Belvidere
May 19, 1857
Dear John,
I received your welcome letter yesterday. I was glad to hear from you, but I should
much rather of seen you, but I hope we shall not be separated but a few days
longer, for this being away from you is all but killing. I would rather live on bread and water than
be in the way I am now. You don’t know
how __ lonesome the time does seem to me, every hour seems a day. I was disappointed again last night for I
expected you home.
Mrs. Howard wants to go home tomorrow. So she will have been here five weeks. She asked me if I thought five shillings a
week too much for the three weeks before I was sick, and 4 dollars a week
after. It will make 11 dollars and a half,
so I think 4 dollars a week too much to pay her since I was sick, for she has
not earned it, far from it. But I did
not say anything to her. She said if I
thought it too much I might let her hear what I thought was enough. So I will leave it to you; you know what an
easy time she has had here.
You will have to let ___ know if she is to come here, for I
have no way of sending for her here.
The neighbors said they have found out that we are going away, don’t
seem to call in atall, for old Mrs. Smedley has not been in but once, and then
she just looked in at the ___, but I don’t care much.
I felt quite provoked at Edwin for staying up to Albright’s
instead of coming to take your dear things up, for I know you must of been
dreadful lonesome there alone, dear John. I got your things ready to send on
Friday night but he did not come. I was
surprised at him staying. So did he
tell you he was going to be married in three weeks? Well, well, he thinks he knows all I
suppose. I almost thought by the way she
spoke when she was down here, but I did not think it would be so soon. What do you think about it?
___________ the wood is getting quite low and I don’t want
to get any more here. If it holds so
cold we shant have enough for to last two days, but Mrs. Howard would rather
have the money than a draft she says. Come home before she goes, now be sure no
snow.
The children are well except with the exception of Anne. She coughs at night very bad. On Friday night I thought she would
suffocate, and she had such flem in her throat.
The baby was not very well yesterday morning, but he’s better now. He grows and is quite good.
Be sure to come home now – do in haste. I remain your ever fond wife,
Elizabeth
Bobby is in a great way to see you. He has not seen you for this six days he
says. E.
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