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Browsing named entities in Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall). You can also browse the collection for Staten Island (New York, United States) or search for Staten Island (New York, United States) in all documents.
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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mrs. Nathaniel Silsbee . (search)
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Miss A. B. Francis . (search)
To Miss A. B. Francis. Staten Island, November 23, 1874.
I was received with the warmest of welcomes.
I have a pretty, sunshiny room all to myself, hung with pictures, warmly carpeted, with soap-stone stove and every conceivable convenience.
From one window, I look out upon a lawn with trees and shubbery; from the other, upon a broad expanse of water, shimmering in the sunlight, with vessels and steamboats constantly passing, their bright flags fluttering in the breeze.
The only trouble is that everything is too luxurious, and that I am waited upon more than suits my habits or inclinations.
I shall get used to it, in time; but at present I feel like a cat in a strange garret, and, like a stray pussy, I would set off and run hundreds of miles, footsore and weary, if I could only get back to my humble little home and my darling old mate.
But there is no more of that for me, in this world and I ought to be thankful to the Heavenly Father for raising up such kind friends t
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mr. And Mrs. S. E. Sewall . (search)
To Mr. And Mrs. S. E. Sewall. Staten Island, January 10, 1875.
You don't know how frequently and how affectionately I think of you, and how I long to have the light of your countenances shine upon me. Mr. and Mrs. S. go over to New York two or three times a week, and I sit alone in my little room and think, think, think.
And there is but one who occupies my thoughts more than you two dear, good friends, whom he loved so well.
Pope says, The last years of life, like tickets left in the wheel, rise in value.
It certainly is true of the last friends that remain to us. I have been eminently blest in my few intimate friends, and I think it is mainly owing to the fact that they were all sifted in the anti-slavery sieve ..
On Christmas Eve I went with R. H. to a gathering of O. B. Frothingham's Sunday-school scholars and a troop of poor children whom they had invited to partake with them of the manifold treasures on the Christmas-tree.
Oliver Johnson personated Santa Claus, and
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)