Post, Jacob Kirby. Letter to Isaac Post.

Title

Post, Jacob Kirby. Letter to Isaac Post.

Creator

Post, Jacob Kirby

Contributor

Post, Isaac, 1798-1872

Date

1870-05-28

Description

Handwritten letter from Jacob Kirby Post to Isaac Post, May 28, 1870.

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Rights

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Identifier

1855

Location

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

Transcription

(Page 1)

        Rochester May 28/70
                Dear parents
                   Another fine day
Edmund & Aunt Sarah
start for Long Island first
day
Sarah Thayer and Joseph
Green are in town Sarah
is looking very natural
about the only woman that
weares [sic] a bonnet
Douglass sayes [sic] that he has
given up all hope of Henry
Collins paying even interest
The [Feenians?] are looking
rather down harted [sic]
Doctor Proctor wants Fanny
he has a bay that looks
very much like Gipsey that
he brags about verry [sic] much
untill [sic] we drove them together

(Page 2)

then Gipsey done so much
the better that I did not
want his very much we
Each want one hundred dol-
lars his horse is a scrabbler
while ours goes smoothely [sic] along
Have an invitation to and
notice that a Mr Hart will
be at home on June 7 near
morristown at three O clock
suppose that Harrie [Pgott?]
will be the lieutenant [with?] Bell
Hart captain
Edmund Rushmore put in an
appearance this eve 28 talks of
going to Madison and then west
what he is going for he knows if
any one does
Campbell & Thayer sent bill of Boiled
Oil at 106 prety [sic] high
May 30 Edmund Rushmore
left yesterday morning miday[sic] train

(Page 3)

We up to Rush Hallocks
complain of dry weather
wheat looks rather slim except
one piece very fair corn not
up pasture very good
De oration [Decoration?] day every body
and all the family in town
and nearly all want to
ride on the street cars to Mt
Hope I think that I saw one
car with seventy five pasengers [sic]
another with over 100 all look
as though they did not want
to see another very soon
Mary Jane & Jacob are down this eve
looking natural
Willet has come in 8.30 looks a
little tired
We are getting along at 4 Exchange
all nicely
        Affectionately Your Son J K Post

[The 4^th side of this sheet is the conclusion—
the fifth page-- of a letter from Willet E. Post, also dated
May 28, 1870 and enclosed with the above letter from
Jacob K Post.]

Tags

Family; Freed Slaves

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Post, Jacob Kirby, “Post, Jacob Kirby. Letter to Isaac Post.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 21, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/4137.

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