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[unknown]
Subjects
African American sisters
African American families
Number of Pages
1
ItemID
389
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Correspondence
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Thurs. but they leave tomorrow./ Every one speaks of having/ had a good time during/ the holidays./ Miss Forten's/ invitation with some other/ papers I have been saving/ for you I will try to send/ tonight. A number of the/ friends have been asking after/ you and desired to be/ remembered./ Our love to/ our Boston cousins. Now/ dont forget it. All the folks/ send love. I must now go/ down and shut of the [house?./ Your aff. Sister/ Ellie.
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[Letter: date unknown]
African American families
African American sisters
Correspondence
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Charles L. Blockson Afro American Manuscript Collection
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Date
[1869?]
Subjects
African American families
Mother and child
People
[Wiley, Edward A.?] [recipient]
Number of Pages
2
ItemID
381
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him good. I shall be ready to/ start when you come and feel sufficiently rested to go. Willie/ goes up stairs[sic] so fast that it take/ all my time to watch him and/ keep him from going down fas-/ ter than he goes up. I am now/ sitting on the steps and have had/ to go up after him and land him/ in the bath room where he plays/ awhile and then starts up to me/ again. Why if I was so situated/ that I could have a little girl/ to play with him I think I could/ accomplish a little something. He/ gets tired of playing alone and so/ seeks me to relieve him quite often/ I am very glad you like your new board/ ing place so well. Pop has sent/ you box and directed simply [R?]./ Much love and many kisses/ from Ma, Willie, and me. Pop/ is out and the rest are all scattered/ around so send love for/ them./ Your devoted Wife/ Carrie [wise?] Willie/ again/
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[Letter: date unknown]
[Wiley, Edward A.?] [recipient]
African American families
Correspondence
Mother and child
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Charles L. Blockson Afro American Manuscript Collection
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[unknown]
Subjects
Mother and child
African American College students
African Americans -- 19th century
African American families
People
[Still, Letitia?] [recipient]
Number of Pages
2
ItemID
378
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image/jp2
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"livelihood. I thought to finish/ this letter yesterday but Willie/ kept me busy. I took him/ to ride three times during the/ morning and Mary Peck/ took him in the afternoon/ so he will have rides enough/ if nothing else. This morn/ ing we have just come in/ from riding. I took Mary/ Peck to school and Willie to/ see [Dr?] who thinks him a/ mite better as I do myself/ he rested better last night; after/ riding around awhile we came/ home and he has gone to sleep./ Please tell Pop his letter came/ duly to hand this morning and/ contained the scholarship which/ he said he would put in if he/ did not forget it but the ten/ cents for Willie was forgotten/ instead and as he is not in/ the best condition for eating/ candy I judge it is all for the/ best. Mrs [Peck] thinks the/ way they pay at the hall is/ about as good a way as any/ six weeks or half the term in/ advance. Nellie's board will be/ $2.00 per week her room rent will be more or less as she has a/ room mate. Mrs. Peck says/ however for the present estimate/ the whole at $4 per week and/ if she has a room and it/ comes less it can be arranged;/ for six weeks then it will/ be $24.00 board and room included./ The room is all furnished bed/ bed clothes washstand [beaureau?]/ table chairs rocking chair glass/ It is the same that was/ used for spare room when I/ boarded with Mrs Peck and is/ very pleasant indeed. Mrs Peck's/ bed room and ours open/ opposite each other. I will en=/ close a list of expenditures and/ leave the rest to tell when I come/ Fare to Oberlin $2.00(for both)/ "" in Omnibus .50 ( "" "" )/ Incidental College expense 3.00/ Books ink, pens, holder [?] 4.65/ purse & medicine for Willie 1.40/ At Cleveland depot for items .95/ $12.50/ I send this memorandum that you/ may know just how we stand./ I suppose you had better/ send Mrs P's money/ as soon/ as possible and my fare home/ afterwards. I have said nothing/ as yet about my board thought/ I would leave it till/ time to come home/ Your aff. daughter/ Carrie/"
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Title
A name given to the resource
[Letter: date unknown]
[Still, Letitia?] [recipient]
African American College students
African American families
African Americans -- 19th century
Correspondence
Mother and child
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Charles L. Blockson Afro American Manuscript Collection
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Date
[1870?]
Subjects
African American families
African American mothers
Husband and wife
People
Wiley, Edward A. [recipient]
Number of Pages
2
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370
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image/jp2
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Philadelphia, 187/ My Dear Edward:/ I wrote to you yes-/ terday and according to your last/ letter I addressed it 5[3?] 6th Ave./ I hope it reached you if not you/ had better inquire at the Post O./ This morning I received a letter/ from you and was very glad indeed to get it. You may say/ thats all you think of me [&c?] but/ it is not so you know full well/ what my trouble is and what I/ meant about your absence being/ well for me. However as I/ said before I want you to hur-/ ry up and come now for I have/ the days all marked out. How/ nicely you said nothing about/ our going to Cape May. [Ah?]/ you are a [sharper?] aint you? All send love/ Much love/ and many kisses/ from Ma Willie/ and Me/ Well I can get ready anyhow/ it wont do any harm and if we/ go well and good and if we stay/ home well and good. I think/ I told you I have moved. What/ did you think of it? Oh my [?]/ [?] so nice to have to travel/ only one pair of stairs. You know/ I enjoy it. Willie tries to make/ me do more than my share of/ walking anyhow in following him/ up the stairs front steps or back/ he dont care which. Just an hour or so ago I left him in the kitchen/ with ma and the girls and the/ first thing I know I heard him a/ hollering in the street so I looked/ out the window and there he was/ in Robbie's arms at the head of the/ steps; when ma came up she/ said before any of them knew it/ he had almost reached the top of/ the iron steps and Robbie happen-/ ing to think of him ran out after/
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Title
A name given to the resource
[Letter: date unknown]
African American families
African American mothers
Correspondence
Husband and wife
Wiley, Edward A. [recipient]
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Charles L. Blockson Afro American Manuscript Collection
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Date
[1865?-1870?]
Subjects
African American families
Dresses
African American students
African Americans -- 19th century
People
Still, Letitia [recipient]
Number of Pages
2
ItemID
312
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Dear Mother:/<br /> I do think you all/ treat me so shabbily. You wont/ write to me at all only Pa. By/ the time you get this I suppose/ I shall have my box and Oh how/ happy I shall be. I can imagine/<br /> you all around fixing in the things/ Will and El. just blessing me- Old/ Cad she gets everything &c.&c.&c. Never/ mind. I'll be home some of these/ days I trust then wont I make/ things nice for them notwithstand/ ing they abuse me so. I have/<br /> just written to Pa. of course/ he thinks me awful and I dont/<br /> know but that you'll all want to/ desert me because I want so much/ But now Mama about my gradua/ ting dress. It is time you were/ all attending to it. For you know/ Please dont/<br /> forget to give/ Pa his [pack?]/ It is very/ important/ How much/ was my/ [Pack?]/ it would never do to disappoint me &/ not have it done &c.&c. Have you de-/ cided what it shall be? You remember/ it is to be white and a very very long/ trail all the girls have them so. You know it is not a sheet dress but only/ for this grand occasion. I dont/ want to look odd from the rest. I/ am very short too and it will make me look taller. I want Re=/ becca to make it. I dont want May/ Patterson to bring it she'll muss it up/ so. I'm afraid. Then too something/ for my hair dont forget. I dont sup=/ pose I shall be able to do a thing/ with this wool in August. My fan/ too or have you sent me one. White/ it must be all spangled and white/ kids. This is not vanity at all./ What can be purer than all white/ shall we not be arrayed in white/ in Heaven. You all think I write/ a lot about what I want to wear/ but if I did not you would not/ know and I should be an odd/ sheep. My head dress had better/ be of black velvet or something becom/ ing please talk to Mrs Bustill proba/ bly I had better not have any trim=/ ming only something of hair from/ her store. I thought some of having/ rather a broad plat of hair to match/ mine go from side to side on the front/ part of my hair and the waterfall/ behind. It would be something in/ coronet style in front. Please ask Mrs/ B she will tell you and show you./ My front hair is quite broken off and/ I'll want something to make it lay/ down quite smoothly. Pa will bring/ a stiff hair brush. Mrs B I think/ can fix me something real becoming/ something that sets up on my head/ will be more becoming than otherwise/ I think you know it is so of a hat./ I will have it with you entirely to/ send me something nice. My hair/<br /> is not night black you know very/ dark only/ Love to all. So Will has/ taken to stump speeching I de-/ clare! Pa wrote me he spoke/ at Central Ch. I suppose he/ would'nt call that a stump well/ he was on planks I dare say only/ they were covered with carpet./ Have you help now? No one writes/<br /> me anything at all./ In haste ./<br /> Affectionately/<br /> Carrie./
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A name given to the resource
[Letter: date unknown]
African American families
African American students
African Americans -- 19th century
Correspondence
Dresses
Still, Letitia [recipient]
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Charles L. Blockson Afro American Manuscript Collection
Text
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Date
[1860?]
Subjects
Mothers-in-law
African American families
People
Wiley, Edward A. [recipient]
Number of Pages
4
ItemID
28
Format
image/jp2
Type
Correspondence
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Philadelphia, August [18?] 186[x?]/ Mr Weley/ My Dear young friend/ I hope I am not writing in vain/ but I hope your simpethy will be/ with me and your love for Carry/ may return a gain you say that/ you want to hear from Mr Still he/ will saynothing a gainst you/ looking over the past feelings and/ I am a shoor I am willing to look/ over the past for all old things must/ be don a way and all things become/ new. I was at senterl church yest/ eday morning I hird Mr Bears/ his tex was neither give place to the/ Devil forth chapter of the ephesians/ while I set thear you came before me/ I recllect what Carry has told me/ speaking of your devotion and/ I was wondering how it was now/ with you thear are sow many/ tempetation set to trap the young/ and living in a hotel is not any/ help to christanity I feal as mutch/ interrested for you as I don for one/ of my children Mr Still and I was/ talking about you he was thinking/ of takin you for clek thinking/ you would get a in site and/ run of the biseness and you/ could help him to collect whitch/ he needs assistance in I [s?]thort/ it would be sow good for you/ I am sorry that you hav just/ found out that you wa[x?]e poor/ that was the under standing that/ we had that you warr [educating?]/ your self and whe hily commend/ you fore it but your helth would/ not admit whe dou not dispise/ the day of small things oursim/ pethy are all waise with such/ I dou not know an class that/ Mr still asteame more than that/ class of person I did not expect/ to write this letter but sence you/ hav express your self in the ma/ nner you hav I hav bin arou/ to a greadeal of ansiety know/ I think I hav sedanny I hav/ sent Carry to the cuntry to stay/ too weaks that will just/ bring it near the time for her/ school to open [Emenen?] is [moved?]/ and Carry takes her place/ know I hope that you will/ not treat Carry sow co[x?]d/ chear herup by some kind/ words I [?] a great store by/ Carry she [?]as a great mind/ and a good mind I hope your/ love and simpethy will be/ restord asit once was/ Mr Still has bin thrownout/ of his carriage he bou bough/ a horse that was too fast/ for him heim hirt his back/ but he is geting better/ Yours sinceare/ friend/ Letitia Still/
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A name given to the resource
[Letter: date unknown]
African American families
Correspondence
Mothers-in-law
Wiley, Edward A. [recipient]
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Charles L. Blockson Afro American Manuscript Collection
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[1870?]
Subjects
African American families
Husband and wife
Married women
People
Wiley, Edward A. [recipient]
Number of Pages
2
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image/jp2
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My Dear Edward:/ Your last came duly/ to hand and found us as usual in good/ health and spirits. I look for another to-day/ in reply to mine mailed to you two/ days ago, I have no doubt but that it/ will come certain sure; perhaps you did not get it till yesterday morning/ whereas I had hoped you would get/ it Saturday ev'ning - it was in the B./ post office at that time I expect. So/ hereafter my dear it might be well to/ inquire sometimes of an ev'ning [whe the?]/ whole of Sunday is to intervene that/ is if you feel particularly anxious/ and annoyed. So you have fallen/ to dreaming again about preaching and/ the like. What shall I say about/ it? I scarcely know how or where to/ begin. This thing I cannot understand/ how you can study and canvass too./ Then where would you go to study?/ The two you may be able to do at one/ time but I fear your health will/ give way under the heavy burden./ Now it may be that your mission/ is to preach Heaven forbid that I/ should put a feather in your way/ or attempt to dissuade you for one/ moment, but this I will say there is/ a great deal of work to be done by lay=/ men akin to preaching but which some/ of them probably think they can only ac=/ complish by preaching. This may or may/ not be your case, I cannot tell; you and/ your Maker must decide this matter/ and I am perfectly willing to abide the/ decision so far as I now view it./ But be sure and tell me where you/ expect to study &c, &c; or where you/ think of studying and whether you expect/ to get the house first or commence study/ immediately. I think I would make a/ first rate minister’s wife just cut out/ for it, but our ministers are so [tramm=/elled?] bound hand and foot. This I know you deprecate as well as myself/ and if I mistake not I have heard you/ remark you would much prefer having/ a support outside of the people that you/ ministered too that you might act more/ freely. How about this? Our people are/ so [choicy?] out of the multitude who have/ studied for the ministry they seem to/ want none but the [florid?] or tarnished./ Not only in our church but throughout/ their churches this is too often the case/ and do you suppose they would toler=/ate and support you with the doc=/trine you would wish to teach, I/ think not. Angie and her sister/ Emmie came down on Saturday and have/ had a very pleasant time thus far./ My regards to the Bishop family &/ all inquiring friends. Write soon. Ma/ says you had better preach or/ [From top margin: end of letter] you will/ be like/ Jonah./ Much love and/ many kisses/ from Ma,/ Willie, &/ me. / Your loving/ & devoted/ Wife./ Carrie/
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A name given to the resource
[Letter: date unknown]
African American families
Correspondence
Husband and wife
Married women
Wiley, Edward A. [recipient]
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Charles L. Blockson Afro American Manuscript Collection
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Date
[1870?]
Subjects
Husband and wife
Married women
African American families
Geographic Subject
Chester Heights (Pa.)
People
Wiley, Edward A. [recipient]
Number of Pages
4
ItemID
12
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image/jp2
Type
Correspondence
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BMS010X0002
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My Dear Edward,/ Your letter came/ duly to hand and found us as/ well as usual. I am sorry/ that your cough or cold hangs/ on so long I hope you will be/ well of it if when you come. Have/ you done as I told you, taken a good dose of [?] [?]; if not/ please do so immediately for I/ want to see you come home look-/ ing the better for wear. Baby is/ crawling over the yard I cant [sic] do any/ better for him than just let him/ take the bricks for he dont [sic] want/ to stay in your arms or in the/ coach or anywhere that he ought/ to. The Sabbath school had its pic-/nic yesterday. Ma, {R [CROSSED OUT]}, baby and I/ went out in the two O’clock/ train. The ride was about an/ hour and a half long to a place/ called Chester Heights. It is a very/ pleasant place to go and the/ printed rules posted on the trees/ &c? were certainly such as I have/ never before seen on any public/ ground. No dancing, no gam-/ bling, no intoxicating liquors, no/ carousing of any kind. So you/ see we were calculated to have/ a pleasant time, and every body[sic]/ come[sic] home sober. I did hear/ that Davis’ son had his bottle/ with him but I did not see it/. Mr Wood sends his regards to/ you. Mr Davis told me on/ Sabbath he had heard from you/ again and would answer soon./ Mrs Carr was at the excursion/ yesterday and Mr Carr has gone/ to New Haven. I can scarcely/ write for Willie he wants to/ upset the inkstand whether or/ not. And when he leaves me/ he’s sure to crawl where he has/ no business right down the yard/ towards the water. Its[sic] nothing/ for him to go in and out the/ back door he has grown to be/ such a man. I would take him/ in the country tomorrow if it were/ not that you are coming home/ next week. So far as Cape May/ is concerned, I am not anxious/ to go, moreover I shrink from/ the gayety. The country will suit/ me first as well if I could only/ find a pleasant place. R. Cole/ is going to West Chester and will/ inquire for me. Then if she/ succeeds in securing me a/ nice place I think I shall go,/ after you return, so I dont [sic]/ care how soon you come/ for I want to see you very/ much indeed. I hope you look/ as well as you did when I saw/ you in my dream. I went/ to Mrs Jones funeral on Satur-/day- her death was quite sudden./ Mr {All [crossed out]}Johnson conducted the/ services Mr Johns assisted- Mr/ Carr - was away. Mr Birch preached/ for us Sunday morning and af-/ternoon, Mr Phillips in the/ ev'ning Many inquiries are/ made for you to so I give them/ all in a lump. Much/ love and many kisses from/ Ma, Willie, and me./ Your Devoted Wife/ Carrie./
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[Letter: date unknown]
African American families
Chester Heights (Pa.)
Correspondence
Husband and wife
Married women
Wiley, Edward A. [recipient]
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Charles L. Blockson Afro American Manuscript Collection
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[unknown]
Subjects
African American abolitionists
African American families
Geographic Subject
New Bedford (Mass.)
People
Anderson, Caroline Still, 1848-1911 [recipient]
Number of Pages
2
ItemID
7
Format
image/jp2
Type
Correspondence
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William Still Collection
Blockson manuscripts
William Still Collection
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BMS010X0001
Document Content
Page 2 But of the habits and/<br /> condition of the people/<br /> I do not care to write/<br /> at least when the thermom/<br /> -eter stands where it does/<br /> today, it may be under/<br /> 100 but it strikes me that/<br /> it can not be far short/<br /> of that. Today is very/<br /> hot./<br /> In writing to New/<br /> Bedford, you need not/<br /> put any no. on the/<br /> letter as I am unable/<br /> to give you Mr. Scott’s/<br /> number. (With him we are/<br /> to stop) so I will call/<br /> at the Post office for/<br /> letters./<br /> I hope matters are/<br /> going on smoothly. I trust/<br /> Will get up in due time/<br /> Page 3 in the morning and gets/<br /> his breakfast and goes /<br />to the yard and attends/<br /> to matters as occasion/<br /> may require. I think/<br /> I told him that Edward/<br /> would get a saddle and/<br /> that he could take the/<br /> driving horse out occas/<br /> -ionally but that he must/<br /> not take the carriage/<br /> out under any circum/<br /> -stance. Now one thing/<br /> more I hope he does/<br /> not keep bad hours, keeping/<br /> the house open, and some/<br /> one waiting up to let him/<br /> in./<br /> We shall try and be/<br /> at home at the appointed/<br /> time, as we shall in/<br /> all probability realize that/
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A name given to the resource
[Letter: date unknown]
African American abolitionists
African American families
Anderson, Caroline Still, 1848-1911 [recipient]
Correspondence
New Bedford (Mass.)
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Charles L. Blockson Afro American Manuscript Collection
Text
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[unknown]
Subjects
African American families
Mothers and daughters
People
Anderson, Caroline Still, 1848-1911 [recipient]
Number of Pages
2
ItemID
249
Format
image/jp2
Type
Correspondence
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William Still Collection
Blockson manuscripts
William Still Collection
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Temple University Libraries, Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection
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Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Libraries
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BMS010X0015
Document Content
Phila Desember 14/ Dear Carry all are well/ I was out last eveing at the/ fair sewing our number was/small but I feal that tear is/ a greadeid of earnest ness abou:/ It to nite is the last nite/ whe go to sow at Mrs. Outer/ whitch is the [ho?]resdent of the/fair I am in hope that whe/ will relise a nice little sum/ I am afra[d?] that whe will/ hav to disspence with our offies/ Miss Loty dosenot make it pay/ the women are waken up/ to it whe shall have to make/ a chaing know that my/thing that I wanted to say/ to you I forgot a that I would/ like you to go to obey and get/ Miller bed t[ick?] and a baiso/ baison and too pitchersbut/ if you canot bring the pitch/ers bring the tick the bed/ sted I dounot wont I would/ like you to be home wilst the/ fair is on. I shall hav to be at/ the fair a grea deal and I shall/ have to be away from home and/ you know how that is and/ what a fus it will [I ?] make/and he is fussing allredy/ a bout it but I expect to/ go there with it and I/ tho[u?]t you would or/ could come and help wit/ the fair in my place. I sho/uld be very “glad/ Your Mother/ Letitia Still/
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Title
A name given to the resource
[Letter of December 14]
African American families
Anderson, Caroline Still, 1848-1911 [recipient]
Correspondence
Mothers and daughters
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Charles L. Blockson Afro American Manuscript Collection
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[unknown]
Subjects
Mothers and sons
Parent and adult child
Separation (Psychology)
African American families
People
[unknown]
Number of Pages
2
ItemID
306
Format
image/jp2
Type
Correspondence
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William Still Collection
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BMS010X0025
Document Content
At Home/ August 29/ My Dear Son./ How long will you have/ me lying at night with my cheeks wet/ with tears thinking of you. for the sake/ of me let your schooling alone and come/ to see me for I am having so many/ strange offlictions[sic]. I think my time/ is short and I want to see you. If/ you will come I will go back with/ you. I feel like I am slighted by you/ all. Please come to Leighton and/ [visit?] six days and never come near/ me, dont you think that is nice/ treatment. The whole of my family/ needs your attention. I have prayed/ so hard for the Lord to soften your/ heart and turn you [this way?] [?]/ seems as if my prayer is not heard./ You seem to think more of your/ books than you do of me. How glad I/ will be if you will tell me in your/ next letter the day of month, you are/ coming it will be a load lifted off/ my heart. I am fearful I will not live/ to see you my health is so bad, I dont/ think you ought to stay away from me/ any longer. Dear Son I cant say any/ more if you knew how we are/ suffering. Mariah is in such bad/ health and her child, Fancy says/ howdy. My whole desire is to see/ you. If you dont come after this you/ must stay. If you have got money to/ pay for schooling surely you can/ take some of it and come to see/ me. I dont want you to stay here/ but come to see me before I die./ your Mother/ Louise Sher[rud?]/
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[Letter of August 29]
[unknown]
African American families
Correspondence
Mothers and sons
Parent and adult child
Separation (Psychology)
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Charles L. Blockson Afro American Manuscript Collection
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Date
[unknown]
Subjects
Mothers and daughters
African American families
People
Anderson, Caroline Still, 1848-1911 [recipient]
Number of Pages
2
ItemID
54
Format
image/jp2
Type
Correspondence
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William Still Collection
Blockson manuscripts
William Still Collection
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Temple University Libraries, Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection
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Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Libraries
Directory
BMS010X0014
Document Content
Phila August 18./ Dear Carry I hav bin wanting to write to you for/ some time fealing to be luisey and the warm/ weather I know make a temep whe are all well/ At present pop and Elle rob are all in the/ cuntry at the Doctor Elle wast to bin home/ yesterday and pop and I ware to go but lide/ wanted Elle to spend a weak with her sow./ She drop a line to me I was willing for her/ to stay of couse sow I told pop he had better/ go, to Elle suprise she met Josey and family/ at mount holley thear baby was verry/ sick thay ware flying to the cuntry/ I was at church this morning. I call to Mrs/ Miller but she was out I wanted to hear from/ Mrs Doutereu she is still at atlantick the last/ A counts she was better Mrs. Potter was thear/ Also she got w worse Mr Potter had to living/ Her home I hope you are not working you/self tool hard. I want you if it the lord will to/ come home safe and sound sow take care of/ youself I how come on the buttler case I hope/ you hav given it up pop and I booth think/ alike but I dount wish to [lmake?] nor break/ he keeps away fronaus. I am faveriable impve/ With the girls thay don some sewin for me./ And Elle, Frances Feerrial the woman that/ lives with us her husbent has come up from/ the cuntry thay hav taken a room she is an/ shes to stay the winter I dounot give her any incriegment while she suit me sow for/ As the work is concern she like to kook some/ for him sow you see you cannot get everythin/ like she ask me to lett her go saturday nits/ to her room of cours I could not denie her She/ is abligen and willing and tells me anything/ I want can she is willing to dou he has no/ perment work she has to take her money/ to help keep him she says he good to her and/ She is willing to help him, Bethel Sunday school went out in great forse last thursday the good/ brother that was intrusted with the tickets and/ money left befor the day was out poor fellen/ the teller graft over taken him some warse/ about Kentucky making his way home/ whe are only [xx?]ree in family will is out the/ woman is at the dor lookingg [at?] the fashons/ now more at present/ your afectnet Mother/ Letitia Sill/
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[Letter of August 18]
African American families
Anderson, Caroline Still, 1848-1911 [recipient]
Correspondence
Mothers and daughters