she said so)</p>
<p>in the men’s meeting they had been appointing a com to raise money for the</p>
<p>YM [use?] Joseph told them if the sentiments we had heard in that meet-</p>
<p>-ing were those of the members of this meeting he could ^not^ contribute his</p>
<p>share of the money they were to raise and he held two appointments whi</p>
<p>-ch he asked to be released from &c&c also that he was united with abo</p>
<p>-litionists and advocated the doctrine of no union with slaveholders</p>
<p>cousin S Mott and S Thorne hoped the friend would be quit [sic] E Willet</p>
<p>thought the proposition of our friend J Pought to claim some attention</p>
<p>of the meeting he then gave a preach – and there the matter ended –</p>
<p>I need not say ended for the manifestation of unkind feeling is more</p>
<p>and more apparent whether they will make out to persuade [obliterated]</p>
<p>-selves it is best to cut us off I do not know I think they would</p>
<p>be highly gratified if we would resign that is some few of our [obliterated]</p>
<p>member’s not the meeting generally – Gideon Frost was not at the meeting</p>
<p>which I regretted he is so capable and he would not have let it pass</p>
<p>in that way again I must say goodnight for my eyes as well as the</p>
<p>clock which is now striking warn me of the lateness of the hour</p>
<p> Again after a lapse of several days I resume my pen for the purp</p>
<p>-ose of bringing this to a close Joseph has been to New York and find the repor^t^</p>
<p>we heard of you not passing through that city incorrect we have also receiv [sic]</p>
<p>a letter from brother Isaac by which it appears you have arrived</p>
<p>Probably ere this you have had a visit from Lucretia who we hear has gone</p>
<p>to Ohio I rejoice in it she is doing a great work for humanity and religion</p>
<p>and may it be extended far and wide but alass [sic] how many in our sect</p>
<p>are condemning her it seems to me they are willfully blind – or</p>
<p>they would see the pure excellence and beauty of her whole life</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 4)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>What a shameful outrage on Douglass and Garrison at Harrisburg I hoped</p>
<p>the day had passed by when such violence would be quietly submitted to</p>
<p>by the inhabitants of a city like Harrisburg without a strong condemna</p>
<p>-tion I almost tremble for their safety their reception at Pittsburg was</p>
<p>much more honourable, thanks to them for their kindness and attention –</p>
<p>Little indeed do those know of the difficulties and trials of faithful abolit</p>
<p>ionists who are ever talking about ^those who^ joining them ^do so^ to be popular to be thought</p>
<p>well of by the world – one thing I do know it has not become popular</p>
<p>here Long Island is one of the hardest places there really seems to be<br />no feeling on the subject, with many there is a kind of holy horror against</p>
<p>it as their fathers did so do they they have virtualy [sic] said thus far</p>
<p>and no further but public sentiment will in time make such an</p>
<p>impress as they little dream of now – Robert Purvis speaking of</p>
<p>Friends said quaker [sic] hate and indifference was the hardest to overcome</p>
<p>there was no reaching them they would not be convinced – and I could say ^amen^</p>
<p>to that sentiment I must say Farewell again I may add alittle [sic] more but my</p>
<p>paper is too small</p>
<p> </p>
<p>9 month 2 here this is yet and I have only time to add a word or two Aunt Mary M</p>
<p>Post is here on a visit she and the Dr came up 3<sup>rd</sup> day eve to see aunt Sarah who</p>
<p>is quite ill with the dysentery tho [sic] we hope a little better I spoke of R Hicks being</p>
<p>sick she has been out at meeting – Do excuse this as it has been made up of</p>
<p>odds and ends and unworthy of an answer still I would be very glad</p>
<p>to hear from you soon with love to all I am your affectionate aunt</p>
<p> Mary</p>
<p>PS we are expecting Rush and Rebecca Plumby soon but uncertain</p>
<p>when – What a shameful outrage that was at Newtown on Cyrus</p>
<p>M Burleigh what a Shame such religion is George F White speaks occasionally</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[Text sideways in right margin]</p>
<p>are you glad to hear it</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[Text sideways center of page]</p>
<p>10 North Hempstead</p>
<p> Sept 4</p>
<p> William R Hallowell</p>
<p> Rochester</p>
<p> New York</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to William R Hallowell.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to William R Hallowell, August 20, 1847.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1847-08-20
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
William R Hallowell
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
686
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Abolitionism
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5d32ab9d8e1b7acce2d52b5ae8f5c72c.jpg
44f5889f8fa2c8d8c6b3e0cf77b218ac
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/2132cf93ecc23e1abd2c8d0bdd81e84c.jpg
c934b3f4e12308b86cdde21fc75007a6
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)</p>
<p>Dear All I did expect to have written a long letter</p>
<p>but my Joseph has done nobly so I am sure you will excuse me if</p>
<p>I did not write a line but as I have a few minutes (altho [sic] we have</p>
<p>company) I will tell you we have had a nice visit from your children</p>
<p>only for too short should have been glad of a longer but as that could not</p>
<p>be we were thankful for what we had – I was verry [sic] very sorry they did not</p>
<p>attend the meeting at Norristown I think it was much to be perfered [sic] to</p>
<p>ordinary visiting it was a grand meeting only the Liberty party took up</p>
<p>too much of the time and then if any one called them to the question unde</p>
<p>-r discussion they claimed the right to speak freely on almost any thing</p>
<p>it was provoking to have their interruption so often and so long too –</p>
<p>[obliterated] I thought they were rather a mixed up meeting so many political</p>
<p>abolitionists and so many of them even of our kind of antislavery</p>
<p>folks could not bear patiently to hear the Era spoken of as Garrison and</p>
<p>others did but the discusion [sic] will do good I think – how strange to</p>
<p>contrast some of the abolitionists with others some have gone onward</p>
<p>steadily from one position to another while others who commenced</p>
<p>about the same time are now boasting that their views are the</p>
<p>same as they were 20 year’s ago – Garrison renew’d the cause</p>
<p>for 20 years and it was quite cheering to review the many conquest</p>
<p>contended for and won – “there is a good time coming then wait a</p>
<p>little longer” not indifferently and supinily [sic] relying on God to do the</p>
<p>work but actively using the means given us to bring about this</p>
<p>desirable time Lucretia and Martha expect to go to Nantucket</p>
<p>tomorrow Lucretia is a great great woman excelcior [sic] must have</p>
<p>been her motto – she is my to my idea as perfect a woman as there</p>
<p>is – she is remarkably well and very fleshy indeed We see Rush</p>
<p>and Rebecca Plumly she wished to be remembered to you said she had</p>
<p>letters quite frequently from Joseph and Ruth Dugdale Josephs health</p>
<p>is quite good and they write very cheerfully – We had a very</p>
<p>satisfactory time see many ^of^ our friends and made new one’s</p>
<p>one thing was quite a draw back George Truman was from home</p>
<p>but we knew it before we went so were not disappointed he has a</p>
<p>favoured [sic] time feels in his place his way made very open and I</p>
<p>doubt not in watering others he will be watered too and I have no</p>
<p>doubt he will be more liberal he is so much so now as to be</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 2)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>quite unpopular with some of his quaker [sic] friends I am almost</p>
<p>ready to conclude that quaker [sic] hate is worse than other it</p>
<p>is so sanctified and holy – but hate is bad any way</p>
<p>Farewell this has been scribbled in great haste so you will excuse</p>
<p>write soon and often – I hope brother Isaac will remember his</p>
<p>promis [sic] – I send Jacob’s collar did not find in timely to wash it</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[Text sideways]</p>
<p> Isaac Post</p>
<p> Rochester</p>
<p> New York</p>
<p>Care of</p>
<p>W R Hallowell</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, August 1, 1847.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1847-08-01
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
682
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Scripto
Transcription
A written representation of a document.
(Page 1)
Dear All I did expect to have written a long letter
but my Joseph has done nobly so I am sure you will excuse me if
I did not write a line but as I have a few minutes (altho [sic] we have
company) I will tell you we have had a nice visit from your children
only for too short should have been glad of a longer but as that could not
be we were thankful for what we had – I was verry [sic] very sorry they did not
attend the meeting at Norristown I think it was much to be perfered [sic] to
ordinary visiting it was a grand meeting only the Liberty party took up
too much of the time and then if any one called them to the question unde
-r discussion they claimed the right to speak freely on almost any thing
it was provoking to have their interruption so often and so long too –
[obliterated] I thought they were rather a mixed up meeting so many political
abolitionists and so many of them even of our kind of antislavery
folks could not bear patiently to hear the Era spoken of as Garrison and
others did but the discusion [sic] will do good I think – how strange to
contrast some of the abolitionists with others some have gone onward
steadily from one position to another while others who commenced
about the same time are now boasting that their views are the
same as they were 20 year’s ago – Garrison renew’d the cause
for 20 years and it was quite cheering to review the many conquest
contended for and won – “there is a good time coming then wait a
little longer” not indifferently and supinily [sic] relying on God to do the
work but actively using the means given us to bring about this
desirable time Lucretia and Martha expect to go to Nantucket
tomorrow Lucretia is a great great woman excelcior [sic] must have
been her motto – she is my to my idea as perfect a woman as there
is – she is remarkably well and very fleshy indeed We see Rush
and Rebecca Plumly she wished to be remembered to you said she had
letters quite frequently from Joseph and Ruth Dugdale Josephs health
is quite good and they write very cheerfully – We had a very
satisfactory time see many ^of^ our friends and made new one’s
one thing was quite a draw back George Truman was from home
but we knew it before we went so were not disappointed he has a
favoured [sic] time feels in his place his way made very open and I
doubt not in watering others he will be watered too and I have no
doubt he will be more liberal he is so much so now as to be
(Page 2)
quite unpopular with some of his quaker [sic] friends I am almost
ready to conclude that quaker [sic] hate is worse than other it
is so sanctified and holy – but hate is bad any way
Farewell this has been scribbled in great haste so you will excuse
write soon and often – I hope brother Isaac will remember his
promis [sic] – I send Jacob’s collar did not find in timely to wash it
[Text sideways]
Isaac Post
Rochester
New York
Care of
W R Hallowell
Abolitionism
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/89ad36e2811d679b053bca48dfc17678.jpg
1b02e9b5a909d28b457f7e192a19e059
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f4ef48a1604b94ea65ca11c8a8d96bcb.jpg
e38aa1fb9ee12cd1847b735034527dd5
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ffefbc0ded50c6db32583f05cb59acf3.jpg
e9825af8c6ce285206272aee6a936afd
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9fe8a324eb6b4102bdd09caaf84da5d5.jpg
7d0ead2d119072ce6a4f024d0a3d48ba
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a989495a60605a4bb2644e983596a681.xml
ff10f74a406964910f36f1ed93f60dcf
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> [Text in top margin, written upward]<br /><br /><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">Garrison</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">arose</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">and</span> ^<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">and</span>^<br /><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">spoke</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">of</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">the</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">famine</span> <br /> Garrison was then <br /> intruduced [sic] to<br /> the meeting and <br /> much appladed [sic]<br /> he then spoke <br /> of the famine<br /> in Ireland but<br /> he did not believe<br /> their [sic] was one<br /> even in a state <br /> starvation that<br /> would be willing<br /> to change places<br /> with the<br /> slaves . It was <br /> now 10 ½ Oclock<br /> and we thought<br /> it best to <br /> leave as one<br /> friends would<br /> be setting up <br /> for us it is <br /> proberable [sic] we<br /> shall see some<br /> account of the<br /> meeting but<br /> cannot realize<br /> it like being <br /> pr^e^asent<br /><br /> [Text normal]<br /><br /> Westbury 8<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> mo 1<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>st</sup></span> 1847<br /><br /> Dear Relatives <br /> Jacob has just left us with Samuel<br /> Willis not expecting to return he has made us a pleasant <br /> visit . it has been a busy time with us so that we could<br /> not have quit as much time with William and Mary as<br /> we should have liked <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">although</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">th</span> and their time after <br /> William came so short, <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">but</span> we enjoyed it very much <br /> and am in hopes they did , Our Quarterly meeting has past <br /> Edward Hicks attended quit feeble spoke on 5 day very<br /> affectionately it was good but nothing ^like^ that . that we used<br /> to expect from him . 6<sup>th</sup> day Lucretia Moll was their<br /> and spoke most excletly [sic] and quite [ultry?] , I believe<br /> many liked her very much and I suppose many of strong<br /> orthodox party very little . James was with her they came<br /> home with us , a short but very pleasant visit and then to<br /> Henrys that night . and first day at Flushing where <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">t</span>he<br /> was very extrardinary [sic] but William and Mary can tell<br /> you all about her and what she said better than I can <br /> Rachel last first that we went to Flushing said much and <br /> E Rushmore said he supposed we should not like it which<br /> was all they seemed willing to tell us except that she said<br /> much against the odd-fellows . to day [sic] she arose with saying<br /> their [sic] was a middle path between Popery on the one hand<br /> and libertinism on the other . the one acknowledged man<br /> as head and could forgive sins . and the ^other^ acknowledged no<br /> head which she seemed to think about as bad. that <br /> she thought strange they had not courage enough to <br /> withdraw and go by themselves that seems to be their <br /> hoby [sic] now as they cannot find any thing to disown for and<br /> some of us hold on so hard it seems to be the only way<br /> unless they can bring some charge against [illegible] of spreading <br /> infidel principles <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">and</span> as the <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">m</span>Milton meeting . the <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">meeting</span><br /> committee reported they were spreding [sic] inferdel [sic] pr^i^nc^i^ples<br /> without saying what they were . they ought to have name <br /> them for some of us may be as bad , and proberbly [sic] Lucretia<br /> went as far at the Quarterly meeting so that they have not <br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> kiled [sic] it all off . Our crops prety [sic] good . hay I think<br /> more than an average crop our wheat good we have<br /> threshed 24 shocks and 10 sheaves of wheat and had 30 bushels<br /> according to Rachels doctrine it is a great curse for she<br /> says she considers prosperity the greatest curse. for she<br /> says she considers prosperity the greatest curse that can<br /> befall a nation , it does seem as though some and [illegible]<br /> do not know but I might say the most of Christendom <br /> look upon the good mans path as a very hard uncomfortable<br /> and almost an unhapy [sic] one , I consider to be good is to be<br /> happy . 8<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> mo 2<sup>nd</sup> this morning about 4 Oclock I was called <br /> and informed of the death of Sidney Ally at Rouland<br /> Titus,s he came from New York last 5 day poorly with the <br /> disentary [sic] although I hardly think that was the cause<br /> of his death . he has used strong drink freely of latter<br /> time so much so that I suppose it has shortend [sic] his<br /> days . they informed me that it took 4 men to hold <br /> him on the bed yesterday and last night untill [sic] 1 Oclock<br /> his widow looks like a poor heartbroken woman . the <br /> funeral to take place tomorrow to meet at the meeting <br /> house at 10 Oclock . We <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">are</span> have concluded to go to <br /> the meeting at Norristown and make a little visit <br /> to our Friends in the City ^8mo 3^ I have just returned from<br /> B Titus,s <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">and</span> not being time to attend meeting and go to <br /> New York <sub>“</sub> his Sidney partner is up to the funeral he says<br /> his course has been a steady downward ^one^ for the last three<br /> years , but the last year had given up seemaly [sic] to the<br /> full enjoyment of his perluted [sic] appetite which has<br /> brought him young to an intimely [sic] grave. Oh the need<br /> of evry [sic] one to urge on the reform of total abstinence <br /> from all intoxicating drinks I think it might make<br /> some of our friends who discour^a^ge people from signing<br /> the temperence [sic] pledge look around to see one of their own<br /> members <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">hell</span> so soon put an end to his existance [sic]<br /> but I suppose they will say ti is the right time for<br /> the Lord is all powerfull [sic] and could prevent it if it <br /> was his will , which is the <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">dockrrin</span> doctrine they<br /> hold up at times . Rachel says ^she should not dare say but .^ evry [sic] soldier that dies on <br /> on the battle field <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">, she should not dare</span> dies in the right time<br /> which I think goes but very little way to discourage war<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> Philadelphia 8 mo 5 we left home day before yesterday at 12 Oclock<br /> and arrived here about 9 and was in New York 2 ½ hours , and yesterday<br /> morning at 9 started for Norristown and found <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">found</span> the people assem<br /> =ble about ready for the meeting . Garrisson [sic] went on with us we had a <br /> very pleasent [sic] meeting very interesting Garrisson [sic] reveiwed [sic] the cause<br /> for the last 15 or 20 years although <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">slavery</span> ^the slaves^ had increased from 2. 000 000<br /> to nearly 3.000.000 and the slave states in same <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">rait</span> rasho [sic] yet<br /> he thought their [sic] was great incouragement [sic] for the free states had<br /> improved from making the abolitions for exposing the colinization [sic]<br /> and proclaiming the right of immediate emacipation [sic] had made<br /> laws much more favourable for freedom and could now here <br /> the subject of no union with the slaveholders discused [sic] with <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">comparison<br /></span>comparitive [sic] approbation altogether it was a very interesting <br /> meeting , to day Duglass [sic] is to be their as his arrival was <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">annonced</span> <br /> announced yesterday . 6<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> we had a very crowded house yesterday<br /> and a very interesting meeting a good deal of discussion much<br /> about this national Era . Garrison Duglass [sic] Gay and others say<br /> it is not much of an antislavery paper <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">not</span> and as it its location <br /> is at washington and would be consider at the south as the standard<br /> of abolition they thought abolitionist ought not to support <br /> it. many about here seem to think it the bes paper pr^i^nted<br /> and of course it found supporters so the discussion was strong <br /> many about here do not come to Duglass [sic] standard although<br /> he seems to be a very great favourite with the people <br /> I say Dugalss [sic] because some think it is not expected for <br /> many to come to Garrison standard . but I think in all<br /> Garrison contriver^ses^ [sic] with his so called friends he has come off<br /> but, but it may be you will think I am so one sided as not <br /> to judge correctly but in looking back in many instantses [sic]<br /> thouse [sic] that opposed him have acknowledge him to be in the<br /> right in judgment of not in expression always , on the whole<br /> of the age . although he shouses [sic] his fallibility on the free<br /> produce question and like every other person when they got a <br /> bad cause they <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">make</span> show their inconsistency it seems very strong <br /> freely trading with slaveholders is not giveing [sic] countinence [sic] to slave<br /> =holding as much as receiveing [sic] money by the free church of scotland <br /> which he has condemned as countinenceing [sic] slavery J Post <br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> 8<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> of the month we expected to have seen William [Sillary?]<br /> at the meeting on 6 day and given them this . they said they ment [sic]<br /> to come but I suppose their friends did not open the way or prosu-<br /> aded [sic] them to give it up . I know not but it was for the best . yet<br /> they lost much that would have interested them much . We<br /> left home with the intention of returning on 6 day but finding <br /> the meeting <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">expected</span> was to continue 3 days and Fredrick Duglass [sic]<br /> was to have a reception meeting 6 day evening we concluded to<br /> stay another day we returned yesterday a very rainy time much<br /> of the way . particular about the time we arrived at New York and<br /> geting [sic] from the boat to the cars arrived home about 3 oclock<br /> our children very glad to see us. much disappointed our not arriveing [sic]<br /> the evening before . The meeting at Norristown the most interesting <br /> one that we ever attended although much said that we do not unite <br /> with . an invitation given for all persons present to partake<br /> in the discussions which they seemed to consider made them mem<br /> -bers almost or rather if they could not have things as they <br /> wanted them they complained of unfareness [sic] , Garison [sic] said <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">it was</span> <br /> this meeting was different from meetings he had genarly [sic] attended<br /> as it was made up mostly of the society of friends . whereas he<br /> had used to see but few, in some of the discussion they<br /> did give friends a little credit for not holding religous [sic]<br /> fellowship with slaveholders . I suppose the proseeding [sic] will<br /> be published in the standard so you will have a much better<br /> account than this, well 6 day evening we attended F [Dudlass?]<br /> meeting it was got up by the coulard [sic] people not so many as I expected <br /> to see it being a verry [sic] rainy evening I suppose prevented many<br /> from attending although the house about full which I think<br /> will hold more than Westbury meeting house Robert Pervis intro=<br /> duced and welcomed Fredrick to the meeting in a most excellent<br /> though not lengthy speech . which we thought paid us for going <br /> F was also very interesting the people much pleased when <br /> speaking of the religion of the south and ^how^ the slaves were preached<br /> to ^it^ would often come from some of the older ones thats true<br /> F. set down for Garison [sic] and said he wanted to say more after . some wanted <br /> ^him^ to go on one voice go on till midnight . One man arose to ask a <br /> question . he enquired of F how it was that England was praised so much <br /> for being so kind to the coulard [sic] man . and yet held 8.000.000 slaves in Ireland<br /> he had much difficalty [sic] to be heard many crying out don’t here him take<br /> him out and so on one man he ought to be tared [sic] feathered . F explained that it<br /> was not the case, that they ^had^ came and was comeing [sic] to this country by thousands <br /> to rule you and me he was much applauded [sic], I think the man must of felt cheap<br /><br /> [Text in center of page, underlying main text]<br /><br /> Isaac Post <br /> Rochester <br /></p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, August 1, 1847.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1847-08-01
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
681
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. [Text in top margin, written upward]Garrisonaroseand ^and^spokeofthefamine Garrison was then intruduced [sic] to the meeting and much appladed [sic] he then spoke of the famine in Ireland but he did not believe their [sic] was one even in a state starvation that would be willing to change places with the slaves . It was now 10 1/2 Oclock and we thought it best to leave as one friends would be setting up for us it is proberable [sic] we shall see some account of the meeting but cannot realize it like being pr^e^asent [Text normal] Westbury 8th mo 1st 1847 Dear Relatives Jacob has just left us with Samuel Willis not expecting to return he has made us a pleasant visit . it has been a busy time with us so that we could not have quit as much time with William and Mary as we should have liked althoughth and their time after William came so short, but we enjoyed it very much and am in hopes they did, Our Quarterly meeting has past Edward Hicks attended quit feeble spoke on 5 day very affectionately it was good but nothing ^like^ that . that we used to expect from him . 6th day Lucretia Moll was their and spoke most excletly [sic] and quite [ultry?], I believe many liked her very much and I suppose many of strong orthodox party very little . James was with her they came home with us, a short but very pleasant visit and then to Henrys that night . and first day at Flushing where the was very extrardinary [sic] but William and Mary can tell you all about her and what she said better than I can Rachel last first that we went to Flushing said much and E Rushmore said he supposed we should not like it which was all they seemed willing to tell us except that she said much against the odd-fellows . to day [sic] she arose with saying their [sic] was a middle path between Popery on the one hand and libertinism on the other . the one acknowledged man as head and could forgive sins . and the ^other^ acknowledged no head which she seemed to think about as bad. that she thought strange they had not courage enough to withdraw and go by themselves that seems to be their hoby [sic] now as they cannot find any thing to disown for and some of us hold on so hard it seems to be the only way unless they can bring some charge against [illegible] of spreading infidel principles and as the mMilton meeting . the meeting committee reported they were spreding [sic] inferdel [sic] pr^i^nc^i^ples without saying what they were . they ought to have name them for some of us may be as bad, and proberbly [sic] Lucretia went as far at the Quarterly meeting so that they have not kiled [sic] it all off . Our crops prety [sic] good . hay I think more than an average crop our wheat good we have threshed 24 shocks and 10 sheaves of wheat and had 30 bushels according to Rachels doctrine it is a great curse for she says she considers prosperity the greatest curse. for she says she considers prosperity the greatest curse that can befall a nation, it does seem as though some and [illegible] do not know but I might say the most of Christendom look upon the good mans path as a very hard uncomfortable and almost an unhapy [sic] one, I consider to be good is to be happy . 8th mo 2nd this morning about 4 Oclock I was called and informed of the death of Sidney Ally at Rouland Titus,s he came from New York last 5 day poorly with the disentary [sic] although I hardly think that was the cause of his death . he has used strong drink freely of latter time so much so that I suppose it has shortend [sic] his days . they informed me that it took 4 men to hold him on the bed yesterday and last night untill [sic] 1 Oclock his widow looks like a poor heartbroken woman . the funeral to take place tomorrow to meet at the meeting house at 10 Oclock . We are have concluded to go to the meeting at Norristown and make a little visit to our Friends in the City ^8mo 3^ I have just returned from B Titus,s and not being time to attend meeting and go to New York " his Sidney partner is up to the funeral he says his course has been a steady downward ^one^ for the last three years, but the last year had given up seemaly [sic] to the full enjoyment of his perluted [sic] appetite which has brought him young to an intimely [sic] grave. Oh the need of evry [sic] one to urge on the reform of total abstinence from all intoxicating drinks I think it might make some of our friends who discour^a^ge people from signing the temperence [sic] pledge look around to see one of their own members hell so soon put an end to his existance [sic] but I suppose they will say ti is the right time for the Lord is all powerfull [sic] and could prevent it if it was his will, which is the dockrrin doctrine they hold up at times . Rachel says ^she should not dare say but .^ evry [sic] soldier that dies on on the battle field , she should not dare dies in the right time which I think goes but very little way to discourage war Philadelphia 8 mo 5 we left home day before yesterday at 12 Oclock and arrived here about 9 and was in New York 2 1/2 hours, and yesterday morning at 9 started for Norristown and found found the people assem =ble about ready for the meeting . Garrisson [sic] went on with us we had a very pleasent [sic] meeting very interesting Garrisson [sic] reveiwed [sic] the cause for the last 15 or 20 years although slavery ^the slaves^ had increased from 2. 000 000 to nearly 3.000.000 and the slave states in same rait rasho [sic] yet he thought their [sic] was great incouragement [sic] for the free states had improved from making the abolitions for exposing the colinization [sic] and proclaiming the right of immediate emacipation [sic] had made laws much more favourable for freedom and could now here the subject of no union with the slaveholders discused [sic] with comparisoncomparitive [sic] approbation altogether it was a very interesting meeting, to day Duglass [sic] is to be their as his arrival was annonced announced yesterday . 6th we had a very crowded house yesterday and a very interesting meeting a good deal of discussion much about this national Era . Garrison Duglass [sic] Gay and others say it is not much of an antislavery paper not and as it its location is at washington and would be consider at the south as the standard of abolition they thought abolitionist ought not to support it. many about here seem to think it the bes paper pr^i^nted and of course it found supporters so the discussion was strong many about here do not come to Duglass [sic] standard although he seems to be a very great favourite with the people I say Dugalss [sic] because some think it is not expected for many to come to Garrison standard . but I think in all Garrison contriver^ses^ [sic] with his so called friends he has come off but, but it may be you will think I am so one sided as not to judge correctly but in looking back in many instantses [sic] thouse [sic] that opposed him have acknowledge him to be in the right in judgment of not in expression always, on the whole of the age . although he shouses [sic] his fallibility on the free produce question and like every other person when they got a bad cause they make show their inconsistency it seems very strong freely trading with slaveholders is not giveing [sic] countinence [sic] to slave =holding as much as receiveing [sic] money by the free church of scotland which he has condemned as countinenceing [sic] slavery J Post (Page 4) 8th of the month we expected to have seen William [Sillary?] at the meeting on 6 day and given them this . they said they ment [sic] to come but I suppose their friends did not open the way or prosu- aded [sic] them to give it up . I know not but it was for the best . yet they lost much that would have interested them much . We left home with the intention of returning on 6 day but finding the meeting expected was to continue 3 days and Fredrick Duglass [sic] was to have a reception meeting 6 day evening we concluded to stay another day we returned yesterday a very rainy time much of the way . particular about the time we arrived at New York and geting [sic] from the boat to the cars arrived home about 3 oclock our children very glad to see us. much disappointed our not arriveing [sic] the evening before . The meeting at Norristown the most interesting one that we ever attended although much said that we do not unite with . an invitation given for all persons present to partake in the discussions which they seemed to consider made them mem -bers almost or rather if they could not have things as they wanted them they complained of unfareness [sic], Garison [sic] said it was this meeting was different from meetings he had genarly [sic] attended as it was made up mostly of the society of friends . whereas he had used to see but few, in some of the discussion they did give friends a little credit for not holding religous [sic] fellowship with slaveholders . I suppose the proseeding [sic] will be published in the standard so you will have a much better account than this, well 6 day evening we attended F [Dudlass?] meeting it was got up by the coulard [sic] people not so many as I expected to see it being a verry [sic] rainy evening I suppose prevented many from attending although the house about full which I think will hold more than Westbury meeting house Robert Pervis intro= duced and welcomed Fredrick to the meeting in a most excellent though not lengthy speech . which we thought paid us for going F was also very interesting the people much pleased when speaking of the religion of the south and ^how^ the slaves were preached to ^it^ would often come from some of the older ones thats true F. set down for Garison [sic] and said he wanted to say more after . some wanted ^him^ to go on one voice go on till midnight . One man arose to ask a question . he enquired of F how it was that England was praised so much for being so kind to the coulard [sic] man . and yet held 8.000.000 slaves in Ireland he had much difficalty [sic] to be heard many crying out don't here him take him out and so on one man he ought to be tared [sic] feathered . F explained that it was not the case, that they ^had^ came and was comeing [sic] to this country by thousands to rule you and me he was much applauded [sic], I think the man must of felt cheap [Text in center of page, underlying main text] Isaac Post Rochester
Abolitionism
Agriculture
Quakers
Temperance Movement
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/3768c15157bb8c82a390c31b7a257fdb.jpg
b4e0986178f3a9b995e4bf95de2b5cec
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/3696ee57254f2d170ab9a9ddb5513fce.jpg
83c1603d5e0231b111ccee570975af06
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/11842d2628a93df490ca31eb9395ac71.jpg
9acd764ffa3b82a128c885d07ee32989
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/23fea45b06883212c86f98e98a640724.jpg
b23860549f60aee63e579fa46e2620ed
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>there are many mistakes but I have not time to rectify them</p>
<p>Joseph says George and Ann left this morning</p>
<p> Westbury 6 month 25<sup>th</sup> 47</p>
<p>the 1<sup>st</sup> of July Joseph desires love to all</p>
<p> My dear Brother</p>
<p> We have a day or two since received thy kind</p>
<p>and interesting letter and I had felt it to be a very long time since</p>
<p>we had been blessed in that way and I fain would have taken</p>
<p>up my pen had not the lumbering things of time pressed heavily on</p>
<p>me added to which the long time which elapsed between your letters</p>
<p>worries me to be sparing of my inflection’s – but as brother Isaac</p>
<p>proposes a change I gladly accede thereto and will endeavour to</p>
<p>do my part fully so far as regards length and frequency howeve [sic]</p>
<p>I trust we shall not monopolize this privelege [sic] but whenever Amy</p>
<p>Sarah or Joseph feel it in their hearts to contribute their share it will</p>
<p>be most thankfully awarded to them</p>
<p>There have been many incidents occurring which I wished to remember</p>
<p>to tell you about which have now lost some of the interest I then attached to</p>
<p>them others I have forgotten – Perhaps Yearly Meeting comes first on the list</p>
<p>I was not in attendance it really seemed quite strange not to be there and</p>
<p>I hear the womens meeting spoken of as being one of great favor harmony and</p>
<p>unanimity – the men’s too is considered by the power to be so too but</p>
<p>Joseph felt less of interest than ever before and were it not for the few</p>
<p>righteous remaining he would be ready to flee from it as Lot did from</p>
<p>Sodom Jacob L Mott showed the spirit he is of too plainly to be mistaken</p>
<p>probably Edmund has mentioned it – in relation to a document from</p>
<p>[<span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Indiana</span>] ^Ohio^ YM on slavery he has been condemned by his own friends for it but</p>
<p>^it^ was no more than many are prepared to act out – altho [sic] they are frequently speaking</p>
<p>of the perfect equality in our society are as good a right to be heard as another</p>
<p>but dont they see it is not so? let any one who is an uncompromising</p>
<p>abolitionist speak on almost any subject and it is easy to see how it is recei</p>
<p>-ved by the would be followers of Fox Barclay and Penn – without examining</p>
<p>what is said they are prepared with a judgement of condemnation Samuel</p>
<p>Hughes who has been held up ^as^ being one of the real kind of friends</p>
<p>preached as friends used to a great while ago he did not meddle with</p>
<p>what is going on in the world &c &c well we were favored to hear the</p>
<p>friend and I may say I was supprised [sic] – and I remarked if that was</p>
<p>a specimen of old fashioned preaching I was not sorry we heard it seldom he</p>
<p>quoted scripture abundantly principly [sic] from the old testament Solomon</p>
<p>and his beloved among the rest – (he appeared to be a goodly man in meetn [sic]</p>
<p> I see him no where else)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 2)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>the next day we went to orthodox meeting an Englishman that traveled and</p>
<p>interpreted for Elizabeth Walker and also for Stephen Grilette [sic, <em>Grellet</em>] on the continent</p>
<p>of Europe The [sic] call him the gratest [sic] preacher ever been here from England – and</p>
<p>if I could believe the doctrine he preached I should consider him great too</p>
<p>said much on the atonement faith beleif [sic] and so on which I cannot compreh^end^</p>
<p>at all the latter part of his discourse was of a more practical cast and I could</p>
<p>respond to it – it was a watering time to the household of faith –</p>
<p>Since which Jacob L has been at the two monthly meetings he seems to</p>
<p>me to be a changed man from what he was year’s ago – but I know</p>
<p>too that I see things very differently from what I did and perhaps the chanfe</p>
<p>is on my part John Jackson and Rachel were at Jericho and the contrast between</p>
<p>Jacob and John’s communication’s were very striking John made religion</p>
<p>to be plain and self evident to all the fruits of which were love to</p>
<p>God and benevolence to man and if such fruits were not produced pro</p>
<p>-fession was vain it would not constitute us members of the church</p>
<p>of God – &c &c it was truly excellent – Jacob spoke first said considerable</p>
<p>of Paul said he had no doubt if now here he would be with the Presbyterian a</p>
<p>Presbyterian with a Methodist a Methodist and so on ^all things to all men^ so that by any means he</p>
<p>might gain some Paul was a rapid reasoner he might be compared to a</p>
<p>galloping horse for rapidity in the midst of his reasoning he stoped [sic] short</p>
<p>and knowing Timothys weak state he recommended him to drink no</p>
<p>more water but wine take a little wine for the stomachs’ sake &c</p>
<p>Abraham and the sacrifice too were spoken on – John’s health is feeble</p>
<p>cough and night sweats – he looks miserably made us a delightful visit</p>
<p>it is as a brook by the way to meet such as he Here this is the 30</p>
<p>of 6 month and not on its way many things combine to prevent writing</p>
<p>and [<span style="text-decoration: line-through;">your</span>] I fear I shall not add much at this time George and Anna</p>
<p>Willets are here on a visit we have not had much of their company</p>
<p>They have been at Joseph Hicks’s nights they may remain a day or two</p>
<p>longer – Joseph and self have recently been to see Mary W Frost she is</p>
<p>very feeble but has gained a little since yearly meeting she rides out</p>
<p>in pleasant weather and it does her good cough’s very much the forepart</p>
<p>of the day and raises a great deal she is cheerful through all – I hope</p>
<p>she may be spared to them and us a while longer – but the question arrises</p>
<p>when or how long before we are ready to part with our loved one’s?</p>
<p>We feel ourselves to be striped [sic] and in measure lonely altho [sic] many</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 3)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>relatives still remain to bless and cheer us – few of whome [sic] sympathize</p>
<p>so fully with us in sentiment as the dear one’s who have left us</p>
<p>I cannot help feeling as tho [sic] it was too much for thee and Joseph to be</p>
<p>separated only think how desirable it would be to be together – I hope</p>
<p>the day is not very distant when we shall meet you if it be only for</p>
<p>a brief season – do let us see you this summer or autumn at fatheres^t^ [sic]</p>
<p>we are expecting it. Catharine Willis is in New York been there 2 weeks</p>
<p>she is better than when she went – her eyes were very band when she went down</p>
<p>probably she may write soon herself and tell of her treatment – &c &c Dr Sweet</p>
<p>saw her and operated on her joints too and if they only remain in place I</p>
<p>should hope she would be greatly benefited – She went to Dr Halloe first</p>
<p>he has a girl he magnetizes who examines patients and prescribes for them</p>
<p>which she did for Catharine I do not hear as she recommended Dr Sweet but</p>
<p>that he saw her at the office incidentally Henry is going down for her – he may</p>
<p>have gone to day – I suppose you have had a visit from Isaac and Mary</p>
<p>in this Mary wished to go to Rochester to see you and Isaac too but pro-</p>
<p>-bably hay time coming on so near may influence him somewhat – we did</p>
<p>not know of Marys going in season to write by her – I spoke of the wom</p>
<p>-en’s Y Meeting being satisfactory I have since heard some remarks as tho [sic] it was</p>
<p>not so much so “that it was rather dry did not seem like YM” I am ri[obliterated]</p>
<p>glad when it seem’s dry to some of the bodyites our last monthly was</p>
<p>a very dry lifeless concern to Joseph and self and I have heard it was</p>
<p>so to some others – well they are reaping the harvest of the seed they</p>
<p>are and have been sowing – how can they expect to reap wheat when tares</p>
<p>were sown – for it remains true “such as ye sow such shall ye reap”</p>
<p>I feel but little interest in the doings am for the most part a looken [sic]</p>
<p>on E S Willets and W T Cock are overseers W is the new one</p>
<p>There has been a proposition to hold a meeting at Oyster bay under</p>
<p>the care of a committee once a month first day afternoons which has</p>
<p>been considered again and again ^only twice^ without concluding to do so – the</p>
<p>meeting was informed that the house was repaired at considerable</p>
<p>expense with a view to something of the kind – We are told there are</p>
<p>quite a number of friendly people there who would be glad of an opportunity</p>
<p>of attending Joseph has just come from meeting (I have by the way been at home)</p>
<p>and says Isaac Rushmore was there too and they have not been to see you</p>
<p>dont it beat every thing? says he wanted to go but Mary Post and Mary Wood</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 4)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>were not willing to go or let him go – I do like to see people do</p>
<p>as they wish sometimes – It has been a very cool summer with the exception</p>
<p>of three or 4 days this week and last it is now cool again had a beautiful rain</p>
<p>last night and now all nature is rejoicing in the timely blessing it seems</p>
<p>like Spring so fresh and green Joseph talk’s of commencing to make hay</p>
<p>next week the season is backward – I beleive [sic] I told you sometime ago that</p>
<p>Emma Grimshaw had left here to teach a school in Vermont well she went in</p>
<p>great expectation of doing great things of making double the money there that she</p>
<p>could here and she is most grievoussly [sic] disappointed has been teribbly [sic] homesick for</p>
<p>L.I and is now expecting to come back the 1<sup>st</sup> of 8 month says she has learned the</p>
<p>truth of the adage “a bud in the hand is worth two in the bush” Esther Post is teach in</p>
<p>that school now she will leave after this week and take Caroline’s place in the</p>
<p> </p>
<p>other house I hear some of the orthodox friends cannot under any circumstance send</p>
<p>their children to our school and wish their children select I cannot understand</p>
<p>it at all why they should wish other children than their own members to attend</p>
<p>their school I cannot see what difference there is in houses I hate to encourage</p>
<p>such illiberality in any way – they use all their influence to get all they can</p>
<p>George Truman has a minute to go to the East on quite an extensive [seall?] probabl [sic]</p>
<p>be absent about two months so I hear Rachel continues to speak to the people</p>
<p>and very frequently not to our entire satisfaction Timothy too sometimes but</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[Text upside-down, in margins of original text, starting at bottom of page]</p>
<p>in a very efficient way he almost speaks on the wickedness of this government</p>
<p>holding one sixth of the population in abject slavery and now carrying on a war</p>
<p>for the extension of it he speaks so plainly some can scarcely bear it he say’s</p>
<p>we hear a great deal of preaching and I have wondered that ‘we [sear woshing?] said</p>
<p>on the subject of slavery and war’ two of the greatest testimonys [sic] the society has to bear</p>
<p>especially as there is need of our making it known for there is now one of the dread [files?]</p>
<p>horrible wais [sic] ever known and yet friends say nothing against it and still wish</p>
<p>to be thought to be pioneers in all that is good he said he had but his mind drawn</p>
<p> </p>
<p>to this society in younger life and the principle he fully beleived [sic] in but he had had a pretty</p>
<p>trying time of it I thought it was true enough altho [sic] many laugh at the remark</p>
<p>well I have made quite a long story about the preacher’s and left some things I</p>
<p>had better said Rebecca Hawxhursts daughter Esther who has been sick so long has</p>
<p>entered her higher life suffered much during her illness & uncle Robert has his</p>
<p>fits quite frequently has had a number in meeting but not as hard as some</p>
<p>What a treat you will have ere long how I should like to share it with you I mean</p>
<p>Garrison and company I never looked on him with feelings of greater love and</p>
<p>reverance [sic] than I did this spring and how very few comparatively there are who</p>
<p>are willing to aid him in his labor’s or indeed to do anything for their bretheren [sic]</p>
<p>and sister in bonds It seems so strange to me that friends cannot throw away</p>
<p>their sectarian feelings and unite in doing battle against the slave system</p>
<p>probably you may remember some remarks Garrison made on the use of free produce (he had better</p>
<p>not made any it seemed to me) than such) well they were copied into the Non Slaveholder cousin</p>
<p>Maria Willets see there and of course condemned the author and cannot see his</p>
<p>other virtues she cannot se how we can take a paper edited by one who holds</p>
<p>such views – how few are consistent in all things I fear we should all be found ^wanting^</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[Text sideways in right margin]</p>
<p>Give my love to all the household Edmund William Mary</p>
<p>and all the rest when may we begin to look for a letter</p>
<p>our chances are just getting good I wish you were here to</p>
<p>partake of them when may we look for you – Elizabeth</p>
<p>Mott is at Jericho making a long visit I sometimes wish</p>
<p>I could do so too but I like my confinement better than</p>
<p>too much liberty E made us a very pleasant visit lately</p>
<p> Mary</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[Text sideways, center of page]</p>
<p>North Hempstead 10</p>
<p> July 4<sup>th</sup></p>
<p> </p>
<p> Isaac Post</p>
<p> Rochester</p>
<p> New York</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, June 25, 1847.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1847-06-25
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
680
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Scripto
Transcription
A written representation of a document.
(Page 1)
there are many mistakes but I have not time to rectify them
Joseph says George and Ann left this morning
Westbury 6 month 25th 47
the 1st of July Joseph desires love to all
My dear Brother
We have a day or two since received thy kind
and interesting letter and I had felt it to be a very long time since
we had been blessed in that way and I fain would have taken
up my pen had not the lumbering things of time pressed heavily on
me added to which the long time which elapsed between your letters
worries me to be sparing of my inflection’s – but as brother Isaac
proposes a change I gladly accede thereto and will endeavour to
do my part fully so far as regards length and frequency howeve [sic]
I trust we shall not monopolize this privelege [sic] but whenever Amy
Sarah or Joseph feel it in their hearts to contribute their share it will
be most thankfully awarded to them
There have been many incidents occurring which I wished to remember
to tell you about which have now lost some of the interest I then attached to
them others I have forgotten – Perhaps Yearly Meeting comes first on the list
I was not in attendance it really seemed quite strange not to be there and
I hear the womens meeting spoken of as being one of great favor harmony and
unanimity – the men’s too is considered by the power to be so too but
Joseph felt less of interest than ever before and were it not for the few
righteous remaining he would be ready to flee from it as Lot did from
Sodom Jacob L Mott showed the spirit he is of too plainly to be mistaken
probably Edmund has mentioned it – in relation to a document from
[Indiana] ^Ohio^ YM on slavery he has been condemned by his own friends for it but
^it^ was no more than many are prepared to act out – altho [sic] they are frequently speaking
of the perfect equality in our society are as good a right to be heard as another
but dont they see it is not so? let any one who is an uncompromising
abolitionist speak on almost any subject and it is easy to see how it is recei
-ved by the would be followers of Fox Barclay and Penn – without examining
what is said they are prepared with a judgement of condemnation Samuel
Hughes who has been held up ^as^ being one of the real kind of friends
preached as friends used to a great while ago he did not meddle with
what is going on in the world &c &c well we were favored to hear the
friend and I may say I was supprised [sic] – and I remarked if that was
a specimen of old fashioned preaching I was not sorry we heard it seldom he
quoted scripture abundantly principly [sic] from the old testament Solomon
and his beloved among the rest – (he appeared to be a goodly man in meetn [sic]
I see him no where else)
(Page 2)
the next day we went to orthodox meeting an Englishman that traveled and
interpreted for Elizabeth Walker and also for Stephen Grilette [sic, Grellet] on the continent
of Europe The [sic] call him the gratest [sic] preacher ever been here from England – and
if I could believe the doctrine he preached I should consider him great too
said much on the atonement faith beleif [sic] and so on which I cannot compreh^end^
at all the latter part of his discourse was of a more practical cast and I could
respond to it – it was a watering time to the household of faith –
Since which Jacob L has been at the two monthly meetings he seems to
me to be a changed man from what he was year’s ago – but I know
too that I see things very differently from what I did and perhaps the chanfe
is on my part John Jackson and Rachel were at Jericho and the contrast between
Jacob and John’s communication’s were very striking John made religion
to be plain and self evident to all the fruits of which were love to
God and benevolence to man and if such fruits were not produced pro
-fession was vain it would not constitute us members of the church
of God – &c &c it was truly excellent – Jacob spoke first said considerable
of Paul said he had no doubt if now here he would be with the Presbyterian a
Presbyterian with a Methodist a Methodist and so on ^all things to all men^ so that by any means he
might gain some Paul was a rapid reasoner he might be compared to a
galloping horse for rapidity in the midst of his reasoning he stoped [sic] short
and knowing Timothys weak state he recommended him to drink no
more water but wine take a little wine for the stomachs’ sake &c
Abraham and the sacrifice too were spoken on – John’s health is feeble
cough and night sweats – he looks miserably made us a delightful visit
it is as a brook by the way to meet such as he Here this is the 30
of 6 month and not on its way many things combine to prevent writing
and [your] I fear I shall not add much at this time George and Anna
Willets are here on a visit we have not had much of their company
They have been at Joseph Hicks’s nights they may remain a day or two
longer – Joseph and self have recently been to see Mary W Frost she is
very feeble but has gained a little since yearly meeting she rides out
in pleasant weather and it does her good cough’s very much the forepart
of the day and raises a great deal she is cheerful through all – I hope
she may be spared to them and us a while longer – but the question arrises
when or how long before we are ready to part with our loved one’s?
We feel ourselves to be striped [sic] and in measure lonely altho [sic] many
(Page 3)
relatives still remain to bless and cheer us – few of whome [sic] sympathize
so fully with us in sentiment as the dear one’s who have left us
I cannot help feeling as tho [sic] it was too much for thee and Joseph to be
separated only think how desirable it would be to be together – I hope
the day is not very distant when we shall meet you if it be only for
a brief season – do let us see you this summer or autumn at fatheres^t^ [sic]
we are expecting it. Catharine Willis is in New York been there 2 weeks
she is better than when she went – her eyes were very band when she went down
probably she may write soon herself and tell of her treatment – &c &c Dr Sweet
saw her and operated on her joints too and if they only remain in place I
should hope she would be greatly benefited – She went to Dr Halloe first
he has a girl he magnetizes who examines patients and prescribes for them
which she did for Catharine I do not hear as she recommended Dr Sweet but
that he saw her at the office incidentally Henry is going down for her – he may
have gone to day – I suppose you have had a visit from Isaac and Mary
in this Mary wished to go to Rochester to see you and Isaac too but pro-
-bably hay time coming on so near may influence him somewhat – we did
not know of Marys going in season to write by her – I spoke of the wom
-en’s Y Meeting being satisfactory I have since heard some remarks as tho [sic] it was
not so much so “that it was rather dry did not seem like YM” I am ri[obliterated]
glad when it seem’s dry to some of the bodyites our last monthly was
a very dry lifeless concern to Joseph and self and I have heard it was
so to some others – well they are reaping the harvest of the seed they
are and have been sowing – how can they expect to reap wheat when tares
were sown – for it remains true “such as ye sow such shall ye reap”
I feel but little interest in the doings am for the most part a looken [sic]
on E S Willets and W T Cock are overseers W is the new one
There has been a proposition to hold a meeting at Oyster bay under
the care of a committee once a month first day afternoons which has
been considered again and again ^only twice^ without concluding to do so – the
meeting was informed that the house was repaired at considerable
expense with a view to something of the kind – We are told there are
quite a number of friendly people there who would be glad of an opportunity
of attending Joseph has just come from meeting (I have by the way been at home)
and says Isaac Rushmore was there too and they have not been to see you
dont it beat every thing? says he wanted to go but Mary Post and Mary Wood
(Page 4)
were not willing to go or let him go – I do like to see people do
as they wish sometimes – It has been a very cool summer with the exception
of three or 4 days this week and last it is now cool again had a beautiful rain
last night and now all nature is rejoicing in the timely blessing it seems
like Spring so fresh and green Joseph talk’s of commencing to make hay
next week the season is backward – I beleive [sic] I told you sometime ago that
Emma Grimshaw had left here to teach a school in Vermont well she went in
great expectation of doing great things of making double the money there that she
could here and she is most grievoussly [sic] disappointed has been teribbly [sic] homesick for
L.I and is now expecting to come back the 1st of 8 month says she has learned the
truth of the adage “a bud in the hand is worth two in the bush” Esther Post is teach in
that school now she will leave after this week and take Caroline’s place in the
other house I hear some of the orthodox friends cannot under any circumstance send
their children to our school and wish their children select I cannot understand
it at all why they should wish other children than their own members to attend
their school I cannot see what difference there is in houses I hate to encourage
such illiberality in any way – they use all their influence to get all they can
George Truman has a minute to go to the East on quite an extensive [seall?] probabl [sic]
be absent about two months so I hear Rachel continues to speak to the people
and very frequently not to our entire satisfaction Timothy too sometimes but
[Text upside-down, in margins of original text, starting at bottom of page]
in a very efficient way he almost speaks on the wickedness of this government
holding one sixth of the population in abject slavery and now carrying on a war
for the extension of it he speaks so plainly some can scarcely bear it he say’s
we hear a great deal of preaching and I have wondered that ‘we [sear woshing?] said
on the subject of slavery and war’ two of the greatest testimonys [sic] the society has to bear
especially as there is need of our making it known for there is now one of the dread [files?]
horrible wais [sic] ever known and yet friends say nothing against it and still wish
to be thought to be pioneers in all that is good he said he had but his mind drawn
to this society in younger life and the principle he fully beleived [sic] in but he had had a pretty
trying time of it I thought it was true enough altho [sic] many laugh at the remark
well I have made quite a long story about the preacher’s and left some things I
had better said Rebecca Hawxhursts daughter Esther who has been sick so long has
entered her higher life suffered much during her illness & uncle Robert has his
fits quite frequently has had a number in meeting but not as hard as some
What a treat you will have ere long how I should like to share it with you I mean
Garrison and company I never looked on him with feelings of greater love and
reverance [sic] than I did this spring and how very few comparatively there are who
are willing to aid him in his labor’s or indeed to do anything for their bretheren [sic]
and sister in bonds It seems so strange to me that friends cannot throw away
their sectarian feelings and unite in doing battle against the slave system
probably you may remember some remarks Garrison made on the use of free produce (he had better
not made any it seemed to me) than such) well they were copied into the Non Slaveholder cousin
Maria Willets see there and of course condemned the author and cannot see his
other virtues she cannot se how we can take a paper edited by one who holds
such views – how few are consistent in all things I fear we should all be found ^wanting^
[Text sideways in right margin]
Give my love to all the household Edmund William Mary
and all the rest when may we begin to look for a letter
our chances are just getting good I wish you were here to
partake of them when may we look for you – Elizabeth
Mott is at Jericho making a long visit I sometimes wish
I could do so too but I like my confinement better than
too much liberty E made us a very pleasant visit lately
Mary
[Text sideways, center of page]
North Hempstead 10
July 4th
Isaac Post
Rochester
New York
Abolitionism
Education
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/18c6cfcb44f676ca3d09c8a74d0f964b.jpg
dfa23c88ae12b93f2fbd93e422350714
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/b3f991cdab1546873892fd890fc633c5.jpg
45d9e6d3c03f829793e7d23cbf79d64c
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a46c75f09eb3f30dfd096fb81d26189e.jpg
d66e0007712629bd41e682f4aeac1ab8
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/db097e15a2067a6bcb64f0c4e9d297bd.jpg
426d5f3f59953ba9a4a2ce38031d8580
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[Text in top margin]</p>
<p>Our girls say do tell uncle Isaac and aunt Amy to name their baby William instead</p>
<p>of Willet</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[Text normal]</p>
<p> Dear All Westbury 5 month First day aftern^oon^</p>
<p> It has been a very long time since you have</p>
<p>remembered us (until this one by Edmund) sufficiently to write</p>
<p>and I have felt it in my heart repeatedly to take up my pen</p>
<p>again to inquire the cause – for I could not believe that there was</p>
<p>any diminution of affection or sympathy of feeling toward us – but</p>
<p>then why not write oftener, I am aware that you have numerous claim^s^</p>
<p>on your time and many relatives to write to but it is very pleasa</p>
<p>-nt ^to us^ to be rememberd [sic] too, I will pass on to other matters and first</p>
<p> and foremost on the list is the Aniversary [sic] meetings which were</p>
<p>the best we have had in year’s – in my opinion – they were</p>
<p>larger and altogether there was more to encourage altho [sic] there</p>
<p>was considerable disaprobation [sic] manifested particularly when the</p>
<p>constitution General Taylor the war and the church were up – but</p>
<p>I thought they bore it all remarkably – for it was strong meat</p>
<p>to them We went to the city on 3<sup>rd</sup> day morning Joseph was not quite</p>
<p>well before we left home after getting in the Tabernecle [sic] he felt</p>
<p>much more unwell was obliged to go out but was in and out till [sic] the</p>
<p>close of the meeting went to cousin Robert’s laid down and thought</p>
<p>he felt better so that he would try to go again rode over but was</p>
<p>obliged to return immediately and had a very ill turn high fever</p>
<p>at night on my return I got some pills which had an excellent</p>
<p>effect causing him to vomit freely &c he was better next day came</p>
<p>home in the afternoon I remained until near the close of the meet-</p>
<p>-ing on fifth day – some say what good does come from this anual [sic]</p>
<p>meeting you pass resolutions and say many hard things which nobody</p>
<p>come’s to hear or if they happen to hear they do not convince – but</p>
<p>really I feel encouraged there were more listeners and more oppo-</p>
<p>-nents too, for the two last year’s – it shows signs of more life</p>
<p>or of more fear at any rate that the church and the union are in danger</p>
<p>hence the necessity of coming to the rescue – it has another good effect</p>
<p>it strengthens the bond of union between abolitionists and stimula</p>
<p>-tes to increased effort for the oppressed – Douglas looked well and</p>
<p>was greater than ever you will see his speech in the Tabernacle also</p>
<p>the other’s on the same occasion I do not know as there were any rep-</p>
<p>-orter’s there at any of the other meetings which I regret for there were</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 2)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>many speeches which ought to be preserved I never heard J C Ha-</p>
<p>-thaway before he spoke with much warmth and animation of the</p>
<p>war and General Taylor which brought out a person who took quite</p>
<p>a different view of things but the best of all was at another time</p>
<p>the resolutions condemning the government war Taylor &c being read</p>
<p>a person in the crowd commenced speaking he was invited to the</p>
<p>stand which invitation he accepted and have his name as Major</p>
<p>Norton of Boston he came in partly by accident on account of the sho</p>
<p>-wer and hearing those resolutions read he could not sit tamely on his</p>
<p>seat without exposing them he eulogized the country and all belonging</p>
<p>thereto even the war and Taylor into the bargain said the victorys [sic] gained</p>
<p>were enough and ought to cover this nation with glory &c &c he was asked</p>
<p>about Taylor’s slaves yes he had slaves but he beleived [sic] they were treated</p>
<p>well and probably far better than many of the servants here in NY</p>
<p>he was followed by Ward (whome [sic] you probably know) in a capital speech he</p>
<p>used his arguments all up in a masterly manner and greatly to the satis</p>
<p>-faction of the antislavery part of the audience Garrison followed. The</p>
<p>Major rose to leave Garrison alluded to it and then quoted a number</p>
<p>of his lines “Conscience makes cowards of us all &c” when directly the Major</p>
<p>reappeared in great wrath and interrupted Garrison and among other</p>
<p>things dared him to call him a coward and finally offered a challenge</p>
<p>to fight – (I could not hear much he said) Garrison very calmnly [sic] replyed [sic]</p>
<p>such weapons he had no use for having long since discarded them in all cases</p>
<p>the major then left the hall and a company with him and I would hope</p>
<p>a wiser man – there are many incidents and remarks I would love to</p>
<p>speak to you about but as my paper is getting full and I hope you</p>
<p>will have a pretty full account in the papers and as G B Stebbins</p>
<p>^and^ wife and William Brown and probably others were in attendance whome [sic]</p>
<p>you may see E P W was there some so in view of all the sources you will</p>
<p>have to obtain more correct information than I can give in this way I will</p>
<p>pass on to other topics but first I may say this has been written in</p>
<p>the midst of talking having had company nearly all the time I laid</p>
<p>it aside when cousin Thomas Whitson and Susan came T is very much</p>
<p>as he used to be but we fancied there was some improvement he is cons-</p>
<p>-iderably crippled in part by his extreme exertions to acquire wealth</p>
<p>altho [sic] he attributes it to hereditary disease [sic] ^and medicine^ – it is sad to contemplate</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 3)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>man endowed by his creator with talents capable of attaining to a</p>
<p>high and exalted state but by the misapplication of them groveling</p>
<p>in the earth neither receiving or conferring happiness on those around him</p>
<p> Philadelphia Yearly Meeting has ended and we hear they had a</p>
<p>pretty comfortable time but have not had any particulars yet Rachel</p>
<p>^and^ Abraham Hicks accompanied by Amos and Caroline have been also Samuel</p>
<p>Thorne Henry and Phebe Titus the last named took their homes at James</p>
<p>Motts a good place for them to hear the truth Samuel is improving</p>
<p>becoming more liberal in his views – which is encouraging in these</p>
<p>degenerate times William Healy asked or rather informed the monthly</p>
<p>meeting that he had a prospect of attending Phil Y Meeting they sat a</p>
<p>while and no expression either for or against it Cousin Joseph Willets said</p>
<p>if friends had no remark to make perhaps the clerk might proceed with</p>
<p>the business which was done accordingly – – Id we may judge the yearly M</p>
<p>by the sermon we had to day they had come truth’s which were not very</p>
<p>palateable [sic] to Rachel reason (that dreadful enemy to man’s peace) ^and^ the cultivation</p>
<p>of the various faculties of our nature were spoken against as well as</p>
<p>many other topics to a great length and it seemed to me to be labor</p>
<p>lost how all important it is for people to know themselves really before</p>
<p>attempting to teach others – But now I must leave and bid all good</p>
<p>night Second day eve I will resume this for a few minutes but as family</p>
<p>duties are resting more weightily upon me than usual it will necessarily</p>
<p>be only for a few minutes our orthodox Friends are in quite a dilemma</p>
<p>about their school Emma was engaged for the ensuing season she was</p>
<p>had an offer of a school in Vermont for the summer where she and</p>
<p>her friends think she can earn more so she has concluded to leave</p>
<p>here suddenly and now the friends feel the great importance of having</p>
<p>a teacher immediately else some of the schollars [sic] may go to the other</p>
<p>school – I hate the sectarian feeling which prevails in both societys [sic] in</p>
<p>relation to both school’s – William and Henry Titus are here now inquiring about</p>
<p>Mary Underwood we had a letter from her a short time ago in which she</p>
<p>spoke of her mission being closed and her wish to return and get a school</p>
<p>if there should be any opening hereaway [sic] for her – I wish she was here</p>
<p>now for I feel as though a good school was very important and she gave</p>
<p>good satisfaction before but I think her chance of getting this is doubtful</p>
<p>Mary writes that she hear’s frequently from her mother says she stay’s at</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 4)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>home mostly and ^it is quite a trial to leave it even for a few day’s^ Mary thinks a mighty change has come over the</p>
<p>spirit of her dreams Third day afternoon I laid this aside hastily last</p>
<p>eve and was supprised [sic] by a visitor William McKim and if I am not</p>
<p>very much mistaken he is sick in the region of the heart and Emma</p>
<p>is in the possession of a panacea which would effect a cure if she</p>
<p>would only apply the remedy – but I should think his case a hopele</p>
<p>-ss one – however they had a long confab this morning but as to the result</p>
<p>I am ignorant – He was dreadfully disappointed in not finding her</p>
<p>here he supposed this was her home he came up to wait on her down</p>
<p>on the morrow – he is not out but will return to night probably –</p>
<p>Joseph has gone to the city with hay I have been hopeing [sic] he would</p>
<p>find time to write so that I might be excused but as I know he often</p>
<p>puts off untill [sic] too late to write much and altho [sic] it is here as Richard</p>
<p> </p>
<p>D Well says not so important as it was once to embrace an opportunity – still I</p>
<p>love to do it and rejoice when I hear of an “opportunity” for I am aware my scrawl^s^</p>
<p>are not worth much however we may be disappointed after all for we have been</p>
<p>expecting Edmund all this week and still he comes not – Here I am at the end</p>
<p>of my paper and so much I wished to say unsaid Doubtless you have heard</p>
<p>the decision the Quarterly Meeting came to relative to Marlborough meeting</p>
<p>and have you ever known any act to exceed that for injustice and highhan</p>
<p>-ded power? they have trampled on the rights and feelings of their fellow ^members^</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[Text sideways in right margin]</p>
<p>and regard their triumph as a great good they do not</p>
<p>see that ^the^ same spirit actuates as did in 28 Rachel says there</p>
<p>is not a particle of it that love to their God and the good</p>
<p>of society is the only reason that there is not a particle</p>
<p>of bitterness felt in separating them from the body they</p>
<p>have been attached to – it is all for their good and the good</p>
<p>of the body</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[Text sideways, center of page]</p>
<p>Isaac Post</p>
<p> Rochester</p>
<p> New York</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, May , 1847.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1847-05-00
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
679
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Abolitionism
Education
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/e09cea2bfa4872c853369b7d36271426.jpg
fb0cf0d542d4f585d2ffc51c5ae7db08
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/3c48313ae67939da91e0c19e0e95e72d.jpg
217336d2cc7c868fc1701bdcd0d0ad30
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/0f312d26cc6c5c46835c4e9e49f89cae.xml
ad8b1d541ec45e999f942438b869c817
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> [Previous Pages written by Joseph Post to Isaac Post and transcribed as 674_02_09_1847]<br /><br /> 10<sup>th</sup><br /> Turn over leaf for the beginning of this letter Joseph accidentally commenced on <br /> the wrong side and as he has gone out to fodder I have taken up his pen altho<br /> probably only for a few minutes as it will be twilight very soon we have defered [sic] <br /> writing lately hoping to hear from Julia and not hearing increases our anxiety and<br /> makes us feel less like it but blessed be hope it springs up from the bosom of sadness <br /> and bids us cherish the hope that she is recovering and that other circumstances<br /> have prevented your writing I remember with feelings of regret our omission a <br /> year ago when you were suffering so deeply on account of not hearing from our<br /> loved sister yet we wished to write encouragingly so put off from day to day I <br /> have lived over again those days of anxiety and suffering they are deeply graven<br /> on my heart I believe it is just a year this day since her remains were<br /> committed to the earth ---- it is sweet to dwell on her many virtues it <br /> stimulates too to the endeavor to live as She lived that we too may attain<br /> the goal at last--- What a deplorable condition the Irish are in the<br /> future is indeed appalling to contemplate I see very little to hope for <br /> in the present state of things among them of the evil being remedied<br /> our orthodox friends are more alive in their feelings respecting their sufferin^g^<br /> and have been engaged in collecting something to aid them the subject <br /> was introduced in their meeting and a document read from friends in Ireland<br /> relative to the famine and the great destitution prevailing there intreating [sic]<br /> them to contribute of the abundance they were blessed with --- also a com=<br /> =munication from the N York friends in which they informed that they<br /> might <span style="text-decoration:underline;">be at libert</span>y to receive contributions from those not members<br /> of <span style="text-decoration:underline;">our</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">societ</span>y how hateful this feeling of sectarianism is I despise it more<br /> and more why not all unite as bretheren [sic] and sisters in so good a cause<br /> without any allusion to sect--- however I am glad they feel it in their <br /> hearts to do something which is far better than nothing and I do not <br /> know as our sect have done any thing as a body if they are believe<br /> =rs in the doctrine preached now a days we need not expect much __<br /> “that whatever takes place is for our good else it would not be permitted” <br /> war famine and pestilence” G F White continues to pour out the vials of his wrath<br /> and as much to the comfort and edification of <span style="text-decoration:underline;">his</span> congregation as ever-----<br /> at the Quarterly meeting he enlarged pretty fully on the qualifications of a gospel<br /> minister and asserted altho he might be charged with egotism that he had never<br /> expressed any sentiment in his communications to the people for which he had<br /> felt any compunction [or?] in other words he had been commanded to say all he had<br /> said (this is not his language but the substance) The committee in relation<br /> to the Marlborough affair had a wonderful time they had such different<br /> views and such a disposition to carry them ^on the part of the administration^ made it a season of great discou<br /> =ragement to the more moderate portion of them Nathaniel Merritt showed<br /> himself and I doubt not great good will arise from it also several others<br /> revealed their <span style="text-decoration:underline;">true </span>characters, but I cannot tell you now about it Isaac Rush<br /> =more say’s [sic] he never felt so much like giving all up as he does now he<br /> is really discouraged—even R Seaman S. J. Underhill L Thorne and others oppose<br /> firmly the doings of the New York clique –- time will make manifest<br /> the result –- in Philadelphia too the climax has nearly arrived I think<br /> recent developements [sic] there shew it to be so - - - What do you<br /> think of Douglass s [sic] being [bought?] there seems to be different views relative<br /> thereto we thought Henry C Wright’s letter <span style="text-decoration:underline;">rather weak on</span> that subject<br /> When we were in New York we spent part of an evening with L Maria Child<br /> she was in better spirits than usual and of course exceedingly interesting<br /> Oliver too went there to meet us so we had quite a feast of intellectual<br /> dainties --- such treats are few and far between perhaps we enjoy them<br /> the better tho Jacob Willets remains very low the [sores?]] very <br /> large and deep takes 2 hours daily to dress them is resigned and pleasant<br /> his uncle Jacob and family are still here away they would be glad to <br /> find an opening sufficient to warrant their remaining Jacob has talked<br /> some of trying to get a farm on our Island--- he has spent some time around<br /> here his wife and daughters have not been up Mary Frost is quite as well as she<br /> was last fall hope she will improve more Isaac Downing is deceased was<br /> buried the day uncle Henry was --- we come home from New York in a <br /> dreadful storm of wind and rain we were not fully sensible of its severity until<br /> we got the ferry I felt as tho it was rash to venture to cross however we got over safe <br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> They have had a very anxious time at Matthews on account of their little<br /> Caroline she has been very ill the Dr said occasioned by worms had fits<br /> high fever and much pain did not have her senses near all of the time <br /> aunt Lizzy too was very sick the latter part of Caroline’s sickness she <br /> remains very feeble but calls herself a little gaining, Caroline better Matthew <br /> had scarcely recovered from a very severe attack of ashma [sic] of 2 weeks<br /> continuance not being able to lay down and scarcely to breathe some of the <br /> time --- Robert Post and Daniel Titus have gone in Dutches [sic] County<br /> a visit we suspect Robert is willing to see if there be any fine girl<br /> there who might suit him – we know nothing of course of his intention<br /> Henry has a second son Uncle Robert seems like an old man <br /> made us a visit yesterday aunt Rachel is as well as usual ----<br /> I had no expectation of scribling [sic] on so much and laid it down to leave<br /> it for Joseph but he has got engaged this morning so I concluded it had <br /> better go but you must know I feel no pride in sending such a letter<br /> as this is perhaps if you can excuse this I may possibly do a <span style="text-decoration:underline;">little</span> better<br /> next time<br /><br /> [Text in Center of Page, written upward]<br /><br /> North Hempstead <br /> Feb <span style="text-decoration:underline;">11<sup>th</sup><br /> <br /></span> Isaac Post <br /> Rochester <br /> New York<br /><br /> [Text at bottom of page, normal]<br /><br /> I was glad for you when the Fair was got through with and the result<br /> too was cheering It seems the people cannot leave off entirely the use<br /> of eggs as arguments against AK Foster how shamefully Joshua[Lewitt?] <br /> and others of that party act at their conventions – It seems too the [famo^u^s?] <br /> [<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Streak</span>?] l<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ette</span>r is upp [sic] again I hoped the Liberty Party folks would do nothing <br /> to bring that up again but so it and how true the cunning are caught <br /> in their own craftiness but I must close as it is now 12 oclock [sic] and [illegible]<br /> are [illegible] Lucy is away this week so I have all the house to myself<br /> or rather the work –-- write soon for we feel anxious to hear from <br /> Julia and the rest of you and I think we may answer it sooner<br /> if that is any inducement Love to all our friends Farewell Mary</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, February 9, 1847.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1847-02-09
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
675
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. [Previous Pages written by Joseph Post to Isaac Post and transcribed as 674_02_09_1847] 10th Turn over leaf for the beginning of this letter Joseph accidentally commenced on the wrong side and as he has gone out to fodder I have taken up his pen altho probably only for a few minutes as it will be twilight very soon we have defered [sic] writing lately hoping to hear from Julia and not hearing increases our anxiety and makes us feel less like it but blessed be hope it springs up from the bosom of sadness and bids us cherish the hope that she is recovering and that other circumstances have prevented your writing I remember with feelings of regret our omission a year ago when you were suffering so deeply on account of not hearing from our loved sister yet we wished to write encouragingly so put off from day to day I have lived over again those days of anxiety and suffering they are deeply graven on my heart I believe it is just a year this day since her remains were committed to the earth ---- it is sweet to dwell on her many virtues it stimulates too to the endeavor to live as She lived that we too may attain the goal at last--- What a deplorable condition the Irish are in the future is indeed appalling to contemplate I see very little to hope for in the present state of things among them of the evil being remedied our orthodox friends are more alive in their feelings respecting their sufferin^g^ and have been engaged in collecting something to aid them the subject was introduced in their meeting and a document read from friends in Ireland relative to the famine and the great destitution prevailing there intreating [sic] them to contribute of the abundance they were blessed with --- also a com= =munication from the N York friends in which they informed that they might be at liberty to receive contributions from those not members of oursociety how hateful this feeling of sectarianism is I despise it more and more why not all unite as bretheren [sic] and sisters in so good a cause without any allusion to sect--- however I am glad they feel it in their hearts to do something which is far better than nothing and I do not know as our sect have done any thing as a body if they are believe =rs in the doctrine preached now a days we need not expect much __ "that whatever takes place is for our good else it would not be permitted" war famine and pestilence" G F White continues to pour out the vials of his wrath and as much to the comfort and edification of his congregation as ever----- at the Quarterly meeting he enlarged pretty fully on the qualifications of a gospel minister and asserted altho he might be charged with egotism that he had never expressed any sentiment in his communications to the people for which he had felt any compunction [or?] in other words he had been commanded to say all he had said (this is not his language but the substance) The committee in relation to the Marlborough affair had a wonderful time they had such different views and such a disposition to carry them ^on the part of the administration^ made it a season of great discou =ragement to the more moderate portion of them Nathaniel Merritt showed himself and I doubt not great good will arise from it also several others revealed their true characters, but I cannot tell you now about it Isaac Rush =more say's [sic] he never felt so much like giving all up as he does now he is really discouraged--even R Seaman S. J. Underhill L Thorne and others oppose firmly the doings of the New York clique -- time will make manifest the result -- in Philadelphia too the climax has nearly arrived I think recent developements [sic] there shew it to be so - - - What do you think of Douglass s [sic] being [bought?] there seems to be different views relative thereto we thought Henry C Wright's letter rather weak on that subject When we were in New York we spent part of an evening with L Maria Child she was in better spirits than usual and of course exceedingly interesting Oliver too went there to meet us so we had quite a feast of intellectual dainties --- such treats are few and far between perhaps we enjoy them the better tho Jacob Willets remains very low the [sores?]] very large and deep takes 2 hours daily to dress them is resigned and pleasant his uncle Jacob and family are still here away they would be glad to find an opening sufficient to warrant their remaining Jacob has talked some of trying to get a farm on our Island--- he has spent some time around here his wife and daughters have not been up Mary Frost is quite as well as she was last fall hope she will improve more Isaac Downing is deceased was buried the day uncle Henry was --- we come home from New York in a dreadful storm of wind and rain we were not fully sensible of its severity until we got the ferry I felt as tho it was rash to venture to cross however we got over safe They have had a very anxious time at Matthews on account of their little Caroline she has been very ill the Dr said occasioned by worms had fits high fever and much pain did not have her senses near all of the time aunt Lizzy too was very sick the latter part of Caroline's sickness she remains very feeble but calls herself a little gaining, Caroline better Matthew had scarcely recovered from a very severe attack of ashma [sic] of 2 weeks continuance not being able to lay down and scarcely to breathe some of the time --- Robert Post and Daniel Titus have gone in Dutches [sic] County a visit we suspect Robert is willing to see if there be any fine girl there who might suit him - we know nothing of course of his intention Henry has a second son Uncle Robert seems like an old man made us a visit yesterday aunt Rachel is as well as usual ---- I had no expectation of scribling [sic] on so much and laid it down to leave it for Joseph but he has got engaged this morning so I concluded it had better go but you must know I feel no pride in sending such a letter as this is perhaps if you can excuse this I may possibly do a little better next time [Text in Center of Page, written upward] North Hempstead Feb 11th Isaac Post Rochester New York [Text at bottom of page, normal] I was glad for you when the Fair was got through with and the result too was cheering It seems the people cannot leave off entirely the use of eggs as arguments against AK Foster how shamefully Joshua[Lewitt?] and others of that party act at their conventions - It seems too the [famo^u^s?] [Streak?] letter is upp [sic] again I hoped the Liberty Party folks would do nothing to bring that up again but so it and how true the cunning are caught in their own craftiness but I must close as it is now 12 oclock [sic] and [illegible] are [illegible] Lucy is away this week so I have all the house to myself or rather the work --- write soon for we feel anxious to hear from Julia and the rest of you and I think we may answer it sooner if that is any inducement Love to all our friends Farewell Mary
Abolitionism
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/309ec2883550347f1a95bb2cb5da5883.jpg
1860e57e957f23460609bc2433150ecb
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/068c3b49172f7539d9a10173f1adb39d.jpg
e5a9daeec2fc2bd6712a0b8561f65a91
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f577e3485b5e3dbb6fb202ae0fbfb78f.xml
bfc9b3a4cc3ca6d9f48d9b8b784613d1
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> Westbury 2<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>nd</sup></span> mo 9<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> 1847<br /> Dear Realitves [sic]<br /> We received your letter soon after it <br /> was mailed. we feel anxious to here [sic] from Julia again hopeing [sic]<br /> to here [sic] of her recovery , you proberbly [sic] have heard of Uncle<br /> H^e^nry Post death before this he was sick about 3 weeks taken<br /> with sickness at his stomach which lasted we heard for nearly <br /> 2 weeks. Aunt Sarah said he seemed very comfortable and <br /> felt nothing in his way desired his love given to his friends<br /> nameing [sic] his near relations generaly [sic] Sarah and Catharine <br /> were at Cincinnati and did not get home untill [sic] a few<br /> hours after his death . The funeral to [sic] place last 3 day the 2<sup>nd</sup><br /> of the month or rather the deposit. we meet [sic] at the house at half<br /> past 3 oclock [sic] they had a Priest the service prety [sic] short we<br /> [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">illegible</span>] could not hear so as to understand much, it is not customary<br /> for the woman to go to the church , so the men went as they<br /> entered the door the Priest began to read and <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">read</span> did not<br /> wait for the people to get in and then read a long prayer <br /> and then dismised [sic] us the corps [sic] were left their [sic] to be put in<br /> the vault to be removed to Greenwood Cemetary. [sic] We keep <br /> to our sect so much as to attend the <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">annual</span> ^Quarterly^ meetings you understa^n^ <br /> [sic] that Cornwell Quarterly meeting was laid down and attacth [sic] to <br /> Westbury, and that Marlbougher [sic] monthly do not send represenative [sic]<br /> to the Quarterly meeting . the fall Quarter appointed a large<br /> committee who reported that most of their number had attended<br /> and gave such advice as seemed best , that they gave very little <br /> encouragement of sending to our meeting that they thought their [sic]<br /> was room for more labour . The meeting united with the report<br /> and <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">was</span> continue the committee except Amos Willets and one <br /> or two others Nathaniel Merritt who was one of the committee<br /> and could not have his own way proposed to have an addition <br /> to the number, which was objected ^to^ very much by a number<br /> of the committee , but as their [sic] seemed no way for the New York<br /> administration to carry points but by addition they urged <br /> that point and got 11 ^men^ added to their number and 8 women the men<br /> strong [torry?] party what the result will be I know not nor do <br /> I feel very anxious; it seems to have one effect to open the<br /> eyes of some who have united with the party against the right<br /> but wither [sic] they will stand or fall back with the party is to be seen <br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> We attend the monthly meeting of New York George F White came <br /> out against Temperance Anti Slavery and Peace Societys [sic] [awfully?] <br /> called them iniquitous associations. that early Friends suffered <br /> imprisonment that some of the persecutors were so cruel that<br /> they would even keep part of their alowance [sic] of bread and water<br /> that now thouse [sic] societies would resourt [sic] to the same means<br /> to accomplish their ends. that the Peace society in particular<br /> he seem to dwell on, and as far as ^I^ could discouver [sic] the meeting <br /> generaly [sic] drinked it down for law and Gospel , <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">I</span> the last meeting was<br /> very long, they had a case of an individual under dealing for not attend=<br /> =ing ^meeting^ and being an odd fellow. the month before the meeting <br /> had decided that it was incompatable [sic] for a friend to belong<br /> to the odd fellows , but now they did not seem willing ^to say^ that<br /> every one must be disowned for being of that society, they discussed it<br /> a long time, some thought the discipline would disown them<br /> others thought it would not. they nominated about 30 of their<br /> number to take the subject under consideration and report <br /> next month. I think some of their doings seems verry [sic] much like<br /> straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel. they disown for<br /> haveing [sic] a piano and yet take no notice of an accordion, if one<br /> is rong [sic] why not the other. or if one is not rong [sic] why is the other<br /> We have had quite a stur [sic] in the corn market the [buyers?]<br /> began to buy for 72 Cts per bushel of 56 [illegible symbol] accounts from<br /> England caused it raise to 80 Cts 90 Cts and to 1$ and some even higher<br /> I believe many thousand bushels have gone off of our Island<br /> it has been quit [sic] differcult [sic] to get cars fast enough to <br /> accommodate the farmers. our crop rather light and<br /> fatting cattle we have not sold any wheat some places has <br /> been selling for 11 [illegible symbol] per bushel for good much wheat about<br /> here shrunk some, cattle high cows from 20 to 50 dollars<br /> each common good ones from 30 to 40 oxen to work very high<br /> Uncle John and Aunt Sarah appear to enjoy liveing [sic] by themselves<br /> very much , they have taken Phebe to the Asylum to, which <br /> appears very satisfactory to relations and neighbours <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">for</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">I</span> <br /> and I think they would enjoy life as well if ^it^ had been years<br /> ago . Williams seems to be following on in the tracks of his <br /> Father that is to part with the good young horses and to have<br /> old low priced ones, they have not a horse now worth 50 dollars on the <br /> farm I think <br /><br /><br /> [Following Page written by Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post and transcribed as 675_02_09_1847]</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, February 9, 1847.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1847-02-09
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
674
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Westbury 2nd mo 9th 1847 Dear Realitves [sic] We received your letter soon after it was mailed. we feel anxious to here [sic] from Julia again hopeing [sic] to here [sic] of her recovery, you proberbly [sic] have heard of Uncle H^e^nry Post death before this he was sick about 3 weeks taken with sickness at his stomach which lasted we heard for nearly 2 weeks. Aunt Sarah said he seemed very comfortable and felt nothing in his way desired his love given to his friends nameing [sic] his near relations generaly [sic] Sarah and Catharine were at Cincinnati and did not get home untill [sic] a few hours after his death . The funeral to [sic] place last 3 day the 2nd of the month or rather the deposit. we meet [sic] at the house at half past 3 oclock [sic] they had a Priest the service prety [sic] short we [illegible] could not hear so as to understand much, it is not customary for the woman to go to the church, so the men went as they entered the door the Priest began to read and read did not wait for the people to get in and then read a long prayer and then dismised [sic] us the corps [sic] were left their [sic] to be put in the vault to be removed to Greenwood Cemetary. [sic] We keep to our sect so much as to attend the annual ^Quarterly^ meetings you understa^n^ [sic] that Cornwell Quarterly meeting was laid down and attacth [sic] to Westbury, and that Marlbougher [sic] monthly do not send represenative [sic] to the Quarterly meeting . the fall Quarter appointed a large committee who reported that most of their number had attended and gave such advice as seemed best, that they gave very little encouragement of sending to our meeting that they thought their [sic] was room for more labour . The meeting united with the report and was continue the committee except Amos Willets and one or two others Nathaniel Merritt who was one of the committee and could not have his own way proposed to have an addition to the number, which was objected ^to^ very much by a number of the committee, but as their [sic] seemed no way for the New York administration to carry points but by addition they urged that point and got 11 ^men^ added to their number and 8 women the men strong [torry?] party what the result will be I know not nor do I feel very anxious; it seems to have one effect to open the eyes of some who have united with the party against the right but wither [sic] they will stand or fall back with the party is to be seen We attend the monthly meeting of New York George F White came out against Temperance Anti Slavery and Peace Societys [sic] [awfully?] called them iniquitous associations. that early Friends suffered imprisonment that some of the persecutors were so cruel that they would even keep part of their alowance [sic] of bread and water that now thouse [sic] societies would resourt [sic] to the same means to accomplish their ends. that the Peace society in particular he seem to dwell on, and as far as ^I^ could discouver [sic] the meeting generaly [sic] drinked it down for law and Gospel, I the last meeting was very long, they had a case of an individual under dealing for not attend= =ing ^meeting^ and being an odd fellow. the month before the meeting had decided that it was incompatable [sic] for a friend to belong to the odd fellows, but now they did not seem willing ^to say^ that every one must be disowned for being of that society, they discussed it a long time, some thought the discipline would disown them others thought it would not. they nominated about 30 of their number to take the subject under consideration and report next month. I think some of their doings seems verry [sic] much like straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel. they disown for haveing [sic] a piano and yet take no notice of an accordion, if one is rong [sic] why not the other. or if one is not rong [sic] why is the other We have had quite a stur [sic] in the corn market the [buyers?] began to buy for 72 Cts per bushel of 56 [illegible symbol] accounts from England caused it raise to 80 Cts 90 Cts and to 1$ and some even higher I believe many thousand bushels have gone off of our Island it has been quit [sic] differcult [sic] to get cars fast enough to accommodate the farmers. our crop rather light and fatting cattle we have not sold any wheat some places has been selling for 11 [illegible symbol] per bushel for good much wheat about here shrunk some, cattle high cows from 20 to 50 dollars each common good ones from 30 to 40 oxen to work very high Uncle John and Aunt Sarah appear to enjoy liveing [sic] by themselves very much, they have taken Phebe to the Asylum to, which appears very satisfactory to relations and neighbours forI and I think they would enjoy life as well if ^it^ had been years ago . Williams seems to be following on in the tracks of his Father that is to part with the good young horses and to have old low priced ones, they have not a horse now worth 50 dollars on the farm I think [Following Page written by Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post and transcribed as 675_02_09_1847]
Agriculture
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/b562a7b617f23b0d0e7043a91a367b5a.jpg
e4d9fe3f5024c8eff6a7a08c32fc29f9
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/dcc3c7167a089ad0c5cf353a8f2590ed.jpg
451d0f7b79e0ce1f92a158dceff4499b
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a7baf5f8aa03c20339144cea5a541220.xml
fae81cc4f3a2aaf81e1b19996441fabd
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> Westbury 11<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> month 22<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>nd</sup></span> 1846<br /> Dear Brother <br /> I received thy letter yesterday<br /> about noon In the spring of 1844 J. Hallowell<br /> was at our house and wanted to sell me <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">some</span><br /> his half of the Property that we owned together <br /> for the note that I held against Post & Hallowell<br /> and pay aunt Phebe Carpenter for he had agreed<br /> with Isaac to pay her. that he wanted to pay her <br /> off very much . we did not bargain while ^he was^ here <br /> After he got home he wrote <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">me</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">on</span> to me on the<br /> subject. The following is an extract from his letter <br /> “Because in my arrangement with Isaac I am <br /> to pay them” In another letter dated ten day [sic] later<br /> he says “ After writing to thee a few days since <br /> I find that I can pay Aunt Phebe Carpenter in <br /> another way than to ask thee to” I do not remember <br /> that he ever told me <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">the</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">particularsof </span>^any thing about^ your agree = <br /> ment <br /> We have had three weeks of cloudy weather <br /> and east wind nearly all the time with considerable<br /> rain. it is now very warm weather for so late in <br /> the season . I heard yesterday that Robert W Mott<br /> of Great Neck had hung himself he had been in a <br /> low state of mind for some time. Aunt Sarah<br /> [R?] Titus has been quit [sic] sick since Edmund & Julia were here<br /> has gained so that she went to New York on 6<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> day<br /> the first of her going out. they have taken Robert <br /> to the Asylum which we and I believe all that <br /> are acquainted with the family approve of. Ann’s<br /> baby seems now gaining . George Willets has made <br /> a visit he has had the fever & ague for near two months <br /> he had not heard any thing about Benjamin leaveing [sic] <br /> home <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">or of his</span> said he spent the day with them lately <br /> and that he was at home when he came down <br /> George say [sic] that his mother seems now prety [sic] well <br /><br /><br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> I suppose Edmund told you about our monthly meeting when<br /> they were here but I now remember that we wrote about it<br /> Rachel has been and made her visit and last 4 day returned <br /> her minute with the information that she had preformed [sic]<br /> the visit to the satisfaction of her <span style="text-decoration:underline;">own</span> mind.<br /> Isaac & Mary F have lost their youndest [sic] child it has been<br /> such a poor little it seems cause joy rather than sorrow<br /> died in the evening and buried next afternoon very few<br /> of the neighbours hereing [sic] of it untill [sic] after it was<br /> buried Johns ^family^ & Henry Willis James Post wife and daughter<br /><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">Sp</span> Stephen & Amy Rushmore Esther Willets and Mary R<br /> Post had not time to send in the lot for Robert and Edward<br /> Willets had gone to Hempstead and did not here [sic] of it <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">and</span><br /> Elizabeth Cock attended the funeral and I beleave [sic] <br /> they were about all that knew of except the Brothers<br /> I laid this by yesterday morning to prepare for meeting<br /> after meeting Father Mother and John Carpenter & Hannah<br /> came home with us … in the evening we went to uncle<br /> Roberts with them Hannah is own cousin to Father<br /> a few years younger than Mary . Father some time ago <br /> was <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">thrown</span> geting [sic] in a sulky the ^horse^ got frighted brock [sic]<br /> something and turned it over and [stunned?] him for <br /> the time since which he can see but poorly with <br /> one eye He had much pain in his head and eyes <br /> for a number of days. Rachel in monthly meeting <br /> spoke of the judgments of the Lord in the earth<br /> while some places it seems almost necesary [sic] for some <br /> pull down their barns and build greater ^some^ were suffring [sic]<br /> for the want of sustenance[sic], that wars and famine <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">out</span> <br /><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">to</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">was</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">or</span> ought to cause to bow to the Lord that<br /> he is able to blast any or all of the products of the <br /> earth, this is the substance of what she said but not the <br /> words Arden Seaman was at meeting and at the clouse [sic] <br /> of the last meeting he ^quoted^ the language to Cain if thou<br /> doest well shalt thou not be acxcepted [sic] but if not sin<br /> lyeth at the door and went on to say that we brought<br /> the judgments on ourselves for if we went counter to <br /> established laws we had to ^suffer^ in consequence spoke well I thought<br /> Respectfully, Joseph Post</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, November 22, 1846.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1846-11-22
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
668
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Westbury 11th month 22nd 1846 Dear Brother I received thy letter yesterday about noon In the spring of 1844 J. Hallowell was at our house and wanted to sell me some his half of the Property that we owned together for the note that I held against Post & Hallowell and pay aunt Phebe Carpenter for he had agreed with Isaac to pay her. that he wanted to pay her off very much . we did not bargain while ^he was^ here After he got home he wrote meon to me on the subject. The following is an extract from his letter "Because in my arrangement with Isaac I am to pay them" In another letter dated ten day [sic] later he says " After writing to thee a few days since I find that I can pay Aunt Phebe Carpenter in another way than to ask thee to" I do not remember that he ever told me theparticularsof ^any thing about^ your agree = ment We have had three weeks of cloudy weather and east wind nearly all the time with considerable rain. it is now very warm weather for so late in the season . I heard yesterday that Robert W Mott of Great Neck had hung himself he had been in a low state of mind for some time. Aunt Sarah [R?] Titus has been quit [sic] sick since Edmund & Julia were here has gained so that she went to New York on 6th day the first of her going out. they have taken Robert to the Asylum which we and I believe all that are acquainted with the family approve of. Ann's baby seems now gaining . George Willets has made a visit he has had the fever & ague for near two months he had not heard any thing about Benjamin leaveing [sic] home or of his said he spent the day with them lately and that he was at home when he came down George say [sic] that his mother seems now prety [sic] well I suppose Edmund told you about our monthly meeting when they were here but I now remember that we wrote about it Rachel has been and made her visit and last 4 day returned her minute with the information that she had preformed [sic] the visit to the satisfaction of her own mind. Isaac & Mary F have lost their youndest [sic] child it has been such a poor little it seems cause joy rather than sorrow died in the evening and buried next afternoon very few of the neighbours hereing [sic] of it untill [sic] after it was buried Johns ^family^ & Henry Willis James Post wife and daughterSp Stephen & Amy Rushmore Esther Willets and Mary R Post had not time to send in the lot for Robert and Edward Willets had gone to Hempstead and did not here [sic] of it and Elizabeth Cock attended the funeral and I beleave [sic] they were about all that knew of except the Brothers I laid this by yesterday morning to prepare for meeting after meeting Father Mother and John Carpenter & Hannah came home with us ... in the evening we went to uncle Roberts with them Hannah is own cousin to Father a few years younger than Mary . Father some time ago was thrown geting [sic] in a sulky the ^horse^ got frighted brock [sic] something and turned it over and [stunned?] him for the time since which he can see but poorly with one eye He had much pain in his head and eyes for a number of days. Rachel in monthly meeting spoke of the judgments of the Lord in the earth while some places it seems almost necesary [sic] for some pull down their barns and build greater ^some^ were suffring [sic] for the want of sustenance[sic], that wars and famine outtowasor ought to cause to bow to the Lord that he is able to blast any or all of the products of the earth, this is the substance of what she said but not the words Arden Seaman was at meeting and at the clouse [sic] of the last meeting he ^quoted^ the language to Cain if thou doest well shalt thou not be acxcepted [sic] but if not sin lyeth at the door and went on to say that we brought the judgments on ourselves for if we went counter to established laws we had to ^suffer^ in consequence spoke well I thought Respectfully, Joseph Post
Family
Personal
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/4481002a66db9e1728e68553f43e0a60.jpg
83be666e3630ef5e7c95bf735260664f
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/8d02da2c942e646039e3d59570221842.jpg
28f323ea5815b069e212346c6214a58e
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/7e92afffb0e49d66234ce70fdd7a7d00.xml
cd49fc6dadf8f40fb1785020581f4c28
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p> Westbury 10 mo 18<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> 1846<br /> Dear Relatives <br /> Edmund and Julia left us last evening<br /> have made us a very pleasant visit although so many<br /> places to call had to hurry to much. We seem to move<br /> on much in same manner we have done for a year<br /> or two past in our neighbourhood Hannah Fish was<br /> buried last 4 day week suffered much . her property we<br /> here [sic] she has given mostly to poorish folks from one<br /> to seven hundred dollars in a place Mary R Post 300$<br /> and the residue to Abram Hicks and Silas Weeks children<br /> 3 of them . The sickness among horses I believe has abated<br /> I have heard <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">of</span> it estermated [sic] that 1100 had died in the<br /> County I think likely worth 50$ per head many have<br /> lost their only horse . and will strainten them to get another<br /> Last 4 day was our monthly meeting quries answered much<br /> after the usual way marriage attended to , and enquiry <br /> of women for buisness [sic] . who informed that there was some<br /> for us and presently Rachel came in with a concern <br /> to attend ninepartners and S^t^anford Quarterly meetings<br /> a number united with her . Gigeon Frost arose and <br /> very nicely said he had rather she would stay at home<br /> which called out some more unity . a minute was <br /> mad saying the meeting concluded to leave her at <br /> liberty she being a minister in unity. and then<br /> I felt as though it be best for me to tell the meeting<br /> that I had not had unity with some of her [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">illegible</span>]<br /> views held up of later time. which called forth from <br /> Rachel a justification of herself sayined [sic] she beleived [sic]<br /> she had not held any views contrary to friends writing<br /> and that if she said any thing not satisfactory it would<br /> be well to come to her . Robert Seaman was at <br /> meeting he thought it was not the place to make <br /> personal charges that this seemed like a charge<br /> Henry Lawson was here and he too said a good deal <br /> about making objections saying that it was out <br /> of place all of which seemed to be in reply to <br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> what I had said they said so much . that I told them <br /> that I was not aware that I had said any thing contrary<br /> to discipline Rachel seting [sic] by all the time much<br /> said a bout requiring to get so deep before making <br /> objections that it brought Edmund Willets up he <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">was</span><br /><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">sorry to here so much </span> thought it required as much <br /> depth to unite as to disunite, alltogether [sic] it caused<br /> quite a sanction in the meeting Samuel Mott<br /> said he did not know that he had a judgment in the<br /> case but would have been glad if the friend could<br /> have felt easy to staid at home . It may be you will<br /> say it is better to leave sutch [sic] a society I have though<br /> much on the subject . and whn I cannot do what I <br /> believe to by my duty I think it will be time to do so <br /> I think sometimes there is some danger of geting [sic] so out<br /> with sect as to be read sectarians against sect. <br /> To be [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">illegible</span>] many things in society I do not approve of <br /> and also some things in the antislavery society and <br /> nonresistant that I do not unite with . which would<br /> be best in such a case to keep along as I am or give<br /> all up and work alone in We are now gathering our<br /> corn prety [sic] good sound but many small ears has been selling<br /> better than almost any grain , hay now sell from 3/6<br /> to 5 1 per cut the more common price 4 to 4/6 from <br /> some cause or other I think farmers here away has<br /> prety [sic] [illegible] times to make both ends meet nicely unless<br /> those that are a little better qualified than the majority <br /> stock of all kinds high that is poor stock . <br /> Quarterly meeting this week what will be done with the<br /> marlbourer folks if they should not conclude , to send<br /> representatives I do not know but I think some of <br /> our strong orthodox do want to bring them under very <br /> much We have heard they have sent a remonstrance<br /> to the yearly meeting through the committee against being <br /> united to this Quarterly meeting . <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">some</span> We are preparing <br /> to go to New York most close this time. with<br /> love to all . Remain as ever your Brother Joseph Post </p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, October 18, 1846.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1846-10-18
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
665
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions.Westbury 10 mo 18th 1846 Dear Relatives Edmund and Julia left us last evening have made us a very pleasant visit although so many places to call had to hurry to much. We seem to move on much in same manner we have done for a year or two past in our neighbourhood Hannah Fish was buried last 4 day week suffered much . her property we here [sic] she has given mostly to poorish folks from one to seven hundred dollars in a place Mary R Post 300$ and the residue to Abram Hicks and Silas Weeks children 3 of them . The sickness among horses I believe has abated I have heard of it estermated [sic] that 1100 had died in the County I think likely worth 50$ per head many have lost their only horse . and will strainten them to get another Last 4 day was our monthly meeting quries answered much after the usual way marriage attended to, and enquiry of women for buisness [sic] . who informed that there was some for us and presently Rachel came in with a concern to attend ninepartners and S^t^anford Quarterly meetings a number united with her . Gigeon Frost arose and very nicely said he had rather she would stay at home which called out some more unity . a minute was mad saying the meeting concluded to leave her at liberty she being a minister in unity. and then I felt as though it be best for me to tell the meeting that I had not had unity with some of her [illegible] views held up of later time. which called forth from Rachel a justification of herself sayined [sic] she beleived [sic] she had not held any views contrary to friends writing and that if she said any thing not satisfactory it would be well to come to her . Robert Seaman was at meeting he thought it was not the place to make personal charges that this seemed like a charge Henry Lawson was here and he too said a good deal about making objections saying that it was out of place all of which seemed to be in reply to what I had said they said so much . that I told them that I was not aware that I had said any thing contrary to discipline Rachel seting [sic] by all the time much said a bout requiring to get so deep before making objections that it brought Edmund Willets up he wassorry to here so much thought it required as much depth to unite as to disunite, alltogether [sic] it caused quite a sanction in the meeting Samuel Mott said he did not know that he had a judgment in the case but would have been glad if the friend could have felt easy to staid at home . It may be you will say it is better to leave sutch [sic] a society I have though much on the subject . and whn I cannot do what I believe to by my duty I think it will be time to do so I think sometimes there is some danger of geting [sic] so out with sect as to be read sectarians against sect. To be [illegible] many things in society I do not approve of and also some things in the antislavery society and nonresistant that I do not unite with . which would be best in such a case to keep along as I am or give all up and work alone in We are now gathering our corn prety [sic] good sound but many small ears has been selling better than almost any grain, hay now sell from 3/6 to 5 1 per cut the more common price 4 to 4/6 from some cause or other I think farmers here away has prety [sic] [illegible] times to make both ends meet nicely unless those that are a little better qualified than the majority stock of all kinds high that is poor stock . Quarterly meeting this week what will be done with the marlbourer folks if they should not conclude, to send representatives I do not know but I think some of our strong orthodox do want to bring them under very much We have heard they have sent a remonstrance to the yearly meeting through the committee against being united to this Quarterly meeting . some We are preparing to go to New York most close this time. with love to all . Remain as ever your Brother Joseph Post
Agriculture
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/de3dd9085fa2587a53d955895436a6e7.jpg
281f83a44eb20716fcdc9b9668a11a2d
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/e39297e78a3426faaf3a1e9754334e0a.jpg
650667518685a23c8a98c64a492f8642
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/71bb336817a2b8c850fdfaeeb83b6f80.jpg
36fa00a0ebdb20ab043c1ede604fce27
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/256d325d22fdbf5d9b7cbe29fb673459.jpg
c13d531f2f318e3d09423f6fe190abab
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/22fa14006a27af643c1f2cf8b56fca3d.xml
55cc13369e98a1dc04e5c953d8330902
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
text_
A transcribable resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br />[Text in top margin, written downward]<br /><br />[Continued from page 2 with line ending “fear he cannot”]<br />come yet---<br />Perhaps Joseph<br />may have a message<br />so I will leave<br />a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">little</span> corner<br />the girls say<br />do give our<br />love to uncle<br />Isaac’s folks<br />first day have<br />just been to meeting<br />had Aidon [?]to<br />minister for us &<br />quite a reasonable<br />sermon Joseph<br />is expecting to<br />go to south<br />tomorrow the<br />weather bein [sic] so<br />dull has not been<br />down since they<br />[moved?]<br />Thomas Whitson<br />we heard to day<br />was very low not<br />expected to survive<br />the day<br />I left a little<br />corner for J he<br />is engaged reading<br />says he has nothing<br />special but <span style="text-decoration: underline;">lov</span>e<br />to insert-­­___<br />so again farewell<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">write</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">write</span><br /><br />[Text normal]<br /><br />It is not worth while to read this until you 29 of 8 month<br />are at leisure for there is nothing important<br /> Dearly Beloved Our cousins William and Phebe Titus<br />are contemplating a little tour I felt an impulse to take<br />my pen again altho [sic] we have just dispached [sic] a paper me=<br />=senger [sic] but as it is one of the most pleasing offices conected [sic]<br />with social intercourse I gladly avail myself of every opportu<br />=nity of this kind altho [sic] at present somewhat of an invalid<br />but that is nothing very strange as I still have the asthma<br />and have for some time nights when I have been tolerably<br />comfortable through the day but now it has not passed off as<br />usual--but enough of complaining for I often feel thankful<br />for so good health as I am now blessed with ---<br /> I spent fifth day at father’s mother more poorly<br />suffers much with severe pain sickness at her stomach and<br />debility which connected with her many cares I fear will<br />prove too much and ^it^ causes us much anxiety---<br /> Isaac Ketcham was poorly too probably produced by over<br />exertion John had been up the river and William on the<br />meadow so that Isaac had had more to attend to they<br />had got him in a sweat and had taken medicine so that<br />they hoped he would be releived [sic] I hope he may their portion<br />has been to suffer and they cannot well pass through<br />another such trial -- Cousin Anna Chapman made us<br />quite a visit on their return from Saratoga Josiah remained<br />at Brooklyn I could not avoid a feeling of sadness when I<br />think of him his declining health yet measurably filled with<br />hope-- it might be for his mother’s sake that he tried to beg<br />=uile her of her fears -- she says she cannot call the loss<br />of her children afflictions for she believes [sic] it was all <span style="text-decoration: underline;">right</span> and<br />it has been sanctified to her --- this doctrine is all the<br />go <span style="text-decoration: underline;">now</span> with some of our would be expounders of Divine<br />and holy things we heard a short time since from the high<br />place in our synagog [sic] “that formerly when the judgments of<br />the Lord were in the earth the people learned wisdom<br />and it remained to be the case to some extent-- now<br />[Continues on page 2 with line beginning “among those we call pagan’s”]<br /><br />(Page 2)<br /><br />[Text in top margin, written downward]<br /><br />[continued from page 3 with the line ending “than I was”]<br />the last spring<br />of their contri<br />=vance and<br />scheming___<br />There is so much<br />I want to say<br />to you which<br />cannot<br />be written<br />that will leave<br />off pretty soon<br />It begins to<br />look like fall<br />the Catydids[sic] have<br />made their appearance<br />and now [crowd?]<br />other insects<br />with their varied<br />notes<br />“The music of an August eve<br />Unlocks the fount of pensive Thought<br />And breaths of Beauty taking leave<br />In tones with melting sweetnes [sic] fraught<br />Far in the mossy forrest [sic] stirred<br />By the low wind are voices heard<br />consorting with its gloom<br />They tell of summer on the wane<br />And flowers that thirst for dew in vain<br />Around her opening tomb.”<br /><br />We have been<br />looking for<br />Oliver some time<br />now Mary Ann<br />is poorly so I <br />fear he cannot<br />[Continues in top margin of page 1 with line beginning “come yet”]<br /><br />[Text Normal]<br /><br />[Continued from page 1 with line ending “to some extent now”] <br />among those we call pagan’s or heathen that when any calami<br />-ty of evil came upon them they humbled themselves and by<br />a self examination [saw?] what they had done to cause so great<br />an evil to be sent upon them <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">and</span> but now how was it when<br />calamitys [sic] and evils came upon us were we humbled thereby and<br />taught to learn wisdom? she believed not there was a disposition<br />to attribute it to some cause the infringement of established<br />regulations and laws and she thought it would be well for some<br />to learn of those called heathen--- she could not attribute accident<br />and casualties to chance &c &c --- and in conclusion said the prayer<br />of her spirit was that (those who were attributing much to a violation<br />of laws and regulations I suppose she meant) their trials and afflicti<br />-ons might be multiplied upon them until they should acknowledge<br />that the Lord ruled in the kingdoms of men that he set up and<br />pulled down whomsoever he would &c &c<br /> What nice times they are having in England<br />now what an interesting letter that is from R D Webb also from<br />H C Wright just after Garrisons arrival how I rejoice in the feeling<br />that the British people appreciate him as he ought to be appreciated<br />and the sentiment of some of the Irish that they would rather see WLG<br />than fifty Prince Alberts how [thrilling?] H C Wright meeting him must<br />have been as he expresses it his dear, single hearted, world loving, sternly up=<br />right, Garrison <span style="text-decoration: underline;">the</span> man and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">the</span> Christian of the nineteenth ct – but you<br />have doubtless read and enjoyed as we have done so I need not<br />say more of his reception How much there is occurring of deep interest<br />to us which is lost (to nearly all around <span style="text-decoration: underline;">us</span>) and how I wish they<br />could become interested for it seems to me there is comparatively<br />nothing so fraught with interest and good and <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">pe</span>but little worth living<br />for unless we are doing what our hands find to do_ “In the morning<br />sow thy seed and in the evening withhold not thy hand” has been beautifu<br />-lly exemplified in the faithfulness of many of our abolition friends in<br />sowing the good seed___ Have you seen E [Stablers?] memoir’s [sic] being<br />principly [sic] letters to different individuals? what I have read have been<br />interesting and a paragraph in one I will copy as it seems, to<br />suit or apply with ^as^ much force to things in society now as it did<br />[Continues on page 3 with line beginning “at the time it was written”]<br /><br />(Page 3)<br /><br />[Text in top margin, written downward]<br /><br />[Continued from page 4 with line ending “Charles Frost]<br />I perceived was<br />bent on his remo<br />=val–when he<br />was in N Y<br />said much about<br />it that it was<br />necessary to have<br />a friend there<br />who understood<br />farming the<br />present one<br />was a mechanic<br />that it was<br />important to<br />get some one<br />who would<br />go from [duty?]<br />and not for<br />pecuniary<br />reward which<br />he thought was<br />the case now<br />there is so much<br />contriving and<br />planning I<br />think in the<br />[<span style="text-decoration: underline;">wile</span>?] of man<br />I feel but<br />little unity<br />or interest<br />in them I<br />never was <br />more sick<br />than I was<br />[Continues in top margin of page 2 with line beginning “the last spring”]<br /><br /><br />[Text Normal]<br /><br />[Continued from page 2 with line ending “in society now as it did”]<br />at the time it was written which was about the time of the sep-<br />-aration he says “I therefore cannot but rejoice at the present state of<br />things, (tho it is the cause of much mourning to many) because I see in<br />it the influence of a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">power</span> that is stirring up the stagnant pool of religious<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">profession</span> which like that at Bethsada has yielded no healing influence<br />to those who have been immersed in it. But these commotions are working<br />wonderfully in the minds of all who are disposed to learn the Truth for<br />themselves by making in their own hearts a separation between the<br />precious and the vile __ between the living and the dead. They are<br />showing them the difference between the systems of man which<br />are formed of doctrines creeds and opinions and which the worst<br />of human beings can get by rote and repeat as well as the best ---<br />and that immeasurable host of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">living</span> p<span style="text-decoration: underline;">ower</span>s which are in their na-<br />=ture destructive of all evil: and under the influence of which<br />man cannot be the servant of sin.” I too rejoice in the present<br />commotion and believe good will result therefrom When at<br />Jericho Aunt Mary came to fathers she inquired when we had<br />received letters from you I told her it was a long time since<br />but Julias letters informed us of one being on the way giv [obliterated]<br />an account of C L [Remands?] meeting &c which we had not recei<br />=ved _ she remarked that that seemed to be your life and she<br />hoped we would encourage one another aright. it was a subject<br />she knew very little about so of course could not write about it<br />said she had just that week put a letter in the office for you<br /> In the letter before I mentioned [Huldah’s?] prospect<br />of going home being married &c we have since heard from her<br />and every thing is indefinitely postponed on account of her fathers<br />going on a religious visit to Michigan Ilinois [sic] an extensive<br />visit probably be about 3 months [absent?]<br /> I am glad William and Phebe are going hope they will<br />enjoy themselves they have been very little from home but<br />with such good children for caretakers at home I should think<br />they could not fail to enjoy their visit---how I should love<br />to accompany them if other duties had not a prior claim<br />on me as it is I feel that home is the place How grateful<br /><br /><br />(Page 4)<br /><br />[Text in top margin, written downward]<br /><br />I always<br />think when<br />I finish a<br />letter I never<br />will send so<br />poor a letter<br />in every sense<br />of the word<br />again but as<br />I am frequently<br />in a hurry I<br />scribble as fast<br />as I can hoping<br />to do better soon<br />that time has<br />not come yet<br />perhaps it will<br />so “hope on hope<br />ever” Does friend<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Potter</span> visit youy [sic]<br />yet why dont<br />you let us kno<br />-w all about<br />you we feel<br />as tho we might<br />What kind of<br />a friend is<br />Andrew [Varnery?]<br />the committee<br />think he is loo-<br />king after the<br />loaves and fishes<br />so of course he<br />is to go--- but<br />I am thinking<br />whether there<br />is not another<br />cause tho kept<br />out of sight his<br />libiral [sic] views Charles Frost<br /><br /><br />[Text Normal top section]<br /><br />it would be to us all and particularly so to [Henry’s?] family if<br />Julia felt as though she could return with W and P her visit<br />would not be so very long and we would gladly do all in our<br />power to render it as pleasant as it could be without her <span style="text-decoration: underline;">E</span><br />I had been thinking whether the time had not come for William<br />and Mary to journey this way I do not like so long a time to<br />pass away without a greeting I beleive [sic] we are designed for social<br />beings and as we are careful in our associations together we shall<br />find an increase of those feelings which bind together in bonds not<br />easily broken our love most affectionately to both W and M and E & Julia<br /><br />[Text Middle Section running bottom to top]<br /><br /> Isaac Post<br />Attention Rochester<br />of W Titus NY<br /><br /><br />[Text Normal bottom section]<br /><br />How glad we should be to see you all indeed we feel so alone now<br />that I almost imagine it is your duty to come--- but oh what a blank<br />you would find which none can fill ---you cannot imagine how<br />much <span style="text-decoration: underline;">we</span> miss her our dearly loved sister<br /> Cant you write oftener it is ever most gratifying to hear from<br />you and may He who watches over his children be round<br />about to sustain and bless the loved ones <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">of</span> of your home<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Farewell</span> and when you do so remember you attached sister<br />Love to dear Sarah and the boys Mary W Post<br /><br /><br /></p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, August 29, 1846?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[08-29-1846?]
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
659
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d16bb3f4b51051036f1b28f80920687b.jpg
16ed45521b273ead58b691ecd82cdf38
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/71d7295242bfeb8997aa335805aad284.xml
25467b71ec04522840c448ff1c9e24a8
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> [Text above written by Joseph Post to Isaac Post and is transcribed as 655_05_29_1846]<br /><br /> degradation of this country in<br /> relation to slavery the extupation [sic] of the aboriginese [sic] and now in<br /> relation to this war with Mexico and the position we were calld [sic] <br /> on to maintain of the probably suffering it might involve us<br /> in if faithful to our convictions of right __ C C Burleigh too was<br /> very excellent allways [sic] and it pleased me to see Garrison nods of <br /> assent Garrison was as great as every Pillsbury too and many<br /> other but as </p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, May 29, 1846.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1846-05-29
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
656
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. [Text above written by Joseph Post to Isaac Post and is transcribed as 655_05_29_1846] degradation of this country in relation to slavery the extupation [sic] of the aboriginese [sic] and now in relation to this war with Mexico and the position we were calld [sic] on to maintain of the probably suffering it might involve us in if faithful to our convictions of right __ C C Burleigh too was very excellent allways [sic] and it pleased me to see Garrison nods of assent Garrison was as great as every Pillsbury too and many other but as
Native Americans
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ce78f76176323b97ebdfb14ebdec8366.jpg
09fd4c5eb384e59a9fd12fb01390fff6
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f249fe47c8f85df026f089b67dcbb114.jpg
2c430dda845b1e7f7b6f6359935d16a8
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5c79e4d0c07fdaef596b4c4d5d9dbf0f.xml
73f2c6c50286498821024e6124c6636e
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> Westbury 5 mo 29, 1846<br /> Dear Brother & Sister <br /> Joseph Hicks told me this evening that he <br /> thought some of going with the Indian committee to <br /> visit the Indians and to leave home tomorrow ., We have<br /> yearly meeting , went down fourth day morning I believe<br /> most or all that I herd [sic] say any thing[sic] about it thinks<br /> it a very good meeting . but I see very little to incourage [sic]<br /> but rather , much to discourage , when we got down<br /> on fourth day we were informed that they had lain down<br /> Carnwell Quarterly meeting and attached to Westbury<br /> I believe they thought no other meeting and attached to Westbury<br /> I believe they thought no other meeting would do but New<br /> York as that is the strongest and most disposed to carry<br /> out their strong wills . There was a committee appointed<br /> last year to open volintary [sic] <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">f</span>subscriptions to raise 10000$<br /> to establish a boarding school at nine partners who<br /> reported their [sic] had been a little more than 400<br /><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">had</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">been</span> subscribed saying some were dissatisfied with<br /> the location that committee were released and a new<br /> one appointed to try again and find some other . <br /> location if they can that ^will^ satisfy ^friends^ G F White said he had<br /> no objection to it . but he thought we ought to be united <br /> ourselves , that we were not united <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">that</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">we</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">were</span> <br /><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">I</span> in the fundamentals princples [sic] that there were <br /> members that stood high in society holding ^such^ prinacpls [sic]<br /> that he should not be willing ^to please^ a child under their <br /> care , Nicholas Halleck and Edward both responded to it<br /> and said considerable . after meeting at John D Wright<br /> John Wine asked what G. F ment [sic] by sayind [sic] that we<br /> were not united. Gideon Frost answered that he <br /> believed it true, some one [sic] asked what were the princpls [sic]<br /> of our socety [sic] he answered satisfactry [sic] to all I believed<br /> and said that George said that in an interview with <br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> George lately , G ^said^ they were not united in the fundamental<br /> principles , and went on to say that George acknoledged [sic]<br /> views that he should not have been willing to have ask<br /> him supposing it would have been an insult . that if <br /> he should repeat ^many^ friends would think he could not have<br /> understood , ^him^ the leading characters preasent [sic] were very silent<br /> Gideon seems to be out nobely [sic] , I think he feels very<br /> sinceibly [sic] the position he has taken will cause him to <br /> loose cast with the leading part of society. Samuel Heen<br /> opened the subject of slavery very feelingly a few responded<br /> to it , but meeting got away from it as quick as possible<br /> but made no oposition [sic] not allowing surficient [sic] time for<br /> those that wanted to relieve there [sic] minds , for after<br /> geting [sic] from the subject a number <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">would</span> alluded to again <br /> everdently [sic] much against the will of some , I believe <br /> there is not a word in any of the epistles against <br /> slavery or war , I have engagement ^in^ the morning <br /> and if Joseph goes as he expects I shall not have time to <br /> say any more farewell J.P. <br /><br /> [Remainder of page written by Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post and transcribed as 656_05_29_1846]<br />
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, May 29, 1846.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1846-05-29
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
655
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Westbury 5 mo 29, 1846 Dear Brother & Sister Joseph Hicks told me this evening that he thought some of going with the Indian committee to visit the Indians and to leave home tomorrow ., We have yearly meeting, went down fourth day morning I believe most or all that I herd [sic] say any thing[sic] about it thinks it a very good meeting . but I see very little to incourage [sic] but rather, much to discourage, when we got down on fourth day we were informed that they had lain down Carnwell Quarterly meeting and attached to Westbury I believe they thought no other meeting and attached to Westbury I believe they thought no other meeting would do but New York as that is the strongest and most disposed to carry out their strong wills . There was a committee appointed last year to open volintary [sic] fsubscriptions to raise 10000$ to establish a boarding school at nine partners who reported their [sic] had been a little more than 400hadbeen subscribed saying some were dissatisfied with the location that committee were released and a new one appointed to try again and find some other . location if they can that ^will^ satisfy ^friends^ G F White said he had no objection to it . but he thought we ought to be united ourselves, that we were not united thatwewereI in the fundamentals princples [sic] that there were members that stood high in society holding ^such^ prinacpls [sic] that he should not be willing ^to please^ a child under their care, Nicholas Halleck and Edward both responded to it and said considerable . after meeting at John D Wright John Wine asked what G. F ment [sic] by sayind [sic] that we were not united. Gideon Frost answered that he believed it true, some one [sic] asked what were the princpls [sic] of our socety [sic] he answered satisfactry [sic] to all I believed and said that George said that in an interview with George lately, G ^said^ they were not united in the fundamental principles, and went on to say that George acknoledged [sic] views that he should not have been willing to have ask him supposing it would have been an insult . that if he should repeat ^many^ friends would think he could not have understood, ^him^ the leading characters preasent [sic] were very silent Gideon seems to be out nobely [sic], I think he feels very sinceibly [sic] the position he has taken will cause him to loose cast with the leading part of society. Samuel Heen opened the subject of slavery very feelingly a few responded to it, but meeting got away from it as quick as possible but made no oposition [sic] not allowing surficient [sic] time for those that wanted to relieve there [sic] minds, for after geting [sic] from the subject a number would alluded to again everdently [sic] much against the will of some, I believe there is not a word in any of the epistles against slavery or war, I have engagement ^in^ the morning and if Joseph goes as he expects I shall not have time to say any more farewell J.P. [Remainder of page written by Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post and transcribed as 656_05_29_1846]
Abolitionism
Education
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/6d08539f0b524586115b3a97e715a675.jpg
d39f8a7412598cb044bd3f6a426c76ff
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f2330eb6e8e0a6c685f9fc9347147a47.jpg
5f96ce8469a3b7cd88c1338a2e72f988
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/b94f964233a5af7fec7f590e0d326e5f.jpg
623fce7a7babb7c18b48be4d4da8ca6e
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d7bd55509a01a15699251e007eed5e96.jpg
f1046ca48508bc71e1e4c721ffd6515d
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/12715db7df274893800ce8cff8430e37.xml
20ba763f74cc0528616d6c4f1191e370
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> My dear brother and Sister I have taken up my pen to inquire into the<br /> cause of your very long silence, are you in health? if so are you so engrossed<br /> with the things of time as to wholly exclude your Island friends? I cannot<br /> believe it possible - then why do you delay writing how I wish you were <span style="text-decoration:underline;">here<br /></span>what a nice chat we might have together - Joseph has gone to meeting<br /> the children to school - Powel and our girl are away keeping Christmas's<br /> and I am alone on the premises - yesterday you were almost constantly<br /> in my mind and I wished very much to take up my pen but other duties<br /> demanded the sacrifice, and will again claim the same very soon, how<br /> much of our time is consumed in toiling - toiling and how few learn to live<br /> There is so much I wish to say that I know not where to begin but all ^ I can do^ [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">obliterated</span>]<br /> is to begin Mary P Titus a few weeks back received a letter from Michigan<br /> giving account of Stephen's indisposition soon another of his increased<br /> illness and in about 2 weeks one of his death and particulars of his<br /> sickness he had been poorly 3 months had a constant fever and grew<br /> weaker without much pain had several doctors one Thompsonian [sic] but<br /> all their efforts were unavailing they discovered an abcess [sic] in his side 2 or<br /> 3 weeks before his death he probably had the hasty consumption he was<br /> very patient and resigned through all - it was a great shock to them<br /> and exceedingly triying [sic] but I think they bear it with much fortitude<br /> At our last monthly meeting the proposition relative to holding it a part<br /> of the time at Matinicock was united with by a few I thought it was<br /> rather dull our side it was said that it would probably be a benefit to society <br /> Rachel got a minute to visit some of the familys [sic] in the quarterly Meet<br /> ing Elizabeth Leedon has been engaged in a similar visit and has not got through<br /> Rachel intends joining her she ^Elisabith [sic]^ is in NY John Halloe has been around here some<br /> time he too wishes to be preaching his minute does not give him liberty to appoint<br /> meetings so he is brought into difficulty at monthly meeting he wished to<br /> have a meeting appointed for him at Hempstead Harbor but way did not<br /> open for it he said he had been waiting for John Plummer but he was<br /> not ready yet - I think I wrote relative to Maria Farrington - well poor Maria<br /> has had quite an ordeal to pass through the men's meeting decided her gift<br /> insufficient and the information to be given to the select meeting that<br /> way did not open - we hear she was eulogised excessively G.F. White said<br /> he believed it originated in the truth and also thought the decision of the mon<br /><br /> (Page2)<br /><br /> [Text Normal]<br /><br /> meeting right (so we hear the same day he came and in the first meeting<br /> terribly against every thing good was very personal in his remarks might<br /> as well named J S Hopper - among other things said abolitionism was dead<br /> and was working itself off in the sewers of the Fourrierism Isaac is now engag<br /> ed in a society lately formed (the proon association) the first object of<br /> which is to reform the prisoners by encouraging what is good in them<br /> and when discharged to render which advice and assistance as well<br /> be most likely to guide them into the paths of useful industry and<br /> virtue this too is worthy to be censured by this notorious G F White<br /> I am compelled to say farewell for the present 26<sup>th</sup> again I am seated to<br /> hold a few minutes converse with you last 7 day evening while at the tea table<br /> (uncle James's children and some others being with us) we were summoned by a<br /> rap at the door and to our joy Oliver Johnson stood before it the evening<br /> was spent very pleasantly our company appeared to enjoy it very much I<br /> was glad of the opportunity hopeing [sic] it would remove the prejudice felt<br /> towards <span style="text-decoration:underline;">them</span> in an especial manner - on the morrow he accompanied<br /> us to meeting - Timothy had much to say on slavery war &c after which Oliver rose<br /> and spoke of Christianity it s effects and how beautifully portray'd [sic] in the parable<br /> of the good Samaratan [sic] quoting from A certain lawyer asked what shall I do to<br /> inherit eternal life Luke 10-25 to the 38 verse spoke of the priest Levite and<br /> Samaratan [sic] most beautifully and of the brotherhood of the whole human<br /> family - and although we were not the same communion yet he felt<br /> while sitting together that your God is my God and your father my father<br /> we thought him very much favored as friends say - but good as it was<br /> it provoked the high displeasure of sectarian's – tho [sic] while he was<br /> speaking it was as still as possible except a little uneasiness in<br /> some of our high seat occupants uncle Robert particularly Rachel's<br /> countenance changed and portrayed the feelings of her heart<br /> We had concluded to hold a meeting in the afternoon in the school<br /> house (orthodox) for a lecture on slavery we informed the people after meet<br /> William I lack with much apparent feeling told Joseph he was sorry to hear<br /> it for <span style="text-decoration:underline;">we</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">have</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">had</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">trouble</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">enough</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">now</span> - the meeting was held and<br /> near 40 principly [sic] children and young people uncle James's girls expressed<br /> then joy when I told them of the meeting and said we will come but grandm<br /> other Willis was there and made opposition to it so they all except uncle James<br /> who almost ran away staid at home she did not wish them to go and give them<br /> any countenance for far he might give further trouble - however we<br /> had quite a good meeting without them in his talk he said if you can<br /> [Continues on Page 3 with line beginning “stand by my side”] <br /><br /> [Text at bottom of page, between normal lines, written upside down]<br /> 7 day evening we had a very busy day have got Elizabeth moved and<br /> if Joseph and William Wood had not assisted in moving and arrangeing [sic]<br /> things which was a great job, there seemed to be so little room for them we<br /> have taken some things there - It is quite a relief that the vending movein [sic]<br /> and all that is got through with - I am right glad cousin Samuil [sic] can<br /> appreciate Joseph's service's Elizabeth said he felt much obliged to Joseph for<br /> his assistance and believed it made 100 $ perhaps more difference his<br /> bidding - but Robert W Titus we hear thought it was not very neighbourly [sic] for<br /> Joseph Post to bid so much – Theres [sic] no pleasing all is there? I hope you will<br /> get this in the day timly [sic] for it will be God to read and perhaps you may<br /> wish for an abrigment [sic] - Mother's Finger is but little different yet<br /> suffers much. Phebe and Catharine are making a visit in New York<br /> Aunt Rachel has been pretty smart this winter will I am tired and sleepy<br /> and will again say Farewell I must try to send it off pretty soon on your may<br /> wish I had not begun First day afternoon we have all been to meeting and Joseph<br /> has gone back to the meeting house Thomas [Everitpunin’s?] daughter is to be buried<br /> she has been sick a long while with consumption - I feel sad and dispirited<br /> this afternoon how often when I have felt that in times past have we gone<br /> over to see cousin William and in the interchange of thought been releived [sic] from<br /> many a gloomy hour but that is past and now there seems to be no one of conge<br /> -nial spirit (near enough) to mingle with - true we have many kind friends<br /> around us but not one to whome [sic] we can open <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">the</span> every feeling as we were wont to<br /> do to William - some how I need such a friend perhaps more than most<br /> which may account to you for the wish I have aft times expressed for your<br /> return to Long Island Charles Post expects to do something more for himself than he<br /> been doing I do not know what Samuel Persons son’s wished him to take his farm or<br /> rather a part of the old Bowne farm Charles went to see him yesterday but thought it<br /> would not answer at all I believe[sic] Do you know Leonard Scaring is an assembly<br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">man</span> he and wife were at meeting here a week ago he looked mighty nice<br /> Rebecca expects to spend the winter here Richard and Phebe Albertson, have moved from<br /> the place his father lived on to the one Richard Scaring used to own I believe it is that<br /> one - I was glad they moved for I expect it was not very pleasant living with<br /> Sarah from report We want to hear from you exceedingly we very much<br /> fear you are sick or why don't you write to somebody and not a few lines but a<br /> long letter telling about every thing we want to know<br /> With much love to all our relatives and friends if there be any such I am<br /> Affectionately your sister Mary W Post<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> [Text continued from Page 3 with line ending “he said if you can”]<br /> stand by my side and labor for the oppressed ^I should [illegible]^ but if you cannot stand<br /> there <span style="text-decoration:underline;">stand</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">by yourselves_</span> but I entreat you to <span style="text-decoration:underline;">stand</span> firmly and placid<br /> on behalf of crushed humanity - he commenced with quoting this very appropriate<br /> scripture "But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest[sic]: far as concurring this<br /> sect <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">I</span> we know that every where it is spoken against We hope a little good is<br /> gained but as times almost despair believing there is not moral courage enough<br /> when convinced to stand the opposition - Timothy made some remarks in<br /> which he said it was evident parents did not consider it a bad cause if they<br /> had any fear's on that hand he thought they would prefer coming themselves<br /> to having the children exposed - but in regard to the preaching I believe there is<br /> quite a hubbub about it - tho what he said is admitted by all to be good - it was<br /> contrary to <span style="text-decoration:underline;">our order</span> just say evening several days have elapsed and I have not been<br /> able to add a sentence to my scrawl neither have we hard from you yet.<br /> did you know how grateful it would be to us surely you not delay so long ag ^ain^<br /> I said that J S Happen was engaged in the prison dicipline association - he came to be<br /> one of the associates before the public without seeking for it - he some time since<br /> went with Oliver Johnson to Sing Sing (Mary Ann is an assistant matron there) and the<br /> prisoners were assembled for meeting Isaac spoke to them feelingly and appropriately<br /> [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">obliterated</span>] many being affected to tears - about this time the association was formed<br /> some of whome [sic] were acquainted with Isaac's visit and also with his persuasive<br /> eloquence thought who is there that would do better to press [upon?] the comm ^unity^<br /> the wants of such a rejoin than he - the [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">obliterated</span>] committee of arrangement for the mili ^tary^<br /> announced the speakers Isaac was to be one <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">of</span> well some of the <span style="text-decoration:underline;">friends</span> heard that<br /> they were very kindly volunteered to inform against Isaac and so far prevailed as to have<br /> Isaac's name struck from the list Oliver who by the way is head man next to Greely<br /> in the Tribune after sound what was going on - went to see some of the commute<br /> and explained to them and notice was given out that he <span style="text-decoration:underline;">would</span> be <span style="text-decoration:underline;">one</span> of the<br /> speakers - what a malignant wicked spirit thine <span style="text-decoration:underline;">friends</span> manifest I am really<br /> at times [obliterated] ^[illegible]^ of my connection with them – dont you get disgusted <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">sometimes</span><br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">too</span> with the hypocrisy in high places - I feel that the bonds are growing weaker in<br /> witnessing the selfrighteousness [sic] of some who are looked up to as leader's – We<br /> want to hear what you have done with B Fish and how the community gets along<br /> from what we hear the Skaneatelas [sic] one looks something like a farline [sic] ----<br /> we also want to hear about E P Willis whether he is really visiting a certain lady<br /> as report say's - <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">for</span> it is very unpleasant to be behind the times therefore please inform<br /> report says too that W Post is visiting E Lawrence - we fear it is not correct but<br /> "hope on hope ever" there is some talk of Rachel Post and Benj Underhill how true I do<br /> not know also that Daniel Underhill visits Thomas Underhills - Mary R Post has gone<br /> to Henrys to stay some weeks - In all my letters lately I have told of the trials<br /> difficulties &c of poor E P Willits she has for some time been anxious to break up and<br /> go 5 her grandmothers - uncle Robert not willing to have a vendue and<br /> it was concluded to favo [sic] Robert Titus to take all except what Elizabeth wan<br /> for her use at the inventory Robert however because so uneasy that has<br /> have concluded to have a vendue next 6 day E looked sad to day and<br /> asked if it would not be too react a tax for my company I expect to be<br /> there as much as I can this week she needs all the sympathy and help too<br /> which I have to sustain her ^it is^ New Year ^today^ and I wish <span style="text-decoration:underline;">you</span> a <span style="text-decoration:underline;">happy</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">new</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">year</span> - and in<br /> the language of our favorite Lck Child a year of brave conflict with evil within and<br /> without - a year of sinless victorys [sic] - how many reflections come pressing on the heart<br /> the past present and the future all crowded together in reviewing the past I feel that<br /> truly I am not what I should have been had I lived up to the law of love “But hail to the<br /> New Year” and I fondly hope to live more in accordance therewith during this week I<br /> have been very much [obliterated] ^occupied^ and I did not know but Joseph would finish this but as<br /> he has not I will proceed with my story - we went to Jericho yesterday to see mother<br /> she has a very had hand or finger probably a felon has not slept scarcely for a week fever<br /> and much pain in her head and extreme pain in the finger with fainting turn's – tried<br /> many things yesterday I wanted them to apply soft soap and chalk to it - there was a<br /><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">very</span> little opening where it discharged a very little we put it on and I thought run more<br /> than at any time but a very little - it looked so bad I could scarcely see it at all<br /> Have you heard any thing of the difficulties Eastward - we hear they have separated<br /> in the monthly and quarterly meeting and expect them will be a separation in the<br /> yearly meeting Phebe Gifford has written particulars but we hear very little but<br /> from what we do hear I conclude she is very much opposed to the Wilborites<br /> (and they are opposed to J J Quincy) in her letter speaking of the separation she says it<br /> seemed like children's play to see half a dozen men and 3 or 4 women separate and<br /> she thought if the Philadelphia friends knew how it was they would be ashamed of<br /> encouraging them __ has Phebe forgotten the remnant which separated in 1828 or<br /> is this a more childish affair she spoke of Johnathon Wilbors coming to their meeting<br /> took his seat head preached - and <span style="text-decoration:underline;">broke</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">up</span> the meeting too - <span style="text-decoration:underline;">she</span> and <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Isaac</span> were not at<br /> meeting being from home - we miss mother very much in very many way's too – the<br /> back room looks very desolate the things are all here yet Henry's folks have been<br /> here only once since the funeral Henry had mothers will with him by which it<br /> appears every thing is given to Phebe except Pliphin and Edmund Rushmore have 250 a<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> peice [sic] - she gave our girls a few things several years ago Catharine Willis is<br /> better again we have been looking daily for she and Phebe to spend some days here<br /> Dont you feel sorry there is such a muss about the Herald I expected better things of<br /> Rodgers he is so clearly in the wrong ^in my opinion <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">in my opinion</span>^ how nobly J J Foster acted dont you admire<br /> Garrison in this affair so firm so unwavering even when the task is exceedingly<br /> painful to him they have loved and labored in this work through good and through evil <br /> report and now to be compelled by circumstances to censure such an one must<br /> be a great trial to his feeling heart - Oliver told us Rodgers and wife were at<br /> Frances Jacksons and he hoped all would come around right - he said too that<br /> J R French is courting Rodjers daughter which accounted to my mind for the<br /> influence French has with Rodjers- I sometimes fear for myself I so love and reverence<br /> Garrison - that if he should <span style="text-decoration:underline;">possibl</span>y g<span style="text-decoration:underline;">e</span>t in <span style="text-decoration:underline;">the wrong</span> I should not see it and his<br /> closing remarks in the last Liberator relative to the Herald of Freedom<br /> ^were very impressive^ Is this maxim “that the king can do no wrong" to be received by abolitionists<br /> in relation to <span style="text-decoration:underline;">any</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">one</span> of their number? If so the reign of idolatry has begun<br /> among us and we are cursed with a curse. Perhaps no one else has ever<br /> felt a similar feeling to this - and this likeness as I look at it almost allway's [sic]<br /> calms <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">and </span>tranquilizers and nerves to new conflicts you will smile at this<br /> but never mind - I suppose John Ketchams family are preparing for William's mariage [sic]<br /> there will be quite a change when all three of them children go off. What do you<br /> think of Phebes prospect - We hear you have been moving on a farm how does it<br /> happen have you sold or let the old home or do you prefer the country in the winter ^sea^ son<br /> I must again say farewell 3rd of 1st month well this has been a day of great stir and commotion and<br /> we have just returned to our quiet home but the evening is nearly spent and I can hold<br /> but a few minutes converse with you for I must rise early to bake and do my 7 days<br /> work in order to go over for the last time to assist Elizabeth she wants to get moved<br /> tomorrow. Joseph and self have been there this week much of the time - It brings all<br /> the feeling of bereavement fresh to mind - it look desolate indeed to see things [sea<br /> taid?]<br /><br /> [Text middle, written upwards]<br /><br /> Jericho N.Y. 184<br /> Jan 7<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span><br /><br /> Isaac Post<br /> R<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ochester</span><br /> NY<br /><br /> [Text in Bottom Margin, Normal]<br /><br /> how little worth our while it seemed to endeavors to accumulate nice things<br /> cousins Samuel and Edmund Daniel were up from NY uncle and Aunt Mary will commence<br /> housekeeping tomorrow after Elizabeth leaves they will feel very lonely indeed as they<br /> have no help either man or woman yet - but likely Robert and Esther will get there<br /> pretty soon how Esther will get along is yet to be seen - but from recent occurrences<br /> I fear she has yet to learn to bear little crosses without a f<span style="text-decoration:underline;">rown</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">at best</span> our cousins<br /> Stephen and Maria have had a valuable New Year's present a <span style="text-decoration:underline;">fine</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">boy</span> little Stephen<br /> I suppose - Edmund and Martha talk more of moving in the country they had nearly given<br /> out until lately - We have heard with Richard [Hunt?] and Elisabeth [Mcclintoc?] being in N York<br /> we should have been very glad if they could have visited us - do when you see any of [Thom?]<br /> family remember us very affectionately to them and assume them we should<br /> rejoice in welcoming them here - cant they come to attend the anniversary in the<br /> spring and make us a visit - What have you done for the fair has it been sent to Boston<br /> again farewell for to night</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, January 7, 1846?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[1846 ?-01-07]
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
650
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions.
My dear brother and Sister I have taken up my pen to inquire into the cause of your very long silence, are you in health? if so are you so engrossed with the things of time as to wholly exclude your Island friends? I cannot believe it possible - then why do you delay writing how I wish you were herewhat a nice chat we might have together - Joseph has gone to meeting the children to school - Powel and our girl are away keeping Christmas's and I am alone on the premises - yesterday you were almost constantly in my mind and I wished very much to take up my pen but other duties demanded the sacrifice, and will again claim the same very soon, how much of our time is consumed in toiling - toiling and how few learn to live There is so much I wish to say that I know not where to begin but all ^ I can do^ [obliterated] is to begin Mary P Titus a few weeks back received a letter from Michigan giving account of Stephen's indisposition soon another of his increased illness and in about 2 weeks one of his death and particulars of his sickness he had been poorly 3 months had a constant fever and grew weaker without much pain had several doctors one Thompsonian [sic] but all their efforts were unavailing they discovered an abcess [sic] in his side 2 or 3 weeks before his death he probably had the hasty consumption he was very patient and resigned through all - it was a great shock to them and exceedingly triying [sic] but I think they bear it with much fortitude At our last monthly meeting the proposition relative to holding it a part of the time at Matinicock was united with by a few I thought it was rather dull our side it was said that it would probably be a benefit to society Rachel got a minute to visit some of the familys [sic] in the quarterly Meet ing Elizabeth Leedon has been engaged in a similar visit and has not got through Rachel intends joining her she ^Elisabith [sic]^ is in NY John Halloe has been around here some time he too wishes to be preaching his minute does not give him liberty to appoint meetings so he is brought into difficulty at monthly meeting he wished to have a meeting appointed for him at Hempstead Harbor but way did not open for it he said he had been waiting for John Plummer but he was not ready yet - I think I wrote relative to Maria Farrington - well poor Maria has had quite an ordeal to pass through the men's meeting decided her gift insufficient and the information to be given to the select meeting that way did not open - we hear she was eulogised excessively G.F. White said he believed it originated in the truth and also thought the decision of the mon
[Text Normal] meeting right (so we hear the same day he came and in the first meeting terribly against every thing good was very personal in his remarks might as well named J S Hopper - among other things said abolitionism was dead and was working itself off in the sewers of the Fourrierism Isaac is now engag ed in a society lately formed (the proon association) the first object of which is to reform the prisoners by encouraging what is good in them and when discharged to render which advice and assistance as well be most likely to guide them into the paths of useful industry and virtue this too is worthy to be censured by this notorious G F White I am compelled to say farewell for the present 26th again I am seated to hold a few minutes converse with you last 7 day evening while at the tea table (uncle James's children and some others being with us) we were summoned by a rap at the door and to our joy Oliver Johnson stood before it the evening was spent very pleasantly our company appeared to enjoy it very much I was glad of the opportunity hopeing [sic] it would remove the prejudice felt towards them in an especial manner - on the morrow he accompanied us to meeting - Timothy had much to say on slavery war &c after which Oliver rose and spoke of Christianity it s effects and how beautifully portray'd [sic] in the parable of the good Samaratan [sic] quoting from A certain lawyer asked what shall I do to inherit eternal life Luke 10-25 to the 38 verse spoke of the priest Levite and Samaratan [sic] most beautifully and of the brotherhood of the whole human family - and although we were not the same communion yet he felt while sitting together that your God is my God and your father my father we thought him very much favored as friends say - but good as it was it provoked the high displeasure of sectarian's - tho [sic] while he was speaking it was as still as possible except a little uneasiness in some of our high seat occupants uncle Robert particularly Rachel's countenance changed and portrayed the feelings of her heart We had concluded to hold a meeting in the afternoon in the school house (orthodox) for a lecture on slavery we informed the people after meet William I lack with much apparent feeling told Joseph he was sorry to hear it for wehavehadtroubleenoughnow - the meeting was held and near 40 principly [sic] children and young people uncle James's girls expressed then joy when I told them of the meeting and said we will come but grandm other Willis was there and made opposition to it so they all except uncle James who almost ran away staid at home she did not wish them to go and give them any countenance for far he might give further trouble - however we had quite a good meeting without them in his talk he said if you can [Continues on Page 3 with line beginning "stand by my side"] [Text at bottom of page, between normal lines, written upside down] 7 day evening we had a very busy day have got Elizabeth moved and if Joseph and William Wood had not assisted in moving and arrangeing [sic] things which was a great job, there seemed to be so little room for them we have taken some things there - It is quite a relief that the vending movein [sic] and all that is got through with - I am right glad cousin Samuil [sic] can appreciate Joseph's service's Elizabeth said he felt much obliged to Joseph for his assistance and believed it made 100 $ perhaps more difference his bidding - but Robert W Titus we hear thought it was not very neighbourly [sic] for Joseph Post to bid so much - Theres [sic] no pleasing all is there? I hope you will get this in the day timly [sic] for it will be God to read and perhaps you may wish for an abrigment [sic] - Mother's Finger is but little different yet suffers much. Phebe and Catharine are making a visit in New York Aunt Rachel has been pretty smart this winter will I am tired and sleepy and will again say Farewell I must try to send it off pretty soon on your may wish I had not begun First day afternoon we have all been to meeting and Joseph has gone back to the meeting house Thomas [Everitpunin's?] daughter is to be buried she has been sick a long while with consumption - I feel sad and dispirited this afternoon how often when I have felt that in times past have we gone over to see cousin William and in the interchange of thought been releived [sic] from many a gloomy hour but that is past and now there seems to be no one of conge -nial spirit (near enough) to mingle with - true we have many kind friends around us but not one to whome [sic] we can open the every feeling as we were wont to do to William - some how I need such a friend perhaps more than most which may account to you for the wish I have aft times expressed for your return to Long Island Charles Post expects to do something more for himself than he been doing I do not know what Samuel Persons son's wished him to take his farm or rather a part of the old Bowne farm Charles went to see him yesterday but thought it would not answer at all I believe[sic] Do you know Leonard Scaring is an assemblyman he and wife were at meeting here a week ago he looked mighty nice Rebecca expects to spend the winter here Richard and Phebe Albertson, have moved from the place his father lived on to the one Richard Scaring used to own I believe it is that one - I was glad they moved for I expect it was not very pleasant living with Sarah from report We want to hear from you exceedingly we very much fear you are sick or why don't you write to somebody and not a few lines but a long letter telling about every thing we want to know With much love to all our relatives and friends if there be any such I am Affectionately your sister Mary W Post
[Text continued from Page 3 with line ending "he said if you can"] stand by my side and labor for the oppressed ^I should [illegible]^ but if you cannot stand there standby yourselves_ but I entreat you to stand firmly and placid on behalf of crushed humanity - he commenced with quoting this very appropriate scripture "But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest[sic]: far as concurring this sect I we know that every where it is spoken against We hope a little good is gained but as times almost despair believing there is not moral courage enough when convinced to stand the opposition - Timothy made some remarks in which he said it was evident parents did not consider it a bad cause if they had any fear's on that hand he thought they would prefer coming themselves to having the children exposed - but in regard to the preaching I believe there is quite a hubbub about it - tho what he said is admitted by all to be good - it was contrary to our order just say evening several days have elapsed and I have not been able to add a sentence to my scrawl neither have we hard from you yet. did you know how grateful it would be to us surely you not delay so long ag ^ain^ I said that J S Happen was engaged in the prison dicipline association - he came to be one of the associates before the public without seeking for it - he some time since went with Oliver Johnson to Sing Sing (Mary Ann is an assistant matron there) and the prisoners were assembled for meeting Isaac spoke to them feelingly and appropriately [obliterated] many being affected to tears - about this time the association was formed some of whome [sic] were acquainted with Isaac's visit and also with his persuasive eloquence thought who is there that would do better to press [upon?] the comm ^unity^ the wants of such a rejoin than he - the [obliterated] committee of arrangement for the mili ^tary^ announced the speakers Isaac was to be one of well some of the friends heard that they were very kindly volunteered to inform against Isaac and so far prevailed as to have Isaac's name struck from the list Oliver who by the way is head man next to Greely in the Tribune after sound what was going on - went to see some of the commute and explained to them and notice was given out that he would be one of the speakers - what a malignant wicked spirit thine friends manifest I am really at times [obliterated] ^[illegible]^ of my connection with them - dont you get disgusted sometimestoo with the hypocrisy in high places - I feel that the bonds are growing weaker in witnessing the selfrighteousness [sic] of some who are looked up to as leader's - We want to hear what you have done with B Fish and how the community gets along from what we hear the Skaneatelas [sic] one looks something like a farline [sic] ---- we also want to hear about E P Willis whether he is really visiting a certain lady as report say's - for it is very unpleasant to be behind the times therefore please inform report says too that W Post is visiting E Lawrence - we fear it is not correct but "hope on hope ever" there is some talk of Rachel Post and Benj Underhill how true I do not know also that Daniel Underhill visits Thomas Underhills - Mary R Post has gone to Henrys to stay some weeks - In all my letters lately I have told of the trials difficulties &c of poor E P Willits she has for some time been anxious to break up and go 5 her grandmothers - uncle Robert not willing to have a vendue and it was concluded to favo [sic] Robert Titus to take all except what Elizabeth wan for her use at the inventory Robert however because so uneasy that has have concluded to have a vendue next 6 day E looked sad to day and asked if it would not be too react a tax for my company I expect to be there as much as I can this week she needs all the sympathy and help too which I have to sustain her ^it is^ New Year ^today^ and I wish you a happynewyear - and in the language of our favorite Lck Child a year of brave conflict with evil within and without - a year of sinless victorys [sic] - how many reflections come pressing on the heart the past present and the future all crowded together in reviewing the past I feel that truly I am not what I should have been had I lived up to the law of love "But hail to the New Year" and I fondly hope to live more in accordance therewith during this week I have been very much [obliterated] ^occupied^ and I did not know but Joseph would finish this but as he has not I will proceed with my story - we went to Jericho yesterday to see mother she has a very had hand or finger probably a felon has not slept scarcely for a week fever and much pain in her head and extreme pain in the finger with fainting turn's - tried many things yesterday I wanted them to apply soft soap and chalk to it - there was avery little opening where it discharged a very little we put it on and I thought run more than at any time but a very little - it looked so bad I could scarcely see it at all Have you heard any thing of the difficulties Eastward - we hear they have separated in the monthly and quarterly meeting and expect them will be a separation in the yearly meeting Phebe Gifford has written particulars but we hear very little but from what we do hear I conclude she is very much opposed to the Wilborites (and they are opposed to J J Quincy) in her letter speaking of the separation she says it seemed like children's play to see half a dozen men and 3 or 4 women separate and she thought if the Philadelphia friends knew how it was they would be ashamed of encouraging them __ has Phebe forgotten the remnant which separated in 1828 or is this a more childish affair she spoke of Johnathon Wilbors coming to their meeting took his seat head preached - and brokeup the meeting too - she and Isaac were not at meeting being from home - we miss mother very much in very many way's too - the back room looks very desolate the things are all here yet Henry's folks have been here only once since the funeral Henry had mothers will with him by which it appears every thing is given to Phebe except Pliphin and Edmund Rushmore have 250 a
peice [sic] - she gave our girls a few things several years ago Catharine Willis is better again we have been looking daily for she and Phebe to spend some days here Dont you feel sorry there is such a muss about the Herald I expected better things of Rodgers he is so clearly in the wrong ^in my opinion in my opinion^ how nobly J J Foster acted dont you admire Garrison in this affair so firm so unwavering even when the task is exceedingly painful to him they have loved and labored in this work through good and through evil report and now to be compelled by circumstances to censure such an one must be a great trial to his feeling heart - Oliver told us Rodgers and wife were at Frances Jacksons and he hoped all would come around right - he said too that J R French is courting Rodjers daughter which accounted to my mind for the influence French has with Rodjers- I sometimes fear for myself I so love and reverence Garrison - that if he should possibly get in the wrong I should not see it and his closing remarks in the last Liberator relative to the Herald of Freedom ^were very impressive^ Is this maxim "that the king can do no wrong" to be received by abolitionists in relation to anyone of their number? If so the reign of idolatry has begun among us and we are cursed with a curse. Perhaps no one else has ever felt a similar feeling to this - and this likeness as I look at it almost allway's [sic] calms and tranquilizers and nerves to new conflicts you will smile at this but never mind - I suppose John Ketchams family are preparing for William's mariage [sic] there will be quite a change when all three of them children go off. What do you think of Phebes prospect - We hear you have been moving on a farm how does it happen have you sold or let the old home or do you prefer the country in the winter ^sea^ son I must again say farewell 3rd of 1st month well this has been a day of great stir and commotion and we have just returned to our quiet home but the evening is nearly spent and I can hold but a few minutes converse with you for I must rise early to bake and do my 7 days work in order to go over for the last time to assist Elizabeth she wants to get moved tomorrow. Joseph and self have been there this week much of the time - It brings all the feeling of bereavement fresh to mind - it look desolate indeed to see things [sea taid?] [Text middle, written upwards] Jericho N.Y. 184 Jan 7th Isaac Post Rochester NY [Text in Bottom Margin, Normal] how little worth our while it seemed to endeavors to accumulate nice things cousins Samuel and Edmund Daniel were up from NY uncle and Aunt Mary will commence housekeeping tomorrow after Elizabeth leaves they will feel very lonely indeed as they have no help either man or woman yet - but likely Robert and Esther will get there pretty soon how Esther will get along is yet to be seen - but from recent occurrences I fear she has yet to learn to bear little crosses without a frownat best our cousins Stephen and Maria have had a valuable New Year's present a fineboy little Stephen I suppose - Edmund and Martha talk more of moving in the country they had nearly given out until lately - We have heard with Richard [Hunt?] and Elisabeth [Mcclintoc?] being in N York we should have been very glad if they could have visited us - do when you see any of [Thom?] family remember us very affectionately to them and assume them we should rejoice in welcoming them here - cant they come to attend the anniversary in the spring and make us a visit - What have you done for the fair has it been sent to Boston again farewell for to night
Abolitionism
Domestic Servants
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/7b46d1caabc52fa3db45e7a9003e9943.jpg
8c76d7a13725d75c7057534e0749f8fc
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/50bea29ccba4ce503bec59e1a4e57b53.jpg
bf6cf98ce030adcf6d6eddd78b895457
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/02b0383a29e98f854e7412bcdca1f541.jpg
d4c95671be0a779020536cc5892d2eca
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/748e19f8ce6ad3f9752e51946590cc1c.jpg
42d59daf1b0a58fc2df68cffb90f399f
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/8ace3d50e56446012dbf48260186e8cd.xml
52720c9cae96f7c4b81d104b11525575
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> [Text in top margin, written upward]<br /> Isaac<br /> is to<br /> write<br /> some to go with<br /> this &<br /> I am in<br /> hopes he<br /> has done<br /> much<br /> better<br /> than<br /> I how<br /> he likes<br /> living<br /> here I<br /> do not<br /> know<br /> I do<br /> not see<br /> much<br /> of him<br /> Julia<br /> has a cold I<br /> tell E<br /> it does not<br /> look well<br /> for a doct-<br /> ors wife<br /> to have her<br /> cold last so<br /><br /><br /><br /> Rochester 15<sup>th</sup> 1845<br /> Dear Sister<br /> I have been asking I. if he is not<br /> expecting to write home soon if so I would<br /> like to <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">write</span> add something but he says<br /> if I will write he will add & as he with<br /> Edmund & Julia are gone to [Stittsen?]<br /> I will commence. To begin seventh day<br /> morning left Amy & Sarah at James<br /> Havalands & I went to N.Y about my buisness [sic]<br /> and returned in the afternoon found they had<br /> been to dinner I had heard they dined late<br /> but James did not come to dinner but Lydia<br /> soon had something set for me Aunt Phebe<br /> seemed rejoiced to see us. we with Lydia<br /> went out & called on Ester she has 3 little<br /> children so near of an age that it seems<br /> they may be very equal play mates called<br /> on William Renouf, 3 sisters they seem to live<br /> very nicely. went to see J H new house it seems<br /> very large 5 stories in the rear. Spent the<br /> evening very pleasenty [sic] James & Phebe both<br /> being at home she returned from Jericho at<br /> night -- Amy & self thought best to<br /> go to Stephen Willetts [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">obliterated</span>] to lodge ar-<br /> rived at 9. they gave us a kind welcome<br /> their child is quite unwell with cold<br /> first day morning went to Rose Street<br /> meeting Carriages stood very thick in<br /> Pearl street I could not ^tell^ why but learned<br /> their occupants were gone to Friends meeting<br /> on arriving found the house very much<br /> filled Stephen took me around to the side<br /> door were [sic] we found room near the Galery [sic]<br /> G F Wright soon arose and said send<br /> by whom thou will ^send^ even by me<br /> & went on to say that the hireling mi<br /> nisters are the greatest curse that the<br /> Lord suffers to live that 999 out of every<br /> 1000 are Base Hipocrits [sic] &c and ^[illegible]^ felt<br /> it <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">it w</span>right to turn to faith (said to<br /> the pure all things are pure) and who<br /> are the pure ask the Transendentalists [sic]<br /> and they would say some of their number<br /> and the abolitionists ^would refer^ to themselves some<br /> of whom are <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">fit only for</span> scape Goats<br /> fit only for the States Prison or the halter<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> (of course he must be in favor of hanging)<br /> after saying much more he turned to<br /> the slave holder and did not leave him un-<br /> till [sic] <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">had</span> he had raised him unto the<br /> highest state of happiness singing hallu<br /> luyas [sic] &c he being pure in heart<br /> & then John Plummer arose & I dont<br /> know but pretty well except he ad-<br /> verted to what his brother had said rather<br /> approvingly of course when one says<br /> as much as G. did there must be some<br /> good. but I did not see any good reason to<br /> approve it in Public. We went to S Willetts<br /> market Street had a very pleasant chat &<br /> Amy staid [sic] with Sarah while we men went<br /> to meeting G. preached again very path<br /> etically telling some mistirous [sic] story<br /> about ^the^ L<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ord</span>s bowing the heavens &<br /> comeing [sic] down provided the t<span style="text-decoration:underline;">rie</span>d one<br /> will remain with his lips in the dust<br /> &c &c went back to Cousin Samuels &<br /> set an hour very pleasantly then went <br /> to doctor Seamans were [sic] Sarah & Phebe<br /> Haveland met us & James & Lydia came<br /> in the evening at 9 we returned to Stepens [sic]<br /> seven day morning Stephen took us<br /> to see the wonders of the Island to the high<br /> bridge it is a wonder full [sic] undertaking it<br /> does seem like a great pitty [sic] to lay out<br /> so much just to let vessels pass a very<br /> short distance probably $500 per year <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">wood</span> would<br /> more than make up all losses that can<br /> occur by obstructing the navigation we<br /> returned after a 4 hours ride very much<br /> gratified spent the evening very pleasanty [sic] at Cousin<br /> Edmunds some other of our Cousins were there next<br /> morning to Roberts to breakfast I then went<br /> down town town [sic] to have our things put<br /> and met Amy & Sarah at M. Collins -- Amy<br /> & Self went to the Antislavery Office but [Guy?]<br /> had gone home we took seats in an Omnibus &<br /> rode to Uncle Henry found Aunt Mary<br /> alone Lydia & Sarrah [sic] were gone to Aunt<br /> Rosettas at Wright store Mary to Catharines<br /> & [Minterns?] Wife has a young son. However<br /> we set down and had a pleasent [sic] chat with<br /> aunt Mary. Mary [Jun?] soon came &<br /> dinner to at 1/2 past 3 but neig<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">h</span>^ther^er [sic] of the<br /> men <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">we</span> soon after Mintern came & at dusk<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> Uncle Henry I think he feels better now that<br /> he is in buisness [sic]. early in the evening we de-<br /> parted took seats for the south fery [sic] then<br /> seats for <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">West</span> ^east^ Broudway [sic] for we thought<br /> by going to the starting place we should be<br /> sure to get the right carriage for in the evening<br /> it is very difficult to read what is in the side<br /> Amy stoped [sic] at Uncle Samuel Willetts & she & Sarah<br /> with [C R?] & wife spent the evening at Andrew Willetts<br /> & I invited Stephen Willetts to go to [Amos?] & Joseph<br /> Willetts we sat awhile pleasantly at [Amos’s?] and<br /> then to Joseph, but they were gone so we went<br /> home & I dont know who could have enjoy-<br /> ed our company better that Maria for she &<br /> the baby were alone. next morning that is [illegible] day<br /> morning Joseph Willetts Maria Farrington &<br /> soon after Joseph, wife came to call on us<br /> J & wife went to see the exibition [sic] of [Coulered?]<br /> orphens [sic] he was very much interested about<br /> them & I believe our other Cousins have done much<br /> for them & I suppose they see nothing improper<br /> in this & yet how they blame others for doing even<br /> less than they are doing themselves and are ready<br /> to cast them off <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">as</span> being under delusion &c<br /> I feel glad yes it ^is^ a peculiar satisfaction that<br /> they are thus disposed to do good. is it not won-<br /> derful to think how much can be brought<br /> about by small individual faithfulness<br /> it seems [20?] years ago two females commenced<br /> with 4 or 5 little orphans in a small room &<br /> now they have a very ^large^ house where comfort<br /> & learning are communicated to 130 poor children<br /> & were [sic] it is to be hoped the ground work<br /> is laid for a life of usefullness [sic]. Cousin Joseph<br /> said his sisterin [sic] law wished us to meet there [sic]<br /> other cousins at ther [sic] house that eveng [sic] but<br /> we thought it would not do to stay longer<br /> I went down town & had our things put on<br /> board then to <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">Stephen</span>s Roberts to dinner &<br /> then took leave of our Clinton Street Cousins Amy<br /> & Sarah haveing [sic] done so before & went to [C. N.?]<br /> Stephen came in time with his carriage to take<br /> us to the steam boat. thus ended our very<br /> agreeable visit in New York I think we never<br /> made a more pleasent [sic] one & (Since I have been<br /> home I have rembered [sic] thy [tooth man?] please <br /> excuse me) we left N Y at five arrived at [Kingston?] at<br /> 12 found stage [slays?] in readiness to take us to Albany our<br /> loads were very heavy but the [riding?] was good and the slays<br /> were good & covoured [sic] we took breakfast at [Katskill?] about 6<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> at Albany at 2 went to the Motts & made a <br /> very good visit they read a letter from F Douglass<br /> he writes very easy it was a good letter tells of incidents<br /> that were not in his published letters among other things<br /> he says if he writes or receves [sic] many letters it will bankrupt<br /> him as all that he sends or receives [sic] he has to pay 50 cents<br /> each. nex^t^morning [sic] very cold Thermometer 3 degrees<br /> below Zero. we left at 1/2 past 7 and at Auburn<br /> we had to tarry all night is it not interesting the<br /> Cars going onely [sic] once a day & then stop all night<br /> by the way it makes fine picking for the Taverns<br /> we were superbly entertained at Auburn it<br /> was very cold but we had the parlour to ourselves<br /> & adjoining it our bedroom & adjoining that Sarahs<br /> Room could not asked for better accomodations [sic]<br /> & had only $2.00 to pay for all breakfast included<br /> it was at the Auburn House. thence at 1/2 past<br /> 7 left for home & arrived at 2 met Isaac at the<br /> car hous [sic] found all well but were a little disturbed<br /> our Bag that contained a number ^of^ articles of some<br /> value having been left on the way I made some<br /> stir about it gave a discription [sic] &c and 2 day<br /> it came on safe it having been left at Auburn<br /> we met an abundance of Hogs that is Pork hu-<br /> rrying on to an eastern market. Lewis [Burtis?]<br /> is disowned by the Monthly Meeting tho he says<br /> he is not yet disowned for he means to appeal<br /> &c he sat alone on the high seat first day<br /> and gave quite an exortation [sic] afternoon<br /> anumber [sic] of our friends came and set with<br /> us very agreeably. Sledding is good we found<br /> a light snow but good sleding [sic] all the way<br /> found it warmer here & I believe it has not<br /> been so cold as further east Cousin Benjamin did<br /> not take any pains to speak to me first day<br /> he was silent what they will do with Lewis<br /> I don’t [sic] know I saw B in close conversation<br /> with our overseer and Elder [Ewer?] Sylvester<br /> being to [sic] unwell to attend meetings & what<br /> they have concluded upon I dont know<br /> but I expect it provokes them very much<br /> to have Lewis go in the Galory [sic] they seem to<br /> wish no one to sit there and that will bring<br /> B at the head of the meeting and when that<br /> is settled why B will have gained his point<br /> and there of course he will take his seat above<br /> they now render Lewis poweless [sic] by leting [sic] no one<br /> set with him B Coleman is unwell & therefore he can<br /> not come we went to see him he seemed very glad<br /> to see us. It seems to me I have written a very worth-<br /> less letter but rest assured I should like to written a<br /> more interesting one if it had been in my power I. Post<br /></p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Isaac. Letter to unknown recipient.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Isaac Post to unknown recipient, December 15, 1845?
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1845 ?-12-15
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
unknown recipient
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
648
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. [Text in top margin, written upward] Isaac is to write some to go with this & I am in hopes he has done much better than I how he likes living here I do not know I do not see much of him Julia has a cold I tell E it does not look well for a doct- ors wife to have her cold last so Rochester 15th 1845 Dear Sister I have been asking I. if he is not expecting to write home soon if so I would like to write add something but he says if I will write he will add & as he with Edmund & Julia are gone to [Stittsen?] I will commence. To begin seventh day morning left Amy & Sarah at James Havalands & I went to N.Y about my buisness [sic] and returned in the afternoon found they had been to dinner I had heard they dined late but James did not come to dinner but Lydia soon had something set for me Aunt Phebe seemed rejoiced to see us. we with Lydia went out & called on Ester she has 3 little children so near of an age that it seems they may be very equal play mates called on William Renouf, 3 sisters they seem to live very nicely. went to see J H new house it seems very large 5 stories in the rear. Spent the evening very pleasenty [sic] James & Phebe both being at home she returned from Jericho at night -- Amy & self thought best to go to Stephen Willetts [obliterated] to lodge ar- rived at 9. they gave us a kind welcome their child is quite unwell with cold first day morning went to Rose Street meeting Carriages stood very thick in Pearl street I could not ^tell^ why but learned their occupants were gone to Friends meeting on arriving found the house very much filled Stephen took me around to the side door were [sic] we found room near the Galery [sic] G F Wright soon arose and said send by whom thou will ^send^ even by me & went on to say that the hireling mi nisters are the greatest curse that the Lord suffers to live that 999 out of every 1000 are Base Hipocrits [sic] &c and ^[illegible]^ felt it it wright to turn to faith (said to the pure all things are pure) and who are the pure ask the Transendentalists [sic] and they would say some of their number and the abolitionists ^would refer^ to themselves some of whom are fit only for scape Goats fit only for the States Prison or the halter (of course he must be in favor of hanging) after saying much more he turned to the slave holder and did not leave him un- till [sic] had he had raised him unto the highest state of happiness singing hallu luyas [sic] &c he being pure in heart & then John Plummer arose & I dont know but pretty well except he ad- verted to what his brother had said rather approvingly of course when one says as much as G. did there must be some good. but I did not see any good reason to approve it in Public. We went to S Willetts market Street had a very pleasant chat & Amy staid [sic] with Sarah while we men went to meeting G. preached again very path etically telling some mistirous [sic] story about ^the^ Lords bowing the heavens & comeing [sic] down provided the tried one will remain with his lips in the dust &c &c went back to Cousin Samuels & set an hour very pleasantly then went to doctor Seamans were [sic] Sarah & Phebe Haveland met us & James & Lydia came in the evening at 9 we returned to Stepens [sic] seven day morning Stephen took us to see the wonders of the Island to the high bridge it is a wonder full [sic] undertaking it does seem like a great pitty [sic] to lay out so much just to let vessels pass a very short distance probably $500 per year wood would more than make up all losses that can occur by obstructing the navigation we returned after a 4 hours ride very much gratified spent the evening very pleasanty [sic] at Cousin Edmunds some other of our Cousins were there next morning to Roberts to breakfast I then went down town town [sic] to have our things put and met Amy & Sarah at M. Collins -- Amy & Self went to the Antislavery Office but [Guy?] had gone home we took seats in an Omnibus & rode to Uncle Henry found Aunt Mary alone Lydia & Sarrah [sic] were gone to Aunt Rosettas at Wright store Mary to Catharines & [Minterns?] Wife has a young son. However we set down and had a pleasent [sic] chat with aunt Mary. Mary [Jun?] soon came & dinner to at 1/2 past 3 but neigh^ther^er [sic] of the men we soon after Mintern came & at dusk Uncle Henry I think he feels better now that he is in buisness [sic]. early in the evening we de- parted took seats for the south fery [sic] then seats for West ^east^ Broudway [sic] for we thought by going to the starting place we should be sure to get the right carriage for in the evening it is very difficult to read what is in the side Amy stoped [sic] at Uncle Samuel Willetts & she & Sarah with [C R?] & wife spent the evening at Andrew Willetts & I invited Stephen Willetts to go to [Amos?] & Joseph Willetts we sat awhile pleasantly at [Amos's?] and then to Joseph, but they were gone so we went home & I dont know who could have enjoy- ed our company better that Maria for she & the baby were alone. next morning that is [illegible] day morning Joseph Willetts Maria Farrington & soon after Joseph, wife came to call on us J & wife went to see the exibition [sic] of [Coulered?] orphens [sic] he was very much interested about them & I believe our other Cousins have done much for them & I suppose they see nothing improper in this & yet how they blame others for doing even less than they are doing themselves and are ready to cast them off as being under delusion &c I feel glad yes it ^is^ a peculiar satisfaction that they are thus disposed to do good. is it not won- derful to think how much can be brought about by small individual faithfulness it seems [20?] years ago two females commenced with 4 or 5 little orphans in a small room & now they have a very ^large^ house where comfort & learning are communicated to 130 poor children & were [sic] it is to be hoped the ground work is laid for a life of usefullness [sic]. Cousin Joseph said his sisterin [sic] law wished us to meet there [sic] other cousins at ther [sic] house that eveng [sic] but we thought it would not do to stay longer I went down town & had our things put on board then to Stephens Roberts to dinner & then took leave of our Clinton Street Cousins Amy & Sarah haveing [sic] done so before & went to [C. N.?] Stephen came in time with his carriage to take us to the steam boat. thus ended our very agreeable visit in New York I think we never made a more pleasent [sic] one & (Since I have been home I have rembered [sic] thy [tooth man?] please excuse me) we left N Y at five arrived at [Kingston?] at 12 found stage [slays?] in readiness to take us to Albany our loads were very heavy but the [riding?] was good and the slays were good & covoured [sic] we took breakfast at [Katskill?] about 6 (Page 4) at Albany at 2 went to the Motts & made a very good visit they read a letter from F Douglass he writes very easy it was a good letter tells of incidents that were not in his published letters among other things he says if he writes or receves [sic] many letters it will bankrupt him as all that he sends or receives [sic] he has to pay 50 cents each. nex^t^morning [sic] very cold Thermometer 3 degrees below Zero. we left at 1/2 past 7 and at Auburn we had to tarry all night is it not interesting the Cars going onely [sic] once a day & then stop all night by the way it makes fine picking for the Taverns we were superbly entertained at Auburn it was very cold but we had the parlour to ourselves & adjoining it our bedroom & adjoining that Sarahs Room could not asked for better accomodations [sic] & had only $2.00 to pay for all breakfast included it was at the Auburn House. thence at 1/2 past 7 left for home & arrived at 2 met Isaac at the car hous [sic] found all well but were a little disturbed our Bag that contained a number ^of^ articles of some value having been left on the way I made some stir about it gave a discription [sic] &c and 2 day it came on safe it having been left at Auburn we met an abundance of Hogs that is Pork hu- rrying on to an eastern market. Lewis [Burtis?] is disowned by the Monthly Meeting tho he says he is not yet disowned for he means to appeal &c he sat alone on the high seat first day and gave quite an exortation [sic] afternoon anumber [sic] of our friends came and set with us very agreeably. Sledding is good we found a light snow but good sleding [sic] all the way found it warmer here & I believe it has not been so cold as further east Cousin Benjamin did not take any pains to speak to me first day he was silent what they will do with Lewis I don't [sic] know I saw B in close conversation with our overseer and Elder [Ewer?] Sylvester being to [sic] unwell to attend meetings & what they have concluded upon I dont know but I expect it provokes them very much to have Lewis go in the Galory [sic] they seem to wish no one to sit there and that will bring B at the head of the meeting and when that is settled why B will have gained his point and there of course he will take his seat above they now render Lewis poweless [sic] by leting [sic] no one set with him B Coleman is unwell & therefore he can not come we went to see him he seemed very glad to see us. It seems to me I have written a very worth- less letter but rest assured I should like to written a more interesting one if it had been in my power I. Post
Abolitionism
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/fc648c4e086765a7a98e77d13e890335.jpg
f539608929e0a1947273c13f5ad7ff07
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f253efe0d5225eaa7b2e8db92385ab05.jpg
a2492e7e8a8b7c44addc27301d93fb75
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/53f65c4e0e2c95c5a61e8d2812d9bdc4.jpg
85dace308a81d180f395026b58ff22cd
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f5d8d95071c0cbbff86e93ed1cacaf9f.jpg
5353f87046847fccde9692897c52fac2
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f1a8f1152e4d329b11f2a91adf0b0150.xml
f267a17c76aae3174839e06ecb1f7037
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> Buffalo 9,, 18,, 1845<br /> Dear Friend<br /> Having an opportunity of sending<br /> a line by Moses Wards Wife, who pass through<br /> your city on their way home (Newark N.J.) I shall<br /> improve the same if only to inquire after a hat<br /> which Lydia P. Mott left on board a canal Boat<br /> yearly meeting time and which the agent here<br /> says was delivered by the capt. to some friend in<br /> Rochester who had an order for the same. He could<br /> not tell me the name. As I have to send to<br /> Lydia a few articles left in my charge by<br /> J<span style="text-decoration:underline;">osep</span>h <span style="text-decoration:underline;">W.</span> B<span style="text-decoration:underline;">row</span>n De<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ceas</span>ed. I think it best to<br /> send the hat at the same time if I can get it.<br /> ^Please enquire of Lindby M. Moore^ Excuse me for sending that Catholic communica-<br /> tion- and write to me by mail or otherwise as<br /> may suit convenience and thou mayest thereby<br /> not only oblige me but Lydia P. Mott also.<br /> My health is very good at present- and with<br /> desire that you may be equally blest and con-<br /> tinue to enjoy that peace which the world can<br /> neither give nor take away. I remain your Friend<br /> N. Potter –<br /> Isaac Post<br /> Joseph W. Brown was buried two weeks<br /> ago today. I was with him the latter part of his sick-<br /> ness and believe he made his peace with God before<br /> he died. Moses Wards wife is sister to J.W. Brown, & Cinthia Cronk<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> I hope to attend Quarterly meeting and visit you by the<br /> way- but as Cinthia Cronk has proposed to attend<br /> and that I should go with her. [Obliterated] –<br /> provided W<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>m</sup></span> can not leave home – I can not<br /> give an opinion how I shall go or whether<br /> I shall go at all – for some of my friends are<br /> sick and likely to be for some time to come.<br /> I feel that I have yet to suffer in society- If<br /> you have suffered your share then of course<br /> it is time for you to journey forward I confess<br /> you have been more faithful in the cause<br /> of the downtrodden slave than I have and therefore<br /> more worthy of the blessing pronounced by<br /> lips that spake no guile. Blessed are they that<br /> are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the<br /> kingdom of Heaven. If I have any doubt of being<br /> are of this number- it is because I have not<br /> been as faithful in the cause of the oppressed as<br /> I ought to have been. others may judge different<br /> but I would say “Let God be true tho it make every<br /> man a liar”. for this was his language to me<br /> when he took in mine “own blood” as I was and<br /> “said unto me line.” He told me I could not be lost<br /> if I continued faithful in this one thing. Pray for<br /> me that I may be more faithful. Painful as it was<br /> that you should leave society while I felt required<br /> to remain, it would have been a hundred times<br /> more so if you had abandoned the cause of<br /> the down-troden slave.<br /> How do you all get along? All harmonious<br /> in the meeting I hope, since it is the faith of the<br /> society that “the peace of God rule our minds.”___<br /> Isaac N.<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> [Text middle page downward]<br /><br /> Isaac Post<br /> Rochester City<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> [Text normal with large X’s marked through]<br /><br /> I see I have taken the wrong<br /> sheet of<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">Erie Co</span> paper<br /> To. JW Brown Dr.<br /> 1844<br /> 9<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> Mo. 30<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> To 2 Barrels of Soap at 16/- $4,00<br /> 10,, “ 7 ,, ,, 2 do. do. 4,00<br /> ,, 15,, ,, 1 do. ,, 2,00<br /> ,, ,, ,, 1 do. A. <span style="text-decoration:underline;">2 00</span> 4,00<br /> [Obliterated]<br /> 1844 Cr.<br /> 9<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> Mo. 30<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> By 3 Bushels Ashes 8‚ǵ $0,24<br /> “ 78 tbs grease 3‚ǵ 2,34<br /> “ 8 tbs do. 3‚ǵ ,24<br /> 10<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> Mo. 7<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> 41 tbs grease 4‚ǵ 1,64<br /> “ “ 15,, 87. do. 4‚ǵ 3,48<br /> “ 21,, 60. do. 4‚ǵ 2,40<br /> 2 ½ Bushels ashes (A) ,20<br /><br /> [Text in right margin written downward]<br /><br /> I have not time to write an other<br /> now. If I should it might be<br /> no better than this</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Potter, Nathaniel Jr. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Nathaniel Jr Potter to Isaac Post, September 18, 1845.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Potter, Nathaniel Jr
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1845-09-18
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
647
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator’s original page layout and placement of additions. Westbury 9mo 17 1845 Dear Edmund and Julia I have defered [sic] wrighting [sic] much longer than I expected and as we have no company after Monthly meeting I will try we had a very short meeting only quarter after 12 when we got through as to society matters we get along after the old sort pretty quiet expect now and then a communication bearing prety [sic] hard from our former loved friend R. Timothy got a minute last month to visit some of the meetings in 5 of the southern Quarters. But owing to the sickness of Francis Titus who is not expected to recover, has not gone yet Isaac Rushmore expects to accompany him. WilliamTitus Francis Titus oldest son William died about 2 weeks with the dropsie [sic]. Uncle Robert Willets had a fit some time agoe [sic] Dr Wright was their at the time who bled him, I suppose very freely, he seems feeble yet Aunt Mary feels very anxious about him, hardly willing he should go to meeting or any where else, How do you get along with disownments and resignations in your meeting now and fare, with, Lewis what affect does his faleure [sic] have on him We somes [sic] feel verry [sic] much discourage, but for the sake of some in the ranks who we esteem and who advise us to hold on, and our position well known and being fully satisfied that the principle live up to is the only right one to be had. how does your free meetings get along. since being their and seeing and hearing how they were managed I think they will not be of much benefit to society at large. The account of repair and expenses &c, was satisfactory, I paid the money as directed the 6th of the present month, William Post ^mind^ has been so disorded [sic] as to be disqualified from doing any kind of business I beleive[sic] they perceived something the matter when they got back from the west, but he kept to work untill [sic] about 3 weeks ago, He thought they were so in debt that he had been dishonest had ruined Henry Grinell and that they would he would have to go to state prisson [sic], his whole trouble seemed on account of not haveing [sic] property enough to pay his debts we now he here he is better seems to enjoy himself more, he has been quit sick is also better
Abolitionism
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/52fa22d80a5ec9707f43c17d6491278a.jpg
d62add957fb2ba55d9a5706a77c3bc09
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9c00c0dd109c68613564cc17350c9686.xml
4290e14a5b3e540b4147c7bab30b83fb
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> Westbury 9<sup>mo</sup> 17 1845<br /> Dear Edmund and Julia<br /> <br /> I have defered [sic] wrighting [sic] much longer than I<br /> expected and as we have no company after Monthly meeting I will try<br /> we had a very short meeting only quarter after 12 when we got through<br /> as to society matters we get along after the old sort pretty quiet <br /> expect now and then a communication bearing prety [sic] hard from <br /> our former loved friend R. Timothy got a minute last month to <br /> visit some of the meetings in 5 of the southern Quarters. But <br /> owing to the sickness of Francis Titus who is not expected to <br /> recover, has not gone yet Isaac Rushmore expects to accompany<br /> him. <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">William</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">Titus</span> Francis Titus oldest son William died<br /> about 2 weeks with the dropsie [sic]. Uncle Robert Willets<br /> had a fit some time agoe [sic] D<sup>r</sup> Wright was their at the time<br /> who bled him, I suppose very freely, he seems feeble yet<br /> Aunt Mary feels very anxious about him, hardly willing<br /> he should go to meeting or any where else, How do you<br /> get along with disownments and resignations in your meeting now<br /> and fare, with, Lewis what affect does his faleure [sic] have on him<br /> We somes [sic] feel verry [sic] much discourage, but for the sake of some<br /> in the ranks who we esteem and who advise us to hold on, and our<br /> position well known and being fully satisfied that the principle<br /> live up to is the only right one to be had. how does your free<br /> meetings get along. since being their and seeing and hearing<br /> how they were managed I think they will not be of much<br /> benefit to society at large. The account of repair and<br /> expenses &c, was satisfactory, I paid the money as directed<br /> the 6<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> of the present month, William Post ^mind^ has been<br /> so disorded [sic] as to be disqualified from doing any kind of business<br /> I beleive[sic] they perceived something the matter when they<br /> got back from the west, but he kept to work untill [sic]<br /> about 3 weeks ago, He thought they were so in debt that<br /> he had been dishonest had ruined Henry Grinell and that<br /> they would he would have to go to state prisson [sic], his<br /> whole trouble seemed on account of not haveing [sic] property<br /> enough to pay his debts we now he here he is better<br /> seems to enjoy himself more, he has been quit sick is also better</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Edmund P Willis.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Edmund P Willis, September 17, 1845.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1845-09-17
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Edmund P Willis
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
646
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Westbury 9mo 17 1845 Dear Edmund and Julia I have defered [sic] wrighting [sic] much longer than I expected and as we have no company after Monthly meeting I will try we had a very short meeting only quarter after 12 when we got through as to society matters we get along after the old sort pretty quiet expect now and then a communication bearing prety [sic] hard from our former loved friend R. Timothy got a minute last month to visit some of the meetings in 5 of the southern Quarters. But owing to the sickness of Francis Titus who is not expected to recover, has not gone yet Isaac Rushmore expects to accompany him. WilliamTitus Francis Titus oldest son William died about 2 weeks with the dropsie [sic]. Uncle Robert Willets had a fit some time agoe [sic] Dr Wright was their at the time who bled him, I suppose very freely, he seems feeble yet Aunt Mary feels very anxious about him, hardly willing he should go to meeting or any where else, How do you get along with disownments and resignations in your meeting now and fare, with, Lewis what affect does his faleure [sic] have on him We somes [sic] feel verry [sic] much discourage, but for the sake of some in the ranks who we esteem and who advise us to hold on, and our position well known and being fully satisfied that the principle live up to is the only right one to be had. how does your free meetings get along. since being their and seeing and hearing how they were managed I think they will not be of much benefit to society at large. The account of repair and expenses &c, was satisfactory, I paid the money as directed the 6th of the present month, William Post ^mind^ has been so disorded [sic] as to be disqualified from doing any kind of business I beleive[sic] they perceived something the matter when they got back from the west, but he kept to work untill [sic] about 3 weeks ago, He thought they were so in debt that he had been dishonest had ruined Henry Grinell and that they would he would have to go to state prisson [sic], his whole trouble seemed on account of not haveing [sic] property enough to pay his debts we now he here he is better seems to enjoy himself more, he has been quit sick is also better
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5babb2c73985d50718c779f6190fabaa.jpg
d7a629f6f9be94771c563f33f96c36ee
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/4db3fe3953a7737f0d39c06908dba3a1.jpg
a15719d904deadfb1ebd863b01ce5801
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/b788fd682cd898b470233e80eae2ab05.jpg
21655639ead3d025554b10b373108305
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/006bc3992aefcc638af468d97dbace8c.jpg
58bfd7e67bfeef1a9ce21a838addad10
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5d72ecfb2ce3202926bc25f56751a877.xml
373c81f5d7a0ac6673e0a1b4f37b045b
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> first day 14<sup>th </sup>John offers me his letter<br /> to finish and having stated the cause of our disappointment in not<br /> visiting you, and that we have given up our visit this fall, little<br /> Anna has not sufficiently recovered yet for us to leave, she seems wake<br /> ful and brighter this morning after a restless night again, coughs<br /> considerable yet which appears very necessary in breaking loose the<br /> phlegm, after being dressed this morn in her little pink frock and [panthlets?]<br /> light brown shoes, stockings, and a very white face. her mother stood her on her<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> feet and bore her weight and takes a few steps but is very weak. I apprehend<br /> there are truth coming too. some days she sinks down and is very hot and<br /> dell, and sleepy, a week ago to night her recovery was very doubtful.<br /> but she underwent a change in the morning, after which the symptoms<br /> were favorable to a recovery. so that ^after some days^ I went home a little which, but<br /> was soon sent for again. She had elapsed. Rachel feels that she cannot<br /> let me go as far away as Rochester yet and it will soon be to late in<br /> the season that we conclude it better to defer it, for the present; and<br /> mother Kirby is poorly too, and I found she was when I wrote before but<br /> did not know of it untill [sic] after the letter was in the office, she has a great<br /> deal of pain in her back, the first time I went in to see her she looked feeble<br /> but when I returned from Westbury (where I now am) I went to see her the same<br /> day, and she said she was better tho not well the pain continues. I think she and<br /> father felt disappointed [obliterated] seemd [sic] pleased with the prospect of our journey,<br /> aunt Esther (R… is poorly yet; and Charry Ketcham continues sick<br /> they have had two Dcters [sic] the week past; how they will succeed time only<br /> will prove his Father told me that he thought there was but little hope<br /> for Charry’s recovery, I was in there when home but did not see her, her father<br /> mother, sister, and aunt are there, and in the room, Where are Will can and<br /> Margaret are almost constantly with her night and day, they do not accept<br /> of their neighbors help yet, it is very difficult to move her on account of<br /> biles being very sore Rebecca appears to feel deeply for William, as we<br /> all do. the Dctr [sic] has said untill [sic] recently that she had no disease, no fever<br /> but that it was owing <span style="text-decoration:underline;">to he</span>r p<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ecul</span>iar s<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ituat</span>ion; but now he states<br /> it is a hasty consumption. the last time I saw her a week ago I felt more<br /> confirmed by appearances that it was a liver affection. It is nearly meeting<br /> time and as my husband is not very well and it is a rainy morning, he will remain<br /> with Rachel to assert while Samuel and I go to meeting where S has not been in<br /> some time brother Edmund has been up the past week engaged in getting hay to South<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> for father, I have not seen him or Mary yet. James and Phebe Post went to Flushing<br /> and if they have returned we may give information from William Post which<br /> I hope may be encouraging as the last account was soon ^afternoon^ having returned<br /> P. Post informed me that William [Pather?] their having their all might<br /> sent for James, ^said^ he would like to see him which was the first person that<br /> he had been willing to see, they said that he was too weak to go out having<br /> had dysentary [sic] which had reduced him. and that morning had asked his<br /> wife for something to eat; he slept pretty well and his mind was better<br /> their has been talk of taking him to the asylum but they got a man I<br /> believe from their who understood tho treatment necessary. it is a very<br /> trying circumstance to his mother and brother I hear, and we doubt<br /> it is exceedingly so to his wife. I saw Phebe Haviland to meeting here<br /> come up to see her boys who are at Rachel Hicks’s, likewise a strange<br /> woman that was dressed nice and looked like a friend and their seemed<br /> considerable wondering who she was and where from & after coming away<br /> Samuel told me that John Searling was their with his wife, we had not<br /> heard before that he had one. Edward and Esther Willets have been to see<br /> Kezia Cary her husband is now very poorly cannot be down at all, and<br /> does not appear like continuing long. I have invited Rachel to fill<br /> this ^page^ but she declines, feeling that she must attend to her sick baby,<br /> but request her love inserted to all, we hope to hear from you<br /> the last report Joseph had broken his arm, I noticed Robert Willets was<br /> at meeting to day which was unexpected as I had heard that he had another pow<br /> turn having lay’d down during the day when he arose he could not speak.<br /> I suppose <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">he</span> it did not last long. I made an interesting call with Anna<br /> W.W. lately she sees in fine spirits talking about the arrival of English<br /> friends who have come over on account of difficulties in their society on the <br /> abolition subject at Indiana, I did not pry into her feeling on the subject<br /> but she interested me with an anecdote on another subject which I cannot write<br /> now it would be too lengthy<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> [Text in top margin written upside down]<br /><br /> I believe you must excuse me it seems so difficult to write or to<br /> have the attention fixed on any one thing and with love to all<br /> I subscribe your sister M W. Willis<br /><br /> [Text Middle of page written upward]<br /><br /> NW Hempstead<br /> Paul Sept 14<sup>th</sup> 1849<br /> 10 Isaac Post<br /> for Amy Post Rochester<br /> Munroe County N.Y.</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Willis, Mary W Kirby. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary W Kirby Willis to Amy Kirby Post, September 13, 1845.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Willis, Mary W Kirby
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1845-09-13
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
645
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. first day 14th John offers me his letter to finish and having stated the cause of our disappointment in not visiting you, and that we have given up our visit this fall, little Anna has not sufficiently recovered yet for us to leave, she seems wake ful and brighter this morning after a restless night again, coughs considerable yet which appears very necessary in breaking loose the phlegm, after being dressed this morn in her little pink frock and [panthlets?] light brown shoes, stockings, and a very white face. her mother stood her on her feet and bore her weight and takes a few steps but is very weak. I apprehend there are truth coming too. some days she sinks down and is very hot and dell, and sleepy, a week ago to night her recovery was very doubtful. but she underwent a change in the morning, after which the symptoms were favorable to a recovery. so that ^after some days^ I went home a little which, but was soon sent for again. She had elapsed. Rachel feels that she cannot let me go as far away as Rochester yet and it will soon be to late in the season that we conclude it better to defer it, for the present; and mother Kirby is poorly too, and I found she was when I wrote before but did not know of it untill [sic] after the letter was in the office, she has a great deal of pain in her back, the first time I went in to see her she looked feeble but when I returned from Westbury (where I now am) I went to see her the same day, and she said she was better tho not well the pain continues. I think she and father felt disappointed [obliterated] seemd [sic] pleased with the prospect of our journey, aunt Esther (R... is poorly yet; and Charry Ketcham continues sick they have had two Dcters [sic] the week past; how they will succeed time only will prove his Father told me that he thought there was but little hope for Charry's recovery, I was in there when home but did not see her, her father mother, sister, and aunt are there, and in the room, Where are Will can and Margaret are almost constantly with her night and day, they do not accept of their neighbors help yet, it is very difficult to move her on account of biles being very sore Rebecca appears to feel deeply for William, as we all do. the Dctr [sic] has said untill [sic] recently that she had no disease, no fever but that it was owing to her peculiar situation; but now he states it is a hasty consumption. the last time I saw her a week ago I felt more confirmed by appearances that it was a liver affection. It is nearly meeting time and as my husband is not very well and it is a rainy morning, he will remain with Rachel to assert while Samuel and I go to meeting where S has not been in some time brother Edmund has been up the past week engaged in getting hay to South for father, I have not seen him or Mary yet. James and Phebe Post went to Flushing and if they have returned we may give information from William Post which I hope may be encouraging as the last account was soon ^afternoon^ having returned P. Post informed me that William [Pather?] their having their all might sent for James, ^said^ he would like to see him which was the first person that he had been willing to see, they said that he was too weak to go out having had dysentary [sic] which had reduced him. and that morning had asked his wife for something to eat; he slept pretty well and his mind was better their has been talk of taking him to the asylum but they got a man I believe from their who understood tho treatment necessary. it is a very trying circumstance to his mother and brother I hear, and we doubt it is exceedingly so to his wife. I saw Phebe Haviland to meeting here come up to see her boys who are at Rachel Hicks's, likewise a strange woman that was dressed nice and looked like a friend and their seemed considerable wondering who she was and where from & after coming away Samuel told me that John Searling was their with his wife, we had not heard before that he had one. Edward and Esther Willets have been to see Kezia Cary her husband is now very poorly cannot be down at all, and does not appear like continuing long. I have invited Rachel to fill this ^page^ but she declines, feeling that she must attend to her sick baby, but request her love inserted to all, we hope to hear from you the last report Joseph had broken his arm, I noticed Robert Willets was at meeting to day which was unexpected as I had heard that he had another pow turn having lay'd down during the day when he arose he could not speak. I suppose he it did not last long. I made an interesting call with Anna W.W. lately she sees in fine spirits talking about the arrival of English friends who have come over on account of difficulties in their society on the abolition subject at Indiana, I did not pry into her feeling on the subject but she interested me with an anecdote on another subject which I cannot write now it would be too lengthy [Text in top margin written upside down] I believe you must excuse me it seems so difficult to write or to have the attention fixed on any one thing and with love to all I subscribe your sister M W. Willis [Text Middle of page written upward] NW Hempstead Paul Sept 14th 1849 10 Isaac Post for Amy Post Rochester Munroe County N.Y.
Abolitionism
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c712df755898bf76cc4775d43fab8ab8.jpg
bd8fce78c040aa30f55e45bb48a55d1a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a516d135b175cd4fbe01f4c5659894cf.jpg
aa74182d2bf9ae5a7dd19b419baa8ce9
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/6999d918b1e0198eded3bc3f24f211c1.jpg
ec01e3e329c99eb26f6fba626674b998
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/210d2b091577454d5542a1c4e551523a.xml
742e8b2ea76bc1fb9630eb7ce18e70c3
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p><br /> (Page 1)<br /> <br /> Rowland Roberson and wife has resined [sic] thir [sic] right of<br /> membership, some here some in one place and some in<br /> another resigning. and and [sic] now and then one request<br /> we have had one requester lately and Bethpage their [obliterated]<br /> been several. 9<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> mo 19 Mary would probably have<br /> finished this if at home, we went to Jericho yesterday, mor<br /> -ning found the people assemble at the funeral of<br /> Charry Ketcham she has been sick a number of <br /> weeks the corps was taken to River head for inter-<br /> ment, a great trial for William, have not been<br /> married a year. We found Mother so poorly<br /> and lonely that Mary staid a few days has been<br /> very feeble for some weeks, Samuel Hicks and Rachel<br /> little daughter has been verry [sic] sick for some time<br /> a little better some times and then not as well I <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">believe</span><br /> believe it causes many remarks by some of their<br /> neighbours their not having[sic] a <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Dockter</span> [sic] but depending<br /> on the pills, I saw your Father's family all but I,<br /> at meeting all well as usual I believe Uncle<br /> John and Mary have taked [sic] of making [sic] you a<br /> visit at Rochester but wither they will make out<br /><br /> (Page2)<br /><br /><br /> [Text in Middle of page written upward]<br /><br /> Hemp.. N.Y 10<br /> Sept 19<br /><br /> Edmund P Willis<br /> Rochester<br /> N york<br /><br /> [Text at bottom of page written upside down]<br /><br /> is some uncertain aunt Mary we herd was putting [sic] up their<br /> cloths on 7<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> day to start on 2<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>nd</sup></span> day, and Samuel came<br /> after her it is now 2 or 3 weeks ago, Joseph Hicks and Lydia<br /> have another son have now 5 and lost one Aunt Rachel<br /> much as she has been for years, seems to know pretty much<br /> all that is passing, about as good a place to here news<br /> as any we go to. Pleas [sic] direct your letters and all Post<br /> Office matter to North Hempstead again. the office has<br /> been removed to the Store of E Lewis<br /> Affectionately your Uncle Joseph Post<br /></p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Edmund P Willis.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Edmund P Willis, September 10, 1845.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1845-09-10
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Edmund P Willis
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
643
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Rowland Roberson and wife has resined [sic] thir [sic] right of membership, some here some in one place and some in another resigning. and and [sic] now and then one request we have had one requester lately and Bethpage their [obliterated] been several. 9th mo 19 Mary would probably have finished this if at home, we went to Jericho yesterday, mor -ning found the people assemble at the funeral of Charry Ketcham she has been sick a number of weeks the corps was taken to River head for inter- ment, a great trial for William, have not been married a year. We found Mother so poorly and lonely that Mary staid a few days has been very feeble for some weeks, Samuel Hicks and Rachel little daughter has been verry [sic] sick for some time a little better some times and then not as well I believe believe it causes many remarks by some of their neighbours their not having[sic] a Dockter [sic] but depending on the pills, I saw your Father's family all but I, at meeting all well as usual I believe Uncle John and Mary have taked [sic] of making [sic] you a visit at Rochester but wither they will make out (Page2) [Text in Middle of page written upward] Hemp.. N.Y 10 Sept 19 Edmund P Willis Rochester N york [Text at bottom of page written upside down] is some uncertain aunt Mary we herd was putting [sic] up their cloths on 7th day to start on 2nd day, and Samuel came after her it is now 2 or 3 weeks ago, Joseph Hicks and Lydia have another son have now 5 and lost one Aunt Rachel much as she has been for years, seems to know pretty much all that is passing, about as good a place to here news as any we go to. Pleas [sic] direct your letters and all Post Office matter to North Hempstead again. the office has been removed to the Store of E Lewis Affectionately your Uncle Joseph Post
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/637a1b47dc35a64dfa7bf5fec22c2aaa.jpg
c1efb82c40c4a37ed563284123ceb89e
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/6045ee9e486e22d29d71b08661de05a6.jpg
dd0c2bf338896be431679797a97b224e
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)</p>
<p> </p>
<p> My dear Amy Ledyard 7<sup>th</sup> mo<sup>th</sup> 1845</p>
<p> Trusting that my long silence will not be con</p>
<p>strued by my ever dear Friend into indifference or neglect I once</p>
<p>more take the pen to assure thee and thy beloved partner of my</p>
<p>unabated regard – I am sensible of my negligence it is owing to</p>
<p>a procrastinating spirit which I am apt to indulge – if I could carry</p>
<p>about me the means of committing my thots’ to paper ‘instanter’ [sic] I should</p>
<p>I believe often salute my absent friends in this way and consequently</p>
<p>deserve a return – but suffice it to say I have visited you often in</p>
<p>idea – have ardently wished for your company and friendly chat when</p>
<p>my hands were not at liberty to take the pen or my ability to secure</p>
<p>a suitable place to write – now if I have not forfeited thy dear</p>
<p>love and good will do send me some token as soon as convenient</p>
<p>We learn that Brother Joseph is about making some arrangement</p>
<p>for a remove 50 mils [sic] west I trust it will be best – he has my warm</p>
<p>wishes for his successful enterprise not only in the experiment of a</p>
<p>country life but an exchange where he can sit under his own</p>
<p>vine and “none make make [sic] affraid [sic]” for my dear friend of how</p>
<p>much are we constantly affraid [sic] – I have long, long, been turning</p>
<p>and turning the subject in my own mind but alas! alas! how are</p>
<p>we at every step arrested by “lo here and lo there” to our confusion</p>
<p>and dismay – dreading the loss of caster so we have groped our way</p>
<p>till [sic] lost in darkness we cannot assist others or be useful in our</p>
<p>day – I have been aroused of late by the discovery that [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">fr</span>]</p>
<p>the writings of Elias Hicks have been suppressd [sic] – no doubt for the</p>
<p>reason that our enlightend [sic] meetg [sic] for suff’g believ’d it best</p>
<p>to do so – now I wish thee would institute an enquiry into</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 2)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>the [obliterated] on perusing a certain trial since the decis</p>
<p>ion – where orthodoxy wished to prove him infidel certain</p>
<p>letters were brought to prove his radical views – such quotations</p>
<p>as were to the point are truly interesting to me as they [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">prov</span>]</p>
<p>^proved^ incontestibly [sic] that all his writings have not been printed</p>
<p>nor do I believe that any friends writing ever have been</p>
<p>printed without being seriously injured – this has been</p>
<p>long – a source of evil – Aden[<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">t</span>] T long was often very clear</p>
<p>in the case of the scriptures and I am well assured that</p>
<p>the same exclusion has been practiced with respect to E</p>
<p>Hicks and Job Scott – I think if you were to apply</p>
<p>to some LI. friends, they would in form – it may seem</p>
<p>unimportant to you – but we are so gratified lately by</p>
<p>some writers – in the Herald of Freedom and Liberator</p>
<p>that we want to find among our own more near</p>
<p>friends proof of the clear manifestation of light and</p>
<p>faithful adherence therto [sic] I leave room for sister to add</p>
<p>as our dear children [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">aere</span>] ^are^ all here Isaac and Elisabeth</p>
<p>are here and I have not seen them much of late</p>
<p>I must close for the present with much love and hope</p>
<p>to hear from thee soon I can then write more perhaps</p>
<p>I intend to be more punctual in [putase?]</p>
<p> thine</p>
<p> Sarah E Thayer</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Thayer, Sarah E. Letter to Amy Kirby Post. (1845-07-30)
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Sarah E Thayer to Amy Kirby Post, July 30, 1845.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Thayer, Sarah E
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1845-07-30
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
640
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Abolitionism
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1f0620fa023e7148e2884113225cbd8e.jpg
a3c30ad9321347191dee908183332e57
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/676c392b2b45f3165ffe6a93d18cc30c.jpg
8f7b55452b4f9d093ce642be65b48e71
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/b01aa627eb785dc7aebf68aee4d143f3.jpg
ca848c4036f706f11f460bdba13f162a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/31e67d8c81baffcc1898ef50a276f0cc.jpg
1e7d9cdc597928778117c3b119aca33b
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Buffalo 7.. 10.. 1845</p>
<p>Much Esteemed Friend</p>
<p> Having a little leisure to write I shall</p>
<p>not let it pass unimproved tho’ I have nothing remarkable</p>
<p>to say – but I have no intent of allowing the circumstance</p>
<p>of your withdrawal from the monthly ^meeting^ to make any differ-</p>
<p>in my feelings and trust [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">they</span>] ^it^ will not in yours. – Indeed</p>
<p>you are held in higher estimation by me, than those who</p>
<p>could approve or silently submit to have Benj Fish</p>
<p>deprived of his right: as little as it might be worth – for,</p>
<p>if as W<sup>m</sup> S. Burtin expressed – “He is an honest man”; –</p>
<p>It becomes us to be verry [sic] careful how we get into a state</p>
<p>that would say to such – “Stand by thy self, I am</p>
<p>more holy than thou” – least [sic] we become judges</p>
<p>rather than doers of the law of divine love. –</p>
<p>I have a letter from Isaac T. Hopper of the 24.. Ult.</p>
<p>by which it appears he had heard of our yearly meeting by a letter</p>
<p>he had received from Joseph Dugdale – He regrets your leaving society.</p>
<p>I will give an extract from his letter: – he says. “I had heard before</p>
<p>receiving thy letter that Iaac [sic] Post & wife had resigned their right of</p>
<p>membership in the Society of Friends and I was truely [sic] sorry to hear it.</p>
<p>I have no doubt but they have had much to try their faith and</p>
<p>patience, but still it appears to me that they had better have held on: –</p>
<p>By withdrawing they weaken their own cause and strengthen that of the</p>
<p>enemy. I know well what it is to contend with the spirit of orthodoxy</p>
<p>and that is now as rampant on our side as ever it was on the [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">other</span>] side</p>
<p>we call orthodox. – Isaac Post & wife are friends that I much esteem ^&c.^.</p>
<p> Geo. F White continues his denunciations about as hard as ever.</p>
<p>In speaking lately of the benevolent institutions he called them</p>
<p>traders in benevolence and said they were the meanest beings on</p>
<p>Earth – they were the verry [sic] scum – That they were more de-</p>
<p>graded than the Devils in hell. All this goes down</p>
<p>as gospel – The day he made use of this low vulgar</p>
<p>language – The monthly meeting gave him a minute to attend Philadel-</p>
<p>phia Yearly meeting.” So much from New York. They have ther [sic] great men.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 2)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Geo. F White is no doubt a smart man – but I have before me an</p>
<p>extract from a curse Issued by the Pope which (if he should read it).</p>
<p>would make him ashamed of his publick [sic] declamations unless he</p>
<p>can command stronger language – it reads thus Being a curse</p>
<p>pronounced by the Pope on the Rev<sup>d</sup> W<sup>m</sup> Hogan formerly</p>
<p>a Papal Priest –</p>
<p> “By the authority of God Almighty, the Father</p>
<p>Son and Holy-Ghost, and the undefiled Virgin Mary,</p>
<p>Mother and patroness of our Saviour, and of all celestial virtues,</p>
<p>Angels, Archangels, Thrones, Dominions, Powers, Cherubim & Ser-</p>
<p>aphim[<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">s</span>], and of all the holy Patriarchs, Prophets, and of all the</p>
<p>Apostles and Evangelist, of the Holy Innocents, who in the sight</p>
<p>of the Holy Lamb are found worthy to sing the new</p>
<p>song of the Holy Martyrs and Holy Confessors and of all</p>
<p>the Holy Virgins and of all saints, together with the Holy</p>
<p>Elect of God; May he, William Hogan be damned."</p>
<p>[<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">May the Con, who suffered for us</span>] We excommunicate and</p>
<p>anathamatize [sic] him, from the threshold of the Holy Church of God Almighty.</p>
<p>We sequester him, that he may be tormented, disposed, and be deliv-</p>
<p>ered over with Dathan and Abiram, and with those who</p>
<p>say unto the Lord, Depart from us, we desire none of</p>
<p>thy ways; as a fire is quenched with water, so let the</p>
<p>light of him be put out forever more, unless it shall re-</p>
<p>pent him, and make satisfaction Amen! xxxxxxxxx</p>
<p> May the Holy Mary, ever virgin & Mother of God curse him!</p>
<p>May St. Michael the advocate of the Holy souls curse him!</p>
<p>May all the Angels, Principalities & Powers ^& Heavenly Armies^ curse him!</p>
<p>May the glorious ban of Patriarchs & Prophets curse him!</p>
<p>May St John & [writer’s insertion to quote:] (here follows the Apostles and worthies) May all the Saints</p>
<p>from the beginning of the world to everlasting ages who</p>
<p>are found to be beloved of God, [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">curse</span>] ^Damn^ him!</p>
<p>May he be damned wherever he be, whether in the</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 3)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>the [sic] house or in the alley, in the woods or in the water,</p>
<p>or in the church! May he be cursed in living & dying!</p>
<p>xxx [writer’s insertion to quote:] (half a page of curses omited. [sic])</p>
<p>May he be cursed in all</p>
<p>his joints, and articulations of the members; from the crown</p>
<p>of his head to the soles of his feet may there be</p>
<p>no soundness! – May the Son of the living God,</p>
<p>with all the glory of his Majesty, curse him! And</p>
<p>may Heaven with all the powers that move</p>
<p>therein, rise up against him and curse him and</p>
<p>damn him; unless he repent and make Satisfaction</p>
<p> !Amen!”</p>
<p>Such is the language of the very head</p>
<p>of self styled Orthodoxy. – Perhaps some of Friends</p>
<p>may conclude it is best to leave the Heresy of Fox</p>
<p>Penn Barkly & Hix. (excuse my spelling) and go back to</p>
<p>the good old Mother Church. – I am honest in the</p>
<p>opinion that Nicholas Brown would do more</p>
<p>good there, than he will in the Society of</p>
<p>Friends. – Now dont expose this letter. – The truth is not to</p>
<p>spoken at all times and the above perhaps is of that kind.</p>
<p> The Quarterly meeting at Hamburg was verry [sic]</p>
<p>peaceable – and Benjamin Fish will no doubt have</p>
<p>a new committee next quarter – I regret he was</p>
<p>not at Hamburg that a committee might have</p>
<p>been appointed there. – Capron was disowned –</p>
<p> Should any of you write to John Mott</p>
<p>please give him to No. of Elders in Rochester</p>
<p>Monthly-meeting – Elias Degarmo perhaps had better</p>
<p>write it – as John wished the information from some</p>
<p>member of that meeting. –</p>
<p> If convenient within a week or two enclose</p>
<p>in a letter that Article of agreement between me</p>
<p>and Johnson – It being a memoranda I may need tho’ of no value. –</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[Text sideways in left margin]</p>
<p>Dont let Capron get hold of this letter least [sic] he print it. –</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 4)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I guess thou wilt think I was determined to fill a sheet any how.</p>
<p> This kind of paper we can send about 2 ½ sheets as cheap</p>
<p>as one. –</p>
<p> What say to starting a store of medicines in Buffalo</p>
<p>Think about it –</p>
<p> I have had a violent headach [sic] all the time</p>
<p>I have been writing this letter – and if thine don’t</p>
<p>ache after reading it I shall almost doubt the</p>
<p>reality of Animal Magnetism. – But really I hope</p>
<p>you are all in good health – My health is verry [sic]</p>
<p>good with the exception I have noted. –</p>
<p> I went to a Methodist meeting last first day</p>
<p>and staid [sic] until the minister took his text which</p>
<p>was in James 1. Chapt. 25.. verse. and reads thus: –</p>
<p> But whoso looketh into the perfect law of</p>
<p>liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a for-</p>
<p>getful hearer – but a doer of the work, this man</p>
<p>shall be blessed in his deeds – I then left him</p>
<p>to make his own comments and went to the office</p>
<p>and made mine in a letter to a friend not of</p>
<p>our society – But the minister admitted on the start</p>
<p>that this law was not the law of Moses – that</p>
<p>the law of Moses was no more necessary to</p>
<p>Salvation than the law of the State of New-</p>
<p>York.. – Excuse my brevity and when</p>
<p>convenient send me a few lines – and</p>
<p>let me know when Rochester Monthly</p>
<p>Meeting is held at Rochester and what</p>
<p>time in the Month. – Thy Friend</p>
<p>Isaac Post. – Nathaniel Potter</p>
<p> </p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Potter, Nathaniel Jr. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Nathaniel Jr Potter to Isaac Post, July 10, 1845.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Potter, Nathaniel Jr
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1845-07-10
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
639
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Medicine
Personal
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/40107b4d239f221bcdb5d2de54097225.jpg
bc50c61638bb072e9778b6107baaa9a4
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/2f73007d3cfb6001a6919edb6ab4bc3a.jpg
4f6db3b5bd03975fd8a834e9ef3e66e4
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/282917de3eb3f9c268d24ce684f1e666.jpg
787c02374fac5b730de9d4c445bbe189
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a502956e814990886c483d1f7f10a308.jpg
b4a459508ce6be5a429cb6c422e1a4c9
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> Jericho the 9 of first Month 1845<br /> Who would have thought 20 years ago that I should<br /> be here to write this date 1845 but so it is – alass [sic] ^what^ for<br />Dear daughters<br /> I due [sic] often mingle with you in sympaty [sic] in these<br />deep tryals [sic], no doubt they are permitd [sic] for some good purpuse [sic]<br />that is beyound [sic] our comprehension, and dear Amy I hope thou will<br />endeavour to seek for resignation, in thy keen tryal [sic] off thy darling<br />and only ^little^ daughter, now in her lovely and inocent [sic] state, nothing<br />to mourn for but our loss, hers is a shure [sic] and Eternal Rest<br />we knew off [sic] her beauty and loveliness how like the rose so soon to drop<br />and be gone, so will her sweetness remain, I trust, with many of us<br />we heard of the affecting tidings by E P Willis letter to P P W but I said<br />to myself my beloved Amy will not withold [sic] her pen to us on so<br />mournfull [sic] a theme, as the [sic] knew I always want to know more<br />particular than he writes, but in this his feelings – now very tenderly<br />toucht [sic] we had two of his letter to read one before her ixit [sic]<br /> Lamentable inded [sic] is the state of sosiety [sic] I pity you but believe<br />I might more justly pity myself and do sometimes look back when<br />I felt as an out cast from my friends, and am yet as a nothing<br />thou said thou should take no hasty steps If I have any right to say<br />I desire you not to[<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">o</span>] hope you will overcome their evil with good<br />we have no new difficulties that I know a very friendly<br />intercourse seams [sic] to subsist, as to our Meetings business<br />perhaps in a few days, P P W and myself shall pay Hannah<br />W Underhill a visit on account of her uniting in mariage [sic]<br />with a member Jourdan Underhll [sic] not ^acomplisht [sic]^ in the order of society<br />Wilet [sic] coms [sic] in and says mother who writing to he says tell Amy<br />to hold on going to meeting not give it up it looks so bad<br />they returnd [sic] from their father Pettits yesterday say the Old folks are<br />perty [sic] well, but their father seams [sic] at times to know but very<br />little Johns wife Sally is porly [sic] coughfs [sic] and raises looks like going down perty [sic] <br />much confind [sic] to the house shortness of breathing, dont hear from those gone to west in long<br /> time<br /><br />[Text sideways in left margin]<br />Ana Wilis yet at the Asylum they did not inform her of her Mothers death – [they?] feel a litle [sic] hope she gains a little
(Page 2)<br /><br />Lydia Seaman has made us a pleasent [sic] visit just before our<br />2 Meeting she seams [sic] perty [sic] comfortable but cannot come down stairs<br />without some assistance, weekness [sic] in her back, at times I hardly<br />know how to realize it that Sister Sarah is gone, my husbands [siff?]<br />visitd [sic] her abought a week before her death she said she had no pain<br />no not even a head ake [sic] her feet and legs very much swolen [sic] I me<br />-sured [sic] one just below the knee, it was ove [sic] a half yard she seamd [sic] very<br />quiet and patient, so different from she usually had been, she sat in<br />her chair nig<sup>ts</sup> had not laid down in 3 weeks, but she soon did after we<br />left her seamd [sic] to sleep easy siting [sic], at Seventh day morning as Lydia was<br />washing and dressing her feet which had both got soar, James was siting [sic] by<br />and said I believe she is gone, so easy no apparent change, the corps [sic]<br />was brought up on the railroad second day morning – we met at the Mg<br />house at 2 <sup>o</sup>clock. quite a number of friends came up with them the corpes [sic]<br />not exposed which was a tryal [sic] to her neighbours Lydia said a change<br />seamd [sic] to take place first day night, she seamd [sic] very desirus [sic] to see Siste [sic] Phebe<br />again but she could not leave Samel [sic]. Robert Seman went up to see<br />S Phebe soon after Samuels death she was not well. something like intermiten [sic]<br />fever kept her room, but loot [sic] perty [sic] smart he thought – and said to him now<br />if you dont here [sic] from me – you may conclude I am geting [sic] a long – suppose<br />3 weeks after that – John Ketcham had a letter from David, which is now 3<br />weeks sins [sic] that was received, that she was at Pokeepsie [sic] at Dr Lappers in<br />-fermry [sic] – he said she did not need medicin [sic] only steaming and a little dashing<br />with cold water – and that he the Dr had her out walkin [sic] two miles that<br />morning – which is the last accont [sic] – Elijah & Amy had invited her to<br />stay the winter with them – which she accepted as she told Robert<br />and what then we know nothing – and how does our dear Sarah feel<br />like being a resident with us our doors are open to receive the [sic] cordially<br />if their [sic] is no way that seams [sic] pleasenter [sic] to thee our beloved Sarah<br />but as to seaing [sic] any business business that will be to thy advantage or satisfaction<br />I seam [sic] as a blank I cant feel that I want [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">to have</span>] the [sic] ^to^ enter in our domestic<br />affairs with very little gain, (now dont feel that we don’t want thee) no entirely otherways [sic]<br />I remarked Amy said scarse [sic] anything abought thee, I want to here [sic] from the [sic] much more than we doe [sic]
(Page 3)<br /><br /> the 12 of first M<sup>o</sup> 1845<br />yesterday we went Johns for the first this winter I calculate to went to the Cove with<br />PPW but heard their [sic] the Death of Samuel Underhill ^to be [burd [sic]?] to morro [sic]^ sudenly [sic] thought it not sutabible [sic]<br />we spent the day, Isaac & Samuel Hicks with their wifes & three great grandchildren came<br />MF one only 5 weeks old wich [sic] they call William C James & E Mott with<br />their [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">theer</span>] 3 staid [sic] a night the first of the month and attended the funerals of Phebe Willis<br />at [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">Tohmas</span>?] Thomas he spoke and no one els [sic] ^likewise^ E attende [sic] David Kectham [sic] funeral the next day<br />after Phebe his failure was very gradual, E and children all well fate babe and quiet James<br />had perty [sic] heavy coald [sic], Ed & MR left here a few days past E said e was well of his lamness [sic]<br />and appeared so – but does not expose himself to outdoors work much yet – I feard [sic] at one<br />time he never would get straight again – has suffered great pain at times could not<br />keep his seat long enuff [sic] to eat a meal tryd [sic] many things at last cold water bathing seamd [sic]<br />to relieve him it was their [sic] first and only visit this winter here<br /> Sister Esther has had a very painfull [sic] hand prceded [sic] by a bruise on the right hand<br />from [finge?] cuting [sic] dat butchering tim [sic] look coald [sic] & it sweld [sic] all the fingers stood out stiff<br />it gathered and discharged in 10 different places now its all heald [sic] up, but it’s a<br />poor hand yet, dont get limber feels numb & stiff but can bend the finders some<br />expect it will be a great while if eve [sic] she gets the full use, Betsy Mathews her [helps?]<br />been a good nurse and help too she has been out to Mg twice – Joseph & Mary Post<br />here last week all well. Isaac Rushmore at Johns last first day a pleasnt [sic] from him<br />last 5 day he said not one women at their Mg 6 or 7 men a snow storm the day before drifted<br />much on 5 only 9 women at ours more men none from our house but Willet<br />Rachel Willis was fetcht [sic] to flushing very nearly 3 weeks ago by<br />William Post Esther Lawrence very poorly so that did not expect her to live<br />but a very short time, but the last account she still ingered along her<br />Neice [sic] Esther P Lawrence & others their [sic] their last accout [sic], its reported that W Post<br />visits Esther satisfactorily to their friends I think Kecthams [sic] wife abought<br />size of MF Hicks and appears agreeable so far as I have seen, pleasent [sic] and easy<br />in her maner [sic], she with W soon have us a call after that they with Phebe &<br />Margaret took tea with us agreeably – Phebe often hars [sic] from Thomas say<br />he hears nothing from Rochester she seams [sic] easy and pleasent [sic] in her undertakin [sic]<br />the family too as appears, its said Wiliam expects to remain at home but<br />how & in what way I dont know Phebe now at the Riverhead with then went<br />last 7 day with a Slead [sic] to leave [C^h^arry two weak?]
good all write [sic] no heavy cold has not lost one meal<br />from indisposion [sic] mist [sic] [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">very</span>] only one meeting on account of snow drifts cuts & saws wo^o^d<br />for the franklin eats a great many apples – & reads hour after hour this week very much eng<br />aged with Elwoods journal, last week the bible, sometimes the news paper take his [attention?]<br />my head destress [sic] that I mentond [sic] to you some time is very much relievd [sic]<br />and am comfortable I most practice cold bathing every morng and<br />conclude it has been beneficial, how is Cousin A Moot [sic] our loves to her<br />if you see her our Neighbours are now generaly [sic] in usual health<br />E W often out and cuts wood occsionaly [sic] walk to tomys & c<br />M W W has a tender feeling for you with much sympathy<br />think to write ere its long<br /> fifth day morng all well in much love M Kirby<br /> 13 of 2 mo<br /><br />[Text sideways, bottom right margin]<br />I thought I would just say<br />Isaac has paid for that standerd [sic]<br />long enuff [sic] for our folk I think<br />they dont wish to pay it<br />now you nead [sic] never mention<br />it on paper to us to let our<br />children know that I have<br />mention’d it to you<br /><br />[Text sideways, center of page]<br />Jericho NY. 18<br />Feb 13<sup>th</sup> <br /><br /> Isaac Post for Amy Post<br /> Rochester Monroe Conty [sic]<br /> NY
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Kirby, Mary R. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary R Kirby to Amy Kirby Post, January 9, 1845.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Kirby, Mary R
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1845-01-09
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
624
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/b24ec7c8239755989b42cb0d347e124e.jpg
59365b15cfc5a77ffc37f5f14314c056
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/be5d233dc931a375f45642db824a6602.jpg
e49e51101803af53b0db258a026bf597
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5af4e185887e0f5ac5c6a72243f8cca4.jpg
95a52297c25b535a06d80b05501a7949
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ded99891acc03273d30a330cba3c3c83.jpg
af655a67df20156f53a9965429e6d08f
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> East-Hamburg 11<sup>th</sup> mo /44<br />Dear Sister<br /> Thy truely [sic] acceptable epistle of the 8.. inst.<br />was received on my return to Buffalo day before yes-<br />terday – for I have been to Michigan since I wrote by<br />our friends Benjamin Renof & S. P. G. – Also Isaacs favour<br />upon the same sheet which was highly satisfactory –<br />Tho’ it was painful to learn that any friend should<br />be willful in meeting – as [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">he says was the case</span>] ^expressed^ of Benj.<br />in the case of B. Fish – for I must love Benjamin<br />Fish if only ^for^ his zeal in behalf of the downtrodden<br />slave at a time that tried mens souls – I trust you<br />will not turn against him even tho’ he may have<br />been overtaken in a fault. (who has not?) We ought<br />to be Christ like & co workers with God:– Then we<br />shall put on charity, Love & tender compassion and if a<br />brother be overtaken with a fault – restore him if<br />possible in the spirit of meekness. – Remembering our<br />holy head and example of Christ who relieved those<br />oppressed of the Devil – If we are true believers we<br />shall be concerned to do the works of Christ – and<br />he came to “break every yoke and let the oppressed<br />go free”. Yes and he will do it. – He will see of the<br />travail of his soul and he satisfied. Christ is<br />the same in all the body (The true Church) as in<br />the head. – Well then can these living members<br />of the body of Christ feel satisfied to see sin<br />selfishness, oppression & suffering every where abound?<br />nay my sister. These will groan in spirit – with a <br />breathing of spirit & travail of soul for a better<br />state of things. – And this holy desire will prevail.<br />Tho’ the vision tary [sic] wait for it. – For it will<br />come – it will not tarry beyond the appointed<br />time. – But it will be brought about in the des-<br />truction of all those who persist in opposition<br />to his determinate counsel. – [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">“That which is cut off”.</span>]
(Page 2)<br /><br />Be willing that the counsel of the Lord shall<br />stand. – With all our suffering from self. –<br />righteous professors – we have need to watch least our<br />sympathy for them prevent the Lord from hastening<br />his great work in his day. – This may seem like<br />strange talk – but it is time nevertheless. – at least I<br />am sure I have found it so in my own experience.<br />I can not explain if there is nothing in it to thee throw<br />it away. – But I am compelled to believe that the<br />Lord will overthrow the power of the beast. –<br />Therefore let us trust in him rather than books<br />men or associations. – I dare not take the bible<br />or Quaker Discipline for my guide. – I expect to<br />blunder and perhaps fall more than once – but<br />as we read: a righteous man – tho’ he fall<br />seven times he shall rise again – and I know I<br />desire to do right – tho’ no doubt I often err<br />in judgement – But I can not believe a God<br />of love will finally cast off any who<br />are prayerfully concerned to know the right<br />way and walk therein. –<br /> Thy trials are greater than I had supposed – <br />and I am not sure but the spirit of opposition<br />in the minds of those who control your mutiny<br />matters – may excuse thee from what would be<br />required if prejudice did not exist. – I felt so<br />^with regard to myself^ last quarterly meeting on fifth day. – I felt a<br />strong impression to arise after D. Pound had<br />taken his seat and before Lorenzo spoke –<br />but I also felt the prejudice of some few<br />against me; – and I prayed to be excused<br />and do believe that I was on that account. –<br /> Thy trial about going to meeting reminded me<br />of my exercise at Hamburg monthly meeting the<br />day B. K. & S. P. G. were there – which constrained<br />me to speak against the dead formality of<br />attending meeting under the pretence [sic] of worship –<br />ping Almighty God while we are not engaged to<br />draw nigh unto him in spirit; – & said I – “it is
(Page 3)<br /><br />as dead a form as any other” – in which I found<br />peace. – Again today I found my peace to consist<br />in speaking altho’ as usual I had but little to say.<br />Uncle Reuben Palmer was there but he was si-<br />lent. – Do not be discouraged for trials await the<br />people of God every where. – Even our great minister<br />Richard Glazier was opposed when at Indiana Y.M.<br />this fall – Geo. Hatton told him in the meeting-<br />house after meeting that he was not a gospel<br />minister & never was. – It is said that he ^George Hatton^ and a<br />few more control the yearly meeting. –<br />Do write to me and direct to East-Hamburg – or<br />Buffalo – Thy friend & Brother N. Potter –<br /><br /> Pray for me that I may be preserved in the right way<br />for let the skeptic [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">may</span>] say ^what he may^ I do know, “the p^r^ayer of<br />the righteous availeth much.” – <br /> Priscilla Hunt was not at Indiana Yearly meeting<br />this fall – some circumstance other than poor health<br />prevented – for her health was pretty good – I forget whether<br />Richard saw her or not. – Lydia P. Mott was also in<br />health. – Priscilla Hunt – there is a charm in that name<br />for before I wrote it my mind was tossed as with a tempest<br />with the multiplicity of things that claimed my attention<br />both temporal & religious – but it is now calm: – it must be that<br />I have been to Michigan on business – on our way back we<br />had rather an interesting discussion on the subject of religion<br />fifth day morning before day – there were Baptist, presbyterians [sic]<br />methodist [sic] Christian &c. present – I done my full share of<br />talking for the two hours upon the subject of war,<br />the light within, paptism [sic], milerism [sic] &c. In the evening a Baptist<br />minister preached to us – He talked verry [sic] well – said severe things<br />to gamblers, profane swearers – which offended some of that<br />class – several both professers [sic] & profane – tried to persuade me<br />to talk – but I excused myself – tho’ I was deeply pained as<br />I was diped [sic] into the state of some then present – who were<br />under the influence of a thieveish [sic] disposition: and had<br />I of spoken I should not have spared them. After this<br />I heard a number of passengers complain of having things<br /> stolen from them. –
(Page 4)<br /><br />excuse me if in our correspondence for mutual improvement<br />if I omit the usual salutations as love to friends &c. for I often do so<br />least I acquire a habit of writing what I do not feel & hat is<br />altogether unnecessary. – What need have we for such compliments<br />if we are united to Christ the living head: and thereby enjoy the<br />fellowship which is with the Father and the son. The only way to<br />be truly happy. May we know the “The peace of God to<br />rule our minds in all we do.” –<br /><br />[Text sideways]<br />E Hamburg Paid 10<br />N.Y. Nov 19<br /> Amy Post<br /> Rochester City<br />A.P. N.Y.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Potter, Nathaniel Jr. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Nathaniel Jr Potter to Amy Kirby Post, November 19, 1844.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Potter, Nathaniel Jr
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1844-11-19
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
620
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c48aabb72326690b239dacba5aa5d541.jpg
86fab2a740dd61bafee6aeb5dda1d1d9
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/e1c5fb0157210dee43263211c612e26e.jpg
a6865ca0b9d143055685e5f06c74f5ef
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9f3869081a1a20a68ae3d58c73750aa9.jpg
cb6e604a0e0c1075c43e81bbdb24e1d8
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/aeec1ea25e28d319c76b45a994dadbc5.xml
104b61ae1886aaa4496f53d54419b34c
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> [Previous Pages written by Joseph Post to Isaac Post and transcribed as 618_11_16_1844]<br /><br /> and when such views are approved by so large a number<br /> can we wonder that there is commotion and clashing ?<br /> rather let it increase than diminish that all that can be<br /> moved may be shaken, that all of man’s creating may va<br /> =nish as a [scroll?] that a new heaven and a new earth may be kno^wn^<br /> and all of God It is the most encouraging of any thing when viewed<br /> in this way for it proves that there is some life -- a dead<br /> calm is much more to be feared I often desire we may be preserved <br /> from it the [Truth?] however will never fall tho [sic] it may be trampled upon<br /> ^by^ profesors [sic] and those who stand high before the people -- Some of <br /> our friends feel a great fear that priestcraft is gaining and that church<br /> and state may become united and when that is the case great parsec<br /> =utions will come upon us and friends are admonished to rise from <br /> their security and not deceive themselves that all is going on pretty<br /> well. Our liberty and right to worship according to the dictates of <br /> our conscience which we now enjoy in this <span style="text-decoration:underline;">free</span> and enlightened <br /> country of civil and religious liberty will be taken from us -- but<br /> the priests can never rule over us unless the people choose to have<br /> it so — then let us all cry aloud spare not that this catastrophy [sic] may be<br /> averted I left this space for Joseph but as he is engaged I scribbled it over<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> we miss mother very much it seems so like a dream that I can<br /> scarcely realise [sic] the reality was home <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">as</span> and sick such a little while<br /> that it seems more like a vivid dream – all in the west part looks lone and ^desolate^<br /> 3<sup>rd</sup> day morning Joseph intended to have sent this ere this but<br /> yesterday we attended the funeral of Aunt Sarah after which we went<br /> up to Henry’s so that there was no time to finish it --- Catharine<br /> Willis is poorly had a little chill each day for near a week but<br /> she was about some Joseph was gone to his grandfather’s on<br /> a visit -- Aunt Sarah droped [sic] away very suddenly at last ---<br /> Lydia was dressing her sores had got one leg dressed and<br /> looking up perceived her head to hang down and raising it<br /> found the vital spark had fled without any struggle – which <br /> I always esteem a favor to <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">have</span> a long and painful struggle at <br /> the close is exceedingly painful to witness — but few except<br /> relation came up with them John Plummer and Rachel Hicks<br /> ministered — Rachel quoted “Put me in the priests office that I may <br /> eat a peice [sic] of bread” [addressed?] a [state?] which she thought present<br /> and with whome [sic] she could sympathise [sic] for on entering the <br /> house she said in her heart I will not speak to the people let others <br /> better qualified who will be received better speak but this brought<br /> death and she feared she should have to return to her home without<br /> receiving any benefit from meeting with her friends when she was <br /> willing to give up to fill this office despised by the creature &<br /> thought there were some similarly circumstanced – she spoke<br /> very well — last 4<sup>th</sup> day evening was a general meeting of the <br /> Indian committees from all the y m [yearly meeting?]— it did not seem best for<br /> me to go and have not heard any thing relative to it — The<br /> monthly meeting of New York have a trying case Maria [Farrington?] was<br /> proposed by the select meeting for a minister which was united<br /> with by the women – and when the men had considered it and<br /> some expression of unity James C Haviland said he thought her honest<br /> and sincere but he did not think she had any gift in the ministry<br /> John Meritt was of the same sentiment and I think there was something<br /> about the select meeting having brought it forward unnaturely [sic] by<br /> by some friend it was of course left another month and after a <br /> pretty [tite?] [time?] ^a second mouth^ John Seaman said he did ^not^ see the way open for <br /> him to proceed — several remarked they had never heard the friend<br /> it was again left Robert Hicks remarked it was left to consider of and<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> [Text in top margin, written downward]<br /><br /> relation to holding<br /> the M M [Monthly Meeting?] a <br /> part of the <br /> time at Matinecock <br /> have agreed<br /> to propose its<br /> being held<br /> 4 times in<br /> a year thus<br /> they wanted it<br /> half the<br /> time __<br /> I hope in <br /> the excitement<br /> of Politics <br /> Isaac kept <br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">pretty cool<br /></span>uncle John<br /> and sons voted<br /> as well as<br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">some others <br /></span>uncle John<br /> has had a <br /> difficulty with <br /> Charles as you <br /> have probably <br /> heard Charles had<br /> a house raised<br /> which was taken<br /> down by uncle John<br /> they have expected<br /> to go to law but<br /> uncle J is now<br /> willing to settle <br /> it the [overseers?]<br /> have visited him on the account he is blamed very much by [continues upward]<br /> many<br /><br /> [Text at top of page, normal]<br /><br /> he thought it was a case which did not require much to be said<br /> out of meeting and hoped they might all be careful Joseph [thinks?]<br /> this is as likely to open the eyes of the advocates of recommendation<br /> as any thing ^we have seen^ as it is not at all a party thing for she is of the right<br /> stamp and that same class object __ we heard last summer that<br /> Rachel in the select meeting plead faithfully for her ordination (as<br /> I sometimes call it) but what need is there for this if we could<br /> only live in the liberty of truth we should be raised above <br /> all these things that we are now encompassed with then<br /> we could freely speak and act as becomes rational creatures<br /> but how few there are who do __ it is indeed sorrowful to conte<br /> =mplate the weakness and blindness of men that they should pres<br /> =ume to think their society or their opinions the standard for others<br /><br /> [Text in center of page, written upward]<br /><br /> Single 18 ¾ <br /> Isaac Post <br /> ROSLYN<br /> Nov<br /> 20 Rochester <br /> N.Y.<br /> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">New</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">York</span> <br /><br /><br /> [Text at bottom of page, normal]<br /><br /> What a pitty [sic]the community s in your parts do not agree better it would<br /> be pleasant if they could [succeed?] We want to hear from B Fish how he<br /> fare’s both ecclesiasticaly [sic] and temporally Why did [illegible] Coleman resign<br /> was it any abolition views that induced him to it Sarah Underwood<br /> was at quarterly meeting also Matinecock at which place she was very <br /> excellent her desire for us was that our course might be onward and upw^ard^<br /> [illegible] and free---suppose I<em> </em>have written about it tho before What<em> <br /></em>do you think of her prospect are you acquainted with the friend I fear he is<br /> not one of the liberal one’s all speak so well of him I could rejoice if he<br /><br /><br /> [Text in center right margin, written downward]<br /><br /> is and she made comfortable without any restraint<br /> upon her spirit and I have very much hoped she might <br /> not forge chains for herself by this act which may <br /> in any degree press heavy on her Farewel [sic] may we<br /> look for a very long letter soon in reply to the many<br /> l<span style="text-decoration:underline;">on</span>g one’s [sic] received by you from Mary for a long one<br /> is always more acceptable to <span style="text-decoration:underline;">us</span> but we shall<br /> be thankful for the smallest favor it is monthly <br /> meeting tomorrow would like to leave this until after<br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">if Joseph did not wish it to go the committee in</span> [obliterated]<br /> uncle Samuel Carpenter is deceased died rather suddenly we<br /> hear they have invited [his?] ^aunt Phebe^ to spend the winter with them Rachel [Baker?] <br /> expects to go South ere long we were glad of the visit from [William?] <br /> and Mary twas too short suppose they have returned ere this I was<br /> glad they see mother Don’t you [obliterated] like Garrisons remarks and [illegible]<br /> to Child and Gibbons – Gay’s[views?][obliterated] too I think very correct</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, November 16, 1844.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1844-11-16
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
619
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. [Previous Pages written by Joseph Post to Isaac Post and transcribed as 618_11_16_1844] and when such views are approved by so large a number can we wonder that there is commotion and clashing ? rather let it increase than diminish that all that can be moved may be shaken, that all of man's creating may va =nish as a [scroll?] that a new heaven and a new earth may be kno^wn^ and all of God It is the most encouraging of any thing when viewed in this way for it proves that there is some life -- a dead calm is much more to be feared I often desire we may be preserved from it the [Truth?] however will never fall tho [sic] it may be trampled upon ^by^ profesors [sic] and those who stand high before the people -- Some of our friends feel a great fear that priestcraft is gaining and that church and state may become united and when that is the case great parsec =utions will come upon us and friends are admonished to rise from their security and not deceive themselves that all is going on pretty well. Our liberty and right to worship according to the dictates of our conscience which we now enjoy in this free and enlightened country of civil and religious liberty will be taken from us -- but the priests can never rule over us unless the people choose to have it so -- then let us all cry aloud spare not that this catastrophy [sic] may be averted I left this space for Joseph but as he is engaged I scribbled it over we miss mother very much it seems so like a dream that I can scarcely realise [sic] the reality was home as and sick such a little while that it seems more like a vivid dream - all in the west part looks lone and ^desolate^ 3rd day morning Joseph intended to have sent this ere this but yesterday we attended the funeral of Aunt Sarah after which we went up to Henry's so that there was no time to finish it --- Catharine Willis is poorly had a little chill each day for near a week but she was about some Joseph was gone to his grandfather's on a visit -- Aunt Sarah droped [sic] away very suddenly at last --- Lydia was dressing her sores had got one leg dressed and looking up perceived her head to hang down and raising it found the vital spark had fled without any struggle - which I always esteem a favor to have a long and painful struggle at the close is exceedingly painful to witness -- but few except relation came up with them John Plummer and Rachel Hicks ministered -- Rachel quoted "Put me in the priests office that I may eat a peice [sic] of bread" [addressed?] a [state?] which she thought present and with whome [sic] she could sympathise [sic] for on entering the house she said in her heart I will not speak to the people let others better qualified who will be received better speak but this brought death and she feared she should have to return to her home without receiving any benefit from meeting with her friends when she was willing to give up to fill this office despised by the creature & thought there were some similarly circumstanced - she spoke very well -- last 4th day evening was a general meeting of the Indian committees from all the y m [yearly meeting?]-- it did not seem best for me to go and have not heard any thing relative to it -- The monthly meeting of New York have a trying case Maria [Farrington?] was proposed by the select meeting for a minister which was united with by the women - and when the men had considered it and some expression of unity James C Haviland said he thought her honest and sincere but he did not think she had any gift in the ministry John Meritt was of the same sentiment and I think there was something about the select meeting having brought it forward unnaturely [sic] by by some friend it was of course left another month and after a pretty [tite?] [time?] ^a second mouth^ John Seaman said he did ^not^ see the way open for him to proceed -- several remarked they had never heard the friend it was again left Robert Hicks remarked it was left to consider of and [Text in top margin, written downward] relation to holding the M M [Monthly Meeting?] a part of the time at Matinecock have agreed to propose its being held 4 times in a year thus they wanted it half the time __ I hope in the excitement of Politics Isaac kept pretty cooluncle John and sons voted as well assome others uncle John has had a difficulty with Charles as you have probably heard Charles had a house raised which was taken down by uncle John they have expected to go to law but uncle J is now willing to settle it the [overseers?] have visited him on the account he is blamed very much by [continues upward] many [Text at top of page, normal] he thought it was a case which did not require much to be said out of meeting and hoped they might all be careful Joseph [thinks?] this is as likely to open the eyes of the advocates of recommendation as any thing ^we have seen^ as it is not at all a party thing for she is of the right stamp and that same class object __ we heard last summer that Rachel in the select meeting plead faithfully for her ordination (as I sometimes call it) but what need is there for this if we could only live in the liberty of truth we should be raised above all these things that we are now encompassed with then we could freely speak and act as becomes rational creatures but how few there are who do __ it is indeed sorrowful to conte =mplate the weakness and blindness of men that they should pres =ume to think their society or their opinions the standard for others [Text in center of page, written upward] Single 1834; Isaac Post ROSLYN Nov 20 Rochester N.Y.NewYork [Text at bottom of page, normal] What a pitty [sic]the community s in your parts do not agree better it would be pleasant if they could [succeed?] We want to hear from B Fish how he fare's both ecclesiasticaly [sic] and temporally Why did [illegible] Coleman resign was it any abolition views that induced him to it Sarah Underwood was at quarterly meeting also Matinecock at which place she was very excellent her desire for us was that our course might be onward and upw^ard^ [illegible] and free---suppose I have written about it tho before Whatdo you think of her prospect are you acquainted with the friend I fear he is not one of the liberal one's all speak so well of him I could rejoice if he [Text in center right margin, written downward] is and she made comfortable without any restraint upon her spirit and I have very much hoped she might not forge chains for herself by this act which may in any degree press heavy on her Farewel [sic] may we look for a very long letter soon in reply to the many long one's [sic] received by you from Mary for a long one is always more acceptable to us but we shall be thankful for the smallest favor it is monthly meeting tomorrow would like to leave this until afterif Joseph did not wish it to go the committee in [obliterated] uncle Samuel Carpenter is deceased died rather suddenly we hear they have invited [his?] ^aunt Phebe^ to spend the winter with them Rachel [Baker?] expects to go South ere long we were glad of the visit from [William?] and Mary twas too short suppose they have returned ere this I was glad they see mother Don't you [obliterated] like Garrisons remarks and [illegible] to Child and Gibbons - Gay's[views?][obliterated] too I think very correct
Family
Native Americans
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/e0b2d036435623d93897384660052b14.jpg
965ec549b7d9256a679dc4d5015bce3a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d880b442063675a919cf7802b3ec6816.jpg
4d96478ac57dec9cda8227c7603e9a31
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/8b8fdeccd281e2d8af149ddaa3c3428a.jpg
0caec531db7415400310f4a7538b7727
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5e124c8ae3e9289e520385f64b80c196.jpg
8d34ce49046c39d16736706fa9c4f2ca
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/85a363170cf1b4199f9860ce5127cdf3.xml
edda1639c356ed7d21aa9a5191e22b11
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> Westbury 9<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> mo 15<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> 1843<br /> Dear Relatives <br /> Mary has filled one sheet I do not know<br /> that I shall have any thing [sic] worth putting on paper. As to<br /> our wordly affairs we seem to going on much in the old way<br /> except that it seems to be as difficult as has been or more<br /> so to get means to meet all demands, Wheat crops pretty <br /> good oats verry [sic] short . We have rain and cloudy weather in <br /> abundance so that the grass is as green as we have it in the <br /> spr^i^ng. we have our ground ready to sow our wheat but<br /> have been waiting two days on account of wind it now blows<br /> southeast fresh . it is also the week to get hay on the marsh <br /> an unfavo^u^rable time . I suppose as you are now citezens [sic] you <br /> care but little about these things . but as it is apart [sic] of<br /> our occupation it frequently occupies our thoughts . We here [sic]<br /> from the New York folks that buisness [sic] has improved generally<br /> I saw Wells Allis on first day last he say they can get money<br /> for their produce this year last year they could not much<br /> I think I and P Gifford showed a good deal of Rushmore<br /> in not concluding untill [sic] they got to Scipio about going<br /> west^so that L.Post had not clothes with her she thought aunt P. was not going untill [sic] they got<br /> their [sic]^<br /> it ^appears^ that they had as leave Lydia Post should stay, as she<br /> say, they did not invite her much . but when they come<br /> back they appeared verry [sic] sorry <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">we</span> that she had not been<br /> We here [sic] that J. Gifford ^[illegible] of^ <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">your</span> kindness <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">being</span> they received from<br /> you <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">no</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">more</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">than</span> I suppose they did not expect so much<br /> from those not of their faith as they are not of the liberal<br /> order . Uncle David has been verry [sic] desirous to bring about<br /> reckonciliation [sic] between the orthodox and us. he and<br /> Stepen [sic] Rushmore has had an interview or two . how<br /> far it will succeed I know not . It seems to me that their [sic]<br /> is as much difference between some members of our<br /> Society as their [sic] is between the orthodox and us. And if their [sic]<br /> should be a reckonciliation [sic] between the parties <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">and</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">if</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">there</span><br /><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">should</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">be</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">a</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">uniting</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">and</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">not</span> and the present disposition continue<br /> it will be of but little use . When Friends in the ministry<br /> come amongst us , if they are acquainted , it seems they<br /> like to go were [sic] they can have simpathizers [sic] as much as any of <br /> us <br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> Joseph Brown had the meeting houses at Jericho . Jerusalem and <br /> Cow Neck . but I suppose they could not be had in the unity<br /> for abolition. I do not think their [sic] is much change in<br /> the people about here. Our friends of the sectarian order<br /> think there is an improvement as we are ^petty [sic]^ quiet and have<br /> not had any one around to arouse us lately , I do not know<br /> but that Long Island is as hard place for Antislavery to enter<br /> as any I have heard of . We here [sic] Whithead Hicks has signed<br /> the temperance pledge which is a new move for a Hicks <br /> it may be the scales will fall frome [sic] the eyes of the <br /> people after a while We have heard verry [sic] little <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">from</span> <br /> about R. Hick,s visit to Peru but it appears to me that <br /> she has been disappointed in not haveing [sic] more of the com=<br /> =mittee to attend that Quarter with her . and I <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">sonetimes</span><br /> sometimes think she is disappoined [sic] in other respects <br /> Some of the convention of colour at Buffalo showed their <br /> Preistly order as much as any of the white order<br /> it appears that the sp^i^rit of Priest craft is the same<br /> wherever found wither in the White man the Black<br /> man or the Quaker or in a woman . I think our friend<br /> Rachel has changed as much on womans rights as any<br /> subject she thinks the women have rights enough, that<br /> she had rather the discipline was altered back than<br /> that they have any more privelagess [sic] that the alteration<br /> has not been for the better . Gideon Frost has returned , we<br /> have not seen him , how he has succeeded in collecting debts <br /> we know not , but am in hopes he has enough to pay<br /> his debts and have some left. he came home with some<br /> horses . I suppose he will have a cirtificate [sic] to our meeting <br /> now as the New York folks have had his case befor the<br /> judges and discharged it . Uncle Henry and his daghters [sic]<br /> seemed to want to say but little about Presyism or the <br /> different views in their church as some of the family would<br /> think . I do not think Uncle Henry is willing to acknowledge to <br /> us that he is one although I beleave [sic] he attends with them <br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /> they went to meeting with us two first day, Aunt Sarah came<br /> up to see them as they were about leaving Lydia said to her<br /> that Cornelia wanted to go to their meeting that day so that she<br /> could ^tell^ mother Michel she had been to their meeting , Aunt<br /> I said she thought of inviting them the day before when at <br /> their house. But as we invited them on going to meeting to stop <br /> if they chased. <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">they</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">concluded</span> Mary said we gave them <br /> choice which seemed rather unexpected Uncle H said <br /> that when when [sic] he went to Rome he done as the [Romans?]<br /> did. I suppose we shall get no blame for entertaining and <br /> associating with them. Although they appear to me to be<br /> what are termed the worlds people as much as any I meet<br /> with any where . Elicam Levi is now here and says he has<br /> been buying 11 acres of plains in the plain lot south of Learning<br /> in the northwest corner . Elkanor Wood has bought 220 acres<br /> in the sourth west corner of the same lot of W<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>m</sup></span> Titus <br /> which Friends disapprove of verry [sic] much but he seems<br /> fixed he is now poor and proberbly [sic] will grow poorer<br /> the plains seems to be settleing [sic] abut wither the present <br /> generation will be benefited by it is some doubtful<br /> to me . Elicam Levi hs the standard sent to him he <br /> say Stephen Hicks disapproves of it . as it course so much<br /> disun^i^ty that he antislavery movement all origonates [sic]<br /> in the reson and will of man. he say he asked him <br /> if John Woolman did not cause disunity yest [sic] but he <br /> did not call such hard names . that several of the<br /> states were on the point of pasing [sic] a law for the <br /> abolition of slaves but the antislavery movement<br /> has put it all back (as they the southerner were so<br /> offended that they held on harder than ever. It does <br /> requir [sic] a considerable degree of patience and charity to <br /> cover the willful ignorance of such , who are as <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">inlight </span><br /> inlightened [sic] as they are ^&on other subjects^ to reason as they do <br /> First day after meeting , our Friend Rachel held ofrth and when she speaks<br /> reverlation [sic] she generally speaks well but when she seems to have<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> some meaning on particular subjects I think she lets a<br /> little of the creation. get in which she condemns so hard in other<br /> she spoke against being enticed away by sinners that we should<br /> be verry [sic] loth to be influenced by those that were transgreese [sic]<br /> of the moral law, that we had no right to judge a person excep [sic]<br /> by the moral law, for we could not tell what was his duty in <br /> other respects<br /><br /> [Text in center of page, written upward]<br /><br /> Isaac Post<br /> New York Rochester <br /> NY <br /><br /> [Text in right margin]<br /><br /> *verrily [sic] our society <br /> is not better than<br /> others unless under<br /> the influence of <br /> the government of <br /> Christ which we<br /> ought to follow in <br /> all things which <br /> if do we shall not<br /> be condemned for doing<br /> benevolent deeds<br /><br /> with love to <br /> all as if named<br /> Joseph Post<br /><br /> [Text at bottom of page, written normal]<br /><br /> she said a good deal ^about^ acting the hypocrit [sic] that we might conceal for awhile<br /> but it would come out, Since meeting we here that Daniel<br /> Thorn of Brooklyn has been whiping [sic] his wife, which is an [illegible]<br /> for <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">what</span> Rachels concern for she seldom comes out with<br /> any particular view without haveing [sic] herd something before<br /> at least , this is my opinion I am frequently told . Oh thee<br /> is jealous thee most [sic] not be so jealous . All Underwood say D. Thorn<br /> justtifies [sic] himself and says that a man ought to ship his wife if she<br /> does ^not^ mind there must be a head What are we coming to when<br /> members of our society use such means to accomplish their ends *
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Joseph. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Joseph Post to Isaac Post, September 15, 1843.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Joseph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1843-09-15
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
601
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Westbury 9th mo 15th 1843 Dear Relatives Mary has filled one sheet I do not know that I shall have any thing [sic] worth putting on paper. As to our wordly affairs we seem to going on much in the old way except that it seems to be as difficult as has been or more so to get means to meet all demands, Wheat crops pretty good oats verry [sic] short . We have rain and cloudy weather in abundance so that the grass is as green as we have it in the spr^i^ng. we have our ground ready to sow our wheat but have been waiting two days on account of wind it now blows southeast fresh . it is also the week to get hay on the marsh an unfavo^u^rable time . I suppose as you are now citezens [sic] you care but little about these things . but as it is apart [sic] of our occupation it frequently occupies our thoughts . We here [sic] from the New York folks that buisness [sic] has improved generally I saw Wells Allis on first day last he say they can get money for their produce this year last year they could not much I think I and P Gifford showed a good deal of Rushmore in not concluding untill [sic] they got to Scipio about going west^so that L.Post had not clothes with her she thought aunt P. was not going untill [sic] they got their [sic]^ it ^appears^ that they had as leave Lydia Post should stay, as she say, they did not invite her much . but when they come back they appeared verry [sic] sorry we that she had not been We here [sic] that J. Gifford ^[illegible] of^ your kindness being they received from you nomorethan I suppose they did not expect so much from those not of their faith as they are not of the liberal order . Uncle David has been verry [sic] desirous to bring about reckonciliation [sic] between the orthodox and us. he and Stepen [sic] Rushmore has had an interview or two . how far it will succeed I know not . It seems to me that their [sic] is as much difference between some members of our Society as their [sic] is between the orthodox and us. And if their [sic] should be a reckonciliation [sic] between the parties andifthereshouldbeaunitingandnot and the present disposition continue it will be of but little use . When Friends in the ministry come amongst us, if they are acquainted, it seems they like to go were [sic] they can have simpathizers [sic] as much as any of us Joseph Brown had the meeting houses at Jericho . Jerusalem and Cow Neck . but I suppose they could not be had in the unity for abolition. I do not think their [sic] is much change in the people about here. Our friends of the sectarian order think there is an improvement as we are ^petty [sic]^ quiet and have not had any one around to arouse us lately, I do not know but that Long Island is as hard place for Antislavery to enter as any I have heard of . We here [sic] Whithead Hicks has signed the temperance pledge which is a new move for a Hicks it may be the scales will fall frome [sic] the eyes of the people after a while We have heard verry [sic] little from about R. Hick,s visit to Peru but it appears to me that she has been disappointed in not haveing [sic] more of the com= =mittee to attend that Quarter with her . and I sonetimes sometimes think she is disappoined [sic] in other respects Some of the convention of colour at Buffalo showed their Preistly order as much as any of the white order it appears that the sp^i^rit of Priest craft is the same wherever found wither in the White man the Black man or the Quaker or in a woman . I think our friend Rachel has changed as much on womans rights as any subject she thinks the women have rights enough, that she had rather the discipline was altered back than that they have any more privelagess [sic] that the alteration has not been for the better . Gideon Frost has returned, we have not seen him, how he has succeeded in collecting debts we know not, but am in hopes he has enough to pay his debts and have some left. he came home with some horses . I suppose he will have a cirtificate [sic] to our meeting now as the New York folks have had his case befor the judges and discharged it . Uncle Henry and his daghters [sic] seemed to want to say but little about Presyism or the different views in their church as some of the family would think . I do not think Uncle Henry is willing to acknowledge to us that he is one although I beleave [sic] he attends with them they went to meeting with us two first day, Aunt Sarah came up to see them as they were about leaving Lydia said to her that Cornelia wanted to go to their meeting that day so that she could ^tell^ mother Michel she had been to their meeting, Aunt I said she thought of inviting them the day before when at their house. But as we invited them on going to meeting to stop if they chased. theyconcluded Mary said we gave them choice which seemed rather unexpected Uncle H said that when when [sic] he went to Rome he done as the [Romans?] did. I suppose we shall get no blame for entertaining and associating with them. Although they appear to me to be what are termed the worlds people as much as any I meet with any where . Elicam Levi is now here and says he has been buying 11 acres of plains in the plain lot south of Learning in the northwest corner . Elkanor Wood has bought 220 acres in the sourth west corner of the same lot of Wm Titus which Friends disapprove of verry [sic] much but he seems fixed he is now poor and proberbly [sic] will grow poorer the plains seems to be settleing [sic] abut wither the present generation will be benefited by it is some doubtful to me . Elicam Levi hs the standard sent to him he say Stephen Hicks disapproves of it . as it course so much disun^i^ty that he antislavery movement all origonates [sic] in the reson and will of man. he say he asked him if John Woolman did not cause disunity yest [sic] but he did not call such hard names . that several of the states were on the point of pasing [sic] a law for the abolition of slaves but the antislavery movement has put it all back (as they the southerner were so offended that they held on harder than ever. It does requir [sic] a considerable degree of patience and charity to cover the willful ignorance of such, who are as inlight inlightened [sic] as they are ^&on other subjects^ to reason as they do First day after meeting, our Friend Rachel held ofrth and when she speaks reverlation [sic] she generally speaks well but when she seems to have some meaning on particular subjects I think she lets a little of the creation. get in which she condemns so hard in other she spoke against being enticed away by sinners that we should be verry [sic] loth to be influenced by those that were transgreese [sic] of the moral law, that we had no right to judge a person excep [sic] by the moral law, for we could not tell what was his duty in other respects [Text in center of page, written upward] Isaac Post New York Rochester NY [Text in right margin] *verrily [sic] our society is not better than others unless under the influence of the government of Christ which we ought to follow in all things which if do we shall not be condemned for doing benevolent deeds with love to all as if named Joseph Post [Text at bottom of page, written normal] she said a good deal ^about^ acting the hypocrit [sic] that we might conceal for awhile but it would come out, Since meeting we here that Daniel Thorn of Brooklyn has been whiping [sic] his wife, which is an [illegible] for what Rachels concern for she seldom comes out with any particular view without haveing [sic] herd something before at least, this is my opinion I am frequently told . Oh thee is jealous thee most [sic] not be so jealous . All Underwood say D. Thorn justtifies [sic] himself and says that a man ought to ship his wife if she does ^not^ mind there must be a head What are we coming to when members of our society use such means to accomplish their ends *
Abolitionism
Agriculture
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/6fbff5e650740f88a3d0782f7796e85f.jpg
34aa5a67bb64b2c9e0bec44ad22a9095
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/0d3b95d36456ae11f5a50d7f261fe17b.jpg
5085a1b110b2077362afc6c7e53db4af
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/8bcbbb04502f19a78c9aa3758b34777c.jpg
d1b725b23feceae9974357ab093533aa
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/3c6ec8d426e6265292e57a4054c9250f.jpg
e3bf7a32dca32f1ffd1058403c47b0c3
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Willis, Phebe Post. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Phebe Post Willis to Amy Kirby Post, May 6, 1843.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Willis, Phebe Post
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1843-05-06
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
599
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Abolitionism
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/34c90de663227cf5585b624715fa32fc.jpg
53cd40a741034bc13af3864f1850b0a7
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/4a51ebb29e9ee0f89712bcec9cc2883d.jpg
fbadadea2758e2e28f2c5783548102ce
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/6c7e66b18fcb7b75f5a02ccac1d01e01.jpg
d42a0ddf4467fa5bc01c680d5e9a6705
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/b5b7358c0e59f85e2041babb10417476.jpg
7c537b92777c689b584c44902ddeaa7f
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/6a3697277e4cee1b8513e6fdb7dfd777.xml
9b11d5312641f59dc0533b3800035574
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> My dear friends } Jericho 2<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>m</sup></span> 9 - - ‘43<br /> I & A Post _ _ }<br /> Do not think I have forgotten your<br /> favour of 10<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>m</sup></span> last, nor that I wish to repudiate the<br /> debt, but I may acknowledge poverty has been one <br /> reason that payment has been so long delayed; at least<br /> that is the only excuse for not writing when once or twice<br /> a private conveyance has offered. It does not seem to <br /> me that my interest in my Rochester friends has abated<br /> one whit or tittle _ _ But what shall I begin to tell<br /> you about? For truly things here seem to be going<br /> on in such a monotonous kind of way that you must<br /> not expect any thing specially interesting: and yet I<br /> may pick up enought [sic] to make out a sort of a letter.<br /> Our old vilage [sic] seems to have goten [sic] into a very quiet <br /> spot _ scarcely any thing has occured [sic] of late to ruffel [sic]<br /> the surface of the stream. I cannot tell you about<br /> antislavery meetings and mobs and riots and r<span style="text-decoration:underline;">e</span>s<span style="text-decoration:underline;">olution</span>s<br /> that an ox could hardly swallow: for such things as<br /> these we have to look to the West or East or some other<br /> quarter: but we h<span style="text-decoration:underline;">av</span>e had a little collision of sentiment<br /> on one subject, in consequence of circulating petitions<br /> for the abolition of Capital punishment. It would<br /> seem that on this subject there could scarcely be a <br /> difference of sentiment amongst F<span style="text-decoration:underline;">riends</span>, but such is <br /> the fact that there some amongst us who are not yet<br /> prepared to give up this almost worn out relic of the<br /> barbarous ages. I know not how to account for this<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> unless it is thought to smell too much of <span style="text-decoration:underline;">reform</span> and<br /> that you know is a word of very suspicious charracter [sic]<br /> in the minds of some of our conservatives. One strong<br /> objection was urged against our petition (the form published<br /> in the Standard sometime ago) was that we did not propose<br /> a substitute; it was even said that it must be infered [sic]<br /> that the petitiones [sic] w<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ished</span> to have none: this to besure [sic]<br /> seemed to me rather a new mode of inference, but I<br /> frankly told them that as an i<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ndividual</span> I had rather<br /> have the present law abolished even if nothing were<br /> put in the place of it. My ideas of the sacredness of human <br /> life are such that I believe even our own safety will<br /> not warrant its destruction in any case whatever. But<br /> this is not saying that nothing ought to be done with the<br /> criminal. If Society would rightly estimate h<span style="text-decoration:underline;">er</span> position<br /> in regard to him I think she would often see that it<br /> was not punishment that she owed him, so much as<br /> reparation for the wrongs she has done him - that it<br /> is owing to the influences which s<span style="text-decoration:underline;">h</span>e herself has been<br /> strewing in his path from the cradle upwards that have<br /> brought him to be what he is _ she has been training<br /> him in the school of iniquity, and he has now only given<br /> a p<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ractical</span> ilustration [sic] of his proficiency. It may be<br /> little that a physical [sic] force Government can do to reform the<br /> delinquent, or rather to restore to him to the path of rectitude,<br /> yet doubtless it might do something. it might at least refrain<br /> from poisoning the air he breaths [sic] with her pestilential breath:<br /><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">of</span> or forcing him into situations where true morality can scarcely<br /> exist at all<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> 2<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>m</sup></span>15. – You will see by the date that the foregoing was written some<br /> time ago _ Something then broke me off from writing and so it has lain<br /> ‘til now. Last evening our Rochester friends were brot [sic] to view by the<br /> letter of EW Capon [sic] in the Liberator. Surely there must be some sort of a<br /> spirit awake there among you _ you seem to be fast getting out of the<br /> quiet. I think it is high time for you to look around you and<br /> ponder the paths of your feet. What will the people without think of<br /> these things: for if they were done in a corner they are proclaimed<br /> upon the house top. I dont wonder that f<span style="text-decoration:underline;">riend</span>s have a controversy<br /> with the abolitionists _they are allways [sic] teling [sic] tales or making mischief<br /> some way or other - I suppose you have heard what a hubbub there<br /> was got up in N.Y. about the time G.F.W set out for the West, but as the<br /> story may have been pulled all out of shape before it reached you<br /> I will give you a little sketch of it as I understood it, n<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ear the</span><br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">scene of opperation</span>s [sic]. It seems that John Hopper, Probably with some<br /> mischief in his head, drew up certain r<span style="text-decoration:underline;">esolution</span>s, purporting to have been<br /> passed by a meeting held at the house of a certain friends, in relation<br /> to a minister going out a traveling or who was a defaulter to a<br /> considerable amount for trust monies held by him of the estate<br /> of a deceased person _ and further it was resolved that said resolutions<br /> be published in the N York Herald and NY. Sun (I have not seen the<br /> resolutions so may not be exactly correct about them, but think the<br /> idea will not be much out of the way) The resolutions were forwarded<br /> to the house of the friend where they were said to be made (anonymous<br /> -ly of course) This soon called somebody to the paper offices to stop<br /> the publication: but it seems he was informed, in both cases, it<br /> was too late, as it was then <span style="text-decoration:underline;">in type</span>: but the truth was they had<br /> not had them at all - But to return, it seems that C Marriot<br /> [Continued on page 4 with line beginning “happened to be”]<br /><br /> [Text in bottom half of page, written upside down between lines of normal text]<br /> regular citizens of Rochester, or is he one of the roving abolitionists, whose country<br /> is the world and whose country all mankind, black & white? Is he a member<br /> of the society of friends or has he stolen the livery (1<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>mo</sup></span>21<sup>st</sup>) for the sake of disguise?<br /> Has he given a fair statement of the uprorious [sic] proceedings of the q<span style="text-decoration:underline;">uiet</span> friends<br /> of Rochester meeting? 2<sup>ndly</sup> Who is Jacob Ferris, and did he say or do any thing<br /> wrong or improper or unbecoming in said Meeting – 3<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>d</sup></span><sup>ly</sup> Is Charles Frost a<br /> a member? _ and if so, ought not <span style="text-decoration:underline;">he</span> to know his place? _ These and many<br /> other things, which I have said and not said I should be glad to have<br /> answered at your earliest convenience _ And so especially (for reasons<br /> which I think you will understand) will I invoke the pen of my friend<br /> Amy- And so with the joint love to you all of myself and bitter half<br /> I remain your friend John Ketcham<br /> P.S. Rebecca requests me to say that she dont like that letter<br /> of E.W.C one bit _ she dont think S Underwod’s business ought to<br /> be exposed in that way, and if E W C is a member the ought to be<br /> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">dealt</span> with, and if not, he ought to be admonished &c _ She does<br /> not say whether friends ought to do any thing that they are affraid [sic]<br /> should be exposed. – for my own part I see no impropriety in<br /> S.U<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>’s</sup></span> being assisted as she has been, nor in lecturer receiving<br /> sufficient aid to perform his duty_ JK -<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> happened to be at the place that evening from whence the resolutions<br /> were said to emanate _ This of course was a strong circumstance<br /> against him in the eyes of G<sup>s</sup> care-takers, who could readily see<br /> in it an attempt to traduce G<sup>s</sup> character and religious standing.<br /> I think it may be safely affirmed that C would be one of the last<br /> to desire to do this: but the effect of it was to compell [sic] him to make<br /> some disclosures in regards to the business which doubtless he would<br /> have gladly withheld. It was exclusively a family concern, and I cannot<br /><br /> [Continued at bottom of page with line beginning “conceive a motive”]<br /><br /> [Text at top of page, written upside down between lines of normal text]<br /><br /> temperance &c &c &c And but for it he thought people would long ago have<br /> ceased to kill one another _ In short it seemed as if it was one of the most<br /> destructive wepons [sic] in Satans’ whole armory. I have not given the exact words,<br /> but believe the sense is not exaggerated. Then let abolitionists at once<br /> avail themselves of the benefit of this discovery; surely the day calls for it<br /> Now I want to ask a few questions, and should be glad to have them<br /> answered forthwith, or as soon as convenient – Who is E.W.Capron? Is he one of the<br /><br /> [Continued on page 3 with line beginning “regular citizens of”]<br /><br /> <br /> [Text in center of page, written upward]<br /><br /> Jericho NY } 18<br /> Feb 17. }<br /><br /> Isaac Post<br /> Rochester<br /> N York<br /><br /> [Text at bottom of page, written normal]<br /><br /> conceive a motive he should have for exposing it, but doubtless<br /> very strong inducements to the contrary. As far as I understand the<br /> buiseness [sic] in question has been arranged to the satisfaction of the<br /> parties concerned, at least professedly so, and who else need be<br /> trouble about it?)but it seems so good an opportunity to crimi-<br /> nate C must not be lost; but I think all will come out right at<br /> last, tho’ perhaps a little different from the wishes of intnetions of some –<br /> the dust that has been raised will likely annoy those who have<br /> kicked it up as much, or more than any body else _ _ _<br /><br /> [Text at bottom of page, written upside down between lines of normal text]<br /><br /> It is now 6<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> day morn the 17<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> and as it is mail day I will try to get this off.<br /> Yesterday was M<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>o</sup></span>Mg. – Joseph Post and Mary were there as usual they seem<br /> very much like our own members; indeed I should be loth [sic] to exchange<br /> them for some who are in reality such – Sam<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>l</sup></span> Thorne was also there,<br /> he seems to have found a new string to his harp – He told of another great<br /> evil (look out ye reformers) which he considered one of the greatest that is in the <br /> world and that was <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Music</span> – It was one of the greatest instruments of wars<br /> and it was used in almost every thing – It was used in religion, in<br /><br /> [Continued at top of page with line beginning “temperance &c &c”]<br />
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Ketcham, John. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from John Ketcham to Isaac Post, February 9, 1843.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Ketcham, John
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1843-02-09
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
596
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. My dear friends } Jericho 2m 9 - - '43 I & A Post _ _ } Do not think I have forgotten your favour of 10m last, nor that I wish to repudiate the debt, but I may acknowledge poverty has been one reason that payment has been so long delayed; at least that is the only excuse for not writing when once or twice a private conveyance has offered. It does not seem to me that my interest in my Rochester friends has abated one whit or tittle _ _ But what shall I begin to tell you about? For truly things here seem to be going on in such a monotonous kind of way that you must not expect any thing specially interesting: and yet I may pick up enought [sic] to make out a sort of a letter. Our old vilage [sic] seems to have goten [sic] into a very quiet spot _ scarcely any thing has occured [sic] of late to ruffel [sic] the surface of the stream. I cannot tell you about antislavery meetings and mobs and riots and resolutions that an ox could hardly swallow: for such things as these we have to look to the West or East or some other quarter: but we have had a little collision of sentiment on one subject, in consequence of circulating petitions for the abolition of Capital punishment. It would seem that on this subject there could scarcely be a difference of sentiment amongst Friends, but such is the fact that there some amongst us who are not yet prepared to give up this almost worn out relic of the barbarous ages. I know not how to account for this unless it is thought to smell too much of reform and that you know is a word of very suspicious charracter [sic] in the minds of some of our conservatives. One strong objection was urged against our petition (the form published in the Standard sometime ago) was that we did not propose a substitute; it was even said that it must be infered [sic] that the petitiones [sic] wished to have none: this to besure [sic] seemed to me rather a new mode of inference, but I frankly told them that as an individual I had rather have the present law abolished even if nothing were put in the place of it. My ideas of the sacredness of human life are such that I believe even our own safety will not warrant its destruction in any case whatever. But this is not saying that nothing ought to be done with the criminal. If Society would rightly estimate her position in regard to him I think she would often see that it was not punishment that she owed him, so much as reparation for the wrongs she has done him - that it is owing to the influences which she herself has been strewing in his path from the cradle upwards that have brought him to be what he is _ she has been training him in the school of iniquity, and he has now only given a practical ilustration [sic] of his proficiency. It may be little that a physical [sic] force Government can do to reform the delinquent, or rather to restore to him to the path of rectitude, yet doubtless it might do something. it might at least refrain from poisoning the air he breaths [sic] with her pestilential breath:of or forcing him into situations where true morality can scarcely exist at all 2m15. - You will see by the date that the foregoing was written some time ago _ Something then broke me off from writing and so it has lain 'til now. Last evening our Rochester friends were brot [sic] to view by the letter of EW Capon [sic] in the Liberator. Surely there must be some sort of a spirit awake there among you _ you seem to be fast getting out of the quiet. I think it is high time for you to look around you and ponder the paths of your feet. What will the people without think of these things: for if they were done in a corner they are proclaimed upon the house top. I dont wonder that friends have a controversy with the abolitionists _they are allways [sic] teling [sic] tales or making mischief some way or other - I suppose you have heard what a hubbub there was got up in N.Y. about the time G.F.W set out for the West, but as the story may have been pulled all out of shape before it reached you I will give you a little sketch of it as I understood it, near thescene of opperations [sic]. It seems that John Hopper, Probably with some mischief in his head, drew up certain resolutions, purporting to have been passed by a meeting held at the house of a certain friends, in relation to a minister going out a traveling or who was a defaulter to a considerable amount for trust monies held by him of the estate of a deceased person _ and further it was resolved that said resolutions be published in the N York Herald and NY. Sun (I have not seen the resolutions so may not be exactly correct about them, but think the idea will not be much out of the way) The resolutions were forwarded to the house of the friend where they were said to be made (anonymous -ly of course) This soon called somebody to the paper offices to stop the publication: but it seems he was informed, in both cases, it was too late, as it was then in type: but the truth was they had not had them at all - But to return, it seems that C Marriot [Continued on page 4 with line beginning "happened to be"] [Text in bottom half of page, written upside down between lines of normal text] regular citizens of Rochester, or is he one of the roving abolitionists, whose country is the world and whose country all mankind, black & white? Is he a member of the society of friends or has he stolen the livery (1mo21st) for the sake of disguise? Has he given a fair statement of the uprorious [sic] proceedings of the quiet friends of Rochester meeting? 2ndly Who is Jacob Ferris, and did he say or do any thing wrong or improper or unbecoming in said Meeting - 3dly Is Charles Frost a a member? _ and if so, ought not he to know his place? _ These and many other things, which I have said and not said I should be glad to have answered at your earliest convenience _ And so especially (for reasons which I think you will understand) will I invoke the pen of my friend Amy- And so with the joint love to you all of myself and bitter half I remain your friend John Ketcham P.S. Rebecca requests me to say that she dont like that letter of E.W.C one bit _ she dont think S Underwod's business ought to be exposed in that way, and if E W C is a member the ought to bedealt with, and if not, he ought to be admonished &c _ She does not say whether friends ought to do any thing that they are affraid [sic] should be exposed. - for my own part I see no impropriety in S.U's being assisted as she has been, nor in lecturer receiving sufficient aid to perform his duty_ JK - happened to be at the place that evening from whence the resolutions were said to emanate _ This of course was a strong circumstance against him in the eyes of Gs care-takers, who could readily see in it an attempt to traduce Gs character and religious standing. I think it may be safely affirmed that C would be one of the last to desire to do this: but the effect of it was to compell [sic] him to make some disclosures in regards to the business which doubtless he would have gladly withheld. It was exclusively a family concern, and I cannot [Continued at bottom of page with line beginning "conceive a motive"] [Text at top of page, written upside down between lines of normal text] temperance &c &c &c And but for it he thought people would long ago have ceased to kill one another _ In short it seemed as if it was one of the most destructive wepons [sic] in Satans' whole armory. I have not given the exact words, but believe the sense is not exaggerated. Then let abolitionists at once avail themselves of the benefit of this discovery; surely the day calls for it Now I want to ask a few questions, and should be glad to have them answered forthwith, or as soon as convenient - Who is E.W.Capron? Is he one of the [Continued on page 3 with line beginning "regular citizens of"] [Text in center of page, written upward] Jericho NY } 18 Feb 17. } Isaac Post Rochester N York [Text at bottom of page, written normal] conceive a motive he should have for exposing it, but doubtless very strong inducements to the contrary. As far as I understand the buiseness [sic] in question has been arranged to the satisfaction of the parties concerned, at least professedly so, and who else need be trouble about it?)but it seems so good an opportunity to crimi- nate C must not be lost; but I think all will come out right at last, tho' perhaps a little different from the wishes of intnetions of some - the dust that has been raised will likely annoy those who have kicked it up as much, or more than any body else _ _ _ [Text at bottom of page, written upside down between lines of normal text] It is now 6th day morn the 17th and as it is mail day I will try to get this off. Yesterday was MoMg. - Joseph Post and Mary were there as usual they seem very much like our own members; indeed I should be loth [sic] to exchange them for some who are in reality such - Saml Thorne was also there, he seems to have found a new string to his harp - He told of another great evil (look out ye reformers) which he considered one of the greatest that is in the world and that was Music - It was one of the greatest instruments of wars and it was used in almost every thing - It was used in religion, in [Continued at top of page with line beginning "temperance &c &c"]
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/01b0c025774111b20ac1c0895c1f082c.jpg
7de31b70880e8cc33a2a23a74958c615
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/0b28298ec9a6abb89f401a5113a7ab8b.jpg
c7fe0e153391462cca6d960e147355bf
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d392580d651bfe8134e260e822033beb.jpg
212c398993aeac867f0ef39f5e76753d
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/58b904c7cb42f9b6f5e053b2a18d83fb.jpg
4f9cc73ef204d2931967b7e66763691a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/3f5b24541f239318a88bd7ad2d288c6f.xml
7ed660dff72d750e2c9ca69c1f706ab9
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> I & A Post Jericho 5<sup>m<span style="text-decoration:underline;">o</span></sup> 17[<sup>th</sup>?] 1841<br /> My dear friends<br /> As Jeffries is in the neighbourhood<br /> and to start for home to day, and further as he says<br /> he heard something said about a letter to JK. (but<br /> whether such a one was s<span style="text-decoration:underline;">en</span>t he cannot tell) I thought<br /> I would try to scribble something in return, though it<br /> might be only for the g<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ood intention</span>. How but I hope<br /> whether said letter is written or not written, you will<br /> f<span style="text-decoration:underline;">orward</span> it without any needless delay _<br /> The subject which has lately engaged and stirred<br /> up some of ^us^ a little, it seems came from the west. I <br /> allude to that “snake in the grass” which has been creeping<br /> about and biting at the heel of a certain peson [sic] in N York<br /> but it seems s<span style="text-decoration:underline;">omebod</span>y has caught him and taken his<br /> likeness; this I trust will be lifted up before the people <br /> that by their looking upon it, the bitten and all who<br /> have imbibed the poison may be healed. It was certain<br /> =ly an act of some temerity thus to encounter the reptile,<br /> and probably it will be treated by some not in the most<br /> courteous manner. it may even be looked upon as an<br /> act calculated to s<span style="text-decoration:underline;">o</span>w<span style="text-decoration:underline;"> discord and disunity amongst Friend</span>s<br /> But truly I can say for one, I honour the deed; and I trust<br /> those who have had a hand in its commission will have<br /> the consious [sic] satisfaction of having [sic] done as they would<br /> be done by; and if this be the case the censure and condem=<br /> =nation of others matters but little. you will not wonder at<br /> my writing thus when I tell you that some of us here are likely<br /> to be implicated the same affair _ A few days since O.J.<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> came up and brought the original manuscript letters of G.F.W-<br /> in order that some of us might compare them with the printed<br /> correspondence, and if we were willing to give him a Certificate<br /> stating how we found the case. Several of us accordingly undertook<br /> the task; and it may be you will see before long the result of our<br /> investigation; and what sort of <span style="text-decoration:underline;">alterations, aditions </span>[sic]<span style="text-decoration:underline;"> a</span>n<span style="text-decoration:underline;">d</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">o</span>m<span style="text-decoration:underline;">issions</span> <br /> have been perpetrated by the publisher. Four of our number<br /> gave the document requested; but one or two others who joined<br /> in the examination, and I believe were as well satisfied with<br /> the facts certified as the rest, declined affixing their names<br /> to ^it^ <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">the document</span> _ they have their [sic] own reasons for this course<br /> and if they felt best satisfied so to do, surely it is not for me<br /> to complain. To me it seemed a duty to speak out the truth as<br /> we knew it, not only to counteract the injury done to the character<br /> of an individual, but to disabuse the minds of those who<br /> may have become the dupes of creeping slander. Surely all<br /> who have ho<span style="text-decoration:underline;">nestl</span>y imbibed or circulated the report in question<br /> must rejoice to see it corrected. At least a moderate share of<br /> charrity [sic] would lead to such a conclusion. I confess I am<br /> somewhat at a loss to conjecture the ground of unwillingness<br /> to unite in such an act; while perhaps, in return I am wondered<br /> at for my rashness in doing what I have done. I know it may<br /> involve consequences to myself not of trifling import. I know<br /> it may seriously affect my reputation in a circle when I have<br /> ever loved to be respected. I might possibly argue too that<br /> it might impair my influence (if I had any) in a place<br /> where right influence is certainly needed at the present<br /> time; but I think I can say perrish [sic] that reputation_perish<br /> that influence that must be sustained by repressing the ^truth^ or<br /> refusing to utter it when called for at my hands. And yet I do believe<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> that such considerations have sometimes been the means of <br /> detering [sic] some, and myself among that some, from coming<br /> out and fully awowing [sic] what they know and feel to be<br /> right. It is indeed perhaps one of the most formidable obsta-<br /> -cles in the path of duty with some of us have to encounter.<br /> And now comes up the old thought about Non-resistance<br /> &c I have just got hold of a pamphlet written by H.C. Wright.<br /> I have not read the whole but so far as I have gone I think<br /> it would be rather difficult for “Christians” to gainsay his<br /> Positions and his arguments without being pushed off the<br /> platform they have assumed. As I have two or three<br /> coppies [sic] will send you one and should like to know<br /> what impressions it may make on you [sic] minds; perhaps<br /> tho’ you have already seen it, if so please let the one I send<br /> benefit some one else _ I want to put one into the hands<br /> of our friend Valentine, as I think some parts of it may be <br /> quite applicable to his present case. He has been causing<br /> one of his bretheren [sic] who happened to be found trespassing<br /> a little on his potato patch to be shut up in prison.<br /> to act towards such as trespass against them, which it<br /> seems to me might furnish friend V. with some<br /> usefull [sic] hints in the premisses [sic]. But perhaps he might<br /> think it smells of the “bottomless pit” and cast it away<br /> but at any rate I should like to how he would get along<br /> with some parts of it without doffing his Christian coat (for<br /> I T Hopper says Christian and Quaker ^ism^ are synonomous [sic] terms)<br /> I must conclude in haste with the salutation of love<br /> accompanied by that of my Rebecca<br /> John Ketcham<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> P.S. Dont circulate this to the injury of any body without<br /> giving both sides a fair chance J K<br /><br /> [Text in center of page, written upwards]<br /><br /> Isaac Post<br /> Rochester<br /> NY<br /><br /> Care of J. Hallowell</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Ketcham, John. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from John Ketcham to Isaac Post, May 17, 1841.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Ketcham, John
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1841-05-17
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
557
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. I & A Post Jericho 5mo 17[th?] 1841 My dear friends As Jeffries is in the neighbourhood and to start for home to day, and further as he says he heard something said about a letter to JK. (but whether such a one was sent he cannot tell) I thought I would try to scribble something in return, though it might be only for the good intention. How but I hope whether said letter is written or not written, you will forward it without any needless delay _ The subject which has lately engaged and stirred up some of ^us^ a little, it seems came from the west. I allude to that "snake in the grass" which has been creeping about and biting at the heel of a certain peson [sic] in N York but it seems somebody has caught him and taken his likeness; this I trust will be lifted up before the people that by their looking upon it, the bitten and all who have imbibed the poison may be healed. It was certain =ly an act of some temerity thus to encounter the reptile, and probably it will be treated by some not in the most courteous manner. it may even be looked upon as an act calculated to sow discord and disunity amongst Friends But truly I can say for one, I honour the deed; and I trust those who have had a hand in its commission will have the consious [sic] satisfaction of having [sic] done as they would be done by; and if this be the case the censure and condem= =nation of others matters but little. you will not wonder at my writing thus when I tell you that some of us here are likely to be implicated the same affair _ A few days since O.J. came up and brought the original manuscript letters of G.F.W- in order that some of us might compare them with the printed correspondence, and if we were willing to give him a Certificate stating how we found the case. Several of us accordingly undertook the task; and it may be you will see before long the result of our investigation; and what sort of alterations, aditions [sic] andomissions have been perpetrated by the publisher. Four of our number gave the document requested; but one or two others who joined in the examination, and I believe were as well satisfied with the facts certified as the rest, declined affixing their names to ^it^ the document _ they have their [sic] own reasons for this course and if they felt best satisfied so to do, surely it is not for me to complain. To me it seemed a duty to speak out the truth as we knew it, not only to counteract the injury done to the character of an individual, but to disabuse the minds of those who may have become the dupes of creeping slander. Surely all who have honestly imbibed or circulated the report in question must rejoice to see it corrected. At least a moderate share of charrity [sic] would lead to such a conclusion. I confess I am somewhat at a loss to conjecture the ground of unwillingness to unite in such an act; while perhaps, in return I am wondered at for my rashness in doing what I have done. I know it may involve consequences to myself not of trifling import. I know it may seriously affect my reputation in a circle when I have ever loved to be respected. I might possibly argue too that it might impair my influence (if I had any) in a place where right influence is certainly needed at the present time; but I think I can say perrish [sic] that reputation_perish that influence that must be sustained by repressing the ^truth^ or refusing to utter it when called for at my hands. And yet I do believe that such considerations have sometimes been the means of detering [sic] some, and myself among that some, from coming out and fully awowing [sic] what they know and feel to be right. It is indeed perhaps one of the most formidable obsta- -cles in the path of duty with some of us have to encounter. And now comes up the old thought about Non-resistance &c I have just got hold of a pamphlet written by H.C. Wright. I have not read the whole but so far as I have gone I think it would be rather difficult for "Christians" to gainsay his Positions and his arguments without being pushed off the platform they have assumed. As I have two or three coppies [sic] will send you one and should like to know what impressions it may make on you [sic] minds; perhaps tho' you have already seen it, if so please let the one I send benefit some one else _ I want to put one into the hands of our friend Valentine, as I think some parts of it may be quite applicable to his present case. He has been causing one of his bretheren [sic] who happened to be found trespassing a little on his potato patch to be shut up in prison. to act towards such as trespass against them, which it seems to me might furnish friend V. with some usefull [sic] hints in the premisses [sic]. But perhaps he might think it smells of the "bottomless pit" and cast it away but at any rate I should like to how he would get along with some parts of it without doffing his Christian coat (for I T Hopper says Christian and Quaker ^ism^ are synonomous [sic] terms) I must conclude in haste with the salutation of love accompanied by that of my Rebecca John Ketcham P.S. Dont circulate this to the injury of any body without giving both sides a fair chance J K [Text in center of page, written upwards] Isaac Post Rochester NY Care of J. Hallowell
Personal
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/31aab4eec41ee286ad5e7d82e993f7c5.jpg
2420bba37ad66dc060bebe1644737407
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/03c92a1634ea120035fef48e3a8a618a.jpg
fffd1447a4853198f0624d9b910f774f
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/4f06bf6901c6d12697beba1f36352e3c.jpg
8312596355877cf3c51c87465b8d4619
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/0d2b0f32df4a0ca43fa2df7d686b1fb8.jpg
0bf5c92c5a3fea0e9dd3b2a6cf07b4fc
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/c96ec68f2a83b8f002ea9e4498cd4f21.xml
a9cd252dafd673670795b28e28083fba
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> Amy & Isaac Post Jericho 3<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>mo</sup></span>11<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> 1841<br /> My dear friends [sic]<br /> It would be coming short of both incli=<br /> nation and duty should I long defer <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">the</span> to acknowledge the<br /> pleasure and satisfaction which the receipt of A<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>s</sup></span> favour of<br /> the 15<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> ult. afforded us, but in the first place (as it now comes up)<br /> I will make confession of one fact in relation to it, which peradven=<br /> =ture may be deemed a breach of confidence, if so I must submit to<br /> the penalty of a transgressor and strive to mind my manners in<br /> future _ but to the act. - last first day afternoon Joseph Post an [sic] Mary<br /> came along going to H Willis’ _ they had Oliver Johnson with them and I <br /> went too - well I mentioned having some late accounts from Rochester<br /> and handed P.P. thy letter to look at - there was soon a wish expressed that it<br /> might be read aloud _ I told them I did not know that it would hurt<br /> any of them but O _ but it was soon decided to risk that and so it was<br /> done – no doubt a part of it was quite as interesting to him as to any of<br /> the company - the writer will understand what I allude to: but after<br /> all some how I do not feel as if I had done much harm _ how I shall<br /> feel when the rod comes can tell better then. <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">O. had with</span> Have you<br /> seen the correspondence _ between O.J. & GFW. I believe it is causing <br /> quite a sensation in a certain circle. It does indeed, I think, place<br /> G in an “u<span style="text-decoration:underline;">nenvia</span>b<span style="text-decoration:underline;">le</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">positio</span>n” and however it is to be regretted that<br /> there should a cause exist that should produce this effect, yet I am not<br /> without hope that it may result in good. No doubt O will be denounced<br /> in no measured terms for the course he has pursued, but would<br /> an impartial observer condemn him, under all the circumstances;<br /> I can hardly think he would; but the most mortifying part of the<br /> business is that acted by G himself in the correspondence _ so it<br /> seems to me: and yet I have no doubt there will be some who<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> will strive at least to justify him in toto. What different eyes people <br /> have, or rather it seems as if some folks have the faculty of making<br /> a thing look, to themselves at least, just as they would like to have it<br /> I can hardly encourage your making an attempt to get up a <br /> friends Antislavery ^Association^ similar to ours – it would almost seem as if friends<br /> were not the right sort of stuff for that business _ there are noble excep=<br /> tions we know, but alas how few; I had hoped it was different with<br /> you, but with us it must be acknowledged that there is a much<br /> greater manifestation of the spirit of <span style="text-decoration:underline;">anti-abolition</span> than of a<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ntislavery</span>.<br /> Had you been at our last Q. Mg you might have seen this spirit develop-<br /> ed in powerful array _ At the close of the meeting C Marriot arose and<br /> stated that the meeting of our association stood adjourned to 4 Oclock that<br /> afternoon at that house (Rose street) and invited all present who felt<br /> so disposed to attend with us – we were soon told we could not meet<br /> there _ that the house would not be opened for us this was by one<br /> of the committee having charge of the property and predicated on the <br /> ground that said committee were restricted in a way that would not<br /> allow them to permit it to be thus occupied, and as they were a<br /> committee of N York M<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>o</sup></span>Mg of course the Quarterly Mg had no jurisdiction<br /> in the case; but there was another part of the case which does not<br /> admit of such an excuse. I mean the g<span style="text-decoration:underline;">rave</span> c<span style="text-decoration:underline;">onclusion</span> of the Mg.<br /> that no such notices should henceforth be given in Qly Mgs. friends<br /> could not endure to have such extraneous topicks [sic] introduced. This I<br /> thought was tithing of the Mind very closely, surely our ^<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">title</span>^ character to the<br /> title of “Simon Pure” will not be likely to be called in question. Let us<br /> just look at the thing in its simple garb _ A little company of f<span style="text-decoration:underline;">riend</span>s<br /> who have united to endeavour to aleviate [sic] the condition of the coloured<br /> race, by such means too as are in accordance with our “Christian principles”<br /> wish to inform their bretheren [sic], convened at a Q<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>ly</sup></span> Mg, of the time and place<br /><br /> [Text of page 2 continues on page 3 with line beginning “of holding one”]<br /><br /> [Text on bottom half of page, written upside down between lines of normal text]<br /><br /> unless it be our friend Lucretia’<sup>s</sup> church “Thy sect is the righteous of Earth” &c— <br /> So I can readily assent to thy belief that it “best to walk conformably to the light<br /> we have and not borrow” – That is, not be depend implicitly on any men<br /> or organized bodies of men without subjecting all to the test of the light we have”<br /> We need not however, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">reject</span> such light as may be emited [sic] from other’s lamps, only<br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">try</span> it by the best standard we have<br /> It is now first day afternoon the 14<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> so I will this epistle to a close, you<br /> will excuse its s<span style="text-decoration:underline;">hortness</span> as Jeffries and the g<span style="text-decoration:underline;">irls</span> may perhaps give you such<br /> information as I have omited [sic] _ they talk of starting tomorrow – We are glad to learn<br /> that you think of visiting us ere long – It is very pleasant to recieve [sic] from you the<br /> fruits of the fire, but face to face interchange of ideas would be stil [sic] more grateful<br /> to our feilings [sic]. I hope both modes of communion may be ejoyed [sic] as often as<br /> circumstances will admit—My Rejoins in love to you & yours _ _<br /> from Your friend J Ketcham<br /> ||P.S. dont omit to write because you may be thinking of coming before long<br /> -two good things are better than one <br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> [Text at top of page, written normal, continued from page 2]<br /><br /> of holding one of their meetings, and to invite such as feel so inclined, to<br /> attend it and this done too so as not to interfere with the business of the Mg-<br /> -could it be immagined [sic] that any friend i<span style="text-decoration:underline;">n his right mind</span> could feel the<br /> least objection, but f<span style="text-decoration:underline;">acts</span> must tell their story, a sad one that it be <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">it</span><br /> really it seemed to me as if some had got into a very narrow corner of the<br /> Christian Country. It forcibly brought to mind the assertion made by some.<br /> that the effect and tendency of religious organization is to contract and<br /> darken, rather than to expand and ennoble the human mind – to<br /> engender bigotry and intolerance instead of true christian liberality and<br /> brotherly kindness _ This is a doctrine however which I have never ackno-<br /> =wledged as a part of my creed. I have always, at least, cherrished [sic] the idea<br /> of one exception; but what can we now say? Could such s<span style="text-decoration:underline;">hriveled</span> fruit<br /> grow in any other spot than under the shaddow [sic] of the Sectarian hedge,<br /> where the genial rays of Gospel light and love but dimly shine,<br /> and where the owls and the bats of prejudice and the dread phantoms<br /> of a distorted immagination [sic] love to congregate. Indeed I do bet<br /> that it was very much owing to the minds of friends being ocupied [sic]<br /> by those prejudices and phantoms that caused them to act as they did,<br /> and for aught I know they “really thought” they were “doing God service”<br /> for much real was manifest on the occation [sic], whether it was “according<br /> to knowledge” (after saying what I have) I must leave _ The meeting was<br /> held at the house of Sam<sup>l</sup> Ross, who kindly invited us to do so – not much<br /> business came before it except an account of a school for adult coloured<br /> females which had been opened and conducted by the committee in<br /> N York _ it consisted of about 30 pupils and the report of their progress was<br /> highly satisfactory; it was “an evening school only” _ _ But to return to<br /> the subject of such associations, I may confess I am not fully satisfied<br /> that they are perfectly correct in p<span style="text-decoration:underline;">rinciple</span>. Why should we exclude all who<br /> do not happen to be included within the pale of our religious faith; that<br /><br /> [Continues on page 4 with line beginning “is, professionally so”]<br /><br /> [Text written upside down, between lines of normal text]<br /><br /> It appears however that you do not meet with much encouragement to<br /> circulate the reformatory periodicals of the day; seeing you have been<br /> strictly forbidden to do so, in one instance at least: and are likely to gain<br /> for your selves the character of spreaders of evil reports – Only to think that our<br /> committee’s <span style="text-decoration:underline;">report</span> – that “p<span style="text-decoration:underline;">oor</span> p<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ussy</span> sort of a thing,” as b<span style="text-decoration:underline;">rother</span> J<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ohnson</span> calls it<br /> being only a little enquiry after Truth and then holding it up in the mildest form we<br /> knew how – that such a thing should be so allarming [sic] – that any should be<br /> afraid [sic] that such things as that, together with teaching a few coloured women<br /> to spell and read should if persisted cause another separation! Really, what<br /> real friend of the right and the true, would <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">would</span> not say, if this will<br /> cause a seperation [sic], or even the a<span style="text-decoration:underline;">nihilation</span> [sic] of the Society, then let it come? For<br /> surely a Society that would “fly off the handle” for such a cause, cannot be<br /> worth much more for any useful purpose _ _ Indeed I do think it is time for<br /> our S<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ociety</span> as well as each individual number to look around and try<br /> to discover the true place of our whereabouts _ whether our efforts and our<br /> influence are on the side of good or of evil; for persuaded I am that we may<br /> be operating against the cause of Truth and Righteousness, when we are flattering<br /> ourselves that we are the very p<span style="text-decoration:underline;">illars</span> that sustain it, and are denouncing others<br /> because (with equal sincerity) they may not happen to see all things just as we do;<br /> and especially if they <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">do not</span> see <span style="text-decoration:underline;">us</span> not just not just as we fancy ourselves. But perhaps it<br /> will be said “Phisician [sic] heal thyself” thy medicines are just such as thy own<br /> case requires _ I freely admit it to be so, and desire to take my part tho’ others<br /> should deem them no applicable to theirs _ _ I have lately rec’d thee or<br /> four numbers of the “Herald of Freedom”, sent us I suppose by H C Wright, as the<br /> wrappers bear his initials _ they are a good deal filled with the warfare going on<br /> at the East, between Antislavery and the Church _ I could not but be struck<br /> with some strong points of resemblance between those proceedings and some<br /> things nearer home; enough almost to make one think that <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Church</span> is<br /> C<span style="text-decoration:underline;">hurch</span>, wherever it be, and that it would be dificult [sic] to find one that is right<br /><br /> [Text on page 3 continued on page 2 with line beginning “unless it be”]<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> [Text written normal, continued from page 3]<br /><br /> is, professionally so – for may not some who are without that pale be as<br /> fully united in ^the^ object of our concern as those that are within it. And if<br /> so, why not be allowed to participate with us in doing what we are fully<br /> agreed in ? I believe there is no g<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ood</span> reason why. The only one which I can<br /> see, is that it may posibly [sic] meet the case of some who may feel a little<br /> too pure to come in contact with others lest their sanctimonious garments<br /> may get contaminated. but I think should such not be gained, it would<br /> be no very great loss on the whole _ I am therefore not far from thy sinti=<br /> ment [sic] that our light (if we have any_ would be more likely to shine where it<br /><br /> [Continued at bottom of page with line beginning “would do good”]<br /><br /> [Text at top of page, written upside down in between lines of normal text]<br /><br /> thing like retaliation in whatever shape. Not however to shrink from the <br /> support of all that is right and true in principle; this is no part of the Non=<br /> =reistance creed – By the way it seems you have not seen fit to comply with my<br /> sugestion [sic] in relation to taking and circulating the “Non Resistant.” It is true that<br /> considerable that comes in it is published also in the Liberator. It was not so much<br /> on you [sic] own accounts that I mentioned it, as for the benefit of others. I do think that<br /> good may be done by the circulation of <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">x</span> publications of that character where there<br /><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">where there</span> is an interest to read them, and perhaps a little effort even by an<br /> individual may kindle an interest which may eventuate in unspeakable good.<br /><br /> [Continued on page 3 with line beginning “It appears however”]<br /><br /> [Text in center of page, written upward]<br /><br /> Isaac Post<br /> Rochester<br /> NY<br /><br /> [Text at bottom of page, written normal]<br /><br /> would do good by uniting with all without distinction of Sect or creed<br /> and by the way, I should think it no marvel if our position in regard<br /> to r<span style="text-decoration:underline;">eceivin</span>g [sic] as well as i<span style="text-decoration:underline;">mparting</span> light on this subject should be somewhat<br /> improved _ _ What I have said in regard to our Quarterly Meeting folks<br /> must not be construed into a wish to turn accuser of the bretheren [sic] <span style="text-decoration:underline;">turn back</span><br /><br /> [Text at bottom of page, upside down, between lines of normal text]<br /><br /> or a desire to “expose the weaknesses of Friends”, as was charged against W<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>m</sup></span> Bassett<br /> but it seems proper to notice and examine the action of those with whom we<br /> are thus connected, but still more ought we to examine ourselves and see if our<br /> part has been acted well. It is truly no small attainment to be prepared to<br /> meet such things as they should ever be met _ in the true spirit of christian<br /> meekness and forgiveness _ the true spirit of N<span style="text-decoration:underline;">onresistance</span>, that can forego [sic] every<br /><br /> [Continued at top of page with line beginning “thing like retaliation”]
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Ketcham, John. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from John Ketcham to Isaac Post, March 11, 1841.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Ketcham, John
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1841-03-11
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
554
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Amy & Isaac Post Jericho 3mo11th 1841 My dear friends [sic] It would be coming short of both incli= nation and duty should I long defer the to acknowledge the pleasure and satisfaction which the receipt of As favour of the 15th ult. afforded us, but in the first place (as it now comes up) I will make confession of one fact in relation to it, which peradven= =ture may be deemed a breach of confidence, if so I must submit to the penalty of a transgressor and strive to mind my manners in future _ but to the act. - last first day afternoon Joseph Post an [sic] Mary came along going to H Willis' _ they had Oliver Johnson with them and I went too - well I mentioned having some late accounts from Rochester and handed P.P. thy letter to look at - there was soon a wish expressed that it might be read aloud _ I told them I did not know that it would hurt any of them but O _ but it was soon decided to risk that and so it was done - no doubt a part of it was quite as interesting to him as to any of the company - the writer will understand what I allude to: but after all some how I do not feel as if I had done much harm _ how I shall feel when the rod comes can tell better then. O. had with Have you seen the correspondence _ between O.J. & GFW. I believe it is causing quite a sensation in a certain circle. It does indeed, I think, place G in an "unenviableposition" and however it is to be regretted that there should a cause exist that should produce this effect, yet I am not without hope that it may result in good. No doubt O will be denounced in no measured terms for the course he has pursued, but would an impartial observer condemn him, under all the circumstances; I can hardly think he would; but the most mortifying part of the business is that acted by G himself in the correspondence _ so it seems to me: and yet I have no doubt there will be some who will strive at least to justify him in toto. What different eyes people have, or rather it seems as if some folks have the faculty of making a thing look, to themselves at least, just as they would like to have it I can hardly encourage your making an attempt to get up a friends Antislavery ^Association^ similar to ours - it would almost seem as if friends were not the right sort of stuff for that business _ there are noble excep= tions we know, but alas how few; I had hoped it was different with you, but with us it must be acknowledged that there is a much greater manifestation of the spirit of anti-abolition than of antislavery. Had you been at our last Q. Mg you might have seen this spirit develop- ed in powerful array _ At the close of the meeting C Marriot arose and stated that the meeting of our association stood adjourned to 4 Oclock that afternoon at that house (Rose street) and invited all present who felt so disposed to attend with us - we were soon told we could not meet there _ that the house would not be opened for us this was by one of the committee having charge of the property and predicated on the ground that said committee were restricted in a way that would not allow them to permit it to be thus occupied, and as they were a committee of N York MoMg of course the Quarterly Mg had no jurisdiction in the case; but there was another part of the case which does not admit of such an excuse. I mean the grave conclusion of the Mg. that no such notices should henceforth be given in Qly Mgs. friends could not endure to have such extraneous topicks [sic] introduced. This I thought was tithing of the Mind very closely, surely our ^title^ character to the title of "Simon Pure" will not be likely to be called in question. Let us just look at the thing in its simple garb _ A little company of friends who have united to endeavour to aleviate [sic] the condition of the coloured race, by such means too as are in accordance with our "Christian principles" wish to inform their bretheren [sic], convened at a Qly Mg, of the time and place [Text of page 2 continues on page 3 with line beginning "of holding one"] [Text on bottom half of page, written upside down between lines of normal text] unless it be our friend Lucretia's church "Thy sect is the righteous of Earth" &c-- So I can readily assent to thy belief that it "best to walk conformably to the light we have and not borrow" - That is, not be depend implicitly on any men or organized bodies of men without subjecting all to the test of the light we have" We need not however, reject such light as may be emited [sic] from other's lamps, onlytry it by the best standard we have It is now first day afternoon the 14th so I will this epistle to a close, you will excuse its shortness as Jeffries and the girls may perhaps give you such information as I have omited [sic] _ they talk of starting tomorrow - We are glad to learn that you think of visiting us ere long - It is very pleasant to recieve [sic] from you the fruits of the fire, but face to face interchange of ideas would be stil [sic] more grateful to our feilings [sic]. I hope both modes of communion may be ejoyed [sic] as often as circumstances will admit--My Rejoins in love to you & yours _ _ from Your friend J Ketcham ||P.S. dont omit to write because you may be thinking of coming before long -two good things are better than one [Text at top of page, written normal, continued from page 2] of holding one of their meetings, and to invite such as feel so inclined, to attend it and this done too so as not to interfere with the business of the Mg- -could it be immagined [sic] that any friend in his right mind could feel the least objection, but facts must tell their story, a sad one that it be it really it seemed to me as if some had got into a very narrow corner of the Christian Country. It forcibly brought to mind the assertion made by some. that the effect and tendency of religious organization is to contract and darken, rather than to expand and ennoble the human mind - to engender bigotry and intolerance instead of true christian liberality and brotherly kindness _ This is a doctrine however which I have never ackno- =wledged as a part of my creed. I have always, at least, cherrished [sic] the idea of one exception; but what can we now say? Could such shriveled fruit grow in any other spot than under the shaddow [sic] of the Sectarian hedge, where the genial rays of Gospel light and love but dimly shine, and where the owls and the bats of prejudice and the dread phantoms of a distorted immagination [sic] love to congregate. Indeed I do bet that it was very much owing to the minds of friends being ocupied [sic] by those prejudices and phantoms that caused them to act as they did, and for aught I know they "really thought" they were "doing God service" for much real was manifest on the occation [sic], whether it was "according to knowledge" (after saying what I have) I must leave _ The meeting was held at the house of Saml Ross, who kindly invited us to do so - not much business came before it except an account of a school for adult coloured females which had been opened and conducted by the committee in N York _ it consisted of about 30 pupils and the report of their progress was highly satisfactory; it was "an evening school only" _ _ But to return to the subject of such associations, I may confess I am not fully satisfied that they are perfectly correct in principle. Why should we exclude all who do not happen to be included within the pale of our religious faith; that [Continues on page 4 with line beginning "is, professionally so"] [Text written upside down, between lines of normal text] It appears however that you do not meet with much encouragement to circulate the reformatory periodicals of the day; seeing you have been strictly forbidden to do so, in one instance at least: and are likely to gain for your selves the character of spreaders of evil reports - Only to think that our committee's report - that "poor pussy sort of a thing," as brother Johnson calls it being only a little enquiry after Truth and then holding it up in the mildest form we knew how - that such a thing should be so allarming [sic] - that any should be afraid [sic] that such things as that, together with teaching a few coloured women to spell and read should if persisted cause another separation! Really, what real friend of the right and the true, would would not say, if this will cause a seperation [sic], or even the anihilation [sic] of the Society, then let it come? For surely a Society that would "fly off the handle" for such a cause, cannot be worth much more for any useful purpose _ _ Indeed I do think it is time for our Society as well as each individual number to look around and try to discover the true place of our whereabouts _ whether our efforts and our influence are on the side of good or of evil; for persuaded I am that we may be operating against the cause of Truth and Righteousness, when we are flattering ourselves that we are the very pillars that sustain it, and are denouncing others because (with equal sincerity) they may not happen to see all things just as we do; and especially if they do not see us not just not just as we fancy ourselves. But perhaps it will be said "Phisician [sic] heal thyself" thy medicines are just such as thy own case requires _ I freely admit it to be so, and desire to take my part tho' others should deem them no applicable to theirs _ _ I have lately rec'd thee or four numbers of the "Herald of Freedom", sent us I suppose by H C Wright, as the wrappers bear his initials _ they are a good deal filled with the warfare going on at the East, between Antislavery and the Church _ I could not but be struck with some strong points of resemblance between those proceedings and some things nearer home; enough almost to make one think that Church is Church, wherever it be, and that it would be dificult [sic] to find one that is right [Text on page 3 continued on page 2 with line beginning "unless it be"] (Page 4) [Text written normal, continued from page 3] is, professionally so - for may not some who are without that pale be as fully united in ^the^ object of our concern as those that are within it. And if so, why not be allowed to participate with us in doing what we are fully agreed in ? I believe there is no good reason why. The only one which I can see, is that it may posibly [sic] meet the case of some who may feel a little too pure to come in contact with others lest their sanctimonious garments may get contaminated. but I think should such not be gained, it would be no very great loss on the whole _ I am therefore not far from thy sinti= ment [sic] that our light (if we have any_ would be more likely to shine where it [Continued at bottom of page with line beginning "would do good"] [Text at top of page, written upside down in between lines of normal text] thing like retaliation in whatever shape. Not however to shrink from the support of all that is right and true in principle; this is no part of the Non= =reistance creed - By the way it seems you have not seen fit to comply with my sugestion [sic] in relation to taking and circulating the "Non Resistant." It is true that considerable that comes in it is published also in the Liberator. It was not so much on you [sic] own accounts that I mentioned it, as for the benefit of others. I do think that good may be done by the circulation of x publications of that character where therewhere there is an interest to read them, and perhaps a little effort even by an individual may kindle an interest which may eventuate in unspeakable good. [Continued on page 3 with line beginning "It appears however"] [Text in center of page, written upward] Isaac Post Rochester NY [Text at bottom of page, written normal] would do good by uniting with all without distinction of Sect or creed and by the way, I should think it no marvel if our position in regard to receiving [sic] as well as imparting light on this subject should be somewhat improved _ _ What I have said in regard to our Quarterly Meeting folks must not be construed into a wish to turn accuser of the bretheren [sic] turn back [Text at bottom of page, upside down, between lines of normal text] or a desire to "expose the weaknesses of Friends", as was charged against Wm Bassett but it seems proper to notice and examine the action of those with whom we are thus connected, but still more ought we to examine ourselves and see if our part has been acted well. It is truly no small attainment to be prepared to meet such things as they should ever be met _ in the true spirit of christian meekness and forgiveness _ the true spirit of Nonresistance, that can forego [sic] every [Continued at top of page with line beginning "thing like retaliation"]
Abolitionism
Education
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/22e2a4959b35ca1846916f569a47aff0.jpg
2ef41ceed0cd56f958c5e2087895e083
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/273f265431e67fbc6f8be4e87ba2f3a1.jpg
52200f2b5ff0e6840fbf8a182267a2af
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a446ef9dbbb3e552c2d12a932af895f0.jpg
2c744fa123734e4a8d621991e17eab55
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/887015c9fda8a29abf502bd5898479c7.jpg
51235dd0b3325b80c7c41657e9363bbb
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5aac8c589160c202324f99796944035c.xml
8c5d59e1474acc67c6bbff0e43735dd4
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> Westbury 26<sup>th</sup> of 10<sup>th</sup> mo 1840<br /> Dear Brother & Sister<br /> We arrived home the next day<br /> after leaving you found our family as well as common<br /> Mother we thought seemed a little smarter but since<br /> has been verry [sic] much as before we left gets out to<br /> meeting monthly. Our chrildren [sic] verry [sic] much plased [sic]<br /> to see us, and beleive [sic] friends generally were willing <br /> to see us home. On our arrival we heard H and C Willis<br /> had the fever & ague but on going to see them the day<br /> but one after geting [sic] home found they were taken about<br /> the time we left with the Bilious remittant [sic] fever<br /> had set up but verry [sic] little in time James Haviland<br /> been sick with the same complaint verry [sic] low at one time<br /> under the operation of medicene [sic] from what we could here<br /> although Phebe thought they were unwilling to let <br /> them know the particulars As Henry and C have had no <br /> doctor the Jericho folks particularly V. Hicks & the<br /> Leaman family seem very much disposed to call it [obliterated]<br /> fever and ague, Sister Lydia we found some comp[obliterated]ining<br /> when we got home and has since been growing more<br /> poorly so that now she sets up but verry [sic] little have<br /> had Doctor Mitchel to see her bleed her considable [sic]<br /> they think her much as she was some years ago<br /> On our arrival at N York we had James and Lucretia<br /> Mott arrived the day before and had gone home, John<br /> C Merrit was at our meeting and gave me an invitation<br /> to go to Philidelphia [sic] to attend the free produce meeting <br /> on cons^id^erartion I concluded to accept, found our friends<br /> nearly in usual healh [sic] and our antislavery friends apeard [sic]<br /> verry [sic] glad to see us, Lucretia said I might tell her<br /> friends she was well we had a pleasant visit and<br /> were interested with the meeting although I did not<br /> think that much would be done except to incourage [sic]<br /> one another to individual faithfulness on account<br /> of not finding any body ^with sufficient capital^ willing to undertake they<br /> were trying to get free cotton and have it manerfactur^ed^ [sic]<br /> Lucretia seems to be the same ^pleasant^ woman that she ever was<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> Rachel and William got home last 5 day week we<br /> caled [sic] to see Rachel the next day she seemed pleasant<br /> talked some about her viset [sic] I inquired about the couled [sic]<br /> people in canada she seemed to show less concern about<br /> them than before she left home for then she thought<br /> she should take considerable panes [sic] to see them I<br /> believe they had 2 meetings in canada for couled [sic] people<br /> I inquired about them at toronto she appeared to know<br /> but little about them although she was at toronto said<br /> many of them entered the military service, said she<br /> thought they would not concent [sic] to be governed by a <br /> people 3000 miles off always, seemed as though she<br /> would be glad to hear of their througing [sic] off the yoke<br /> of great Britton [sic], Last week was our Quarterly meeting<br /> Henry W Rigway [sic] from N. Jersey and Ruth Spencer from<br /> the north. <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">Henry spok</span> Ruth appeared verry [sic] much concernd [sic]<br /><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">to have</span> that Isreal [sic] should dwell alone and not be numbered<br /> a mong the nations said a great deal against the popular<br /> assoations [sic] of the day, and then Henry Rigway held forth<br /> on practical Christianity in all its bea^u^ty, and then Ruth<br /> again said a great deal about the twinings of the serpent<br /> that he was the grat [sic] deceiver [sic] twisting and twinging<br /> endeavering [sic] to draw away and decive [sic] the [unwagery?] and<br /> ^Rachel^ united and aded [sic] to it, all except H Ridgway [sic] was time<br /> unprofitably spent S thought, but I suppose others would<br /> think different. At the clouse [sic] of the buisness [sic] wile [sic]<br /> ^we^ were waiting to here [sic] from the women C Mariot<br /> informed the meeting that friends association would<br /> meet that afternoon at 4ocock [sic], G. White and several<br /> others objected to haveing [sic] the information given in the<br /> meeting thought after meeting would be better<br /> A few of us meet a docoment [sic] was produced and read<br /> answer my some of the objections we here [sic] from friends<br /> against doing any thing, which with a few alterations<br /> was adopted and directed to be printed, what affect<br /> it will have I cannot tell, but as they complain so<br /> much about the report last summer. it is likely this<br /> will also cause some of our opposition friends to find<br /> falt [sic]<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> six day H Ridgway spoke first again on the practical duties<br /> of chirstians [sic], after him Rachel Cromwell and Ruth Spence<br /> and them G White in his usual strain against Preast [sic]=<br /> craft said all the preast [sic] both individualy [sic] on collective<br /> =ly from the creation of the world down to the preasent [sic]<br /> time were emesarys [sic] satan that they were doing the<br /> work of their master the David and then spoke<br /> of the associations of the day two of which he would<br /> name the Antislavery and temperance societys [sic]<br /> and the others were of the same kindred, said<br /><span style="text-decoration:line-through;">t</span>he was tired of the ^cant^ stail [sic] hackned [sic] phrase of the tea<br /> totalers [sic] that they would if they could convert all<br /> the properties of the grape that God had given them<br /> so that no intoxicting [sic] drink could be drawn from<br /> them that it was Blasphemy that Paul rekermded [sic]<br /> a little wine for the stomack [sic] sake and that Jesus<br /> turned water into wine, but that the teetotalers<br /> would convert all wine into water if they could<br /> and much more in the same strain, and also that<br /> the antislavery folks say that if they had the power<br /> they would abolish slavery instaly [sic] this hour thereby<br /> presumeing [sic] to^be^ wiseer [sic] than the allmighty [sic] <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">on</span> who<br /> could if consistent with his divine will accomplih [sic]<br /> it at once – Henry Ridgeway [sic] arose again and it seemed<br /> as though their [sic] had been enough said agains [sic] Priest<br /> craft, but their [sic] is three great evils in the world<br /> Priestcraft s^l^avery and intemperence Priestcraft<br /> were the greatest because the priest sustained<br /> and even held slaves that by their office they<br /> were bound to cry against all and every evil<br /> Rachel Hicks to day held forth ^in^ as I think a <br /> laboured commun^i^cation she tried to make it<br /> appear that it was rite [sic] to have laws to inforce [sic]<br /> the observance of the Christian sabbath said it was <br /> to have 1 day in 7 for our servants and beast [sic] to rest<br /> Stephen Rushmore was here this after no one said<br /> he was asshamed [sic] of Parkerism [sic] if this was a sam=<br /> ple, some, I supposed will as in the ^other^ case think it <br /> was every work of it Gospel<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> We were at William Willets last evening it seemes [sic] very <br /> pleasant to have him home again he says Rachel let<br /> the condeming [sic] subjects alone very much after leaving <br /> your monthly meeting untill [sic] they arrived to Ferisburg [sic]<br /> where she had an appointed meeting for friends only<br /> and then she <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">had</span> came out and said much against <br /> friends joining with others said she was no sectarian <br /> very often which he thought they did not recived [sic] and <br /> they said her saying she was so sectarian did not make her so<br /> I think William does not swallow the communications<br /> of our opposing friend any better than some of the rest of us<br /> I expected to have written some to you have just finished a long letter<br /> to our Waterloo friends had company since our return from yM and now<br /> some have gone home and some to rest and the clock is pointing toward<br /> 12 all admonish me that there is no time to tell any thing and I <br /> have much to say on many things quite as much as tho we had<br /> [Continues below with line beginning “not visited you”]<br /><br /> [Text in center of page, written upward]<br /> Isaac Post <br /> Rochester<br /> NY<br /> Care of EPW<br /><br /> [Text at bottom of page, written upside down]<br /> not visited you so recently Our little girls were exceedingly pleased<br /> with their presents particularly the dolls which are shown to all our<br /> company named them Caroline and Matilda John Ketcham and Phebe<br /> returned from Boston highly pleased with their visit also on Nantucket<br /> there were no friends, from there to yM and ^no minutes to our meeting^ a concern was got up to<br /> address a few lines to them informing them of it and also to say they had<br /> been very felingly [sic] remembered at this time by us. which would have<br /> been well enough but it was taken to [sic] far they were informed as <br /> above and that a great exercise had been felt in this meeting that friend<br /> should keep out of all exciting subjects and that our friend Ruth had<br /> travialed [sic] under this concern and some more in that way but the paper<br /> is full so farewell with love to all your household and gratitud [sic] for the<br /> favours received from you remain your attached relative Mary<br /> love to S Underwood family and B Fish'es particularly do let us hear<br /> from you soon again
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, October 26, 1840.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1840-10-26
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
546
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Westbury 26th of 10th mo 1840 Dear Brother & Sister We arrived home the next day after leaving you found our family as well as common Mother we thought seemed a little smarter but since has been verry [sic] much as before we left gets out to meeting monthly. Our chrildren [sic] verry [sic] much plased [sic] to see us, and beleive [sic] friends generally were willing to see us home. On our arrival we heard H and C Willis had the fever & ague but on going to see them the day but one after geting [sic] home found they were taken about the time we left with the Bilious remittant [sic] fever had set up but verry [sic] little in time James Haviland been sick with the same complaint verry [sic] low at one time under the operation of medicene [sic] from what we could here although Phebe thought they were unwilling to let them know the particulars As Henry and C have had no doctor the Jericho folks particularly V. Hicks & the Leaman family seem very much disposed to call it [obliterated] fever and ague, Sister Lydia we found some comp[obliterated]ining when we got home and has since been growing more poorly so that now she sets up but verry [sic] little have had Doctor Mitchel to see her bleed her considable [sic] they think her much as she was some years ago On our arrival at N York we had James and Lucretia Mott arrived the day before and had gone home, John C Merrit was at our meeting and gave me an invitation to go to Philidelphia [sic] to attend the free produce meeting on cons^id^erartion I concluded to accept, found our friends nearly in usual healh [sic] and our antislavery friends apeard [sic] verry [sic] glad to see us, Lucretia said I might tell her friends she was well we had a pleasant visit and were interested with the meeting although I did not think that much would be done except to incourage [sic] one another to individual faithfulness on account of not finding any body ^with sufficient capital^ willing to undertake they were trying to get free cotton and have it manerfactur^ed^ [sic] Lucretia seems to be the same ^pleasant^ woman that she ever was Rachel and William got home last 5 day week we caled [sic] to see Rachel the next day she seemed pleasant talked some about her viset [sic] I inquired about the couled [sic] people in canada she seemed to show less concern about them than before she left home for then she thought she should take considerable panes [sic] to see them I believe they had 2 meetings in canada for couled [sic] people I inquired about them at toronto she appeared to know but little about them although she was at toronto said many of them entered the military service, said she thought they would not concent [sic] to be governed by a people 3000 miles off always, seemed as though she would be glad to hear of their througing [sic] off the yoke of great Britton [sic], Last week was our Quarterly meeting Henry W Rigway [sic] from N. Jersey and Ruth Spencer from the north. Henry spok Ruth appeared verry [sic] much concernd [sic]to have that Isreal [sic] should dwell alone and not be numbered a mong the nations said a great deal against the popular assoations [sic] of the day, and then Henry Rigway held forth on practical Christianity in all its bea^u^ty, and then Ruth again said a great deal about the twinings of the serpent that he was the grat [sic] deceiver [sic] twisting and twinging endeavering [sic] to draw away and decive [sic] the [unwagery?] and ^Rachel^ united and aded [sic] to it, all except H Ridgway [sic] was time unprofitably spent S thought, but I suppose others would think different. At the clouse [sic] of the buisness [sic] wile [sic] ^we^ were waiting to here [sic] from the women C Mariot informed the meeting that friends association would meet that afternoon at 4ocock [sic], G. White and several others objected to haveing [sic] the information given in the meeting thought after meeting would be better A few of us meet a docoment [sic] was produced and read answer my some of the objections we here [sic] from friends against doing any thing, which with a few alterations was adopted and directed to be printed, what affect it will have I cannot tell, but as they complain so much about the report last summer. it is likely this will also cause some of our opposition friends to find falt [sic] six day H Ridgway spoke first again on the practical duties of chirstians [sic], after him Rachel Cromwell and Ruth Spence and them G White in his usual strain against Preast [sic]= craft said all the preast [sic] both individualy [sic] on collective =ly from the creation of the world down to the preasent [sic] time were emesarys [sic] satan that they were doing the work of their master the David and then spoke of the associations of the day two of which he would name the Antislavery and temperance societys [sic] and the others were of the same kindred, saidthe was tired of the ^cant^ stail [sic] hackned [sic] phrase of the tea totalers [sic] that they would if they could convert all the properties of the grape that God had given them so that no intoxicting [sic] drink could be drawn from them that it was Blasphemy that Paul rekermded [sic] a little wine for the stomack [sic] sake and that Jesus turned water into wine, but that the teetotalers would convert all wine into water if they could and much more in the same strain, and also that the antislavery folks say that if they had the power they would abolish slavery instaly [sic] this hour thereby presumeing [sic] to^be^ wiseer [sic] than the allmighty [sic] on who could if consistent with his divine will accomplih [sic] it at once - Henry Ridgeway [sic] arose again and it seemed as though their [sic] had been enough said agains [sic] Priest craft, but their [sic] is three great evils in the world Priestcraft s^l^avery and intemperence Priestcraft were the greatest because the priest sustained and even held slaves that by their office they were bound to cry against all and every evil Rachel Hicks to day held forth ^in^ as I think a laboured commun^i^cation she tried to make it appear that it was rite [sic] to have laws to inforce [sic] the observance of the Christian sabbath said it was to have 1 day in 7 for our servants and beast [sic] to rest Stephen Rushmore was here this after no one said he was asshamed [sic] of Parkerism [sic] if this was a sam= ple, some, I supposed will as in the ^other^ case think it was every work of it Gospel We were at William Willets last evening it seemes [sic] very pleasant to have him home again he says Rachel let the condeming [sic] subjects alone very much after leaving your monthly meeting untill [sic] they arrived to Ferisburg [sic] where she had an appointed meeting for friends only and then she had came out and said much against friends joining with others said she was no sectarian very often which he thought they did not recived [sic] and they said her saying she was so sectarian did not make her so I think William does not swallow the communications of our opposing friend any better than some of the rest of us I expected to have written some to you have just finished a long letter to our Waterloo friends had company since our return from yM and now some have gone home and some to rest and the clock is pointing toward 12 all admonish me that there is no time to tell any thing and I have much to say on many things quite as much as tho we had [Continues below with line beginning "not visited you"] [Text in center of page, written upward] Isaac Post Rochester NY Care of EPW [Text at bottom of page, written upside down] not visited you so recently Our little girls were exceedingly pleased with their presents particularly the dolls which are shown to all our company named them Caroline and Matilda John Ketcham and Phebe returned from Boston highly pleased with their visit also on Nantucket there were no friends, from there to yM and ^no minutes to our meeting^ a concern was got up to address a few lines to them informing them of it and also to say they had been very felingly [sic] remembered at this time by us. which would have been well enough but it was taken to [sic] far they were informed as above and that a great exercise had been felt in this meeting that friend should keep out of all exciting subjects and that our friend Ruth had travialed [sic] under this concern and some more in that way but the paper is full so farewell with love to all your household and gratitud [sic] for the favours received from you remain your attached relative Mary love to S Underwood family and B Fish'es particularly do let us hear from you soon again
Abolitionism
Medicine
Quakers
Temperance Movement
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/238552c0da884adf4ffce17a65e21d63.jpg
2e4b9dacf69788e7bd0930b9902b7704
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/185acaf2c92da987d8fbea7881108281.jpg
61b4c0b6869bf8a433cfaa925a1077d8
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d34077518c78f3e1e6461f4a2ebb3480.jpg
9147aa725d1f0bb30669c903ddfb0b35
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5429b4144b89a5761ce2a9825cbef4b1.jpg
7abf3ba94d39e6ec503aed1ff2a6c4d4
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/0c33f6876f3ecca210beab79423e75a4.xml
863bbe6965791d84b71bae03c070aa53
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> 2<sup>nd</sup> of 9<sup>th</sup> Mo<br /> Dear sisters<br /> I have been tempted to write a few lines to<br /> my sisters for sometime past but have reasoned upon it and put<br /> it by remembering I was not in debt by any means, and had not<br /> sister Sarah remembered ^me^ so affectionately in her letter to mother<br /> I should have felt it best that my pen should lay undisturbed<br /> having feared that I had wounded your feelings in some way<br /> by my plain dealing, as I had not recieved [sic] a token of your love<br /> or remembrance untill [sic] Abbe Hicks returned and told us how<br /> affectionately you enquired after us and that you wanted to see us<br /> and thought we might come &c sister Amy’s health was delicate<br /> [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">&c</span>] then gave her sentiment I think you might go. I said does<br /> thee think so really, yes I do she said, I said to ^her^ that since<br /> hearing her speak of you and by sister S. letter we have felt<br /> considerable like it and talk’d of a day for starting, but mother<br /> got poorly and the way closed up and remaind [sic] so, untill [sic] to<br /> day we begin to talk a little more like it again. It has been<br /> rumored both far and wide that we were a going ^to Rochester^ and the enquiry<br /> almost daily is have you fixed on a day yet to start. I expect you<br /> have heard ^of^ our prospect before this as there has been time for it to<br /> be reported to Canada and back again, and that Phebe does not<br /> expect us to visit her, I wonder what she might think if we<br /> should disappoint her. I hear that she complains in her<br /> letters of sister Sarahs inattention to her, fully expecting that<br /> she would pay her some attention and respect. I heard to day<br /> that Margaret expects to spend the Winter with her, which<br /> greater astonished me as M had so lately told me that she could<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> not go, and I then had a suspicion that there might be <br /> a <span style="text-decoration:underline;">string to h</span>er<span style="text-decoration:underline;"> bea</span>u, that might operate as an objection,<br /> but I am very ignorant of their affairs so that nothing can<br /> be reported from me. [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">but</span>] but Charry is very sick and<br /> has been for two months and they feel very anxious about<br /> her, she is extreemly [sic] sick and exhausted by vomiting so much<br /> and so long that she has lost her flesh very much, her mother<br /> is with her, and I have not been in to see her for some time<br /> but feel very much interested in her, and have [prescribed?] <br /> and [urged?] her to take medicine. but it did not prevail, they <br /> seemed so fearing alltogether, [sic] they have a regular D<sup>ctr</sup> attending<br /> at present. Martha S. left her paternal roof in a few days<br /> after the <span style="text-decoration:underline;">wedding</span> took place, as cheerful as could be expected<br /> Rebecca said, tho [sic] not so stayed [sic] as Phebe was through all.<br /> I went in to see Judith Fleet a few days ago, and while speak<br /> ing of John daughters going so far away, and Rebeccas giving<br /> them up so cheerfully &c. the old woman remarked that R’s<br /> troubles had not commenced yet, and that if her daughters<br /> should have children, then ^Rs^ anxiety and trouble commences<br /> she is very far advanced in life you may recollect but many<br /> of her remarks are pertinent, hard of hearing, and cannot take<br /> one step, or lay down at night, but has occupied her armed<br /> chair night and day for many months, she remembers and<br /> enquires after you, and makes the same antique appear<br /> ance as formerly when you saw her. Aunt Phebe Carpen<br /> =ter is and has been up here since quarterly M.g. she appears to<br /> enjoy visiting her friends very much seems to feel like going to<br /> see all, she expressed a wish to go ^to^ Edward Robbins they seem to <br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> be nicely settled in their new house and having other necessary new<br /> buildings around them, and their wood pile being very snug, and the<br /> vegetable yard free from weeds, altogether gives it a comfortable <br /> appearance, they [a<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">re</span>] differ from ^their^ sister Mary in their enjoyments<br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">I think</span>, or circumstances may re^n^der it so, they have not as yet<br /> manifested much of meeting characters. Rachel seems very open<br /> and free of access, her aunt Hannah lives their [sic] what I imagine has<br /> some attraction [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">to</span>] ^with^ aunt Phebe. I wish you could see aunt P. she<br /> is very thin in flesh, having been sick most of the winter, but<br /> seems spry and comfortable ^now^ and very natural, just like herself,<br /> speaks frequently of uncle Samuel with affection, but seems<br /> ignorant of his affairs, having never pryed [sic] into them much. he<br /> did leave something for her if she should need, but how it can be<br /> obtained, or who is to be [jud[g]e?] of her necesities [sic] I do not know but I trust<br /> their [sic] will be no difficulty about it, she does not appear to desire [obliterated]<br /> our Farher seems smart for him this summer and keeps e[very?]<br /> thing picked up around that is within his reach, the garden is<br /> very <span style="text-decoration:underline;">nice, by</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">his faithf</span>u<span style="text-decoration:underline;">lness and </span>the <span style="text-decoration:underline;">pumpkin</span> ya<span style="text-decoration:underline;">rd adjoin</span><br /> ing, but other things ^are^ discouraging. Mother I think has been better<br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">this summer</span> than las<span style="text-decoration:underline;">t; seems</span> remarkably <span style="text-decoration:underline;">fortified</span> thro [sic] <span style="text-decoration:underline;">all.</span><br /> brother Edmund has been <span style="text-decoration:underline;">up</span> some days and went to South and stayed<br /> their [sic] and had things managed very different from common, &c<br /> are your letters all common this had better not be. We have had<br /> several fine showers, lately, Edward has been a few times to the<br /> City with hay was down yesterday altho [sic] it was rainy with heavy<br /> showers between here and the City, but he was so fortunate as to<br /> miss them all having got his wagon unloaded just in time to miss<br /> it while there, and it clear’d off in time for him to get home again by<br /> [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">I</span>] nine o Clock. we had fear’d that he had an unpleasant time, but not so.<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> Anna Willis seems comfortable cousin Tommy thinks her mind is<br /> sound except in her own state of health which she thinks is poor and<br /> that she needs medicine. she does speak very sensibly and I hope<br /> she has nearly recovered, she has been here and seemed very affectionate<br /> spoke of her mother &c but my paper is so nearly filled, D<sup>ct</sup> Earl* sais [sic],<br /> “It is the belief of a large majority of physicians of the present day, that this<br /> disease is always bodily, and that the mind appears to be disordered only<br /> because the organ through which its operations are manifested is not in<br /> a condition of health.”<br /> *D<sup>ct</sup> E is an Orthodox friend<br /><br /> [Address sideways, running upward]<br /><br /> Jericho NY 10<br /> Sept 4<sup>th</sup><br /> Isaac Post<br /> for <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Amy Post</span> Rochester<br /> Moroe [sic] County N.Y.<br /><br /> [Text at bottom, upside-down]<br /><br /> John thinks I may just say that we think of setting out<br /> the forepart of the week. I hear that William Post is very<br /> poorly in mind. perhaps we say a little more if permitted<br /> to see you affectionately M.W.W.</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Willis, Mary W Kirby. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary W Kirby Willis to Amy Kirby Post, 184-.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Willis, Mary W Kirby
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[184- ?]
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
539
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. 2nd of 9th Mo Dear sisters I have been tempted to write a few lines to my sisters for sometime past but have reasoned upon it and put it by remembering I was not in debt by any means, and had not sister Sarah remembered ^me^ so affectionately in her letter to mother I should have felt it best that my pen should lay undisturbed having feared that I had wounded your feelings in some way by my plain dealing, as I had not recieved [sic] a token of your love or remembrance untill [sic] Abbe Hicks returned and told us how affectionately you enquired after us and that you wanted to see us and thought we might come &c sister Amy's health was delicate [&c] then gave her sentiment I think you might go. I said does thee think so really, yes I do she said, I said to ^her^ that since hearing her speak of you and by sister S. letter we have felt considerable like it and talk'd of a day for starting, but mother got poorly and the way closed up and remaind [sic] so, untill [sic] to day we begin to talk a little more like it again. It has been rumored both far and wide that we were a going ^to Rochester^ and the enquiry almost daily is have you fixed on a day yet to start. I expect you have heard ^of^ our prospect before this as there has been time for it to be reported to Canada and back again, and that Phebe does not expect us to visit her, I wonder what she might think if we should disappoint her. I hear that she complains in her letters of sister Sarahs inattention to her, fully expecting that she would pay her some attention and respect. I heard to day that Margaret expects to spend the Winter with her, which greater astonished me as M had so lately told me that she could not go, and I then had a suspicion that there might be a string to her beau, that might operate as an objection, but I am very ignorant of their affairs so that nothing can be reported from me. [but] but Charry is very sick and has been for two months and they feel very anxious about her, she is extreemly [sic] sick and exhausted by vomiting so much and so long that she has lost her flesh very much, her mother is with her, and I have not been in to see her for some time but feel very much interested in her, and have [prescribed?] and [urged?] her to take medicine. but it did not prevail, they seemed so fearing alltogether, [sic] they have a regular Dctr attending at present. Martha S. left her paternal roof in a few days after the wedding took place, as cheerful as could be expected Rebecca said, tho [sic] not so stayed [sic] as Phebe was through all. I went in to see Judith Fleet a few days ago, and while speak ing of John daughters going so far away, and Rebeccas giving them up so cheerfully &c. the old woman remarked that R's troubles had not commenced yet, and that if her daughters should have children, then ^Rs^ anxiety and trouble commences she is very far advanced in life you may recollect but many of her remarks are pertinent, hard of hearing, and cannot take one step, or lay down at night, but has occupied her armed chair night and day for many months, she remembers and enquires after you, and makes the same antique appear ance as formerly when you saw her. Aunt Phebe Carpen =ter is and has been up here since quarterly M.g. she appears to enjoy visiting her friends very much seems to feel like going to see all, she expressed a wish to go ^to^ Edward Robbins they seem to be nicely settled in their new house and having other necessary new buildings around them, and their wood pile being very snug, and the vegetable yard free from weeds, altogether gives it a comfortable appearance, they [are] differ from ^their^ sister Mary in their enjoymentsI think, or circumstances may re^n^der it so, they have not as yet manifested much of meeting characters. Rachel seems very open and free of access, her aunt Hannah lives their [sic] what I imagine has some attraction [to] ^with^ aunt Phebe. I wish you could see aunt P. she is very thin in flesh, having been sick most of the winter, but seems spry and comfortable ^now^ and very natural, just like herself, speaks frequently of uncle Samuel with affection, but seems ignorant of his affairs, having never pryed [sic] into them much. he did leave something for her if she should need, but how it can be obtained, or who is to be [jud[g]e?] of her necesities [sic] I do not know but I trust their [sic] will be no difficulty about it, she does not appear to desire [obliterated] our Farher seems smart for him this summer and keeps e[very?] thing picked up around that is within his reach, the garden is very nice, byhis faithfulness and the pumpkin yard adjoin ing, but other things ^are^ discouraging. Mother I think has been betterthis summer than last; seems remarkably fortified thro [sic] all. brother Edmund has been up some days and went to South and stayed their [sic] and had things managed very different from common, &c are your letters all common this had better not be. We have had several fine showers, lately, Edward has been a few times to the City with hay was down yesterday altho [sic] it was rainy with heavy showers between here and the City, but he was so fortunate as to miss them all having got his wagon unloaded just in time to miss it while there, and it clear'd off in time for him to get home again by [I] nine o Clock. we had fear'd that he had an unpleasant time, but not so. Anna Willis seems comfortable cousin Tommy thinks her mind is sound except in her own state of health which she thinks is poor and that she needs medicine. she does speak very sensibly and I hope she has nearly recovered, she has been here and seemed very affectionate spoke of her mother &c but my paper is so nearly filled, Dct Earl* sais [sic], "It is the belief of a large majority of physicians of the present day, that this disease is always bodily, and that the mind appears to be disordered only because the organ through which its operations are manifested is not in a condition of health." *Dct E is an Orthodox friend [Address sideways, running upward] Jericho NY 10 Sept 4th Isaac Post for Amy Post Rochester Moroe [sic] County N.Y. [Text at bottom, upside-down] John thinks I may just say that we think of setting out the forepart of the week. I hear that William Post is very poorly in mind. perhaps we say a little more if permitted to see you affectionately M.W.W.
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/53d3663fddcd853208f64bdc1b9d8c07.jpg
7cfcafe4e60b6dea77febf1b1eea2358
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/b45b707b15bdada84afda25834c2a4c9.jpg
82e8fe9ffd748b1c7613359e3c93a9b8
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/536caa8be644c69b6cbefb0bd412b171.jpg
13805f16ff415236c43a225de6e672fb
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f9e9864f0a06e87afbcbeea08f749f53.jpg
20f52d56e204f4cff84b5fce9f4f43aa
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d63bac1cce5d06e68b37c4008080a774.xml
7a0a0f70d904660803d9e2ee98bd05fa
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p><br /><br /> (Page 1)<br /><br /> [Added text in far left margin running upward, and three lines in top margin running normal, are continuations to page 4 and are transcribed at the end of page 4.]<br /><br /> Dear sister, 5<sup>th</sup> of 1<sup>st</sup> M<sup>o</sup><br /> Little did I think it would have been so long a<br /> time without writing to my sisters Amy and Sarah as I know<br /> not which to direct this too [sic] but as I am in debt to Amy<br /> it may be best to pay off old debts first. It is very cold weath[er]<br /> the Mercury is down to Zero. Some snow and ice that we ride <br /> in Sleys [sic] yet and sister Elizabeth has a son 4 days old (I heard<br /> to day) is pretty comfortable but wanted Mother to go and<br /> stay with her [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">wh</span>] is yet there. I hope to hear more particular<br /> before closing this letter. Rachel Hicks and Maria F........ has<br /> been to Jericho making social visits among us and appoint<br /> ing meetings she appointed one for coulored [sic] people at our<br /> M.g. house a snow storm prevented her attendance and<br /> uncle David and Robert officiated, a day or two after<br /> she proposed a meeting at Cold Spring, a violent Snow<br /> storm again come and prevented her attending that. Sam<br /> uel J Underhill set out to go and inform them, got fast in a <br /> drift and that was the end of his journey. Rachel was here<br /> at the time said she felt comfortable and that she had heard<br /> of the will being taken for the deed. uncle Gilbert [L-----?]<br /> uncle Sammy P. wife and sister eight or nine others were<br /> here on that day uncle James Post among the rest and<br /> it appear’d to be the prevailing sense of the assemblage, that<br /> the design would not be answerd [sic] if they attempted to go, for<br /> the people could not get there. Adon Seaman opend [sic]<br /> to our last M.o Meeting a concern that had for years been upon<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> his mind to pay a religious visit to friends to the north and west<br /> and he now ask’d a minute for a part only, to appoint and atten[d?]<br /> some meetings in Stanford Quarter. the subject claimed the<br /> attention and unity of men friends, when it came to the<br /> female department it seemed more difficult. no one<br /> expressd [sic] encouragement, and but few a willingness to<br /> even set him at liberty. just a month previous Rachel<br /> was there and requested the shutters lowered <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">that we might sit<br /> together,</span> expressed to <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">us</span> that the same subject that impressed<br /> her mind ^at^ quarterly meeting, yet remained with her &c<br /> “That ^the^ powers that be are ordained of God.” &c after<br /> she got through [Ardon?] step’d up and <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">spoke</span> communi<br /> cated a little in the course of which he alluded to <br /> the forgoing [sic] testimony and said he did not unite with<br /> the language &c some consider it disorderly in Ard-<br /> =on. and thus we move one thing occurring after another <br /> for us to converse upon, I thought after the marriages<br /> and weddings <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">had pas</span>s and gay carpets had passed by<br /> their [sic] might be possiby [sic] a time of rest. Edmund P. gave<br /> you the particulars of the marriages, weddings, and<br /> the offering that was made [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">here in the</span>] to the groom in the<br /> evening by Gertrude, it seem’d innocent and solemn<br /> at the time, but as it is spoken of now it would<br /> appear just the reverse. I was very much in hopes<br /> that you would have come at that time, yet at the time<br /> I wrote to thee we did not calculate upon the brothren<br /> and sisters, but the scale turned and some where [sic: were?] here<br /> and I have a cake reserved for you but it is on the<br /> decrease I fear that it will not last untill [sic] you come.<br /> Do you take the nonresistant? we are cautioned<br /> against it, not be able to see the impropriety [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">of</span>] there of<br /> we continue to take and read it: and I consider much<br /><br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> of the contents valuable, we had the perusal of thy letter<br /> to mother, has thee heard how th [sic] Lady liked thy books<br /> I wished thee had Elias letters to offer her they are so good<br /> I must just tell you of a sick woman over to<br /> Hempstead who has been sick a long time and under<br /> the Drs direction getting discouraged, her husband a young<br /> man came to see me and to hear what I might say of<br /> the Hygean [sic] Medicines, after conversing awhile with him<br /> I thought I could reccommend [sic] them and gave him some<br /> to commence upon, she took them about a week and sent<br /> for me, I accordingly comply’d [sic] although an entire stran<br /> =ger found her Dr with her, I thought her a pretty looking<br /> sweet young person a stranger in the place had lately<br /> married and commenced housekeeping their, [sic] however<br /> the Dr and I had nothing to do with each other. she laid<br /> aside her calomel and all his medicine even the removal<br /> of a seton from her neck, I have been again to see her<br /> and thought her a little improved began to sit up to [obliterated]<br /> her bed [obliterated] which she had not for six weeks been [obliterated]<br /> and in delicate health for years, she is a New England[er?]<br /> and her mother can not be with having another daughter<br /> sick at home. Rachel is to Westbury and Edward to Jericho<br /> this eve a visiting with his wife to Valentines. I do<br /> not know what course will be taken for Edward and<br /> E yet but think they will remain with us at present.<br /> but I dread that of <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Mother inlaw</span>. Mary U Hicks said she<br /> could live with a <span style="text-decoration:underline;">son in law</span>, but a daughter in law she could<br /> not think off. [sic] first day James Cock was accidentally to our meeting<br /> and said he had been comforted in sitting with us, this day, had much<br /> to say, received a note from Rachel saying she had been to see<br /> sister Elizabeth and that she is smart and met [there?] smiling <br /> father has gone there to day in order to bring [mother?] Willet<br /> and Matilda rode with us. we ask’d them to come home with us<br /> W said no it wounderfull nice to home without the old folks once<br /> and a while<br /><br /> (Page 4)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[Top Margin]<br /><br /> David Ketcham yet lives seems quiet and peaceable a great<br /> favor. Esther Rushmore is to Westown shcool [sic], has been very<br /> home sick indeed will be very glad when spring comes, been<br /> there 9 weeks, enter’d for 6 Months, she says they are so very strict<br /> and the governess so very cross, the sternest looking woman she<br /> ever saw, scolds and frets all the time says they eat too much<br /> molasses, that they have eat 130 gal already will not let them<br /> even look sideways at the boys if they do thy are punished.<br /> just recieved [sic] a letter from her my love to Mary, Jacob,<br /> and Joseph, Edmund P and all as is named tell sister Sarah we<br /> wonder she does not write M.W.W. – <br /><br /><br /> [Text sideways, running upward]<br /><br /><br /> Jericho NY. 18<sup>3<br /></sup>Jan 10<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> <br /> Amy Post<br /> Rochester<br /><br /> To the care of <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Monroe County<br /></span>Isaac Post<br /><br /> [Bottom margin]<br /><br /> I have but very little time to write more as this letter<br /> must go this afternoon I was sent ^for^ to go to Hempstead again<br /> since writing the above they thought my patient was more<br /> poorly a good deal. I thought her on the mend she seemed to<br /> not know it (is near being confined too)* mother desires love to<br /> you, lives by her self yet but is very dependant [sic] on us, wants to<br /> be carried to Westbury to day cold and icy as it is. Edward dreads it<br /> much.<br /><br /> [Additional closing comments are written on Page 1: upward in left margin and horizontally across top margin.]<br /><br /> (Page 1)<br /><br /> [Text sideways in left margin]<br /><br /> *I took my consulting physician with me (Abbe) she appear to think her in a good way.<br /> I hope it may prove so.<br /><br /> [Text at top of page]<br /><br /> tell Isaac the time begins to feel long [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">over]</span> that we have<br /> not seen you and do write it is so desirable to get a letter<br /> often I felt pleased to hear from P Fish and [Esther?] in mothers<br /> letter</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Willis, Mary W Kirby. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary W Kirby Willis to Amy Kirby Post, 184-?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Willis, Mary W Kirby
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[184- ?]
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
537
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. [Added text in far left margin running upward, and three lines in top margin running normal, are continuations to page 4 and are transcribed at the end of page 4.] Dear sister, 5th of 1st Mo Little did I think it would have been so long a time without writing to my sisters Amy and Sarah as I know not which to direct this too [sic] but as I am in debt to Amy it may be best to pay off old debts first. It is very cold weath[er] the Mercury is down to Zero. Some snow and ice that we ride in Sleys [sic] yet and sister Elizabeth has a son 4 days old (I heard to day) is pretty comfortable but wanted Mother to go and stay with her [wh] is yet there. I hope to hear more particular before closing this letter. Rachel Hicks and Maria F........ has been to Jericho making social visits among us and appoint ing meetings she appointed one for coulored [sic] people at our M.g. house a snow storm prevented her attendance and uncle David and Robert officiated, a day or two after she proposed a meeting at Cold Spring, a violent Snow storm again come and prevented her attending that. Sam uel J Underhill set out to go and inform them, got fast in a drift and that was the end of his journey. Rachel was here at the time said she felt comfortable and that she had heard of the will being taken for the deed. uncle Gilbert [L-----?] uncle Sammy P. wife and sister eight or nine others were here on that day uncle James Post among the rest and it appear'd to be the prevailing sense of the assemblage, that the design would not be answerd [sic] if they attempted to go, for the people could not get there. Adon Seaman opend [sic] to our last M.o Meeting a concern that had for years been upon his mind to pay a religious visit to friends to the north and west and he now ask'd a minute for a part only, to appoint and atten[d?] some meetings in Stanford Quarter. the subject claimed the attention and unity of men friends, when it came to the female department it seemed more difficult. no one expressd [sic] encouragement, and but few a willingness to even set him at liberty. just a month previous Rachel was there and requested the shutters lowered that we might sit together, expressed to us that the same subject that impressed her mind ^at^ quarterly meeting, yet remained with her &c "That ^the^ powers that be are ordained of God." &c after she got through [Ardon?] step'd up and spoke communi cated a little in the course of which he alluded to the forgoing [sic] testimony and said he did not unite with the language &c some consider it disorderly in Ard- =on. and thus we move one thing occurring after another for us to converse upon, I thought after the marriages and weddings had pass and gay carpets had passed by their [sic] might be possiby [sic] a time of rest. Edmund P. gave you the particulars of the marriages, weddings, and the offering that was made [here in the] to the groom in the evening by Gertrude, it seem'd innocent and solemn at the time, but as it is spoken of now it would appear just the reverse. I was very much in hopes that you would have come at that time, yet at the time I wrote to thee we did not calculate upon the brothren and sisters, but the scale turned and some where [sic: were?] here and I have a cake reserved for you but it is on the decrease I fear that it will not last untill [sic] you come. Do you take the nonresistant? we are cautioned against it, not be able to see the impropriety [of] there of we continue to take and read it: and I consider much of the contents valuable, we had the perusal of thy letter to mother, has thee heard how th [sic] Lady liked thy books I wished thee had Elias letters to offer her they are so good I must just tell you of a sick woman over to Hempstead who has been sick a long time and under the Drs direction getting discouraged, her husband a young man came to see me and to hear what I might say of the Hygean [sic] Medicines, after conversing awhile with him I thought I could reccommend [sic] them and gave him some to commence upon, she took them about a week and sent for me, I accordingly comply'd [sic] although an entire stran =ger found her Dr with her, I thought her a pretty looking sweet young person a stranger in the place had lately married and commenced housekeeping their, [sic] however the Dr and I had nothing to do with each other. she laid aside her calomel and all his medicine even the removal of a seton from her neck, I have been again to see her and thought her a little improved began to sit up to [obliterated] her bed [obliterated] which she had not for six weeks been [obliterated] and in delicate health for years, she is a New England[er?] and her mother can not be with having another daughter sick at home. Rachel is to Westbury and Edward to Jericho this eve a visiting with his wife to Valentines. I do not know what course will be taken for Edward and E yet but think they will remain with us at present. but I dread that of Mother inlaw. Mary U Hicks said she could live with a son in law, but a daughter in law she could not think off. [sic] first day James Cock was accidentally to our meeting and said he had been comforted in sitting with us, this day, had much to say, received a note from Rachel saying she had been to see sister Elizabeth and that she is smart and met [there?] smiling father has gone there to day in order to bring [mother?] Willet and Matilda rode with us. we ask'd them to come home with us W said no it wounderfull nice to home without the old folks once and a while[Top Margin] David Ketcham yet lives seems quiet and peaceable a great favor. Esther Rushmore is to Westown shcool [sic], has been very home sick indeed will be very glad when spring comes, been there 9 weeks, enter'd for 6 Months, she says they are so very strict and the governess so very cross, the sternest looking woman she ever saw, scolds and frets all the time says they eat too much molasses, that they have eat 130 gal already will not let them even look sideways at the boys if they do thy are punished. just recieved [sic] a letter from her my love to Mary, Jacob, and Joseph, Edmund P and all as is named tell sister Sarah we wonder she does not write M.W.W. - [Text sideways, running upward] Jericho NY. 183Jan 10
th Amy Post Rochester To the care of Monroe CountyIsaac Post [Bottom margin] I have but very little time to write more as this letter must go this afternoon I was sent ^for^ to go to Hempstead again since writing the above they thought my patient was more poorly a good deal. I thought her on the mend she seemed to
not know it (is near being confined too)* mother desires love to you, lives by her self yet but is very dependant [sic] on us, wants to be carried to Westbury to day cold and icy as it is. Edward dreads it much. [Additional closing comments are written on Page 1: upward in left margin and horizontally across top margin.]
[Text sideways in left margin] *I took my consulting physician with me (Abbe) she appear to think her in a good way. I hope it may prove so. [Text at top of page] tell Isaac the time begins to feel long [over] that we have not seen you and do write it is so desirable to get a letter often I felt pleased to hear from P Fish and [Esther?] in mothers letter
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ab1159e2d824dcc393cdd70e960bb44f.jpg
98a84f28f2974186ad9565e4bf2daccb
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f5b094ede6904c94d67eb7ba2b47db96.jpg
68965fbc9fb421d93294d903eb291559
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/7fdb9b1c82603f80a0331c9a657a9fb2.jpg
f7fe221a443bc368bd81402df3e51078
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/607302b77db258bf8628482a089fc7ae.jpg
323b2137e20031e9b395ea28bd1342ea
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/4a4e2c38c7f47611dbe82ecaf1c841a6.xml
dc3acdf433fc3b4ff6560119013c6915
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br />[Illegible] My dear Amy<br /> Time has rolld [sic] on and [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">brog</span>] ^brought^ the new year with<br />all its hopes and fears and now the snow is falling fast, our <span style="text-decoration:underline;">zealots</span> have<br />pass'd and repass'd attended "mass" and been carried by their stout horses "too [sic]<br />and fro." we have been reading some, working & and looking over old letters till [sic] 2 [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">oclo</span>]<br />o clock – when H & D with their children left for Amos Giles s where they meet congenial<br />minds – The absence of the noisy youths gives us a calm to write in – but if I must live<br />without H & family long I should not enjoy the solitude – Our friends have become<br />jealous of our absence from Mg. and so the overseers came to visit us I did not know who were<br />in that office <span style="text-decoration:line-through;"> </span> and they came in a friendly way, made a visit came before dinner – and<br />as the hour of evening approach'd they touch'd the <span style="text-decoration:underline;">dreaded cord</span> I felt calm and self<br />possess’d and so did the girls – D told them her views briefly, and they seem'd as <span style="text-decoration:underline;">decent</span><br />as they well could Sarah Dunlap is a stranger to thee but Priscilla Hains is not they<br />told us that E [Bier?] intended to come and she may - I shall tell her as I did them<br />that I no longer feel it a point of duty to assemble with them to sit there and do [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">noth</span>]<br />nothing – I could say more if necessary but I have no words to lavish on such "<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Geese</span>"<br />as Anna Coffin would say I did tell them if they were tired of me they could<br />put me out – that I did not feel as if I could cast censure on those individuals<br />who might consent to the measure believing it to be their right to set me aside<br />but as I now felt united in love and good will to many of them I hoped to continue<br />to feel so – [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">Amos Giles</span>] It is probable we shall face worse (if worse it may be calld) [sic]<br />for the course pursued by Cross & family – I have no unity with the friends who sit<br />as judges at Rochester and would rather be disownd [sic] here than to trust to those<br />who are less acquainted with us – we are much united as a family except some<br />of the number would like ^rather^ to ask for a release than to wait for <span style="text-decoration:underline;">them</span> to sit in judg<br />ment on the case <span style="text-decoration:line-through;"> </span> I think now that I am decided just as we all were 20 years ago<br />(or in the time of the Division) we were scatterd [sic] widely but all took one way<br />now I say let them work <span style="text-decoration:line-through;"> </span> I look forward with pleasure to the spring when we may<br />meet and cheerfully join heart and hand to bless and be bless'd in turn<br /> A letter from thy Dear Isaac reach'd H.C. the information was satisfactory and<br />as I have written one letter and destroy d [sic] it because I could not in reading<br />it over feel satisfied with it so now I have made an attempt to make a small<br />return for your polite attention for F.D. whom I did not see (for like my dear Mother<br />whose example I shall try to imitate) I staid [sic] at home to let the rest go<br />to Meetg<br /><br />(Page 2)<br /><br />Among other letters in store I found one to day from L.P.M to Mathius A<br />on the recipt [sic] of her "minute" which was sent her from this meetg in 1842<br />complaning [sic] of his short notice "only of a tie long since virtually broken & in my mind only<br />a painful recollection"<span style="text-decoration:line-through;"> </span> I also reread thine by A & E Giles thy dear Matilda was<br />sick with scarlit [sic] fever yet thy wonted kindness led thee to write me and I well recollect<br />with what interest I perused it ^(the account of m. mg – disownment [sic] &c &c)^ I shall bring it with me – I think it will do thee good<br />to see how the [sic] felt then I trust thee will not ever feel so much again I mean<br />in meetg for discipline I hope we have (you & us) got clear of such clashing I feel<br />that my time could and I trust will be better employ'd – I learn from Isaac<br />P. that A Bush has been calld [sic] to surrender her little darling how trying to the<br />mother! but I have seen so much suffering in the adult as to feel sometimes as<br />if the dear little ones were spared alike the pain of future life and the<br />severe separation from friends which after life realizes but I have not yet<br />mourned the loss of my own offspring and cannot judge –<br />[<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">Amung</span>] Among others, I find ^a^ good letter from J. E. Robinson to his coz. [sic]<br />Anna Greene I prize it much and shall preseve [sic] it as a rilic [sic] <span style="text-decoration:line-through;"> </span><br />please present my love to him – we are making great calculations on<br />his society tho' [sic] we may live 3 miles off – I feel well satisfied with the<br />arrangement <span style="text-decoration:line-through;"> </span> I prefer the country for the children and my self too – except<br />Just when I like to visit or sojourn for a time in the City its social blessing <br />I hope to appreciate fully but I am affraid [sic] of "<span style="text-decoration:underline;">fire</span>"<br />H.C. tells us that you have in view to establish a reading room with which I unite as<br />far as my <span style="text-decoration:underline;">cautiousness</span> in regard to incurring <span style="text-decoration:underline;">debt</span> will admit of -- I look at it as<br />among the possible, that such an attempt may prove successful – I have always<br />wish’d that I might be useful in the line of free good but we have hithertoo [sic]<br />been in no situation to take part in any thing of the kind <span style="text-decoration:line-through;"> </span>I have view'd<br />you my dear friends in R. as quite too much burthened with the preparations<br />and attendance upon fairs – &c and I have come to the conclusion that I cannot<br />so will further the good cause by the usual course or what has (as far as<br />I could discover) been requir'd of you in so limited a time as 3 or 4 weeks<br />but would suggest whether by small beginnings in a cheaply rented room<br />we might not give our attention to the constant supply of articles of usefulness Books<br />of information ^&c^ keeping on hand goods which we might sell on commission,<br />or make up for a yearly exhibition – it seems to me that we should be<br />aided by many who now see but little way into a thing so novel and<br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">lottery like</span> as a fair <span style="text-decoration:line-through;"> </span> fishermen Always furnish themselves with<br />bait which they first ascertain to be suited to the taste of their<br />victims – and tho' the society of friends [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">are</span>] ^is^ fast losing [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">their</span>] ^its^ identity<br />and sooner or later the <span style="text-decoration:underline;">vacancies</span> must be filled at the <span style="text-decoration:underline;">table</span> by<br />or from the highways and hedges (as I view it) the increase of our<br />original principles affect a large share of the thinking<br /><br />(Page 3)<br /><br />community – the economy sobriety and habits of dilligence [sic] which were the legit-<br />imate offspring of true christian laws – ought to have produced better<br />results – – but as all organized relations are to be supplanted<br />by advances – so I for one feel no regret at all – no, I rejoice<br />rather that I have lived to see the structure so far demolished<br />and hope yet to be able to view the ruins where figuratively speak<br />ing there shall not be one stone left on another<br />I often say since we have concluded to move there that<br />I expect to enjoy those advantages of a City which Newport<br />R.I. famished me when young – it will seem familiar I<br />think to step off and help myself – to a bottle of good black ink<br />for instance and may be a glass pen or some other with which<br />I may make my crude thoughts legible<br /> I learn that J Gurney is expected to journey eastward we shall<br />be glad of a call from him do take a sheet of paper and write<br />ask S to add and M too and pleasant W<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>m</sup></span> I think I see his cheerful<br />face ready to greet me while my friend Isaac holds<br />his dignified corse [sic] I shall be glad if you cannot write<br />for J.G. if you can freight him with at least some acc t<br />of what you are about and I will try to draw it from him<br />with the help of our social <span style="text-decoration:underline;">group</span> we have no visitors <br />except Brother W<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>m</sup></span> who has spent more time with us since<br />my return than previously he likes to hear about you all<br />H is still confined to her mother who is delirious all the<br />time – our Q M occurs this week I hope we shall have<br />some social company. The 1<sup>s</sup> month is drawing to a close<br />and the above has lain 3 weeks the ink has grown darker<br />and I have been very much engaged our auction is over &c<br />H intends to improve the sleigh [obliterated] if we have it in season to<br />move west but we are informed of the small pox being with<br />you – and – should like to have your opinion respecting the<br />safety of coming as none of my family except myself have been<br />vaccinated for kine pox – Henry & Dorcas are dispos'd to distrust<br />the use of introducing one disease to counteract a worse so as<br />a mother Dorcas feels anxious to do for the best<br /> We have been visited by this disease several times within a<br />few years – but solitary instanes [sic] occur in different neiborhoods [sic]<br />and tho' in one family 3 deaths have taken place – as near as<br />"Fitchs Corner" only one instance of <span style="text-decoration:underline;">[valis----?]</span><br /><br />(Page 4)<br /><br />[Text upside-down, top of page]<br /><br />I ought to apologize for sending this old scrawl but I felt like writing<br />then and meant soon to finish it but – different occurrences have<br />kept me from attending to it our children have been visited by a<br />committee 2 men and [2? 4?] women on account of a request which they<br />(D & A – Abby & Phebe) sent to the M.M. requesting a release – I can give<br />no description of the occasion now as we hope soon to meet and<br />I am a poor hand to concentrate on paper I hope they will not<br />visit me on the account for I want to part with my friends in<br />good feeling and shall not wish to make a <span style="text-decoration:underline;">fuss</span> now still<br />I dont know but it would be better to do so if I could give my<br />[<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">reason to</span>] reason for dissenting from them in a dignified<br />Manner -<br /><br />[Text continues on bottom third of page]<br /><br />I am well satisfied with the course pursued by the children<br />I was present and listened took no part in it <span style="text-decoration:line-through;"> </span>I felt rather<br />more remov'd from participating in their way of worship afterward<br />than before – for the most prominent actors in com<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>tee </sup></span>was Sarah Arn<br />-old and Richard Searing – H [Louis?] was one and Cornelius Meek & wife<br />Eli<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> Baker – – they regretted that the children of J & A Greene<br />should make such a light thing of their right in society while I<br />secretly rejoice that I could look back on the last 10 years<br />of their lives with a satisfaction to which they are strangers<br />and was more confirmd [sic] than before that it is fear more<br />than <span style="text-decoration:underline;">love</span> which holds society together your Sarah E Thayer<br /><br />[Address in middle third of page, running upward]<br /><br />Popr [Poplar] Ridge<br />NY Jan [27?] <br /><br /> Isaac Post<br /> for Amy Post<br /> Rochester Monroe <br /> Co<br /> New York<br /><br /></p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Thayer, Sarah E. Letter to Amy Kirby? Post. ([184- ?])
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Sarah E Thayer to Amy Kirby? Post, 184-?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Thayer, Sarah E
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[184- ?]
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Amy Kirby? Post
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
536
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. [Illegible] My dear Amy Time has rolld [sic] on and [brog] ^brought^ the new year with all its hopes and fears and now the snow is falling fast, our zealots have pass'd and repass'd attended "mass" and been carried by their stout horses "too [sic] and fro." we have been reading some, working & and looking over old letters till [sic] 2 [oclo] o clock - when H & D with their children left for Amos Giles s where they meet congenial minds - The absence of the noisy youths gives us a calm to write in - but if I must live without H & family long I should not enjoy the solitude - Our friends have become jealous of our absence from Mg. and so the overseers came to visit us I did not know who were in that office and they came in a friendly way, made a visit came before dinner - and as the hour of evening approach'd they touch'd the dreaded cord I felt calm and self possess'd and so did the girls - D told them her views briefly, and they seem'd as decent as they well could Sarah Dunlap is a stranger to thee but Priscilla Hains is not they told us that E [Bier?] intended to come and she may - I shall tell her as I did them that I no longer feel it a point of duty to assemble with them to sit there and do [noth] nothing - I could say more if necessary but I have no words to lavish on such "Geese" as Anna Coffin would say I did tell them if they were tired of me they could put me out - that I did not feel as if I could cast censure on those individuals who might consent to the measure believing it to be their right to set me aside but as I now felt united in love and good will to many of them I hoped to continue to feel so - [Amos Giles] It is probable we shall face worse (if worse it may be calld) [sic] for the course pursued by Cross & family - I have no unity with the friends who sit as judges at Rochester and would rather be disownd [sic] here than to trust to those who are less acquainted with us - we are much united as a family except some of the number would like ^rather^ to ask for a release than to wait for them to sit in judg ment on the case I think now that I am decided just as we all were 20 years ago (or in the time of the Division) we were scatterd [sic] widely but all took one way now I say let them work I look forward with pleasure to the spring when we may meet and cheerfully join heart and hand to bless and be bless'd in turn A letter from thy Dear Isaac reach'd H.C. the information was satisfactory and as I have written one letter and destroy d [sic] it because I could not in reading it over feel satisfied with it so now I have made an attempt to make a small return for your polite attention for F.D. whom I did not see (for like my dear Mother whose example I shall try to imitate) I staid [sic] at home to let the rest go to Meetg Among other letters in store I found one to day from L.P.M to Mathius A on the recipt [sic] of her "minute" which was sent her from this meetg in 1842 complaning [sic] of his short notice "only of a tie long since virtually broken & in my mind only a painful recollection" I also reread thine by A & E Giles thy dear Matilda was sick with scarlit [sic] fever yet thy wonted kindness led thee to write me and I well recollect with what interest I perused it ^(the account of m. mg - disownment [sic] &c &c)^ I shall bring it with me - I think it will do thee good to see how the [sic] felt then I trust thee will not ever feel so much again I mean in meetg for discipline I hope we have (you & us) got clear of such clashing I feel that my time could and I trust will be better employ'd - I learn from Isaac P. that A Bush has been calld [sic] to surrender her little darling how trying to the mother! but I have seen so much suffering in the adult as to feel sometimes as if the dear little ones were spared alike the pain of future life and the severe separation from friends which after life realizes but I have not yet mourned the loss of my own offspring and cannot judge - [Amung] Among others, I find ^a^ good letter from J. E. Robinson to his coz. [sic] Anna Greene I prize it much and shall preseve [sic] it as a rilic [sic] please present my love to him - we are making great calculations on his society tho' [sic] we may live 3 miles off - I feel well satisfied with the arrangement I prefer the country for the children and my self too - except Just when I like to visit or sojourn for a time in the City its social blessing I hope to appreciate fully but I am affraid [sic] of "fire" H.C. tells us that you have in view to establish a reading room with which I unite as far as my cautiousness in regard to incurring debt will admit of -- I look at it as among the possible, that such an attempt may prove successful - I have always wish'd that I might be useful in the line of free good but we have hithertoo [sic] been in no situation to take part in any thing of the kind I have view'd you my dear friends in R. as quite too much burthened with the preparations and attendance upon fairs - &c and I have come to the conclusion that I cannot so will further the good cause by the usual course or what has (as far as I could discover) been requir'd of you in so limited a time as 3 or 4 weeks but would suggest whether by small beginnings in a cheaply rented room we might not give our attention to the constant supply of articles of usefulness Books of information ^&c^ keeping on hand goods which we might sell on commission, or make up for a yearly exhibition - it seems to me that we should be aided by many who now see but little way into a thing so novel andlottery like as a fair fishermen Always furnish themselves with bait which they first ascertain to be suited to the taste of their victims - and tho' the society of friends [are] ^is^ fast losing [their] ^its^ identity and sooner or later the vacancies must be filled at the table by or from the highways and hedges (as I view it) the increase of our original principles affect a large share of the thinking community - the economy sobriety and habits of dilligence [sic] which were the legit- imate offspring of true christian laws - ought to have produced better results - - but as all organized relations are to be supplanted by advances - so I for one feel no regret at all - no, I rejoice rather that I have lived to see the structure so far demolished and hope yet to be able to view the ruins where figuratively speak ing there shall not be one stone left on another I often say since we have concluded to move there that I expect to enjoy those advantages of a City which Newport R.I. famished me when young - it will seem familiar I think to step off and help myself - to a bottle of good black ink for instance and may be a glass pen or some other with which I may make my crude thoughts legible I learn that J Gurney is expected to journey eastward we shall be glad of a call from him do take a sheet of paper and write ask S to add and M too and pleasant Wm I think I see his cheerful face ready to greet me while my friend Isaac holds his dignified corse [sic] I shall be glad if you cannot write for J.G. if you can freight him with at least some acc t of what you are about and I will try to draw it from him with the help of our social group we have no visitors except Brother Wm who has spent more time with us since my return than previously he likes to hear about you all H is still confined to her mother who is delirious all the time - our Q M occurs this week I hope we shall have some social company. The 1s month is drawing to a close and the above has lain 3 weeks the ink has grown darker and I have been very much engaged our auction is over &c H intends to improve the sleigh [obliterated] if we have it in season to move west but we are informed of the small pox being with you - and - should like to have your opinion respecting the safety of coming as none of my family except myself have been vaccinated for kine pox - Henry & Dorcas are dispos'd to distrust the use of introducing one disease to counteract a worse so as a mother Dorcas feels anxious to do for the best We have been visited by this disease several times within a few years - but solitary instanes [sic] occur in different neiborhoods [sic] and tho' in one family 3 deaths have taken place - as near as "Fitchs Corner" only one instance of [valis----?] (Page 4) [Text upside-down, top of page] I ought to apologize for sending this old scrawl but I felt like writing then and meant soon to finish it but - different occurrences have kept me from attending to it our children have been visited by a committee 2 men and [2? 4?] women on account of a request which they (D & A - Abby & Phebe) sent to the M.M. requesting a release - I can give no description of the occasion now as we hope soon to meet and I am a poor hand to concentrate on paper I hope they will not visit me on the account for I want to part with my friends in good feeling and shall not wish to make a fuss now still I dont know but it would be better to do so if I could give my [reason to] reason for dissenting from them in a dignified Manner - [Text continues on bottom third of page] I am well satisfied with the course pursued by the children I was present and listened took no part in it I felt rather more remov'd from participating in their way of worship afterward than before - for the most prominent actors in comtee was Sarah Arn -old and Richard Searing - H [Louis?] was one and Cornelius Meek & wife Elith Baker - - they regretted that the children of J & A Greene should make such a light thing of their right in society while I secretly rejoice that I could look back on the last 10 years of their lives with a satisfaction to which they are strangers and was more confirmd [sic] than before that it is fear more than love which holds society together your Sarah E Thayer [Address in middle third of page, running upward] Popr [Poplar] Ridge NY Jan [27?] Isaac Post for Amy Post Rochester Monroe Co New York
Medicine
Personal
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/8e5ede089405cbc2c4f1520b7af6b9f1.jpg
f7c4560b5fb1ca47cf1812620b7f5f30
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d5d2c1eccea69a2b665521e76f1abf04.jpg
3c89d1d72eff025138ec50ffe8170edd
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/5d29a21d377badb3830e31fa96468ba4.jpg
acb8f8674e336ae8b3667abe5b0bc708
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/168fd097b87075d56957f621bf315975.jpg
336883689890b9d1780229390b06cdc0
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/ca91ae62e1829a602e57cb30ef6023e9.xml
8307d4d2146ba19f5162120ab0e54e95
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> My Dear Friend & Sister - North Union (Shakers) near Cleveland O. <br /> 8..18..<br /> I arrived here yesterday P.M. thankful for a place of quiet<br /> & by resting here for the night, I feel my strength renewed. – & if I fail to write<br /> as I should do, I will take the blame on myself – for I never feel troubled on account<br /> of bad spirits when here. It was peculiarly agreeable to find by thy letter, as<br /> well as my own feelings when in thy presence, that we still remain one in<br /> the bond of Christian fellowship, – notwithstanding the different outside influences<br /> to which we have been subjected. It is an evidence to my mind that we are not<br /> easily carried about by the craft & cunning of those who love to have the pre-<br /> eminence. – Whether inside or outside of a church organization it matters not. <span style="text-decoration:line-through;"> </span><br /> Where would spiritualism have been but for the door opened by progres-<br /> sionist? [sic] And I was truely [sic] surprised to learn that in Rochester – those who have a<br /> morbid appetite for the marvellous [sic] – should so far forget their obligation to the<br /> True Reformers of the present age, as to even consent, that their liberties should be<br /> abriged [sic] in those verry [sic] meetings which they had instituted for the good of all.<br /> Surely no highly developed spirits will lend their sanction to any such arbitrary<br /> measures. – My Father was a revolutionary soldier – & risked his life for the<br /> principle of universal libirty. [sic] Liberty of speech to each & every individual.<br /> And tho' [sic] he taught his children a better way to promote liberty than by the<br /> sword - yet he never yielded one iota of the principle of true liberty: – liberty<br /> to each & every individual – (so long as they did not infringe upon the rights of<br /> others,) as the gift of God – and not merely the right of the majority. <span style="text-decoration:line-through;"> </span><br /> Who does not know that those of the mother country were greatly<br /> in the majority at the time Threemillion - in this country determined to throw<br /> off the yoke? – the remonstrance of the great majority concerned in the struggle<br /> to the country notwithstanding. Let those who attempt to trifle with this vital<br /> element beware. – Our Fathers are not dead as some seem to suppose: – & if need<br /> be – they will fight the revolutionary battles over again. – Nay – they are doing<br /> that verry [sic] thing now: Their weapons now are Truth & love & charity opposed<br /> to Tyranny in every form – whether by law or without law.<br /> But where & when arbitrary Tyranicle [sic] measures prevail – good & highly developed<br /> spirits withdraw: Hence I consider that you were in the right in with-<br /> drawing from those meetings where your ^equal^ liberties were denied you.<br /> After having engaged in a warm debate rather to the [wounding?] of my own<br /> peace – a sense of which made me feel verry [sic] humble, ^my^ [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">mo</span>] mother said to me thro' [sic] a<br /> medium: – "Thee has nothing to gain but much to loose [sic] by being so combattive [sic] – We<br /> dont [sic] want any thing to mar or interrupt the harmony between us: – and when such<br /> things occur we dont [sic]approach." This to me was a great sermon in few words. N. Potter <br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> This ends the first Chapter. My paper which I expected to find in my portfolio being<br /> missing I took this handbill. – P.M. Price formerly Mrs. Williamson has moved to<br /> St. Louis. – Mo.<br /> I was about to ride to town to make a few calls – but thought I had<br /> better write a few lines to thee. – I am on my way to <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Battle Creek</span>, Mich.<br /> In love to all of thy household &c. Thy friend N. Potter<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> 2. Chapt. <br /> I thought I would send what I have written on the other slip of paper without<br /> mentioning that the Hixites [sic] have me under dealings for meeting occasionally<br /> with spiritualist – but it would hardly be consistent with that frank confiding<br /> spirit which I so much admire in thine. Disowned or denied Christian liberty by<br /> a church organization & superficial believers in spiritualism – shall we not be<br /> driven to the necessity of getting up some organization adapted to the wants<br /> of this life and at the same time realizing to our souls, the sublimer joys of a<br /> holy communion with angels & angelic spirits who once inhabited this lower<br /> sphere as we now do. In order that we may enjoy this high & holy communion<br /> it is requisite that we seek surroundings favourable to the highest mental<br /> culture that we are capable of. – Yet as we grow in goodness by doing<br /> good to others, we should be cautious of cutting ourselves off from those<br /> with whome [sic] we might have an influence even tho' [sic] they may not<br /> be so congenial to our natures. Now, for myself, I could be happy either with<br /> the shakers or the communist of Oneida – for I could live a shaker life<br /> there as well as here if I chose to do so: – yet it appears to me that I should<br /> be cut off too much from others who need my counsels. – And while<br /> I should not be afraid to act upon the principle of community of property<br /> with such as Isaac & Amy Post & many others – yet there are those<br /> who might do well in association upon the principle of joint stock –<br /> and thereby become prepared for a higher state. But to be safe we<br /> should not allow the officers of association to involve the asso-<br /> ciation in debt. Where there is harmony & combined effort, it requires<br /> but little to do business with, – sufficient to secure a handsome support. <br /> Harmony & not money making should be the leading object.<br /> If you felt like coming to Michigan – I dont know any better place for<br /> you than to come to Harmonia & buy the largest house there which is<br /> about 60 feet long – 32 wide & three story high – now for sale at<br /> one thousand Dollars: – There is probably 30 rooms in it designed<br /> to rent to students who prefer to board themselves. A store in one<br /> corner kept by H. Cornells wife. Hiram is now in Iowa & is offered<br /> 40 acres of land to start a school there: hence would sell an acre & house for<br /> $1000, – It cost over $2000, – Think of it.<br /> Collins Yearly meeting of Progressionist [sic] meet the 8.. 9.. & 10<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> of Sept.<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> Michigan Yearly Meeting the 2.. 3.. & 4<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><sup>th</sup></span> of Sept. at Adrian.<br /><br /> [Elish?] Freeman informed me that I might expect a complaint carried into the<br /> meeting against me for meeting with Spiritualist. – This will probably be<br /> the first case of the kind.. – as Norman Sprague was complained of for Dancing<br /> tho' [sic] he thinks the real cause is that he is a spiritualist – other members having participated<br /> in the same dance without having it brought to the notice of thee meeting.<br /> I expect my Father to manage the case for me: "My Father is greater than I."<br /><br /> [Continues in lower half of right side of page.]<br /><br /> I attended a first day meeting<br /> at East Hamburg after <span style="text-decoration:underline;">being notified</span><br /> as stated & spoke under the strongest<br /> spirit influence I ever felt in my life<br /> in which I declared my belief in departed<br /> spirits influencing friends left be hind.<br /> And declared it in a scriptural way.<br /> While in Erie Co. I spoke five times<br /> In Hixite [sic] meetings – once in that of<br /> Orthodox friends & once at a <br /> Meeting of Spiritualist, or progression-<br /> Ists. Nathaniel Sisson who sits at the <br /> head of Collins preparative meeting<br /> attended the last mentioned meeting<br /> & expressed to me his approbation. –<br /><br /> [Final two lines extend across entire bottom margin.]<br /><br /> I have many things to say – but can not say them now for want of<br /> time. A kind remembrance to enquiring friends - & Sister Sarah too – N. Potter</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Potter, Nathaniel. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Nathaniel Potter to Amy Kirby Post, 184-?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Potter, Nathaniel
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[184- ?]
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
534
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. My Dear Friend & Sister - North Union (Shakers) near Cleveland O. 8..18.. I arrived here yesterday P.M. thankful for a place of quiet & by resting here for the night, I feel my strength renewed. - & if I fail to write as I should do, I will take the blame on myself - for I never feel troubled on account of bad spirits when here. It was peculiarly agreeable to find by thy letter, as well as my own feelings when in thy presence, that we still remain one in the bond of Christian fellowship, - notwithstanding the different outside influences to which we have been subjected. It is an evidence to my mind that we are not easily carried about by the craft & cunning of those who love to have the pre- eminence. - Whether inside or outside of a church organization it matters not. Where would spiritualism have been but for the door opened by progres- sionist? [sic] And I was truely [sic] surprised to learn that in Rochester - those who have a morbid appetite for the marvellous [sic] - should so far forget their obligation to the True Reformers of the present age, as to even consent, that their liberties should be abriged [sic] in those verry [sic] meetings which they had instituted for the good of all. Surely no highly developed spirits will lend their sanction to any such arbitrary measures. - My Father was a revolutionary soldier - & risked his life for the principle of universal libirty. [sic] Liberty of speech to each & every individual. And tho' [sic] he taught his children a better way to promote liberty than by the sword - yet he never yielded one iota of the principle of true liberty: - liberty to each & every individual - (so long as they did not infringe upon the rights of others,) as the gift of God - and not merely the right of the majority. Who does not know that those of the mother country were greatly in the majority at the time Threemillion - in this country determined to throw off the yoke? - the remonstrance of the great majority concerned in the struggle to the country notwithstanding. Let those who attempt to trifle with this vital element beware. - Our Fathers are not dead as some seem to suppose: - & if need be - they will fight the revolutionary battles over again. - Nay - they are doing that verry [sic] thing now: Their weapons now are Truth & love & charity opposed to Tyranny in every form - whether by law or without law. But where & when arbitrary Tyranicle [sic] measures prevail - good & highly developed spirits withdraw: Hence I consider that you were in the right in with- drawing from those meetings where your ^equal^ liberties were denied you. After having engaged in a warm debate rather to the [wounding?] of my own peace - a sense of which made me feel verry [sic] humble, ^my^ [mo] mother said to me thro' [sic] a medium: - "Thee has nothing to gain but much to loose [sic] by being so combattive [sic] - We dont [sic] want any thing to mar or interrupt the harmony between us: - and when such things occur we dont [sic]approach." This to me was a great sermon in few words. N. Potter This ends the first Chapter. My paper which I expected to find in my portfolio being missing I took this handbill. - P.M. Price formerly Mrs. Williamson has moved to St. Louis. - Mo. I was about to ride to town to make a few calls - but thought I had better write a few lines to thee. - I am on my way to Battle Creek, Mich. In love to all of thy household &c. Thy friend N. Potter 2. Chapt. I thought I would send what I have written on the other slip of paper without mentioning that the Hixites [sic] have me under dealings for meeting occasionally with spiritualist - but it would hardly be consistent with that frank confiding spirit which I so much admire in thine. Disowned or denied Christian liberty by a church organization & superficial believers in spiritualism - shall we not be driven to the necessity of getting up some organization adapted to the wants of this life and at the same time realizing to our souls, the sublimer joys of a holy communion with angels & angelic spirits who once inhabited this lower sphere as we now do. In order that we may enjoy this high & holy communion it is requisite that we seek surroundings favourable to the highest mental culture that we are capable of. - Yet as we grow in goodness by doing good to others, we should be cautious of cutting ourselves off from those with whome [sic] we might have an influence even tho' [sic] they may not be so congenial to our natures. Now, for myself, I could be happy either with the shakers or the communist of Oneida - for I could live a shaker life there as well as here if I chose to do so: - yet it appears to me that I should be cut off too much from others who need my counsels. - And while I should not be afraid to act upon the principle of community of property with such as Isaac & Amy Post & many others - yet there are those who might do well in association upon the principle of joint stock - and thereby become prepared for a higher state. But to be safe we should not allow the officers of association to involve the asso- ciation in debt. Where there is harmony & combined effort, it requires but little to do business with, - sufficient to secure a handsome support. Harmony & not money making should be the leading object. If you felt like coming to Michigan - I dont know any better place for you than to come to Harmonia & buy the largest house there which is about 60 feet long - 32 wide & three story high - now for sale at one thousand Dollars: - There is probably 30 rooms in it designed to rent to students who prefer to board themselves. A store in one corner kept by H. Cornells wife. Hiram is now in Iowa & is offered 40 acres of land to start a school there: hence would sell an acre & house for $1000, - It cost over $2000, - Think of it. Collins Yearly meeting of Progressionist [sic] meet the 8.. 9.. & 10th of Sept. Michigan Yearly Meeting the 2.. 3.. & 4th of Sept. at Adrian. [Elish?] Freeman informed me that I might expect a complaint carried into the meeting against me for meeting with Spiritualist. - This will probably be the first case of the kind.. - as Norman Sprague was complained of for Dancing tho' [sic] he thinks the real cause is that he is a spiritualist - other members having participated in the same dance without having it brought to the notice of thee meeting. I expect my Father to manage the case for me: "My Father is greater than I." [Continues in lower half of right side of page.] I attended a first day meeting at East Hamburg after being notified as stated & spoke under the strongest spirit influence I ever felt in my life in which I declared my belief in departed spirits influencing friends left be hind. And declared it in a scriptural way. While in Erie Co. I spoke five times In Hixite [sic] meetings - once in that of Orthodox friends & once at a Meeting of Spiritualist, or progression- Ists. Nathaniel Sisson who sits at the head of Collins preparative meeting attended the last mentioned meeting & expressed to me his approbation. - [Final two lines extend across entire bottom margin.] I have many things to say - but can not say them now for want of time. A kind remembrance to enquiring friends - & Sister Sarah too - N. Potter
Medicine
Quakers
Spiritualism
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a6397dfdd834c0062588ed0de9aba527.jpg
81a7fbb284d50a3dbd01c2b9e772da32
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f81518d490d1b3162e36e6191411b786.jpg
9d4d2bedeec2677a22780a6435e2754f
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/24fb3ba7fce1b7b7607c2976d19e1757.xml
1b66d53c538b731ea2e6e790c9dc8871
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> Here my poor letter is so many days after its commencement and <br /> had not my J been so kind as to fill it I know not how much longer it <br /> would have remained here [various?] are my pleas for not finishing it before <br /> one of which is the toothache which has been at times very severe and has <br /> not made me feel very communicative it is pretty quiet now but last night <br /> slept very little – I am anticipating a time when I shall not have so much <br /> of that kind of trouble I am thankful for hope how much it conduces to <br /> our happiness and enables to bear up against difficuly [sic] pain and sorrow the <br /> hope of better times ahead Matilda has been down and had her upper <br /> teeth extracted she took chloriform [sic] but thought it done no good she<br /> was as sensitive as ever, they came very hard Mary J Motts little babe <br /> is declining and they have no hope of its recovery Phebe Johnson leaves very <br /> shortly for Penn ^a^. What kind of a visit did Cousin Phebe Haviland<br /> have with you did she hear the raps and if so what did she think <br /> of it all how glad I should be it were possible to have you <br /> spend this evening with us it is nearly dark and I have <br /> made up a nice fire and nothing is wanting except your presen^ce^ <br /> to make it truly pleasant The Indian committee from all [New?] York <br /> I suppose met in N Y last week had two or more meetings they <br /> say it is for the winding up of the concern – I have not met <br /> with them in a long while feeling disgust at some of their<br /> sayings and doings Probably you have not heard Willets<br /> expects to introduce us to a stranger as wife next third day<br /> evening she is an entire stranger to all of us how we shall<br /> be pleased with each other time alone will determine<br /> Have seen Phebe Hallowell a short time she appears to be enjoying <br /> herself nicely Margaret is better in health. Lydia Seaman is <br /> expecting to come to Jericho soon on a visit- Elias Doty’s disap<br /> -pointment must have been great what a scamp he must be<br /> it proves to them I suppose that appearances often deceive <br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> I intreeat [sic] of you to set as a good example in writing often do not<br /> wait for an answer true friendship will not wait for an answer<br /> allways [sic] we want to hear what you are engaged in and all the little <br /> eccetras [sic] writing and rapping etc and now farewell with much love your <br /> Sister M </p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, 184-?
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[184- ?]
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
532
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Here my poor letter is so many days after its commencement and had not my J been so kind as to fill it I know not how much longer it would have remained here [various?] are my pleas for not finishing it before one of which is the toothache which has been at times very severe and has not made me feel very communicative it is pretty quiet now but last night slept very little - I am anticipating a time when I shall not have so much of that kind of trouble I am thankful for hope how much it conduces to our happiness and enables to bear up against difficuly [sic] pain and sorrow the hope of better times ahead Matilda has been down and had her upper teeth extracted she took chloriform [sic] but thought it done no good she was as sensitive as ever, they came very hard Mary J Motts little babe is declining and they have no hope of its recovery Phebe Johnson leaves very shortly for Penn ^a^. What kind of a visit did Cousin Phebe Haviland have with you did she hear the raps and if so what did she think of it all how glad I should be it were possible to have you spend this evening with us it is nearly dark and I have made up a nice fire and nothing is wanting except your presen^ce^ to make it truly pleasant The Indian committee from all [New?] York I suppose met in N Y last week had two or more meetings they say it is for the winding up of the concern - I have not met with them in a long while feeling disgust at some of their sayings and doings Probably you have not heard Willets expects to introduce us to a stranger as wife next third day evening she is an entire stranger to all of us how we shall be pleased with each other time alone will determine Have seen Phebe Hallowell a short time she appears to be enjoying herself nicely Margaret is better in health. Lydia Seaman is expecting to come to Jericho soon on a visit- Elias Doty's disap -pointment must have been great what a scamp he must be it proves to them I suppose that appearances often deceive I intreeat [sic] of you to set as a good example in writing often do not wait for an answer true friendship will not wait for an answer allways [sic] we want to hear what you are engaged in and all the little eccetras [sic] writing and rapping etc and now farewell with much love your Sister M
Family
Medicine
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9a6fa16aa942e83442ada391dba9b392.jpg
04ffa1fe4127b1d1174512784853c66c
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d29a7638121afbce829d93c6e9c70ce5.jpg
6ee02c03445e594a7ad4e3cdfead452b
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/7cede8c1acec5d9fd3716255b827e53a.jpg
81d66aea4de11e816bc47d139a5ce693
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/d1a0b04c862775c8bcff717d97f9dace.jpg
91f61ee2f3fac81b05cfd709228a401a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/9f76b5f6cc003e31d0cc58e91f71eb8a.xml
d819227c1a9da7d0046f847997c34d35
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
(Page 1)<br /><br /> Westbury 12 month 9<sup>th</sup> 1838<br /> My Dear friend <br /> I scarcely know to whome to address this to for<br /> I feel a fear that you are forgetful of the slaves we have on you<br /> or at least I have felt grieved at your silence and have again this<br /> evening remembered the many seasons of sweet communion together<br /> and have now to regret that so few of our moments are employed in<br /> the interchange of feelings <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">which</span> <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">are at present</span> ^and as this is^ the only means of conve<br /> ying to each other what at present occupies our attention why are you<br /> so neglectful of the duty which is binding on us as to omit writing for<br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">weeks</span> and <span style="text-decoration:underline;">months</span> if there is any cause please inform us of it that<br /> we may make all proper acknowledgement if any be necessary<br /> How are you getting along in your antislavery enterprise I doubt not how<br /> ever you are advancing therein satisfactoryly [sic] but have wanted to hear if<br /> you have ever ^had^discouragement after discouragement to encounter if so you<br /> can feel for us for we are sometimes all most ready to despair of any<br /> thing ever being done in Long Island the very place where our dear<br /> relative E Hicks laboured so long and faithfully to find there opposers is<br /> indeed very trying and the insinuations <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">which are</span> circulated as to the<br /> motives of those who are endeavouring to do what is required of them<br /> is quite disheartning [sic] y^c^ou may recollect we were about forming a society<br /> have as yet been unsucsessful [sic] which adds to our mortification I hope<br /> we shall finally succeed [sic] if we do not our opposition friends will rejoice<br /> too much over us we have made two appointments the first time we<br /> went taking Sarah Powel with us and found to our great supprise [sic] that<br /> our Jericho friends thought it too rainy to meet the time again fixed <br /> on to be the first day after monthly meeting as that the information<br /> might be extended will the day come and lo it snowed so that it was<br /> again postponed and if we have not zeal enough in the cause to ride for<br /> 4 or even many miles in a little rain I fear our concern is not deepe [sic]<br /> enough ever to effect any material change any way I hope however it will<br /> not have an entire failure I have felt if I had any encouragement as tho<br /> I could unite with the abolitionists (it is so difficult to do any thing<br /> among friends but can hardly join in opposition to all my friends so long<br /> as I can feel easy to remain as I am but they have my best wishes and <br /> I do feel united to many of them in sweet fellow feeling the reproach of <br /> being an abolitionist I can cheerfully bear I do after see something of this kind but<br /> that troubles me not for the peace which is the result of faithfulness fully<br /> compensates for the loss of reputation and the esteem of those I love Joseph<br /> feels much but is not prepared to join the abolitionists one objection is to hire^ing^<br /> lectures and some such things we were very much pleased to have the great<br /> [Continued on page 2 with line beginning "Thomas McClintock at"]<br /><br /> [Text overlaying normal text, written upward]<br /> nation learn to do justly are not all called on to endeavour to<br /> do all in their power to arrouse [sic] it from the apathy <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">into</span> which our rulers are<br /> indulging in regardless of the cries of the poor and heedless of the petitons [sic] of the people<br /> on behalf of the oppressed I thought I would be more careful and stop when my<br /> paper was filled but one thing after another seems to present I am aware I have<br /> this great fault not concise enough it is now the 11 and mother<br /> cold is rather increasing I hope she will not be laid up all<br /> winter dread her having a cold it seezes [sic] he [sic] so hard she is about<br /> house been at Henrys several weeks Phebe and Isaac spent last week<br /> in New York We see uncle Jacob and Mary at the funeral of J Hubbs<span style="text-decoration:line-through;"><br /></span>all well John and Mary went to New York yesterday have heard but once <br /> from Sarah why is she so remiss David and Charles Hubbs were up to<br /> the funeral and I was made sorrowful in looking at Charles how changed in<br /> appearance but little trace of what I once thought so fair and handsome red<br /> and he looked bloated but riding in the wind no doubt increased the redness but <br /> his looks denoted another curse I hope my fears were unfoun^ded^<br /> one thing more and I will close in looking over this I find I have been<br /> very tedious on one subject and I feel a desire that dismay not in endeavou^ring^<br /> [Continues on page 2 in overlapping text writting upward with line beginning "to advocate the"]<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> Thomas McClintoc at our QM seemed to be sent very opportunely and I thought<br /> could hardly fail of convincing friends of the propriety there was of (necisary [sic]<br /> I had better said) our religion becoming of that expansive kind in which we<br /> could acknowledge every man as a brother and coming on this broad platform<br /> we should feel [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">illegible</span>] sectarian banners to give sway our religion would then <br /> be of that active experimental and saving kind which is so much wanted<br /> in the present day How I wished all the opposers were present is seemed<br /> to me to be a time of special favour but some said he was too lengthy<br /> believe this was not the opinion of many we very much desired his compa<br /> ny at our other meetings think it might be of some use but I feel more^and more^<br /> discouraged Lucretia and others have laboured faithfully but where are the<br /> fruits of their labours the work is great but alas the labourers are few I often<br /> think if friends were only to live up to there [sic] profesion [sic] it would be very differ^ent^<br /> among us there would not be so many apologists for slaveholding neither<br /> would that sectarian feeling predominate as much as it does to the exclusion<br /> of charity there would then be felt a willingness to let each one follow the<br /> dictates of truth without [demure?] (but why am I indulging in this almost uncon<br /> ciously have I scribled [sic] on) we could not persuade mother to attend any of our<br /> meetings the first one was by general invitation attended by a number of <br /> those not in favour of a society being formed and it seemed to me as tho<br /> we rather lost by it as some were disposed to turn every thing into ridicule and<br /> we gained nothing <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">but</span> ^by^ this we done nothing until after we adjourned we got<br /> together and named some to draft a constitution and fix a time to meet<br /> Do you have any accounts of the nonresistance society in your paper Boston was<br /> formerly a dark place but light has broke forth We feel very much interested<br /> on this subject too Joseph and William Willets were jurers [sic] 4 days ago they were on W<br /> rather more than J very much stratend [sic] on account of serving or taking an affirm<br /> aion they served however but regretted their unfaithfulness hope if called<br /> on again they may bear a faithful testimony against applying to law; that<br /> the government ^their desire^is one of love not of pysical [sic] force that when smitten on<br /> the one cheek they can turn the other also Oh how I wish friends could bear<br /> this noble testimony to the world I fear too many among us are conten<br /> ting themselves with having had faithful predecessors who advanced the <br /> cause of righteousness without being willing to go forward themselves<br /> in the work of reform We have got a new teacher from near Hempstead<br /> he is a strong temperance but not an abolition man his prejudice again^st^<br /> color seems to be deep and we cannot as yet convince him of the great injust<br /> ice of colonization (he boards with us) but hope we shall change his views<br /> on this subject Joseph was at Hempstead yesterday and Charles Wations congratu<br /> =lated him as a brother abolitionist says there are a number on Hempstead<br /> whether there are any of them Parburts converts I know not but it is ani<br /> mating to find a few in the community who are in favor of immediateism [sic]<br /> [Continues on page 3, with line beginning “altho entering on”]<br /><br /> [Text written upward overlaying normal text]<br /> to advocate the casue [sic] of the oppressed forget my other duty's<br /> but support as far as is in my power the principle of friends<br /> and not by feeling deeply in this cause to give any friends reason<br /> to say we have forsaken these mother feels a fear lest we go too far<br /> she desires her love to you also Mary in which Joseph and self join<br /> I need not say how very acceptable a lo<span style="text-decoration:underline;">n</span>g letter would be<br /> and am I not entitled to one affectionately your sister Mary<br /><br /> (Page 3)<br /><br /> altho entering on the work now are as the <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">th</span>^twelveth^ hour labourers others have been<br /> so long we hear a meeting house in Conneticut [sic] was blown up to prevent an<br /> abolition lecture how supprising [sic] that any should think it possible to prevent<br /> discussion in this way We have just heard of the death of Jane Hubbs she had been<br /> to Newtown on a visit and went from there to New York where Mary was sick with<br /> ulcer sore throat was taken last 4 day with the same complaint and died 7 day nig^ht^<br /> how impressive are these warnings to be also ready also Richard Weeks last week<br /> he had been deranged some time and made attempts to take his life but was<br /> prevented he nearly starved himself was under an impression that all nourrish<br /> ment [sic] and drink was poison Dr Treadwell as usual examined his head and body to<br /> find the cause of his derangement and disease what advantage is gained I know<br /> not I hear of none Thomas Everith as suffered extremely from cancer of scroffular [sic]<br /> complaint in his hand and arm very severe pain in his arm head and stoma^ch^<br /> his arm turned black in spots was taken off nearly to the shoulder very litt<br /> le probability of his recovery^but hear he is not comfortable now^Rebecca Post is very poorly and will not probably <br /> recover been failing all summer nearly confined to her bed now also Daniel Lewis <br /> of Wheatly appears like consumption aunts Rachel and Sarah pretty smart mother<br /> got some cold but not much poorly our little Catharine has had something of<br /> dyssentery [sic] through the fall which with the addition of cutting her eye and<br /> stomach teeth [sic] has made her quite sick and consequently not very quiet she is now<br /> getting better and I anticipate better times We have had a pleasant visit from<br /> our cousin William Willets of Skaneatilas was around here three or 4 weeks<br /> you heard Benjamin is about to be married to a Utica lady Lydia Townsend [obliterated]<br /> married to James Mott very pleasing to her friends hope it may continue so I some<br /> times fear for such We are soon in hopes of having Rachel home again we shall<br /> rejoice to see her again it seems like a great while she has been from us and<br /> in which time we have had to (from some circumstances which have occurred)<br /> to rear to some of her last communications among us her last seemed to<br /> be an exhortation that we should not fall out by the way whether it was rememberd [sic]<br /> by all I know not one thing is certain that the advice was not taken for ever now<br /> there is a want of Love and Unity on the part of one individual sorrowful <br /> it is that we cannot forgive those who we may imagine have injured us by<br /> this shall all men know that yea re my diciples [sic] if ye have love one to another<br /> and also a tree is known by its fruits The orthodox have built a school house<br /> west of the pond on Marys land with which we were not pleased but submitted to<br /> the powers that be but not without informing of our disabbrobation [sic] they<br /> have a school there 13 schollars [sic] we have near 30 Ephraim is about opening a school<br /> evening I beleive [sic] in his house so that there seems to be some chance of getting<br /> instruction We have just been fixing a chain pump in our well which we like<br /> very much I have given Joseph an invitation to write but he declines so <br /> that it is not altogether my impoliteness which has excluded him we have all<br /> been weighed Joseph 202 mine 108 suppose you will smile at my information<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> Edmund Rushmore not quite as well taken cold Caroline Seaman has an add<br /> ition of a son to their family she has been quite poorly with influenza and<br /> they were fearful it might settle on her lungs beleive [sic] she is better they have<br /> talked of coming in the country believe they are undetermined what to do<br /> suppose the Drs practice insufficient I wonder Valentine does not assist<br /> them they are now in New York William Haviland visits uncle Davids about<br /> and in 3 weeks you probably heard of Margaret Hicks clandestine marriage<br /> she was disowned last month our cousin Samuel Post does not like the change<br /> in disipline [sic] that part or rather the consultation of women he said it was too<br /> degrading he had much rather give them their independence and it appears<br /> to me to be quite a form and forms without use had better be dispensed with<br /> Rachel and company visited Pricilla and also Joseph had a very plain and close<br /> communication to him Have you heard Elisha Bates has published a book<br /> [Continues at bottom of page with line beginning “making it appear that the Hicksites are the nearest”]<br /><br /> [Text in center of page, written upward]<br /> 18¾ <br /> Issac Post <br /> Rochester<br /> New York<br /><br /> [Text in center of page, written normally]<br /> North Hempstead day<br /> 14 ‘ Dec – <br /><br /> [Text at bottom of page, written normally, continued from line ending “Have you heard Elisha Bates has published a book”]<br /> making it appear that the Hicksites are the nearest to early friends in principle<br /> he attended Several of Raches [sic] meetings and she felt a fear lest he might draw<br /> away some she writes of Indiana yearly meeting being the most solid one <br /> she ever attended and Ohio William think much better than one he atten<br /> ed they had the same subjects before them without the same kind of <br /> opposition more condecension [sic] than was manifested by some of your galley<br /> friends we have heard Rachel had a considerable to say against friends joining<br /> with abolitionists suppose the information was received from James who would<br /> be quite willing it should be so William said while he was with her she very<br /> often spoke of^the^great iniquity of the system of slavery and generally of the <br /> injustice of government toward the indians which is indeed great <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">which</span> will this <br /> [Continues on page 1 in text written upwards across main with line beginning "nation learn to]
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, December 9, 1838.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Post, Mary Robbins
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1838-12-09
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
517
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Westbury 12 month 9th 1838 My Dear friend I scarcely know to whome to address this to for I feel a fear that you are forgetful of the slaves we have on you or at least I have felt grieved at your silence and have again this evening remembered the many seasons of sweet communion together and have now to regret that so few of our moments are employed in the interchange of feelings whichare at present ^and as this is^ the only means of conve ying to each other what at present occupies our attention why are you so neglectful of the duty which is binding on us as to omit writing forweeks and months if there is any cause please inform us of it that we may make all proper acknowledgement if any be necessary How are you getting along in your antislavery enterprise I doubt not how ever you are advancing therein satisfactoryly [sic] but have wanted to hear if you have ever ^had^discouragement after discouragement to encounter if so you can feel for us for we are sometimes all most ready to despair of any thing ever being done in Long Island the very place where our dear relative E Hicks laboured so long and faithfully to find there opposers is indeed very trying and the insinuations which are circulated as to the motives of those who are endeavouring to do what is required of them is quite disheartning [sic] y^c^ou may recollect we were about forming a society have as yet been unsucsessful [sic] which adds to our mortification I hope we shall finally succeed [sic] if we do not our opposition friends will rejoice too much over us we have made two appointments the first time we went taking Sarah Powel with us and found to our great supprise [sic] that our Jericho friends thought it too rainy to meet the time again fixed on to be the first day after monthly meeting as that the information might be extended will the day come and lo it snowed so that it was again postponed and if we have not zeal enough in the cause to ride for 4 or even many miles in a little rain I fear our concern is not deepe [sic] enough ever to effect any material change any way I hope however it will not have an entire failure I have felt if I had any encouragement as tho I could unite with the abolitionists (it is so difficult to do any thing among friends but can hardly join in opposition to all my friends so long as I can feel easy to remain as I am but they have my best wishes and I do feel united to many of them in sweet fellow feeling the reproach of being an abolitionist I can cheerfully bear I do after see something of this kind but that troubles me not for the peace which is the result of faithfulness fully compensates for the loss of reputation and the esteem of those I love Joseph feels much but is not prepared to join the abolitionists one objection is to hire^ing^ lectures and some such things we were very much pleased to have the great [Continued on page 2 with line beginning "Thomas McClintock at"] [Text overlaying normal text, written upward] nation learn to do justly are not all called on to endeavour to do all in their power to arrouse [sic] it from the apathy into which our rulers are indulging in regardless of the cries of the poor and heedless of the petitons [sic] of the people on behalf of the oppressed I thought I would be more careful and stop when my paper was filled but one thing after another seems to present I am aware I have this great fault not concise enough it is now the 11 and mother cold is rather increasing I hope she will not be laid up all winter dread her having a cold it seezes [sic] he [sic] so hard she is about house been at Henrys several weeks Phebe and Isaac spent last week in New York We see uncle Jacob and Mary at the funeral of J Hubbsall well John and Mary went to New York yesterday have heard but once from Sarah why is she so remiss David and Charles Hubbs were up to the funeral and I was made sorrowful in looking at Charles how changed in appearance but little trace of what I once thought so fair and handsome red and he looked bloated but riding in the wind no doubt increased the redness but his looks denoted another curse I hope my fears were unfoun^ded^ one thing more and I will close in looking over this I find I have been very tedious on one subject and I feel a desire that dismay not in endeavou^ring^ [Continues on page 2 in overlapping text writting upward with line beginning "to advocate the"] Thomas McClintoc at our QM seemed to be sent very opportunely and I thought could hardly fail of convincing friends of the propriety there was of (necisary [sic] I had better said) our religion becoming of that expansive kind in which we could acknowledge every man as a brother and coming on this broad platform we should feel [illegible] sectarian banners to give sway our religion would then be of that active experimental and saving kind which is so much wanted in the present day How I wished all the opposers were present is seemed to me to be a time of special favour but some said he was too lengthy believe this was not the opinion of many we very much desired his compa ny at our other meetings think it might be of some use but I feel more^and more^ discouraged Lucretia and others have laboured faithfully but where are the fruits of their labours the work is great but alas the labourers are few I often think if friends were only to live up to there [sic] profesion [sic] it would be very differ^ent^ among us there would not be so many apologists for slaveholding neither would that sectarian feeling predominate as much as it does to the exclusion of charity there would then be felt a willingness to let each one follow the dictates of truth without [demure?] (but why am I indulging in this almost uncon ciously have I scribled [sic] on) we could not persuade mother to attend any of our meetings the first one was by general invitation attended by a number of those not in favour of a society being formed and it seemed to me as tho we rather lost by it as some were disposed to turn every thing into ridicule and we gained nothing but ^by^ this we done nothing until after we adjourned we got together and named some to draft a constitution and fix a time to meet Do you have any accounts of the nonresistance society in your paper Boston was formerly a dark place but light has broke forth We feel very much interested on this subject too Joseph and William Willets were jurers [sic] 4 days ago they were on W rather more than J very much stratend [sic] on account of serving or taking an affirm aion they served however but regretted their unfaithfulness hope if called on again they may bear a faithful testimony against applying to law; that the government ^their desire^is one of love not of pysical [sic] force that when smitten on the one cheek they can turn the other also Oh how I wish friends could bear this noble testimony to the world I fear too many among us are conten ting themselves with having had faithful predecessors who advanced the cause of righteousness without being willing to go forward themselves in the work of reform We have got a new teacher from near Hempstead he is a strong temperance but not an abolition man his prejudice again^st^ color seems to be deep and we cannot as yet convince him of the great injust ice of colonization (he boards with us) but hope we shall change his views on this subject Joseph was at Hempstead yesterday and Charles Wations congratu =lated him as a brother abolitionist says there are a number on Hempstead whether there are any of them Parburts converts I know not but it is ani mating to find a few in the community who are in favor of immediateism [sic] [Continues on page 3, with line beginning "altho entering on"] [Text written upward overlaying normal text] to advocate the casue [sic] of the oppressed forget my other duty's but support as far as is in my power the principle of friends and not by feeling deeply in this cause to give any friends reason to say we have forsaken these mother feels a fear lest we go too far she desires her love to you also Mary in which Joseph and self join I need not say how very acceptable a long letter would be and am I not entitled to one affectionately your sister Mary altho entering on the work now are as the th^twelveth^ hour labourers others have been so long we hear a meeting house in Conneticut [sic] was blown up to prevent an abolition lecture how supprising [sic] that any should think it possible to prevent discussion in this way We have just heard of the death of Jane Hubbs she had been to Newtown on a visit and went from there to New York where Mary was sick with ulcer sore throat was taken last 4 day with the same complaint and died 7 day nig^ht^ how impressive are these warnings to be also ready also Richard Weeks last week he had been deranged some time and made attempts to take his life but was prevented he nearly starved himself was under an impression that all nourrish ment [sic] and drink was poison Dr Treadwell as usual examined his head and body to find the cause of his derangement and disease what advantage is gained I know not I hear of none Thomas Everith as suffered extremely from cancer of scroffular [sic] complaint in his hand and arm very severe pain in his arm head and stoma^ch^ his arm turned black in spots was taken off nearly to the shoulder very litt le probability of his recovery^but hear he is not comfortable now^Rebecca Post is very poorly and will not probably recover been failing all summer nearly confined to her bed now also Daniel Lewis of Wheatly appears like consumption aunts Rachel and Sarah pretty smart mother got some cold but not much poorly our little Catharine has had something of dyssentery [sic] through the fall which with the addition of cutting her eye and stomach teeth [sic] has made her quite sick and consequently not very quiet she is now getting better and I anticipate better times We have had a pleasant visit from our cousin William Willets of Skaneatilas was around here three or 4 weeks you heard Benjamin is about to be married to a Utica lady Lydia Townsend [obliterated] married to James Mott very pleasing to her friends hope it may continue so I some times fear for such We are soon in hopes of having Rachel home again we shall rejoice to see her again it seems like a great while she has been from us and in which time we have had to (from some circumstances which have occurred) to rear to some of her last communications among us her last seemed to be an exhortation that we should not fall out by the way whether it was rememberd [sic] by all I know not one thing is certain that the advice was not taken for ever now there is a want of Love and Unity on the part of one individual sorrowful it is that we cannot forgive those who we may imagine have injured us by this shall all men know that yea re my diciples [sic] if ye have love one to another and also a tree is known by its fruits The orthodox have built a school house west of the pond on Marys land with which we were not pleased but submitted to the powers that be but not without informing of our disabbrobation [sic] they have a school there 13 schollars [sic] we have near 30 Ephraim is about opening a school evening I beleive [sic] in his house so that there seems to be some chance of getting instruction We have just been fixing a chain pump in our well which we like very much I have given Joseph an invitation to write but he declines so that it is not altogether my impoliteness which has excluded him we have all been weighed Joseph 202 mine 108 suppose you will smile at my information (Page 4) Edmund Rushmore not quite as well taken cold Caroline Seaman has an add ition of a son to their family she has been quite poorly with influenza and they were fearful it might settle on her lungs beleive [sic] she is better they have talked of coming in the country believe they are undetermined what to do suppose the Drs practice insufficient I wonder Valentine does not assist them they are now in New York William Haviland visits uncle Davids about and in 3 weeks you probably heard of Margaret Hicks clandestine marriage she was disowned last month our cousin Samuel Post does not like the change in disipline [sic] that part or rather the consultation of women he said it was too degrading he had much rather give them their independence and it appears to me to be quite a form and forms without use had better be dispensed with Rachel and company visited Pricilla and also Joseph had a very plain and close communication to him Have you heard Elisha Bates has published a book [Continues at bottom of page with line beginning "making it appear that the Hicksites are the nearest"] [Text in center of page, written upward] 1834; Issac Post Rochester New York [Text in center of page, written normally] North Hempstead day 14 ' Dec - [Text at bottom of page, written normally, continued from line ending "Have you heard Elisha Bates has published a book"] making it appear that the Hicksites are the nearest to early friends in principle he attended Several of Raches [sic] meetings and she felt a fear lest he might draw away some she writes of Indiana yearly meeting being the most solid one she ever attended and Ohio William think much better than one he atten ed they had the same subjects before them without the same kind of opposition more condecension [sic] than was manifested by some of your galley friends we have heard Rachel had a considerable to say against friends joining with abolitionists suppose the information was received from James who would be quite willing it should be so William said while he was with her she very often spoke of^the^great iniquity of the system of slavery and generally of the injustice of government toward the indians which is indeed great which will this [Continues on page 1 in text written upwards across main with line beginning "nation learn to]
Abolitionism
Education
Native Americans
Quakers
Temperance Movement
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/aeca16112a24c828bcd664e9c511ac1a.jpg
d118b27049e1f2cf1bee05da6b2da055
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/58a1705d41bbff94ac5935cf9fe99f38.jpg
58daa1b643af78b000687d3c189b3cb7
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Willis, Mary W Kirby. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary W Kirby Willis to Amy Kirby Post, October 14, 1836.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Willis, Mary W Kirby
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1836-10-14
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
511
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/1f0f636d7d5ae0a086624f9d1f414940.jpg
cddbaee7dc823b7454399b4ef8fb17c2
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/75e9c03f91eb7eeb1af2cbdf3b19aa01.jpg
d5846c584b4e4a2b8a391756fa46e0c5
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/e707d52dbe9702f2a2ad3730c889c8f7.jpg
354e126d075529176fd0227d22cb5dde
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/7768c4d0eb50d5bea985c556de23c754.jpg
c7410d450e35528503c480b5043de4ac
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p> Jericho 9<sup>m</sup> 1838 -</p>
<p>Esteemed friend,</p>
<p> Expecting an opportunity to forward a</p>
<p>few lines by E. P. Willis, has tempted me to try to</p>
<p>scribble a little for thy perusal tho’ I suppose you will</p>
<p>be made acquainted thro’ other sources, of most of the things</p>
<p>that have occured [sic] amongst us which it will be interesting to</p>
<p>to [sic] you to know. You will doubtless be informed that we have</p>
<p>had rather a spirit-stiring [sic] time on the subject of abolition &c</p>
<p>&c &c _ you will likely be told all about G. F. White Lucretia</p>
<p>Motts and their labours of love & discord amongst us _ What</p>
<p>effect all this troubling of the waters may produce remains</p>
<p>to be seen. Certain it is, considerable collision [sic] of sentiment</p>
<p>has been elicited; but I do not anticipate any very bad</p>
<p>consequences from this if we can keep in a right spirit and</p>
<p>disposition of mind; but there is the dificulty [sic]; and it is very</p>
<p>important for each one of us to endeavour strictly to guard</p>
<p>one in this particular; and if happily we succeed in this I have</p>
<p>no doubt but but [sic] the right cause will gain ground – Truth</p>
<p>never sufferes [sic] by investigation and the attacks of Error</p>
<p>often promote such investigation _ _ _ But while I</p>
<p>leave the local news principally for others to tell there is</p>
<p>one subject that perhaps I may be better prepared to in=</p>
<p>=part information upon than they – I lately made a little</p>
<p>trip to Philadelphia and when there attended the “Free produce</p>
<p>Convention” held on the 5<sup>th</sup> and 6<sup>th</sup> of this month – and here</p>
<p>the query occurs, where were the Isaac Posts and the Thomas</p>
<p>M<sup>c</sup>Clintocks and the Gerrit Smiths, Charles Marriots and a host</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 2)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>of other “good men and true” who might have reasonably been</p>
<p>have been expected upon the spot (and it appeared they were</p>
<p>at least some of them expected) to lend their aid in so good a</p>
<p>cause – as it was, I beleive [sic] thy friend J. was the only and alone</p>
<p>solitary representative from the “Empire State” – for my own</p>
<p>part may truly say it was gratifiying [sic] to my best feelings &</p>
<p>be there whether any other good will result ^to myself^ I cannot so</p>
<p>well tell – The object of this association is to encourage the</p>
<p>use of the products of requited labour and to devise means</p>
<p>to procure a supply in the market, of such produce and</p>
<p>I think there is good reason to hope that this plan if properly</p>
<p>carried out will effect much: It will call the attention of</p>
<p>many to the subject who have never yet reflected much upon</p>
<p>it – it will I think quicken others to action who are already</p>
<p>convinced of its propriety; but (like myself) have let in the</p>
<p>discouraging thought that so little could be done – The Con=</p>
<p>=vention was h^e^ld in a building a few rods from the far famed</p>
<p>Pensylvany [sic] Hall yet all was quiet around – no mobs to be seen</p>
<p>in the streets and no Mayors to make speeches to them – indoors</p>
<p>too order prevailed tho’ we had some (I might say) rather spirited</p>
<p>discussion but all apparently with perfectly good feelings, In an</p>
<p>assembly composed of various religious denominations, white</p>
<p>and black, male and female, it would be strange indeed</p>
<p>if all should see exactly eye to eye: and yet as regards the main</p>
<p>subject there appeared very little difference of sentiment – the</p>
<p>chief difference seemed in the question wether [sic] all participation</p>
<p>or use of such articles was criminal – some seeming to hold</p>
<p>to the affirmative while others thought there was “no laws for</p>
<p>necessity” – This thou will see might easily lead to some very fine</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 3)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>hair-spliting [sic] and it did so – The business of the convention was finally</p>
<p>left in the hands of committees and after a Session 2 days adjourned to</p>
<p>meet in 10<sup>th</sup> M<sup>o</sup> next year – There was one trait in the management</p>
<p>of the business with which I was particularly pleased. I never before</p>
<p>witnessed in any deliberative assembly the principal of equal</p>
<p>rights so fully carried out – in this respect there seemed to be no dis=</p>
<p>=tinction felt – neither rich nor poor Jew nor Gentile, male nor female</p>
<p>none of these things appeared to cramp the freedom of discussion at all</p>
<p>the company seemed composed mostly of Friends – rather more</p>
<p>women I thought than men and a few coloured folks of</p>
<p>both sexes who seemed to take as much interest in the proceedings</p>
<p>as if they were white _ the presiding officer was a man _ a male</p>
<p>and female secretary _ the <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">standing</span> officers and committees</p>
<p>were chosen promiscuously, as for instance Gerrit Smith (tho</p>
<p>absent) was chosen President of the Society and Lucretia Mott Treaserer [sic]</p>
<p>and so on _ and now thou may think whether all you who ought</p>
<p>to have been there, and staid away, have not sustained a loss, and</p>
<p>also whether a good cause which needs the support of all good men,</p>
<p>(ay and good women too) has not ^also^ sustained <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">another</span> loss – think of</p>
<p>this against 10<sup>th</sup> month next year _ _ _ During my short stay in</p>
<p>P<sup>a</sup> I had also the pleasure of hearing a lecture on the subject of slavery</p>
<p>by Sarah M. Grimke and <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">also</span> the honour of attending a meeting of</p>
<p>the Friends Antislavery society – this I believe is composed exclusively</p>
<p>of friends –(of both sorts) it was held in the Cherry street meeting house &</p>
<p>consists of more than 100 members – there was an address reported and</p>
<p>adopted by the mg – which I should like thee should see: it was to be</p>
<p>published in the Pensylvany [sic] Freeman – on the subject of abstaining</p>
<p>from slave labour produce _ _ _ By the way what dost thou think</p>
<p>of this plan of friends operating by themselves in the Antislavery</p>
<p> cause</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(Page 4)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>true it seems to obviate an objection often urged by some, to wit, that</p>
<p>friends are ^a^ peculiar people having peculiar Testimonies given them to</p>
<p>bear to the world – that by mingling with the worlds people we should,</p>
<p>by imbibing thier [sic] spirit and maxims, loose those testimonies and</p>
<p>become as the people of the world _ _ How my thoughts on the subject run</p>
<p>a little on this wise – If we have really received more light than has</p>
<p>been vouchsafed to others should we not be more likely to impart it</p>
<p>by intercourse with them? would it not be more like seting [sic] the light upon</p>
<p>the candlestick than it would to entrench ourselves within the (thorny) hedge</p>
<p>of Sectarian exclusionism? which is the most likely, that darkness should drive</p>
<p>away light; or that light (if it is the true light) should dispell [sic] the darkness? This</p>
<p>seems rather a puzelsome [sic] question; I should be glad to hear what thou has</p>
<p>[Continues on bottom of page with line beginning “to say about”]</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[Text in center of page, written upward]</p>
<p> Isaac Post</p>
<p> Rochester</p>
<p> NY</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[Text to the right of above, written upside down]</p>
<p> I myss [sic] [hr?] day</p>
<p> </p>
<p>[Text on bottom of page, written normal]</p>
<p>to say about it – Thou will see that this whole position rests on the admission</p>
<p>that we are more enlightened – perhaps others might deny the assertion and</p>
<p>^then^ we have a case at issues to establish as well as we can – But then again</p>
<p>the scripture injunction is brought up – that Israel should dwell alone</p>
<p>and not be numbered among the Nations – but then comes another puzeler [sic]</p>
<p>why should this be exclusively applied to joining with others to do good or to</p>
<p>benefit the human race: while it seems to be no sin to do it for the sake of</p>
<p>gain? We may go hand inhand [sic] up to the House of the God of this world and</p>
<p>bow together at the shrine of Mammon and no one complains – For all</p>
<p>then may dwell where he pleases _ _ I have been pondering a little on these</p>
<p>things and I thought I should be glad to know thy views of them whither</p>
<p>they accord with my own or otherwise --- I expect to see thee and thy A.</p>
<p>on the [Soland?] this fall. as we are to have another marriage here but</p>
<p>dont [sic] wait for that. – let us hear from you by letter as soon as convenient –</p>
<p>we are all in usual health – My R joins in love to you all</p>
<p> John Ketcham</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Ketcham, John. Letter to Isaac Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from John Ketcham to Isaac Post, September , 1838.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Ketcham, John
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1838-09-00
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
509
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Isaac, 1798-1872
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Scripto
Transcription
A written representation of a document.
Jericho 9m 1838 -
Esteemed friend,
Expecting an opportunity to forward a
few lines by E. P. Willis, has tempted me to try to
scribble a little for thy perusal tho’ I suppose you will
be made acquainted thro’ other sources, of most of the things
that have occured [sic] amongst us which it will be interesting to
to [sic] you to know. You will doubtless be informed that we have
had rather a spirit-stiring [sic] time on the subject of Abbolition [sic] &c
&c &c - you will likely be told all about G. F. White Lucretia
Mott and their labours of love & discord amongst us - What
effect all this troubleing [sic] of the waters may produce remains
to be seen. Certain it is, considerable collision of sentiment
has been elicited; but I do not anticipate any very bad
consequences from this if we can keep in a right spirit and
disposition of mind; but there is the dificulty [sic]; and it is very
important for each one of us to endeavour strictly to guard
one in this particular; and if happily we succeed in this I have
no doubt but but [sic] the right [cause? course?] will gain ground – Truth
never sufferes [sic] by investigation and the attacks of Error
often promote such investigation _ _ _ But while I
leave the local news principally for others to tell there is
one subject that perhaps I may be better prepared to im=
=part information upon than they – I lately made a little
trip to Philadelphia and when there attended the “Free produce
Convention” held on the 5th and 6th of this month – and here
the query occurs, where were the Isaac Posts and the Thomas
McClintocks and the Gerrit Smiths, Charles Marriots and a host
(Page 2)
of other “good men and true” who might have reasonably been
have been expected upon the spot (and it appeared they were
at least some of them expected) to lend their aid in so good a
cause – as it was, I beleive [sic] thy friend J. was the only and alone
solitary representative from the “Empire State” – for my own
part may truly say it was gratifiying [sic] to my best feelings to
be there; whether any other good will result ^to myself^ I cannot so
well tell – The object of this association is to encourage the
use of the products of requited labour and to devise means
to procure a supply in the market, of such produce and
I think there is good reason to hope that this plan if properly
carried out will effect much: It will call the attention of
many to the subject who have never yet reflected much upon
it – it will I think quicken others to action who are already
convinced of its propriety; but (like myself) have let in the
discouraging thought that so little could be done – The Con=
=vention was h^e^ld in a building a few rods from the far famed
Pensylvany [sic] Hall yet all was quiet around – no mobs to be seen
in the streets and no Mayors to make speeches to them – indoors
too order prevailed tho’ we had some (I might say) rather spirited
discussion but all apparently with perfectly good feelings, In an
assembly composed of various religious denominations, white
and black, male and female, it would be strange indeed
if all should see exactly eye to eye: and yet as regards the main
subject there appeared very little difference of sentiment – the
chief difference seemed in the question wether [sic] all participation
or use of such articles was criminal – some seeming to hold
to the affirmative while others thought there was “no law for
necessity” – This thou will see might easily lead to some very fine
(Page 3)
hair-spliting [sic] and it did so – The business of the convention was finally
left in the hands of committees and after a Session 2 days adjourned to
meet in 10th Mo next year – There was one trait in the management
of the business with which I was particularly pleased. I never before
witnessed in any deliberative assembly the principal [sic] of equal
rights so fully carried out – in this respect there seemed to be no dis=
=tinction felt – neither rich nor poor Jew nor Gentile, male nor female
none of these things appeared to cramp the freedom of discussion at all
the company seemed composed mostly of Friends – rather more
women I thought than men and a few coloured folks of
both sexes who seemed to take as much interest in the proceedings
as if they were white - the presiding officer was a man _ a male
and female secretary _ the standing officers and committees
were chosen promiscuously, as for instance Gerrit Smith (tho
absent) was chosen President of the Society and Lucretia Mott Treaserer [sic]
and so on _ and now thou may think whether all you who ought
to have been there, and staid [sic] away, have not sustained a loss, and
also whether a good cause which needs the support of all good men,
(ay and good women too) has not ^also^ sustained another loss – think of
this against 10th month next year _ _ _ During my short stay in
Pa I had also the pleasure of hearing a lecture on the subject of slavery
by Sarah M. Grimke and also the honour of attending a meeting of
the Friends Antislavery society – this I believe is composed exclusively
of friends –(of both sorts) it was held in the Cherry street meeting house &
consists of more than 100 members – there was an address reported and
adopted by the mg – which I should like thee should see: it was to be
published in the Pensylvany [sic] Freeman – on the subject of abstaining
from slave labour produce By the way what dost thou think
of this plan of friends opperating by themselves in the Antislavery
cause
(Page 4)
True it seems to obviate an objection often urged by some, to wit, that
friends are ^a^ peculiar people having peculiar Testimonies given them to
bear to the world – that by mingling with the worlds people we should,
by imbibing thier [sic] spirit and maxims, loose those testimonies and
become as the people of the world Now my thoughts on the subject run
a little on this wise – If we have really received more light than has
been vouchsafed to others should we not be more likely to impart it
by intercourse with them? would it not be more like seting [sic] the light upon
the candlestick than it would to entrench ourselves within the (thorny) hedge
of Sectarian exclusionism? which is the most likely, that darkness should drive
away light; or that light (if it is the true light) should dispell [sic] the darkness? This
seems rather a puzelsome [sic] question; I should be glad to hear what thou has
[Continues on bottom of page with line beginning “to say about”]
[Address in center of page, written upward]
Isaac Post
Rochester
NY
[Five illegible words -- different hand and different ink -- to the right of above, written upside down]
[Text on bottom of page, written normal]
to say about it – Thou will see that this whole position rests on the admission
that we are more enlightened – perhaps others might deny the assertion and
^then^ we have a case at issue to establish as well as we can – But then again
the scripture injunction is brought up – that Israel should dwell alone
and not be numbered among the Nations – but then comes another puzeler [sic]
why should this be exclusively applied to joining with others to do good or to
benefit the human race: while it seems to be no sin to do it for the sake of
gain? We may go hand inhand [sic] up to the House of the God of this world and
bow together at the shrine of Mammon and no one complains – Israel
then may dwell where he pleases I have been pondering a little on these
things and I thought I should be glad to know thy views of them whither [sic]
they accord with my own or otherwise I expect to see thee and thy A.
on the Island this fall. as we are to have another marriage here but
dont [sic] wait for that. – let us hear from you by letter as soon as convenient –
we are all in usual health – My R joins in love to you all
John Ketcham
Abolitionism
Enslaved people
Quakers
Women's Rights
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/6a3e34ae3aae1def0a16c73cacc5f0bc.jpg
8d68cbd0239492fcaa6a5877760ddfed
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/b78b66a694180b854e56004c2e4fe246.jpg
0b4794afecf9a90fe911fd5f75192c6b
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/858b40f660d376e0040a7fda6ea85b7f.jpg
698b943c41fc781e1da2b3c2c2a8a1ff
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/4c73819af288dd8ecc29bf908496078b.jpg
3c25feb1071497fb6a5756ac6af597bb
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/3958969f6a83a5aa10d55d0a869b09ac.xml
52a599aa0e380b082c54486444994214
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
text_
A transcribable resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> Jericho 3 mo 1838<br />Dear Brother Sister and Edmond<br /> What a privilage [sic] we have yes what an unspeak-<br />able privilag [sic] it is when far separated to be able to commune with<br />with [sic] each other, it is indeed next to the enjoyment of mingling together<br />personally I do not remember whether Catharine was gone to J Rushmore<br />when we wrote before but she has been there more than two weeks<br />she is paying some attention to drawing under Matild’s [sic] tuition<br />and by her express invitation we went some days since in order<br />to take her home but as it seemed rather a pitty [sic] to brake [sic] her off so soon<br />she concluded to stay another week they were all pretty well except Edm^ond^<br />who was rather better of his cold does not go out of his room looked<br />and seemed pretty comfortabe [sic] sleeps well nights but his hands still<br />look sick and he is otherwise thin except his face which you know<br />is his best appearance his mother said she did not feel like leaving him<br />much untill [sic] he could walk about the house. Father has quite brightend [sic]<br />up but his sore increases. Henry went Yesterday and cleaned his clock being<br />no longer able to do it himself. Mary F has spent several weeks at her<br />father’s has now returned to Westbury. it is a little more than a <br />week since we were invited to attend the funeral of John Jones’s<br />wife meet [sic] at the house at ½ past 12 and at the Church at ½ past 1<br />O clock and a real formal time it was even the man that ministered<br />Oh how dry to us there was indeed a darkness that was [<span style="text-decoration: line-through;">feelt</span> [sic]] so percept-<br />-able [sic] that I believe it might truely [sic] be said it was felt all seemed<br />to tend to draw from the solemn occation [sic] on which we had met<br />had the rellatives [sic] been unacquainted with the principles professed by friend<br />I have no doubt [<span style="text-decoration: line-through;">it</span>] the performance would have appeared less exception-<br />able to me I cold [sic] not but compare that occation [sic] with the funera [sic] of<br />Sally Carle where divested of unnecessary form the opportunity seemed<br />peculiarly calculated to introduce the mind to a train of serious reflection<br /> First day and 11<sup>th</sup> of the month [<span style="text-decoration: line-through;">when</span>] I wrote the above when our<br />family were all absent and when they came home put it quickly out<br />of sight and have now resumed my pen while Henry and Isaac are in bed<br />and Samuel at the barn this secrecy is observed in order that they may<br />have no excuse for not writing but whether I shall effect any thing by it do<br />not yet know. Your acceptable letter reached us some days since and in it<br />Edmund has made his pittyful [sic] mone [sic] in relation to his clothes for the first time<br />it is just as I had feared he would feel knowing he went from home so unprepared<br />I expected he would feel as if his clothes cost so much but I hope sister Amy will<br />not feel as if there has been any care lacking on her part for I think its [sic] very<br />probable more has been bestowed than if under my charge – it may be necessary<br />to tell him [<span style="text-decoration: line-through;">what</span>] what it is necessary for him to procure or for him to con-<br />sult Uncle and Aunt which he probably does gladly would I this day send some<br />bosomes [sic] if it were practicable – – it seems brother Isaac has had an invitation<br />for Edmund at L Mores well since they are so queer and do not call on<br />and invite you all I should advise aunt Amy and Edmund to call on<br />them and also at S Cornells after tea or at some time when it is not<br />meal time, how do they treat Uncle Henrys family do they call on them<br />cousin [Anson?] Mott when here expressed great affection for Aunt Mary<br />and said she wanted to call and see her but her being from home<br />prevented; as much as you admired [Darbert?] brother Isaac does not say how he<br />appeared on personal acquaintance or why he did not visit you or whether he<br />invited him to call on his sister Rushmore and family when he gets to<br />Long Island as they seem to be in the neighbourhood of Henstead [sic] harbour <br />and need a little [christianising?] all but Matilda we have succeeding geting [sic]<br />them to take the Liberater [sic] by subscribing for them and advancing the<br />mony [sic] but Matilda sais [sic] she cant make them take much interest in it<br />howeve [sic] I hope they will and I think their interest has increased already<br />The Jerich [sic] Library seems to have given quite a new energy to the intellectual<br />powers within the bounds of its circulation, in reply to [I?] in relation to his<br />fathers tooth we might have said before it had got well. rellative [sic] to the<br />road out [sic] to the turnpike we are not able yet to inform what will be the re-<br />sult of present negosiation [sic] it appears Jacob askes [sic] more for the land than<br />was expected Henry feels like being pretty deliberate but as John will by<br />the change take up considerable fence and land he is more anxious to expedite <br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></p>
(Page 2)
I am glad to find Arthur Mott is in good spirits and that he has
[farms?] to attend to hope he will have some property which perhaps
may stay the tongue of Slander which by Jeffries account had been
raised not only against Ansel but Joseph Frost, The Friend of man
refered [sic] to for the proceedings of your antislavery [proceedings] ^meeting^ we have not seen but
have seen several honorable notices of it in other papers that is of the meeting
at Rochester (not however the particulars) in the Emancipater [sic] Liberater [sic] and
perhaps Enquirer Benjamin Lundy has concluded to retire from editing the
Enquirer and John G Whittier has become its editor and our friends at [Philia?]
seem to think new lustre will be added to the paper and that it will be
far more interesting than heretofore. Edmund remarks you will remember
that [you] [Darbert?] is the Long Islander be/asured [sic] his name and circumstances
connected with it have made an impression not easily to be erased from
memorry [sic] but as yet we have heard nothing of him except from you and I
believe of you we must inquire if we know at all when he will be or
whether he is already stationed at Hempstead Harbour as our former
enquiries have proved futile tho [sic] perhaps now if you were to enquire on the
spot we could asertain [sic] Isaac Hicks building and fixing prospects appears
to us far from flatering [sic] as well as to you but supposing they know what
seems pleasant to themselves we say nothing. To [Fanny?] Frosts kind
enquiries in relation to our going to Rochester may say it always
^looks pleasant^ there to me whenever my mental eye wanders to its pleasant
situation and the kind inhabitants with whom we mingled ^when^ there
having now other strong attachments our interest is increased of course
but the prospect is something like a star that twinkles now and then but
is sometimes almost obscured, I ^should^ love much to visit you as well as [well as]
to have you visit us. When John Jones’s wife was buried Cousin Samuel Willis
being there came home with us staid [sic] all night and on the morrow we went ^with^ and took
him to his fathers and from thence to the rail road after dining with them [just]
just before we left Uncle Roberts Aunt M said they had lately received a letter from
George Willets or rather I believe Uncle R gave the intelegenc [sic] and as we had not time
to read the whole Aunt M expressed her willingness that we should take it with us
to I Rushmore’s where we were expecting to go and let them return it the next
day at meeting, in it he spoke of his father’s being quite poorly that they had got
in their new large warm house and had saved a great deal of wood been much
more pleasantly situated and comfortable than when in their former cold[s]
house that they had bought land so much lower than they sold that they
now had I think it was three farms or that which would make three farms
of 100 acres apeace [sic] and money left the house to be sure was larger than they needed
but thought they the children would want often to be there and it would
be convenient to have plenty of room he wrote that Priscilla Cadwalader had
at last got home that her husband had got divorced from her and that in
their last monthly meeting Sipio [sic]a strong effort was made by her partisens [sic]
3 or 4 in number to get up a certif[f]icut [sic] or document expressive of unity with
her to send to her own meeting but they were promptly put down that he
believed very little could be said and that friends were glad to get rid of
her now as the above is taken from a letter and not written to me either you will
see the propriety of great care in speaking of it. – – Lucretia writes Abraham Lower
has obtained unity and Sympathy of his monthly and Quarterly for an extensive
journey to the meetings of Baltimore – their own N York and Gennessee [sic] and to
attend all those Yearly Mgs she sais [sic] her quiet during the winter has been con-
ducive to the restoration of her health that with the salt and water
and general care in accordance with Dr Parrish’s directions have nearly
effected a cure she writes their family give all the credit to the salt
and that she thinks John Plummer deserves from her a letter of special
acknowledgement. Lucretia queries [sic] with us whether ^we were^ not interested with William
Loyd [sic] Garrison prospectus for this year - we were much I wish you could see it if
you have not if you take it you doubtless have, after asking the question she then
adds how wonderfully his mind has advanced form light to light till [sic] now it seems
like the bright shining of a candle that George F White may well charge her with
being [wraped] wraped [sic] up in him for there are few her contemporaries whose char-
acters she more revers [sic] for she loves to see Quaker principles or the truth acknowl-
-adge [sic] where the sect is scarcely known as in his case because it goes to establish the
universality of the principles
(Page 3)
she then adds Thomas [Treusdall?] of Providence staied [sic] a night with them some
time ago who said at their annual meeting in Providence when William L. Garrison
was applied to to deliver a lecture or rather an address he declined choosing rather
to trust to the impulse of the Spirit and when he did speak it was with
such impressive Solemnity that it inspired a kind of awe – that he had rarly [sic]
seen such a countenance
Fifth day morning and 15th of the month just
as I had written the last sentence on 2 day afternoon Joseph Post and
cousin William Willets came here and on Uncle Joseph’s invitation
for me to go home with them I concluded to do so as Mother
had been so long poorly found her better and third day proving
very fine I ventured to invite her to bundle up and ride down
to Mary Posts which on a little consideration she concluded to do
Mary and all well about 4 OClock we returned and I went to see
Aunt Sarah she still looks feeble but would like that Aunt
Mary Post should be informed that she is much better than when
she was here and has been better through the winter than she
had any reason to expect frequently goes out and to Meeting
I also call’d [sic] to see Aunt Rachel found her much as usual [so that]
so that you can with a mental eye look and almost see her sit-
-ing there; at Monthly ^meeting^ yesterday sister Lydia said Edmund
had slept very little for several nights that Isaac had staid [sic] with
him and she had very unexpectedly concluded to leave him
to attend meeting they concluded to retain Amy Lee a member
after having her case before the meeting many months for
marrying one not a member which you have doubtless been inform’d [sic]
of; two new cases from Matinecock came David Valentine’s daughter
to S Cornelius and Samuel Thorns daughter to one whose name
I do not remember and Silas Albertson’s daughter to [obliterated]
Orthodox friend she expects to go with her husband but th[obliterated]
others will doubtless be retained as Amy Lee was notwithstand-
-ing she was married by a Priest. they made quite a move there
concluded to dispence [sic] with asking the men to pleas [sic] to let
them pass an offence or transgression by they however went
in and asked the opinion of men friends who redily [sic] acceeded [sic]
to the proposition I expect and believe by some remarks made
that some if not many women are quite alarmed at the supposd [sic]
inovation [sic]. Catharin [sic] says tell Edmund they were pleased with
his Charad [sic] that they thought it a good one but she and Isaac
separately soon found it out and I thought they were very smart
[to find it out] And to thee Edmund I suppose all this hastily written
scrall [sic] seems like trash not having yet come to the point [of] in reply to
^thy^ wishes in relation to thy longer stay thy Grandfather is so poorly
and so often enquires about thee I often feel as if it would be best fore [sic]
thee to come home at least for a time. As thou hadst stated that A
Frost needed some one to assist and relieve him by attending to
the duties that had devolved to [sic] hevily [sic] on him we had or rather
thy father had expected the plan was to make an arangment [sic]
with thee in some way that would be satisfactory and that we hardly
knew how to give the [sic] up were willing thou should make the trial
but he thinks considering thy youth and inexperience it will hardly
be best to acceed [sic] to thy last proposition as possibly on trial thou may
not like the business at all
(Page 4)
[Text in top third of page, normal]
Benjamin [Daughly?] being unable to attend the [Charity?] Meeting
sent the form of a petition to Congress which was said to be
a [illegible] one but the fears on the part of some prevented its passing
and and [sic] those who approved it had to yield the opinion that it was a
time of excitement and would be useless state as it is was again
advanced. I have scarcely time to write intelegably [sic] or fill my
paper as if we do not get our letters to the post Office the day
before they go they stay over the mail goes so very early in the
morning Isaac stands by me saying tell Edmund be sure to come
home and indeed we all want to see thee very much
last first day we were favoured with the company of Willet Kirby wife and
sister Sarah we had long expected them and the visit was far too short
Sarah still goes to school; the first day before Matthew Hannah Esther Seaman
Elizabeth Seaman Mary Post and Willet S visited us and both of the above
mentioned [illegible] Catharin [sic] was from home but she [did not] is now at home
she thinks some of the Kimberton School if Rachel will go with her but no
[illegible] ^[decision?]^ has yet taken place. Our family unite in love to you all Phebe P. Willis
[Text just below, upside down]
Our Daniel is done and we have hired another man
[Text upside down on bottom third of page]
Pleas [sic] offer my love to Uncle Henry’s family as if named as also our other
friends there and inform us whether Cornelia has been or is sick one of
uncle James’s girls said they had some way been informed through
Dr [Post?] that she was or had been ^very^ sick I thought perhaps it was a
mistake. John Plummer’s daughter is Married to a Jarvice Whitson
who is not a member of course her case has this day been reported
to the meeting Mary ^W^ Willis and Mary Seaman are appointed to visit
her; Elizabeth [Perters?] Smith’s wife has requested to become a
member of our society altho [sic] to [sic] feeble to attend meeting Mary
Kirby and Phebe P. Willis are appointed to visit her she appears
like a sweet spirited woman it seems to do one good to be
with her. Adam Amy and Ann Seaman have sent their
proposals to the monthly and Ann was at meeting she has been
so much poorly I hardly expected it
[Text right side up, just above the prior upside down text on bottom third of page]
It is said our little John died last night and I suppose will be buried tomorrow
I believe he and his wife were at Lewis’s Dianna [sic] is not yet married
they were here lately had left Jones’s
[Text sideways in right margin]
Edmund Kirby road [sic] to meeting with us to
day all well from you [sic] account the weather
has been very much alike here and there it now
seems really like Spring to day as it has several
of those past do write very soon I think we shall
write to [sic]
[Address in center or page, running upward]
Jericho NY 11¾
March 14
Edmund P Willis
Rochester
Monroe County
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Willis, Phebe Post. Letter to Edmund P Willis.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Phebe Post Willis to Edmund P Willis, March 14, 1838.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Willis, Phebe Post
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1838-03-14
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Edmund P Willis
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
506
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Abolitionism
Domestic Servants
Family
Quakers
-
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/a203f180b13555bc7c0da06f956c994e.jpg
74fcf5302b6023bc65627a3afd184ee1
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/aa3f522c3de4f6a5f490bc2f45a61063.jpg
aec362fc5da3bf363f50f6c5d15783a2
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/25c400f40ef46e4ef87272bda066a2bc.jpg
59bda49da8ed358ef5c824c25582010a
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/f1933d09cfbf47b6b16bef78a0122938.jpg
0da41d6d5b6df1d06116c4762de8a540
https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/original/12dabbadd3932b2b6684247e37dec780.xml
b7d52d11ffe62b1ddbcabcfdce1ed29b
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Transcription
<a href="/scripto/transcribe/itemno/#transcription">Help transcribe this item</a>
Any written text transcribed from a sound
<p>(Page 1)<br /><br /> Jericho the 1 of 11 Month 1837<br /> Dear Amy<br /> I commence on this blank paper almost as blank<br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">as it</span> ^is^ but to recur to my agitated feelings about the time of our<br /> parting, I may say I have felt very calm and quiet. resignation<br /> seamd [sic] to cover my mind as it were in a comfortable submission,<br /> and so it remains. We heard by Stephen Rushmore of your getting<br /> safely on as far as Utica sins [sic] which we here [sic] nothing further of you<br /> Samuel Willis remains confind [sic] at home not to the house nor the door<br /> yard but walks some in the fields as he thinks a great charge is <br /> on him, as reguards [sic] the business the soar [sic] on his face rather increases<br /> Rachel has not left him but twice to attend meetting [sic], our Mo Mg was<br /> held at Bethpague [sic] where Arden oppend [sic] a concern ^to^ visit most of the Mg<br /> of our YM after a solem [sic] pause Robert Seaman broke silence not in<br /> fauvor [sic] of his going and so others in accordence [sic] by saying the frend[sic] had<br /> done well to releive [sic] his mind, and cast it on the meetting [sic], now it lay on<br /> frinds[sic] not on him, it was minute so that it [com?] of cours [sic] to next Mg<br /> My IK & I attended the 2 Mg at Flushing where Mary Pike & husband<br /> attende [sic] she had a minute to attend the meetings of our Qarter [sic] which<br /> she has performd [sic] except Westbury, also attended William Worton & Debo=<br /> =rah his Wife she is public they did not go no further Phebe Meritt has<br /> a minut [sic] to attend Baltimore Yearly Mg <span style="text-decoration:underline;">now sitting</span> also the meettings [sic]<br /> their [sic] and some others after she had the approbation of her friends<br /> she desired to see my Nephew Robert Seaman he hapned [sic] to be in town<br /> she felt it to be right to propose his acompanying [sic] her, he acording^ly^ [sic]<br /> acquiesed [sic], quite a Goup [sic] has gone on Rachel Hicks to attend the<br /> YM not many others ^Meeting^ James C Heveland Phebe & Lidia <span style="text-decoration:underline;">her</span> Companions<br /> they all attended the Q Mg on 5 day and expected to be in Baltimore on<br /> 7 day morning except Robert who went on second day after<br /> Mathew F Robbins superintends their [sic], and Esther Seaman at [James?]<br /> I dont find that Cousin Esther Anderson gets any better we did not<br /> call to see her they think it best to keep her quiet<br /><br /> (Page 2)<br /><br /> We have had but littil [sic] of Valentine and Abigails company yet they did<br /> get home so as to attend his brothers funeral that was on 7 day ^the 22^ they got in town<br /> on 2nd day, found [Adaniga?] Underhill confind [sic] to his room with a <br /> Paralict [sic] affected his rite [sic] side, but now he can walk goes down stairs<br /> to his meals &c … Vallinetine [sic] say that the YM of Indian has had [Parci^la^<br /> what shall I say care before them two years now they have appointed a com<br /> =mittee, to go with money to defray her expences [sic] home and if she does not<br /> feel easy to renew her minute and set out anew they seamd [sic] to feel [<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">m</span>]<br /> much for ^her^ – also for the <span style="text-decoration:underline;">cause</span>, which <span style="text-decoration:underline;">seamd</span> [sic] to be <span style="text-decoration:underline;">in</span> suff<span style="text-decoration:underline;">ering</span> as she was<br /> in some instances rather a burden to her friends you may do with this as is<br /> right wether [sic] I do rong [sic] in mentioning it I leave I have no ill in telling it, in good<br /> feeling to Parcila with my love – as to her Husband I ther [sic] herd [sic] them say not<br /> a word, but Elizabeth Hicks says she asked V abought [sic] him, V said he asked<br /> George Hatton his reply was the less he knew the <span style="text-decoration:underline;">better</span> Jacob Sarah &<br /> Matilda are gone to Hempsted [sic] on a little tradeing [sic] excursion nothing done<br /> but talk as yet about Selling, had one to view the farm Thomas Chester<br /> his offer 10 dollors [sic]<br /> in hast John and [2 illegible words] calld [sic] a few<br /> minuts [sic] and that is all in much love to you<br /> affectionately thy Mother<br /><br /> love to the children all Jacob I miss thee much<br /> [illegible] Sering desires her love to you<br /><br /> (Page 3 blank)<br /><br /> (Page 4)<br /><br /> [Address in center of page, running downward]<br /><br /> Poplar Ridge<br /> Nov 16 10<br /><br /> Amy Post<br /> Rochester<br /> NY</p>
Location
Refers the institution or repository that holds the resource
All materials from RBSCP should include the following text:
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Kirby, Mary R. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
Description
An account of the resource
Handwritten letter from Mary R Kirby to Amy Kirby Post, November 1, 1837.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Kirby, Mary R
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1837-11-01
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
491
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889
Relation
A related resource
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
XML Search
This element set indexes the text from attached XML files and makes them searchable.
Text
Text extracted from XML files attached to this item.
University of RochesterUniversity of Rochester 500 Joseph C. Wilson BoulevardRochester, NY 146272017-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International LicenseThe License was added on January 1, 2018.University of RochesterRare Books, Special Collections, and PreservationIsaac and Amy Post Family PapersD93Papers of Amy (1802-1889) and Isaac (1798-1872) Post, who were abolitionists, spiritualists, and advocates of temperance and women's rights. Included are letters from leaders of these reform movements, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved in the manuscript transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded. Words or phrases deemed indecipherable have been noted as "illegible." Nontextual original content, e.g. drawings and diagrams, have been noted as such. Images of the original diary pages are provided to show the creator's original page layout and placement of additions. Jericho the 1 of 11 Month 1837 Dear Amy I commence on this blank paper almost as blankas it ^is^ but to recur to my agitated feelings about the time of our parting, I may say I have felt very calm and quiet. resignation seamd [sic] to cover my mind as it were in a comfortable submission, and so it remains. We heard by Stephen Rushmore of your getting safely on as far as Utica sins [sic] which we here [sic] nothing further of you Samuel Willis remains confind [sic] at home not to the house nor the door yard but walks some in the fields as he thinks a great charge is on him, as reguards [sic] the business the soar [sic] on his face rather increases Rachel has not left him but twice to attend meetting [sic], our Mo Mg was held at Bethpague [sic] where Arden oppend [sic] a concern ^to^ visit most of the Mg of our YM after a solem [sic] pause Robert Seaman broke silence not in fauvor [sic] of his going and so others in accordence [sic] by saying the frend[sic] had done well to releive [sic] his mind, and cast it on the meetting [sic], now it lay on frinds[sic] not on him, it was minute so that it [com?] of cours [sic] to next Mg My IK & I attended the 2 Mg at Flushing where Mary Pike & husband attende [sic] she had a minute to attend the meetings of our Qarter [sic] which she has performd [sic] except Westbury, also attended William Worton & Debo= =rah his Wife she is public they did not go no further Phebe Meritt has a minut [sic] to attend Baltimore Yearly Mg now sitting also the meettings [sic] their [sic] and some others after she had the approbation of her friends she desired to see my Nephew Robert Seaman he hapned [sic] to be in town she felt it to be right to propose his acompanying [sic] her, he acording^ly^ [sic] acquiesed [sic], quite a Goup [sic] has gone on Rachel Hicks to attend the YM not many others ^Meeting^ James C Heveland Phebe & Lidia her Companions they all attended the Q Mg on 5 day and expected to be in Baltimore on 7 day morning except Robert who went on second day after Mathew F Robbins superintends their [sic], and Esther Seaman at [James?] I dont find that Cousin Esther Anderson gets any better we did not call to see her they think it best to keep her quiet We have had but littil [sic] of Valentine and Abigails company yet they did get home so as to attend his brothers funeral that was on 7 day ^the 22^ they got in town on 2nd day, found [Adaniga?] Underhill confind [sic] to his room with a Paralict [sic] affected his rite [sic] side, but now he can walk goes down stairs to his meals & ... Vallinetine [sic] say that the YM of Indian has had [Parci^la^ what shall I say care before them two years now they have appointed a com =mittee, to go with money to defray her expences [sic] home and if she does not feel easy to renew her minute and set out anew they seamd [sic] to feel [m] much for ^her^ - also for the cause, which seamd [sic] to be in suffering as she was in some instances rather a burden to her friends you may do with this as is right wether [sic] I do rong [sic] in mentioning it I leave I have no ill in telling it, in good feeling to Parcila with my love - as to her Husband I ther [sic] herd [sic] them say not a word, but Elizabeth Hicks says she asked V abought [sic] him, V said he asked George Hatton his reply was the less he knew the better Jacob Sarah & Matilda are gone to Hempsted [sic] on a little tradeing [sic] excursion nothing done but talk as yet about Selling, had one to view the farm Thomas Chester his offer 10 dollors [sic] in hast John and [2 illegible words] calld [sic] a few minuts [sic] and that is all in much love to you affectionately thy Mother love to the children all Jacob I miss thee much [illegible] Sering desires her love to you (Page 3 blank) [Address in center of page, running downward] Poplar Ridge Nov 16 10 Amy Post Rochester NY
Family
Quakers