Willis, Mary W Kirby. Letter to Isaac Post.

Title

Willis, Mary W Kirby. Letter to Isaac Post.

Creator

Willis, Mary W Kirby

Contributor

Post, Isaac, 1798-1872

Date

1849-10-21

Description

Handwritten letter from Mary W Kirby Willis to Isaac Post, October 21, 1849.

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Rights

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Identifier

763

Location

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

Transcription

[Previous pages of letter transcribed as letter 762]

(Page 3)

2^nd day morn 11 O Clock

I thought to have let this opportunity passed

by entirely without notice hoping my sisters would

feel what I do by the slight that I recieved [sic] from

them, but seeing this paper was not like to be filled

I concluded to move the pen a few minutes, Aunt Phebe

I heard was sick, since which we have heard nothing.

perhaps she will have a little love left to write to

me when she gets well enough, tell her that Mother

Willis is preparing to go to Flushing she feels a great

inclination to go, we think she is beareily [sic] able to

ride so far, but having been instructed from youth

to an advanced age to go to meeting, that she departs not

from it, and just so it is with Father he talks of going

but I feel very much tried about he is so exceedingly

clumsy that sometimes when I see him standing

with one foot on the block and the other on the wagon

and not able to move one nor the other foot for some

little time, and people driving up behind, it is

difficult to keep ^his^ horse still, Edmund has spent some

days at his fathers, and somehow has enjoyed himself at fish^ing^

&c without much of our agency or attention, we always feel pleased

to see him bu the time always is so limited. we did not hear

of brother Isaac arrival home untill [sic] E. came but felt a con

-tentment about it, in this way that if he had not arrived we should

hear well affectionately farewell to all love MWW.

PS if my sisters cannot spare time to write

I hope brother Isaac will. I have hope of him.

(Page 4)

Isaac Post

Rochester

Attention of

E.P. Willis

Tags

Family

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Willis, Mary W Kirby, “Willis, Mary W Kirby. Letter to Isaac Post.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 21, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/3054.

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