Sanderson, Jeremiah Burke. Letter to William Cooper Nell.

Title

Sanderson, Jeremiah Burke. Letter to William Cooper Nell.

Creator

Sanderson, Jeremiah Burke

Contributor

William Cooper Nell

Date

1840-06-23

Description

Handwritten letter from Jeremiah Burke Sanderson to William Cooper Nell.

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Rights

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Identifier

542

Location

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

Transcription

(Page 1)
          New Bedford june 23[a?] 1840
Mr Nell Sir. I fear i should hardly do justice
to what you might expect - i should not at least
to my own feelings Since i responded affir
matively to a kind desire expressed in your
first letter to me that a correspondence might
be opened between us -- if i neglected so ex
cellent an opportunity of dropping you a few
lines in the way of friendly remembrance by
Mr Howard who will be down to Boston with
Mr [Lawton?] to assist as he says in the transaction
of important business the nature of which you are
doubtless acquainted with. I should have
been glad to come down and see you and to give
you a friendly shake of the flipper as jack would
say instead of sending this scribble, but the
circumstence [sic] of my having taken a shop in New

(Page 2)

Bedford where i intend to pursue my business
renders my being able to do so very soon as i
had hoped doubtful i trust however you will
favor us with a visit in the course of the season
i want to see you much nor do i speak at
random when i say that all the young Ladies
and Gentlemen who enjoyed your acquaintance and
Society in your visit to our town short as it
was were sorry when it was over and would
be pleased to have it repeated and none more
so than myself   in a visit to Boston i promise
myself no little pleasure from an introduction
to the young who you speak of as so interesting
and that they are i doubt not so report speaks
of them i shall not soon forget how very
kind and politely i was treated by them i
mean those with whom i had the pleasure of
becoming acquainted with at the time I vis

(Page 3)

ited the city specially when i consider the circu
mstences [sic] under which that visit was made
rude and unpolished in manners rough in ap
earance [.] and a genteel external you know is
an item of no small importance in the estab
lishment of claims to respectability by a
stranger as i was to every Body except Mr
Logans Family to whose kindness i was greatly
obliged Particularly Miss Eliza (by the way
just give my respects to her and a kiss also if
you choose and say to her i wish her all [the?]
joy the state into which she is about to en
ter can possibly afford and that i conceive
is no bad wish) i was notwithstanding trea
ted in a manner which has left the most favor
able impression on my mind as to the ability of
the boston Ladies to do the thing that’s genteel and
handsome and for it i wish them all a good hus
band apiece those who have not resolved to live a
life of celibacy paper will hardly admit of my

(Page 4)

adding any more then that the Ladies and Gents
unite in sending their respects and good wishes
i shall try to finish in the next
                                      J B Sanderson

[Address sideways, running downward]

Mr W^m C Nell
          Boston
                   Mass

[Favored by?] [M?.] Howard

Tags

Personal

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Sanderson, Jeremiah Burke, “Sanderson, Jeremiah Burke. Letter to William Cooper Nell.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 23, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/2840.

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