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News of friends' deaths was delayed because Mr. C. took the letter "from the box put it in his hat & he entirely forgot it until this morn." Feeling lonesome and dissatisfied with her work, which she is contracted to do for six months, "It is very hard for me to sweep so much & carry water - & make fires." Comments on the family she's staying with and the shop they tend. "I have not as yet staid at the shop after dark but I suppose that Mrs C expects me too but I cannot & shall not stay there alone[.] when I am required to do that I shall go home very shortly for I do not think it is proper for me… I bring my work to the house at dark & work here." Experiencing pain and discomfort. Mentions her apprentice leaving for Hartford, sewing patterns, family news, desire for Philadelphia newspapers and fruit, church singing, and sitting with her grandfather in his old age. References a visit with relatives who were "both so deaf" that communication required intervention of another party.

List and description of traits Cordelia requires for her husband.

Sending clothes to Catharine. Dr. Auburn recently gave a lecture on “The abilities and prerogatives of the Female Sex.” The Peases hosted “The African Sabbath School prayer meeting.”

Mary Ragan letter: feels lonely, now lives on property she grew up on. Stone letter: Death of sister Theodotia shortly after the birth of a child.

Collection of elegies and poems on death. Titles include “On the death of Miss Mary Tucker who died at Roxbury June 1823 aged sixteen years,” Instructions from Scripture, “A Ballad Commemorating the fall of the Bradleys Peters, Beans, and Lufkins the 14th August 1764,” Friendships Farewell, “Beauty and Virtue, a Contrast,” Epitaph on Mary Scott, Mrs. Hallers Solemn Song, and “lines written to Mrs. Abigail Waters on the death of her husband.” Also includes a verse copied from the Grecian poet Sappho and a list of deaths between 1836 and 1839. List of deaths includes Mr. James Davis hanging himself. Includes descriptions of violence between Native Americans and (presumably) white Americans, with a Native man being murdered leading to a retributive massacre.

Manuscript entitled "To my pretty Cous," reminding her about her mortality and the need to prepare for death. "Emeline remember you are mortal, That you are born to die. Those sparkling eyes of beauty will soon close to awake no more untill the Resurrection morn. Your rosy cheeks that flush with the blush of innocence will soon be pale in death. Your lips on which rests the smile of content will close forever. Your hands that labour with delight will ere long be folded on your lifeless bosome. The winding sheet enshroud you and the coffin confine you. And now prepare and delay not for death awaits you."

Travel from Connecticut by train. Treatment of an illness. Man in Northampton killed his wife with a hammer.

Mill worker, notes women laborers. Description of a Whig meeting. Quilting.

Flirtatious letter; Margarette states her dedication to the life of a single woman.

Valentine's Day poem complimenting the recipient's beauty and emphasizing the writer's devotion.