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Thayer, Sarah E. Letter to Amy Kirby Post. (1864-03-06)

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 Today[sic] is my birthday. 75 years have “come and gone.” I am in good health and very tolerable spirits. I have been reading over Phebe’s old letters to ETJ. How thankful I feel that she has a new and beautiful home now – her work done on Earth – her work of suffering for she always was a physical sufferer. I enjoy thinking of her and fancy she’s often near me. I make thy cheering visit at Leaks[?] in N.Y. How lasting the effect of such an occasion. Thy letter too, so precious that I hardly could realize that I was once more so placed in “rapport” my dear [illegible] Amy. I was joyous and so full that I was induced to transcribe a page or two for Dorcas[?] – as I was filling a sheet for her and shored funds to same, wishing for more of the same kind. She still writes favorably of her health and has a cabin in new country still. H. and Thorne[?] have builded it and tho’ rough yet it is builded and plaster’d so as to be warm in their short winter and we hope unto[?] excludes the heat in the summer. The mercury has only been 1 day below zero with them and that only for a few hours. I have cheering hopes for them and have been heretofore on the occasion of my children attempting to secure any new enterprise[?].
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-I feel that it is due to my Brothers and Sister Post to inform you of my recent disposition of property instead of having the same in Jacob’s hand, at indirect as I have the most perfect confidence therein. But the time had come when my daughter ETJ ought in justice to have her turn. She had not had any share while the two younger ones (from sickness and the other away) have been the recipient of hundreds. Now I am with them and ETJ is bound to make me comfortable. She wishes to have a lot in the new settlement and I think she will enjoy owning a right of soil (tho’ only 5 acres). I don’t see how I could be made more comfortable in my advanced age her family is very small and her husband is not at all dispos’d to burden[?] her with any more than she can perform with comparative comfort. She is entirely domestic in her habit and tho’ she would like a little more social intercourse with the enlightened and refined men and women who do congregate in more popular[?] places yet as her husband (and also his mother’s family now including at home only at most his mother keeping house and one brother’s family is a part of the same) has no intention to go from home much or to call round him any thing but good reading and is mostly employ’d in farming operations.
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-They are contented here tho’ my love of society and the indulgence of conversation are powers would have to a more enlarged [illegible], still I do find my infirmity growing upon me and perceive that I cannot endure much. I think my attendance of Waterloo Mg. (Meeting) was too much for me last year. Tho’ I enjoy’d much that I would not have miss’d it for all I suffered with nervous pain in my head for months so that prudence may forbid my attempting the attendance again but really I was feasted[?] with the speaker HJW[?] in a particular manner. I had never hear’d him before the other two. All of them seem’d gifted[?] for the great occasion and now tho’ I feel very much discouraged to living[?] it again yet I know I shall feel lost almost without the annual heat it may be that my children with some of them go with me and that will be much better than to be so alone as I felt last year. I had near gone among complete[?] strangers to lodge[?] till then and the meeting was so large and so exciting that I did not get quite right in all
-summer. But I will not anticipate the delightful account[sic] of the decade [illegible] and the pleas and cheering visit of my dear Amy then the fact that our beloved Thomas[?] is really here so that tho’ we may not touch the hem of
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-his garment, yet we shall be notified of his success in his “line.” I hope you will have him in Rochester. I so wrote to WJ Nell[?] the first time I ever addressed him by letter and am afraid I should have added to the safer [illegible] the no. of the AS Office but as he was in the S[?].Office I did not think it necessary if thee should write to him please to say to him he has been truly kind in the Lib. to my address once I wrote that to him. We have been engaged in collecting old letters for the Freedom or rather for the women and children of the North[?] minister &[?] others were obtained by a messenger from Gen Green[?] so they appointed a committee and J.Jacob being thus authoris’d, overcame his constitutional differences and took his wife around to beg for him. She could tell the housekeeper what the [??] thing needed and they too collected a cart load while the rest of the committee at [illegible] packed 2 large Boxes and 6 barrels and sent them off-I see there is a move among the Orthodox Fed. – to furnish new goods made up. I hear that Emily Howland carried 6 Boxes with her to Washington. She is engaged in a school there but until it is good roads and pleasant weather I shall not go to see her Mother and read Emily’s letters. I have not been able to hear from Miller farm this way because my brother W[?] neither visits me nor invites me around [illegible] thy out of him was my pleas and to my feelings. I suppose you sometimes enjoy the company of thou husband’s friend. I mean such as one can enjoy the convergent liberty for those who all only willing to converse on the topics of reform in any shape. I only occasionally meet - and only 1 solitary family besides the Jacobs who are not dispos’d to converse much so that I go to see that one person about a mile off and she lent me LL Home’s[?] Book which I enjoy indeed.
-Sarah E. Thayer
-Transcribed by Rachel Wadsworth

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My dear friend (Amy Kirby Post),

Today[sic] is my birthday. 75 years have “come and gone.” I am in good health and very tolerable spirits. I have been reading over Phebe’s old letters to ETJ. How thankful I feel that she has a new and beautiful home now – her work done on Earth – her work of suffering for she always was a physical sufferer. I enjoy thinking of her and fancy she’s often near me. I make thy cheering visit at Leaks[?] in N.Y. How lasting the effect of such an occasion. Thy letter too, so precious that I hardly could realize that I was once more so placed in “rapport” my dear [illegible] Amy. I was joyous and so full that I was induced to transcribe a page or two for Dorcas[?] – as I was filling a sheet for her and shored funds to same, wishing for more of the same kind. She still writes favorably of her health and has a cabin in new country still. H. and Thorne[?] have builded it and tho’ rough yet it is builded and plaster’d so as to be warm in their short winter and we hope unto[?] excludes the heat in the summer. The mercury has only been 1 day below zero with them and that only for a few hours. I have cheering hopes for them and have been heretofore on the occasion of my children attempting to secure any new enterprise[?].