Titus, Ann P. Letter to Hannah Kirby Post.

Title

Titus, Ann P. Letter to Hannah Kirby Post.

Creator

Titus, Ann P

Contributor

Hannah Kirby Post

Date

1819-04-12

Description

Handwritten letter from Ann P Titus to Hannah Kirby Post, April 12, 1819.

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Rights

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Identifier

372

Location

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

Transcription

(Page 1)

[Text in top margin, written upside down]
tell her that Deborah Underhill sends her love
in great abundance I am very sorry have not time to write to her
but I could not [rake?] up a bit of newes [sic] if I should and the letter that I h[ave]
got partly written will hardly do to send   so my love to her in large quant[ities]
and tell her I shall write soon      APT                                     Ann P Titus

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                     New Rochelle 4” Month 12^th 1819

my dear friend
                            Thy first letter was received by me with
much pleasure, altho I did not pay such attention in
answering it as I should, and intended to have done, but
company, with a mixture of nigligence [sic] and many other things
have prevented,    but as I answer the second immediately after
receiving it I hope that will make a sufficient excuse ________
                                Saying what thou dost about Mary Willis
causes me to think you will have a wedding there before long
            I did not know that the important business between them
had so nearly come to a close, probably the attachment has
been of long standing , for I have known of their holding a
correspondence for a considerable length of time , but thought
I would not know let my friends at Jericho know it as they lived
such near neighbors to her,    the last that I heard about
their letters was that they were mere letters of friendship,   how –
ever I had no idea that they would always remain our common
kind of friendship tho his Mother thought it would never be
any other; thou knows cupid is a pretty curious little fellow
and sometimes darts his arrows where parents dont think of ,   but
according to my ideas in this case he has very wisely taken aim
                              indeed my friend in thy letter thou hast told me
what I did not expect if I have taken they meaning right, about
SU perhaps he has been twice on consequencial [sic] business for
surely he must have been more than that or he would hardly be on

(Page 2)

friendly terms,    please tell Cousin Amy I shall soon begin
to look out for an invitation, and shall think ____ but I must
stop for she knows her own business best, I can say however that
Cupid is a something ungovernable ___   I should like to have
been with you the fortnight to br that you spent to gether [sic]
but as I was not there probably you rumaged [sic] over my letters
talked a little about them & perhaps pick’d out a great many
imperfections,     As thou art not intimately acquainted with
any of our New Rochelle folks,    I suppose the few trifling
circumstances that I can relate will be rather uninteresting
to thee,   but I hope thou will not always be unacquainted with
the folks on this shore,    do come dear Hannah and make us
a visit, and then I hope thou wilt find what very fine girls
we have, even if they are not brought up on Long Island
           I think we (that is) the young gentlemen and Ladies of
Mamaroneck meeting have been doing something which will
probably be very useful which is ^that is^ establishing a library which has
been open about 2 months consisting of about 70 volumes and
perhaps 10 or 15 dollars left for the purchasing of such as we
might afterwards like, we have begun on a small scale
small however as the whole is it is better than not to
have begun at all,     our evenings will probably now be
partly at least spent in conversing on the books which we
have read and by that means improving each other ---   I
think it would be a good thing for the young folks at
Flushing, and then perhaps there would not be so many silly ^yo^ ful

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practices, which are really ridiculously foolish for any
who have arived [sic] at the years of common understanding!
for men and women to be enguaged [sic] in amusements fit
for children only looks very poorly in my eye
            thou tells me that M Sherman is going to make
her brother a visit, you will miss her the more as your society
is so small,    we should like to have her make us a visit
and perhaps after that will be willing to take the preparati^ve^
meeting school, which will shortly be destitute of a teacher
in consequence of the girls getting married,   perhaps it
will be thought a fortunate place, for out of four
teachers (which is all the school has had) two of them have
got married left the school on account of marriage
                                    Perhaps thou wilt be in New York
at the time of your Quarterly Meeting, but I shall not
see the [sic] there this time, should like it much, but business
calls another way; should be much pleased to have thee
take a little journey up to New Rochelle and make a long
long call at Samuel Titus’s hospitable house, perhaps
it will be agreable [sic] to thyself if thou takes it in consid-
eration ----- ------ ------ -------     With much love to
thyself and the rest of the family; I remain as ever
thy truly since[re] friend   Ann P Titus

            P S, please let Cousin Amy read this letter and
then she will see that I love her altho I have neglected
her she will probably be glad to see the contents
of a letter that comes from N R as it is so long since

(Page 4)

she has, I intended to have written her and sent with this
but had not time to finish it as father goes one day
sooner than I expected,     perhaps she will like to know
what other news their [sic] is stirring here but this will assure
her that it is a low time with us, there is nothing of conse
=quence stiring [sic]   in her last letter she talked about a
beau my beau, but I hope this will confirm her that

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all those reports are entirely ground less, [sic] I am no more
going to be married to A [J?] ___ than I am to the prince of
Wales and whoever believes the report believes something that
has not a word of truth in it, nor never had, --- probably this
will ease all her doubts about going to wedding, I hope it may
at least, however, if I ever have one, she may expect an invitation,
but very likely I shall have to invite herself, husband, & perhaps
2 or 3 children; she will be so much a head [sic] of me, for if all
reports are true I shall begin to think it is time for [me?] to fit
and beside her other beaus there shall perhaps she may have another

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from this shore for there was one that enquired
of me whether she was not going to be married & said
he had heard so and if he did not hasten he
feared he should loose [sic] her,    I told him then
he had better go soon & he thought he should
so she must look out,    don’t [sic] forget to show her this
letter but I expect it will make her say Oh (dear
& set her ear itching to [k]now who it was

[Text in center of page, written upward]

                        Hannah Kirby

                                    Jericho

Care of
Jacob Kirby                Long Island
            ______                        ______

Tags

Education; Family; Quakers

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Titus, Ann P, “Titus, Ann P. Letter to Hannah Kirby Post.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 22, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/2671.

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