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

240

Location

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

Transcription

(Page 1)

[Text in top margin, written upside down, continued from Page 4]
so will try to write farther to some
of you soon good night – Baby has
had a turn of crying since writing I took her

[Continues downward into left margin]
awhile she is releived [sic] of the turns of pain and is asleep I guess

[Text normal]

                    Syossett 4 mo 2^nd
     Dear All I felt it in my spirit to
have scribbled a word yesterday to have
forwarded this morning but there was
so much to tell of our pleasant visit &
so much to hear of family joys & cares that
the morning hours passed until meeting
time after wh [sic] we came to Syosset found
them better than when we left Joseph &
Lizzie returned and I staid [sic] to help [Hatie?]
through the dreaded ordeal of changing
help which proceds [sic] has commenced Hannah
& Harriett left after dinner Saml went
to mill and brought the new woman ^also^ and
greatly to our supprize [sic] a baby a little over
a year old as an accompaniament [sic] how
it will answer we dont [sic] know Have had
word from our Savannah girl that she can
-not come until Cornelia Drake comes wh [sic] will
be 2 months so we have been on the alert to find
a substitute & after several disappointments
have one a sister in law of the woman quite
young engaged to come in a few days Saml

(Page 2)

had his 4 new men this morning so that
we have quite strange people in the kitchen
the entire family have gone to bed and I
will not remain long I expeced [sic] to tell of our
safe arrival home and as Thomas [Doxy?] who
Amy remembers used to say the first guests
comes the last After you left us in that
very comfortable car feeling so well
pleased with the ample room I wondered
as I looked around that while it was
filling up with men I was the only female
just before the train started some one [sic] said
this is the smoking car and ladies would be
better accommodated in the others accordi
-ngly we picked up our things and found
a seat which a man wished to appropriate
to the accommodation of his best and wh [sic?]
he very unwillingly relinquished Joseph
soon found another vacant so that
we had seats to ourselves he soon
had little naps while I thanks to Amys [sic]
tea and the pleasant memories of the
past week I felt very much awake &
rather enjoyed the hours sometimes in

(Page 3)

looking at the would be sleepers trying to
arrange their shawls or coats in some way
for a comfortable nap but all attempts
were failures I should judge from
the frequent changes in position Along
in the small hours I thought I would
try to make [illegible] one with the compa
-ny instead of sitting upright I suceeded [sic]
finally in getting sundry little naps
but conscious of the unsatisfactory
position nearly all the time but was
less sick than usual and enjoyed
much of the way the beautiful scene
-ry along which we passed reached
Albany at 6 and N York ½ past 12
or one I forget which came home in
the ½ past 3 train had a little
time to wait but not enough to
be very burdensome Lizzie came
for us she had had quite a lone
-some time with a great deal
too much work Mary had been
away nearly three days her

(Page 4)

had come from Ireland and
she had to go to New York for
her and having left the vessel
it was sometime before she found
her Franklin went home so Eliza
-beth looked up some body to stay
nights while Mary was gone as
there was only Thomas Hughs and herse
-lf in the house (the other men went
home) but she made the best of it
and gave us a good welcome when
we came It seems much more
spring like here the snow gone
some were plowing a few had
sown oats and the grass begins
to freshen up but looks bare and
brown generally much of the way
we saw snow the Highlands were
white and considerable ice along
the river and large icicles from the
rocks where the water poured over giving
it a wintry aspect – yesterday was the
warmest day we have had bright & sunny
this forenoon rainy but clear now & colder
the keepers have been heard some days I have
    not told you all I would but I am sleepy
[Continues in Top margin of Page 1 with line beginning “so will try”]

Tags

Domestic Servants; Family

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/2541.

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