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Thayer Sarah E. Letter to Amy Kirby Post. (1857-12-23)
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is in pain the shoe looks well enough. ____ I think on looking over my letter that perhaps<br/> | is in pain the shoe looks well enough. ____ I think on looking over my letter that perhaps<br/> | ||
I have told thee all about <u>it</u> before _ My memory is very [treachesory?] and yet I think it<br/> | I have told thee all about <u>it</u> before _ My memory is very [treachesory?] and yet I think it<br/> | ||
| − | is because I am so full that I cant take in every day | + | is because I am so full that I cant take in every day details ___ But alass for the<br/> |
| − | "Memory" | + | "Memory" [illegible] [avid?] seems as to the trifles of domestic life (in which <u>mine</u> mostly<br/> |
| + | fail) [now?] momentary concerns of this life I am alive and never<br/> | ||
| + | was more keenly so at any [previous?] time. I am induced to believe that the <br/> | ||
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to try to reconstruct society - to form Cooperative companies - and if they do
make out anything worthwhile I will inform you tho' you [her?] adventure
have no need to adopt any new systems yet I have good reasons to hail with hope
any new thing - which has for its ultimate object the the amelioration of a large [illegible]
of minds not fitted to act for themselves - such as would no doubt fit in some niche
and be realy useful if they [illegible] be so placed ____ I know men & women
who are not appreciated at all because the niche has not been yet found by
them. How should the looker on know where [this?] [shoe?] [finds?], - while the wearer
is in pain the shoe looks well enough. ____ I think on looking over my letter that perhaps
I have told thee all about it before _ My memory is very [treachesory?] and yet I think it
is because I am so full that I cant take in every day details ___ But alass for the
"Memory" [illegible] [avid?] seems as to the trifles of domestic life (in which mine mostly
fail) [now?] momentary concerns of this life I am alive and never
was more keenly so at any [previous?] time. I am induced to believe that the