Post, Joseph W. Letter to Isaac Post.

Title

Post, Joseph W. Letter to Isaac Post.

Creator

Post, Joseph W

Contributor

Post, Isaac, 1798-1872

Date

1847-09-22

Description

Handwritten letter from Joseph W Post to Isaac Post, September 22, 1847.

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Rights

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Identifier

688

Location

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

Transcription

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My dear parents Sept ::22:: 1847

I just sat down to write a few lines while

i felt like it I think that you oaght [sic] to send

Jacob out here to school it is a very nice place to

^go^ to ^[go]^ school and give him an aducation for

he can get a first rate one I wont [sic] to know when

i come home again wether [sic] i shal [sic] het the 25 cents

of mary morey or send home for it oh about

my boots i ware [so] 6is and i wont [sic] some [S?] to

chinge [sic] to wear blue instead of white I dont

wont [sic] you to forget about sending me some papers

with some good stories in it i wont [sic] something

to read [writtn] know my knife is gone i wont [sic]

another to cut with i wont [sic] you to save me some grap-

-es so when i come home that i can feast on them for

i shal [sic] be grape hungry and i wont [sic] some steel

pens and some tread and a ball of that red and

white twine in the store elizabeth birtes is out

here she is agoing [sic] to stay here this week out

we have a stove in our room and we are happey [sic] as the bird

when he is shipping from limb to limb their [sic] is some

men [is] building a methodist [sic] meeting house Joseph green

is to working at it – mr stebinos the princple [sic] teacher

said something about getting peaches that did not belon

-g to them i am ^glad^ that i was not in the scrape with them

and you may send me them books that the [sic] has been buying for

me i dont know the kname [sic] of them that is if

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you have amind [sic] to do and i should like to have

another pare [sic] of thick patloons [sic] so that i can chanfe

them if i wish and a sunday cap to wear if i

wont [sic] to go any where a visiting you may do as you

please about sending them for i are a coming out

there in about 2 weeks i heard that charlet frost

is deceased last thursday by herindeens folks

said that he was [to] to R rochester wensday [sic] do not

forget to have some pocket hankerchiefs [sic] readey [sic] for

me when i come home i told morey morey to

store [her] my risbonds [sic] she come in [he] our

room the other day and she said that she had

starched them clear up to the elbow so as to

make up for what we had lost we had som [sic]

sweet corn the other day wtch [sic] was good

no mistake you must excuse this blot in the

letter and the bad writing for i wrote some

of it in haste i supose [sic] you would like

to know how many boardes [sic] we have to

miss moreys we have 5 including myself they

make us speak and write compositions out here

and i dont like it very much william and

I get along first rate now everey [sic] time the mail

comes in i go over there i have not found aneything [sic]

yet and i s do not like it very much we got

home safe and sound the horse and bugey [sic] helped

us along very much indeed herendeen told me

that you did not get home till [sic] third day on

the acount [sic] of going to canandagua [sic]

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if i come here next term i dont [not] wont [sic] to study

geography tell Jacob that their [sic] some nice girls out here

that would soute [sic] him very weell [sic] one in particular

Just about his size and his age we had some nice tom-

-matoos [sic] for diner [sic] to day to day is thursday give my best

respects to all the inQuiring [sic] people

Yours afectionaly [sic]

Yours Joseph Post

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Isaac Post

Rochester

Monroe Co

NY

8147

Tags

Family

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Post, Joseph W, “Post, Joseph W. Letter to Isaac Post.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 23, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/2980.

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