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Note: "Shall he visit friends in Philadelphia for the
winter? Met the eldest son of the [?] in a hydropathic establishment, as
his legs are paralyzed. 'Father and mother are Quakers but are excellent
people in every (other) respect.' Asks advice" |
1844 November 7 |
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Note: "Regrets her illness; Martha's illness; will leave
'this tutorship' if he can find anything better" |
1850 January 21 |
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Note: "Regrets her illness; will not visit her because
of it; One brother has started for Californai via the Isthmus; another
is getting tired of gold-digging and thinking of looking for something
less laborious |
1850 May 13 |
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Note: Has given up his teaching at Yale and is going
to look for another job. |
1850 August 19 |
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Note: About the school he has started in Newark. Hopes
to have fourteen pupils; has room for fifteen; now has seven. Lives in
two rooms; spent $250 fitting up classroom. |
1850 October 21 |
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Note: Has eleven pupils; sure of fifteen next quarter.
Gives instruction in Bible everyday. Heard "Swedish Nightingale" [Jenny
Lind] in Messiah -- was "greatly delighted." |
1850 November 13 |
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Note: Asking Mrs. B. to arrange a meeting between him
and Miss R. in Boston. |
1850 December 21
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1850 December 28
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Note: School goes well. Thinks of
keeping academy building, not for his school but to run it for the good
of the city. What about Miss Robinson for the "female department?" |
1851 January 25
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Note: Proposes to visit her next week unless she will
visit him; staying at a pupil's home. |
1851 April 1
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Note: About shirts which she will make him. Expects to
visit her next week. |
1851 April 5 |
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Note: About some packages and money lost in connection
with her visit to him. |
1851 May 9 |
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Note: Rejoicing over the finding of the lost money. |
1851 June 9
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Note: Thinks he will not try to see them (her and uncle)
in Mt. Holly. Hopes they will stop with him or he can see them in New York. |
1851 June 14
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Note: About family visiting and a celebration at Litchfield
with a poem by Rev. J. Pierpont and sermon by Rev. Dr. Bushnell. |
1851 August 15 |
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Note: Only ten in his school thus
far; a little discouraged. Troubled by diffidence. Hackensack River bridge
burned. Ferry used instead. Shall he study law while teaching "this money-loving
as well as money-making place" |
1851 September 22
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September 24] |
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Note: School only ten; charges $1,000 a year may be too
much "so few gentlemen educate their sons except for Russians"; Is thinking
of moving to Brooklyn next year. |
1851 December 17 |
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Note: "My School seems to be in excellent repute but
such prices can be paid by very few here." Expects to move to New York
next summer. "I have no doubt Newark is one of the worst of places to bring
up children in." Mr. Opdyke as backer; Mr. David P. Baker advises him;
No agreeable society in Newark. Mac Knight has not gone to China but is
much interested in mission work. |
1852 January 31
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Note: Will send some money on account; two Knight sisters;
Miss Elizabeth Knight was engaged to Dr. Taylor, now free. I mihgt step
in but see sufficient reason as I think, for not doing so. "Miss Ina Kinght
I might love; I doubt not, if her plan did not present an unsuperable obstacle."
One pupil died -- fear not so profitable as he had hoped. |
1852 March 9 |
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Note: Enclosing $5.00 to square accounts. |
1852 March 27 |
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Note: He has delivered her note to Miss Knight, who is
busy getting ready to go away. Did she receive his banknote for $5.00 |
1852 May 4 |
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Note: Intends to stay in Newark another year; details
about pupils and his manner of living. |
1852 July 14 |
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Note: About a governess for Mr. James Low's family. To
remove his school to New York. |
1853 June 17
[including a school brochure] |
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Note: Sympathy in family affairs: "My engagements in
this place close two weeks from tomorrow." "I am perfecting my arrangements
in N[ew] Y[ork]." |
1853 June 30 |
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Note: Sympathy in the death of her husband, "Uncle Banister." |
1853 July 11 |
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1853 November 19 |
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1853 November 22 |
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1854 January 20 |
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1854 February 14 |
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1854 March 13 |
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1854 May 9 |
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1854 May 27 |
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1854 June 2 |
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1854 June 5 |
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1854 June 26 |
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1854 July 4 |
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1854 July 22 |
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1854 December 27 |
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1856 September 16 |
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1856 October 30 |
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1856 November 24 |
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1856 December 6 |
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1856 December 7 |
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1857 March 14 |
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Note: From Canton , Ohio; To be married to the "lady
of my choice" sometime next month. |
1857 July 18 |
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Note: Married five weeks today. Has sold his school and
paid his debt to her and is looking for a new job. |
1857 September 24 |
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Note: About money sent in payment of a loan. Fears that
Mr.s Hill to whose care it was sent is involved in a failure. |
1857 October 9 |
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Note: About financial matters; about his reading aloud
with Gertrude. |
1857 December 3 |
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Note: About buying and developing a place in Newark;
possibly a school. |
1858 March 16 |
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Note: From Westfield to Boston; about a loan in Newark. |
1858 March 23 |
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Note: From City Point, South Boston. Gertrude is not
well nor equal to a visit to her, but he will try to bring about a meeting.
They are visiting uncles named Day of the "American Whip Company" there
and in Westfield. Mr. Lawrence lacks water to saw lunber. |
1858 March 26 |
