Post, Mary Jane. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.

Title

Post, Mary Jane. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.

Creator

Post, Mary Jane

Contributor

Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889

Description

Handwritten letter from Mary Jane Post to Amy Kirby Post, n.d.

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

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Identifier

169

Location

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

Transcription

(Page 1)

[Text in top margin, written upward, continued from page 4 with line ending “and it is”]
so weak I want
to make some
out of old fashioned
potash - please
enclose the receipt
at thy earleist [sic]
convenience. Give
my love to Mary
Tucker when thee
sees her- In glancing
over my letter I find
so much about
ourselves it seems
to me selfish- please
          tell me when
          thee writes
          about Joseph’s
          family give my
          love to them
          and now with
          love to much
          Isaac and thyself
          remain aff
                   Mary

                                            Syosset April 30^th
Dear Aunt Amy
                          Silence on my part since the
reception of thy very kind, and welcome letter,
may have seemed like forgetfulness or indifference
on my part. but of such I plead innicent [sic], for
very often, thee, and dear uncle Isaac come
before with very sweet feelings, but we have
been very unsettled, and very busy indeed
in both mind and body. for a considerable length
of time. but [none?] especially for the last two
weeks, a portion of the farm is sold, the rest
still in the market, much feeling in a variety
of ways in called up in parting with the dear [old?]
home, surrendering all into the hands of strangers
but still it seems all right, and that [coverd?] [sic]
all else thee knows, Isaac’s pressure had
become very hard to be borne, and as for me
I felt out of my sphere. this winter I have been
so [urge?] to care for very many sick people

(Page 2)

and felt like g doing for them. but household
duties were too weighty. in the start I sank
down and had to give it up. still they kept
coming and writing month after month.
one friend came from Penn to see if I would
not take her daughter. When I said I could not
she replied I dont [sic] think it seems right
for thee to have the care of this farm running
when it is given thee to relieve suffering, I
felt it very true. and the thought re^(a)^lized
before, increased untill [sic] I felt nervous over
the very mention of sickness ,
It is now decided for us to stop in Oyster Bay
and wait further developments. after we get
regulated, I think I must take one at least
in the new home. the house is very pleasant,
quite large . a hall running through to the
centre of house. two nice rooms each side
of hall. four pleasant bed rooms up stairs.
[illegible] a hall bed room large ganet
and a bed room finished off up there for
girls. dining room and kitchen in basement

(Page 3)

and a very nice large cellar back piazza
front and back of house. pretty large l
yard in front and at the sides. garden
back, and barn, barn yard, and hen house
adjoining, we have already sent off a great
deal of our furniture, and the ^(a)^ greater part
of [Nillian?] Henry’s things are stored here in
the east part of this house, we did effect
to move all tomorrow, but they were here
yesterday and offered to give us another week
and Isaac was very glad to get it, on the
sale is to come off our sixth day of this week,
and a great deal is to be done in fixing
things for it. It astonishes me to her [sic] Edmund
get on so smart, among the stir of children,
moving in, and moving out, callers to buy,
and callers for a variety of things, begging
among the rest, but how wonderfully I find
myself helped to go ^(do)^ thing [sic] when they come,
when at first thought, I feel as though they
would be so hard, and as we find ourselves
sustained, so we know he is ministering to

(Page 4)
others of our fellow men, What a thought, and all
sustaining arm stretched out forever over his
unthankful children, I feel myself so very
unthankful, and yet find in Him such mercy
such long suffering, such forgiveness.
I hear of Sojourner being with you. do give my
love to her, and tell her I hope to meet her again
somewhere this side, but for none than all do I
desire to meet her ^[illegible]^ with all his sanctified ones
in that other and better land –
the children have been unusually well for
several months, and I attribute it in part to uncle
Isaac’s medecine [sic], when they cough I give
them a trifle of that, and it quiets them at
once, it relieves Henry of hoarseness very soon
and Amy I would like very much to get
uncle Isaac’s or Nellie’s receipt for making
potash soap. I made by it in Rochester, and it
was so nice, since being here I have made
some old fashioned soap, but that [sic] getting used
up, I have tried the canned potash, and it is
[Continues in top margin of Page 1 with line beginning “so weak I want”]

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Family

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Post, Mary Jane, “Post, Mary Jane. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 23, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/2470.

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