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Charles L. Blockson Afro American Manuscript Collection
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Date
[unknown]
Subjects
Friendship
Meningitis
Death -- Social aspects
Number of Pages
4
ItemID
466
Format
image/jp2
Type
Correspondence
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BMS010X0135
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What is your number?/ Friday P.M./ My Dear Friend,/ This is the first oppor-/ tunity that I've had - to re-/ ply to your letter./ I was heartily glad to hear/ from you. Your letters always/ refresh me. They come as/ messengers of good./ Since I heard from you/ our spirits have been some/ what lifted by [Hinda's]/ action. I hope that by/ the time that you read/ this , Louisiana will help/ to cheer us- and then/ they will surely rush/ [thro'?] Oregon- and to Hayes./ You are happy mortals/ who live, in spite of election./ But think of us- who've had/ no salary since last July!/ And this brings me to a/ point which I must not for/ get./ 2./ It does seem that the open/ ing to which you refer ought/ to be sought gratefully by me./ But I think that by holding/ on to the end, I may get/ a portion at least of my/ money- whereas if I leave,/ I may never get it. If any/ money ever gets into the/ hands of the county treasur-/ er, his office will be taken/ by storm. But I'll agree to/ come home at the end of/ this term. For I'm quite sure/ that I shall soon be a/ confirmed invalid if I re-/ main here. Providence will/ provide for me in some/ way- I trust - And I [own?]/ that I feel like casting/ anchor somewhere in some/ permanent harbor. I feel as if I wanted my home./ 3./ Did you not receive a paper- containing/ an obituary notice of our friend's death?/ I sent you one. I was surprised to/ hear that you knew not of his death, be/ fore. He was ill about two weeks. The/ excitement and exposure incident upon/ the campaign resulted in tuberculous/ meningitis. His sickness was of the saddest/ character. He alternated between agoniz-/ ing pain and deliriment. It seems to me/ impossible to be reconciled to his death- unless/ he had a period of perfect consciousness- in/ which we could know the state of his mind on/ the subject of death./ Friends had prayed with him/ but his remarks were so/ incoherent that there was/ nothing that assured us./ But my prayer was answered/ and the last hours of his/ life were calm and pain-/ less. he left us feeling/ that his hope was too/ strong to be in vain./ He had been a kind friend/ and congenial associate./ I need not say that/ I miss him very greatly./ But his life was a load/ to him- he was so delicate/ that every current of air/ set him to coughing. There/ is one more precious memory/ for me. He was so unselfish/ and high-[lived?], that I try/ to think that he knows what/ we are doing- and is p[eras?]-/
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A name given to the resource
[Letter: date unknown]
Correspondence
Death -- Social aspects
Friendship
Meningitis
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Charles L. Blockson Afro American Manuscript Collection
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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
1867-03-3
Subjects
Friendship
Loneliness
People
Anderson, Caroline Still, 1848-1911 [recipient]
Number of Pages
2
ItemID
445
Format
image/jp2
Type
Correspondence
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Philadelphia,March 3, 1867/ My Dearest Friend/ I have been cherishing/ the hope that I should hear from/ you this week. You know how exacting/ and inconsistant[sic] love is. I went/ a round to your Mama’s last week/ it was so lonely without you darling/ I did not say much about you/because I could not [?]/ was so kind and affectionate/ it really [hardly?] compensated for/ your absence. I tried to feel as/ though you was just out to Rebecca’s/ or some other of your haunts./ Thursday night came and I made/ up my mind I would not go because/ you was not here to send a little/ note telling what time you would/ call. but my cousin Charlie called/ in the afternoon and wanted/ me to go so I went. The lecture was/ good very fine the singing beau/ tiful. Kate La[?] and Miss Turnbull/ read very nicely indeed. In/ appearance and manners she/ resembles Anna Dickinson/strikingly./Cad do you remember the Sunday[sic]/ night you left one week ago/today, and I asked you if/ you was going to have any/ [correspondents?] and you/ said you hoped not as you/ would have no time to attend/ to them. When I did not hear/from you I thought that I/ was included in the number/ I tell you this Carrie because/ I had rather be front and/ write to you as I used to talk./Will you forgive me my pet?/ and I thought I would write/ to you first because probably I had/ more time than you./ Since you have been gone I/ have been completely lost. it/ seems to me as if my last/ friend was gone. I go up stairs/and read your notes and come/ down stairs and cry oh I am/ truly unhappy./ “The days are long the nights are drear/ And time rolls slowly on.”/ Will has come up and been kind/ and pleasant and acted as if/ he wanted to take your place/ just as though he could but I am/ afraid of him he is too changable[sic]./ I wrote him a letter last wed/ nesday night after I came home/from church but I did not give/ it him./ This beautiful Spring morning/ finds me as usual feeling/badly about some thing. I got/ all ready for church when every/ thing conspired to keep me/ at home so I took off my/ things and remained. I/ thought of you which immediately/ dispelled of vexation and I was/ half inclined to go but no. I thought/ I would keep my word. so I sat/ down to write to my sweet/ precious one./ Carrie I went to the Opera/yesterday Mrs Lynch and I./ went to a matinee in the after/ noon and I never felt worse/ a bout spending a dollar/ before in my life but oh it/ was so beautiful, such en/ trancing music. They played/ the “Bohemian Girl”. We sat in/the dress circle. I feel now/ condemed[sic] I did not before/ but it was my first and/ shall be my last visit to/ the Opera./
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[Letter of 1867 March 3]
Anderson, Caroline Still, 1848-1911 [recipient]
Correspondence
Friendship
Loneliness
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Charles L. Blockson Afro American Manuscript Collection
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Date
1869-02-05
Subjects
Friendship
African American Christians (Disciples of Christ)
People
Wiley, Edward A. [recipient]
Number of Pages
2
ItemID
406
Format
image/jp2
Type
Correspondence
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Phila. Feb. 5th /69./ Mr Wiley/ After so long a time the/ anxiously looked for arrived. True/ to my expectations yet contrary/ to custom, and the small amount/ of feeling allowed (by public opin=/ ion, to be exercised towards one in/ my state of mind by one in your/ frame of my mind) your letter/ was all that it could have been/ more indeed than was merited/ In it you have yielded to no weak/ =ness but acted as one once sin=/ cere, and not afraid nor [ashamed?]/ to acknowledge^ it though you have/ suffered acutely it [may?]. In this/ letter I see breathed forth the spirit/ and feelings of an aggrieved but/ ready to forgive man. Not on=/ ly forgive but bury in the re=/ turned love of the aggressor all/ sting of past injury if it be/ possible so to do. You know/ how I used to talk of the chil=/ dish manner in which as it seemed/ to me George Smith, and R. Winches/ ter courted (?). I feel even now that/ it was mere whimsical child's play/ with thieve. But our difference has/ been of a far more serious character. In the/ first place I give you more credit/ for true Christianly manhood/ than I gave George Smith_ he/ was foppish and if one should/ profess now love for him, and/ now not it was not to be thought/ strange of though he seemed to think/ hard of it for a little while! You/ on the other hand are not of that/ Hamp, and consequently none per=/ haps but the most heartless of the/ heartless would think of winning/ your affection and widely breaking/ it off. [x?] was indeed the least of my/ thoughts to cause even the heart pangs/ that I have caused but with a feel/ ing of discontent in my heart that/ there was not on my past that re-/ turn of affection which there should/ be, urged on by the feeling that I/ was acting more honorably than/ not to tell you so I took the stand/ that I did. I can now see well/ where in the trouble lay And that/ you can ask, much less receive/ me again into confidence I can con-/ ceive only as I believe you always/ sincere; weighing well the future so/ far as you could see it which/ I, alas! failed to do. Whilst I admired/ the soul that was within you I re=/ =garded too much the outer polish/ gloried too highly in intellectual/ and bodily show deluding my=/ self many a time that I gave/ ample scope to the value of/ good common sense. But how/ many many times have I felt/ the need of a friend just like/ yourself here with me. I think/ I know now what it is to re=/ turn affection such as you once/ bestowed. Pride is one of my great/ est faults I almost vowed some/ months back that I never would, [?] could think of making/ any advances to you. But you/ see it needed only the touching of/ the spring which perhaps un=/ consciously^ you did ^ touch by writing to me/ I hastily responded, and [ere?] a second/ letter came there was an outburst/ of my feelings an entire confession/ I will not conceal it you have/
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[Letter of 1869 February 5]
African American Christians (Disciples of Christ)
Correspondence
Friendship
Wiley, Edward A. [recipient]
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Charles L. Blockson Afro American Manuscript Collection
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Date
[unknown]
Subjects
Friendship
Number of Pages
2
ItemID
397
Format
image/jp2
Type
Correspondence
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BMS010X0022
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I am really alarmed at the/ length of my letter. You will/ not fear that I have any [re?]-/ sign upon your eyesight- will/ you? Do you remember Miss Emma/ Lewis- of Cleveland? She was my/ room-mate in Charleston. She remem-/ bered you and me together enjoyed/ those dear little volumes that you/ sent me- and which will be a con-/ stant reminder of the pleasant days that/ have past. Remember me to you family/ Please pay this dollar for me/ into the asso. I hope that the/ work is going on./ With much love/ I am sincerely your friend,/ R.J. Cole/ N.B. Box 40/
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[Letter: date unknown]
Correspondence
Friendship
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Charles L. Blockson Afro American Manuscript Collection
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Date
1868-10-18
Subjects
Friendship
African Americans -- Health and hygiene
Human rights -- Mexico
People
Wiley, Edward A. [recipient]
Number of Pages
2
ItemID
318
Format
image/jp2
Type
Correspondence
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BMS010X0049
Document Content
Fort Selden [N M?]/ Oct 18 /68/ Dear Brother Wiley/ Your brief note/ came one to hand and am happay to here] from/ but am sorrow to here of your health being so po[xx]ey I hope/ you will soon recover. I received a letter from J.C. Smith/ stating that you was sick during the commencement/ I am very glad you heard Miss C V Still graduate/ Before taken ill. [Sloned?] like to have been t[xxx] tow I haven/ herd from her at all now days. Am glad George And you/ had such a good time during the commencement. I think/ it is best for you not to attempt to go back in to the army/ Study because I see your health are declining all on account/ of studing. Where is [Greagory?] at now I have wrote to Hime/ so often never here from Hime at all. If you see tell Hime/ tell Hime I think of good times He And I have/ had together and not write to me too I am made/ at Hime. Well I do not know yet weather I will remain/ here or not they are getting People out here that a man would/ not know what to do. The Rallrod are being built and/ migrants are coming from all part of its country/ here. When I first came to Mexico I thought it/ a preatty good place to make money but now I/ do not. I think of coming to the State and goin in/ to some kind of business when my time is out of any/ I do not think this a good country for you that is/ in regards to Society it is very much limited here/ Hardly any meeting. On Law in no this country/ if a man do any thing bad He is taken out by a/ mob and hangs dead no law whatever in some/ parts then again you can come across some nice/ Towns Law once Sivilization are establish a man can/ [xxrine?] thier in peace./ I am still trying to/ be a good man and live for the Lord./Give my love to all my friends/ to Mrs. Oliver where we lived at in Clevel[and?] and all of of friends/ Truly Yours/ Sergeant Wm Bull/ Company [x?] [x?] [x?]/ P.S. I will send you/ my Polo. in a few days/
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[Letter of 1868 October 18]
African Americans -- Health and hygiene
Correspondence
Friendship
Human rights -- Mexico
Wiley, Edward A. [recipient]