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Post, Amy Kirby. Letter to Esther Titus.
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| − | to her post in Washington as soon as the first of next week - leaving here next Saturday The things she has accomplished in that city and Alexandria, for the freed people is truly wonderful, and the most curious of all is the appointment of Sojourner as a teacher, receiving ten dollars a month for her instruction, when she scarcely knows a letter, but her teachings in house keeping, at freemen's Village, Lucy says it hardly looks like the same place since Sojourner went among them, so much more order and cleanliness, beside her 10 dollars, she is supplyed with rations and a house to live in, furnished with a bed and a few benches to sit upon, I am going to send her some money to get for her a rocking chair, she is too good and too old to be neglected by her friends, who are sitting on cushioned seats at home, Lucy said that Sojourner told the minister that she wanted they should have a love feast in their own way, last Sunday week - and they had it, I wish I could remember to tell the some of the words of the hymns they sang [to | + | to her post in Washington as soon as the first of next week - leaving here next Saturday The things she has accomplished in that city and Alexandria, for the freed people is truly wonderful, and the most curious of all is the appointment of Sojourner as a teacher, receiving ten dollars a month for her instruction, when she scarcely knows a letter, but her teachings in house keeping, at freemen's Village, Lucy says it hardly looks like the same place since Sojourner went among them, so much more order and cleanliness, beside her 10 dollars, she is supplyed with rations and a house to live in, furnished with a bed and a few benches to sit upon, I am going to send her some money to get for her a rocking chair, she is too good and too old to be neglected by her friends, who are sitting on cushioned seats at home, Lucy said that Sojourner told the minister that she wanted they should have a love feast in their own way, last Sunday week - and they had it, I wish I could remember to tell the some of the words of the hymns they sang [to?] but I cannot, Some members of |
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to her post in Washington as soon as the first of next week - leaving here next Saturday The things she has accomplished in that city and Alexandria, for the freed people is truly wonderful, and the most curious of all is the appointment of Sojourner as a teacher, receiving ten dollars a month for her instruction, when she scarcely knows a letter, but her teachings in house keeping, at freemen's Village, Lucy says it hardly looks like the same place since Sojourner went among them, so much more order and cleanliness, beside her 10 dollars, she is supplyed with rations and a house to live in, furnished with a bed and a few benches to sit upon, I am going to send her some money to get for her a rocking chair, she is too good and too old to be neglected by her friends, who are sitting on cushioned seats at home, Lucy said that Sojourner told the minister that she wanted they should have a love feast in their own way, last Sunday week - and they had it, I wish I could remember to tell the some of the words of the hymns they sang [to?] but I cannot, Some members of