Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.

Title

Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.

Creator

Post, Mary Robbins

Contributor

Post, Isaac, 1798-1872

Description

Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, n.d.

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

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Identifier

194

Location

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

Transcription

(Page 1)

                        Dear Relatives             First day morning
                                                   It is a long long time since there
has been much communication between us yet I trust the affection
-ate interest we each feel in the others well being has not in any
degree been lessened or the bond of union which [illegible] has bound us together
become weakened thereby but that other causes have prevented our indu-
-lging in the way as much as would be agreeable to me_   I do not
now feel in the right spirits now for writing so you will excuse a
poor attempt Joseph is at Joseph Hicks's _ aunt Rachel is very low
probably will not survive through the day has been more poorly a
week but not much until 5 day since which she has failed fast
the Dr calls it inflamation [sic] of the lungs_ Wiliam's and Joseph's
children have the whooping cough __ it is very prevalent around here
Obadiah Townsend is also very poorly has been a long time by turns
very much so and has suffered extremely I suppose he has taken
greater quantities of morphine at a time than any other person
we ever knew — one of his legs has been wonderfully swolen [sic]
for months and Dr Treadwell thinks he is certain there is matter
collected and it would be better to open it he has labored
diligently to convince them it would be best to do so but fail
-ed to do so they then consulted another Dr who disapproved
doing it since which Dr [Cheeseman?] has been up and he too
decided against opening it _ said he had an affliction of the
heart and might very likely die suddenly
Matilda Rushmore has a nice little boy and she is about house
again a little                             I cannot realise the fact that dear
Julia is among the number who have left us forever twas so
unexpected too and we had clung to her so fondly so tenderly had
she intertwined herself around every fibre [sic] of ^our^ hearts— dear Edm
-und how deeply I sympathise with him how all his hopes of
happiness are blasted by this afflictive bereavement – I did not
know how he could meet his Island friends it has been a trying
ordeal for him to pass through and Oh how desolate his home
will feel on his return to it to find it as it is alone
How often I wish I was posest [sic] of the power to bind up the broken
heart and comfort those who are bereft of their dearest earthly

(Page 2)

friend but alass [sic] how weak and impotent are all my desires little
very little is it in the power of mortals to do at such seasons
                     Rush and Rebeca Plumly have been in New York a week
ago to day attended Rose St meeting in the morning George F
rose very early and spoke 1 hour and 20 minutes by the watch and
Oliver Johnson told us a more rambling disconnected sermon
he never heard said much against the priests said they ^were^ worse
than the devil wanted them to be &c &c after which Rush comunicated [sic]
for about 20 minutes he was not known there much had one invita
tion to go home with him from some person _ they staid [sic] at Oliver's
boarding house Rebecca came on on [sic] 5 day to be with the Hutchinsons
who had been in the city a week   first day evening the Plumleys
Oliver J T Hopper James S Gibbons and others went to the home
and had a religious opportunity with the inmates Rebeca
and Mary Ann Johnson purpose [sic] visiting us sometime before long
by the way Mary Ann has been invited to take charge of the Home
it is probably settled by this time Oliver would like her to altho
it is a responsible station   they can be together more than they
are now he has been unusually confined the past season Greely has
been away considerable then the burden rests on him _ do you take
the Tribune it is ranked among antislavery papers by the real
proslavery ones_   What do you think about the ransom of Douglas
and dont you think there has been enough said about it? I am
sure I shall feel as tho it was much safer for him to return now than
it would have been if it has not been paid - yet in most circumstances
I do not feel willing for abolitionists to contribute towards such
an object but Frederick has made himself so obnoxious to them
and is also very much exposed in traveling about lecturing to all
sorts of people that it seems justifiable in his case      How interesting
Garrisons memoir is his early youth and manhood is intensely so
to me _ may he never fall from the high place he is designed
to fill _ it is humiliating to see how many began well and [run?] so
for a season but one by one how many leave turned aside and
walk no more in company and have now become estranged from him
and those who now go on in unison of feeling may ere long be
scattered as others have been before them Garrison predicted this wou^ld^

(Page 3)

be the case years ago and it has been fulfiled [sic] too truly
              I laid this aside to get dinner immediately after which
Joseph returned from witnessing the closing scene aunt
Rachel departed this life and entered into the anticipated
scene about 12 she is to be intered [sic] on 3 day next [meet?]
at the meeting house at 11 we are at Jericho came to
give the information else I should have finished this
we expected to have seen Edmund this afternoon but
the rain and the traveling has been such as to prevent
            mother is poorly too with [coler?] [very?] affectionately
                                                            your sister Mary
                        write soon

(Page 4)

[Text in center of page, aligned with left margin, written upward]

Isaac Post
                        Rochester
in charge of                 N Y
Edmund P Willis

Tags

Abolitionism; Family; Medicine

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Post, Mary Robbins, “Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 23, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/2495.

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