Titus, Esther. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.

Title

Titus, Esther. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.

Creator

Titus, Esther

Contributor

Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889

Description

Handwritten letter from Esther Titus to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Titus writes about a visit to close friends in Canandaigua and of a convention featuring Susan B Anthony and Charles Remond.

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

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Identifier

318

Location

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

Transcription

(Page 1)

[Text at top of left margin, written upward]
what thee sais [sic] of Mrs Wat
son - a star -

[Text in top margin, written upside down]
give my love please to Isaac Willis wife
when thee sees her _ I hope to see her again

[Text normal]
My Dear Amy
                                   Morning
               We have just received
and read thy kind letter.
glad indeed to hear from thee
dont thee remember long ago the
gass [sic] escaped from the stove, seems
to me it was then the dining room
stove, and made thee suffer
terribly _ we could not for some time
immagine [sic] what was the matter,
   thee must be very careful. I am
glad thee watches, now _ so Sus and and [sic]
Holland have come back and left the
little niece _ how I did hunt all
over the [patron?] sent me, to find one
word from Susan _ but not even a mark -
       I [siem?] to see you all   & Sojourner
toom   I am glad she is made so comforted
& Fanny is glad too _ _ old age is so tender
I remember Susans warm stove
for her feet, dear Susan I thank her
away out here _ I have thanked her even
since she done so many kind things
for poor Sojourner _ I need not say poor Sojourner

(Page 2)

for so many thousands thousand would
be glad indeed to wear her robes and
take her crown _ _ _ story I never
thought it was the exersize [sic] so
very cheerfully taken, all over the
house that made thee sick _ just as
soon as thee said the gass [sic] escaped
I understood in a moment _ _
is thee working just the same, how
pleasant_ how healthy it is, it is
righteous_ I never feel better _
(when I lay my head on the pillow
than when I look over a day fully occupied
all well spent, in maternal things
not that my mind is not two fold [sic]
we can do all right thing with the
glorious stamp of approval _ _ _ _
       O how beautiffully [sic] the days can
come in and go out, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
            Thee sais [sic] thee had wished thee had
waged me ^more^ to stay longer _ dear dear Amy
Cousin Amy _ thee did wage me so much
to have my trunks brought up _ that I
hardly knew what to do, feeling so much

(Page 3)

that I must get to new York _ _
I knew the time had come for me
to see all those I had left behind me,
      I did not then think I should stop in
Canandaigua more than I 2 or 3 days
at most, _ but thee knows Fannies way _
so earnest, so spontaneous, and yet
so childlike; that I would not ^help^ myself
off went my hat, and cloak, and away
was sent a boy for my trunk, before I
hardly knew it, _ and not a word could
be said after that, about going farther,
     dear Fannie, and James and children
they like near relation to me,
     the mother whom they all looked up
too [sic] gone – and the sister with her
flock of children about to go _ made
Fannie want to keep me a little
longer _ _ the children who hadve grown
now so large, that it seemed best
for them, for all around to be taking
their places in life, they go to
the family will in a short time
be so changed _ Fannie keeps 2 girls
[Continues on page 3 with line beginning "sometimes she has"]

(Page 4)

[Text in top margin, written upside down)]
my love to Mary - I love Mary and Sarah -

sometimes she has 3, one to sew
she will be just as glad as thee
has been to be with only once, _
    she anticipates great pleasure in
having the house all quiet and to her
self_ we should have been so glad
to have seen thee, here, thee must
come some day _ the convention
here was very interesting indeed, all
liked Susan Antony [sic] she was so com
=posed and so capable of explaining
their object _ all the most influencial [sic]
people, the ministers and all approved
of their course _ Fannie & I gave C
L Remond a hearty welcome, perhaps
others did as much so, _ Fannie was sorry
Susan did not stop with them, as far as
Fannie and James sees [sic] their way _ they
go fearlessly _ _ I will stay with them
till the change, and house all arranged _
I help Fanny sew she has a great deal to
do _ I feel now that it is best_ it is so
good in thee to be glad, I am here while
the weather is cold and stormy. we shall
get all right by March. or a little after.
give my love to Susan Holland, and Sojourn [sic]
Fanies [sic] just the same, she often talks of
you all, and wants to see you, you must
come this summer if you do not before you
will enjoy their wild days at the cabbin [sic] _
they are excellent people Amy. give them thy hand
[Continues into right margin, written upward]
they are young _ _ _ I want to write a great deal more _ I am glad to hear
[Continues at top of left margin on page 1 with line beginning “what thee sais”]

Tags

Family; Women's Rights

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Titus, Esther, “Titus, Esther. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 22, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/2617.

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