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

1841-04-20

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

555

Location

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

Transcription

(Page 1)

                   April 20^th 1841
          Beloved Friend
                             Now while i am at
leisure    i will devote a few minutes to writing a
letter    i prepared a letter for you last week
intending to send it by M^r Borden but owing
to some misunderstanding as to the time he
was going it was not sent, -- how easy to
bring you in my debt a letter ha! ha! ive got
the adventage [sic] of you in this bargain
you first Suggested. broached the proposition
to open a correspondence, i gladly took you to
your word, bound you to it, and i know i get
better than i Send, however suffer me to
continue inflicting an occasional specimen
of my attempt at letter writing, “practice makes
perfect” and i shall hope in the course of
time to be able to send you something more
worthy a perusal them [sic] i have heretofore ----
I see nothing in the last number of the Liberator
about the Convention of the Bristol County Anti
Slavery Society, held here last week ------
the meeting passed off very pleasantly nowith
standing the storm we were expecting our old
and “fast friend” W^m Lloyd, but the Snow
Storm came and buried the ground of our expe
ctations about two feet, it did not however
bury all the Anti Slavery feeling amongst us –----
we met and talked over the wrongs of our brethren

(Page 2)

and sisters in a sociable way, and felt that
we were “brethren all” there were a few friends
from abroad among whom were M^r Thompson
from Lynn-- M^r Bird & wife from [illegible] Misses
Austin & Mitchell from Nantucket and some
others whose names i did not learn Several letters
were read from individuals invited a very excellent
one from a lady whose name i dont remember just
now, one from M^r Garrison informing the con
vention of the reason of his absence, and a very
indiferent [sic] ^one^ from M^r Bradburn the meeting
was in short a very good one, one too the effects
of which we shall feel for some time to come,
indeed, some of the proceedings were ordered to
to be printed in the Liberator so you can there
learn the character of the meeting &c – – – – – –
all i have to say of the character of its abolition^ism^
is, the indications of the presence of some there was
sound to the Core, in my opinion, were pretty strong.

Item, I received a few days ago a letter from
my old friend Bright, according to Johnny^’s^ state
ment he has had a very narrow escape, the cir
cumstance is this, One of the crew a Canucker
became Crazy caught up a lance with it drove
the crew up the rigging. while they were running
up he threw the lance which struck johnny in
the heel of his Shoe, Cutting it most horribly!
so that he was oblige [sic] to place it under the care of a
(Not M.D. but, S.D.) Shoe Doctor in order that by

(Page 3)

an application of his peculiar restoratives it
may be made, comfortable [wearable?], this to
gether with the shock his nerves received which (as
i believe they are pretty strong i presume he has ere
this recovered from) was all the injury Bright sustained
from this unfortunate occurance [sic] – – – –

General News, The Young Ladies & Gentlemen
are well generally i believe, bah! i dont feel much
like talking about the, i ask their Pardins [sic], Ladies
just now W^m C i never felt more indisposed to
writing than at this moment, so pardon me for
inflicting this stuff upon your attention i will
relieve it after requesting, as i now do, to be remem
bered respectfully to your sisters and all inquiring
friends,        Nonsense like these pages are filled
with, and because of which i’ve a great mind
not to send it, is in perfect keeping with my
mind why should it not be when
          “a little nonsense now and then
          is relished by the wisest men”     dont by any
means forget to remember me with most profound
respect to “M^rs Henry Watson”
Yours very truly, though at present rather
in a hurry     J B Sanderson

(Page 4)

[Address running downward]

          W^m C Nell
          Boston
N^o 25 [Corn?] Hill           Mass

Tags

Abolitionism; 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/2853.

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