From Allie to Jerome, January 30, 1856
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Title
From Allie to Jerome, January 30, 1856
Subject
Peirce, Jerome
Allie
Billerica, MA.
Description
From Allie to Jerome
Creator
Allie
Source
Jerome Peirce Collection, National Park Service
Publisher
HIST 428 (Spring 2020), University of Mary Washington
Date
1856-01-30
Contributor
NPS, Civil War Study Group, Paul and Louise Marahrens (Transcribers)
Rights
For educational purposes with no commercial use. Courtesy of National Park Service, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania NMP, FRSP 16095-16102 (FRSP-00904).
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
Letter #233
Coverage
Billerica, MA.
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Text
Billerica Jan 30th 1856
Dear friend,
I arrived safely home yesterday afternoon, meeting my Father at the depot in expectance of my coming. All were well here, and I found home a welcome place after my long visit in C. [Charlestown].
Safely waiting for me, was a letter, shall I say from whom! A perusal served to quicken some of the memories of the immediate past, and remembering the promise, I hasten thus early to reply. By this you will rightly infer that the wish you expressed for a correspondence met with no obstacles in reference to those whose wise counsel I sought both from the dictates of my own heart, and the expressed desire of yours.
The succession of snow storms has rendered the traveling very bad. I think I never saw so much snow, the country looks as though it was clothed in one large white sheet as we can hardly see the tips of fences.
Although the weather with out is not very inviting, it seems very pleasant to be quietly seated at home. We are not at loss to find subject matter for conversations, and so time passes very rapidly and pleasantly.
Father is ready to go to the office and I must close, trusting you will pardon the briefness of this.
Your humble friend
Albinia Jaquith
Dear friend,
I arrived safely home yesterday afternoon, meeting my Father at the depot in expectance of my coming. All were well here, and I found home a welcome place after my long visit in C. [Charlestown].
Safely waiting for me, was a letter, shall I say from whom! A perusal served to quicken some of the memories of the immediate past, and remembering the promise, I hasten thus early to reply. By this you will rightly infer that the wish you expressed for a correspondence met with no obstacles in reference to those whose wise counsel I sought both from the dictates of my own heart, and the expressed desire of yours.
The succession of snow storms has rendered the traveling very bad. I think I never saw so much snow, the country looks as though it was clothed in one large white sheet as we can hardly see the tips of fences.
Although the weather with out is not very inviting, it seems very pleasant to be quietly seated at home. We are not at loss to find subject matter for conversations, and so time passes very rapidly and pleasantly.
Father is ready to go to the office and I must close, trusting you will pardon the briefness of this.
Your humble friend
Albinia Jaquith
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE (Josef Rokus)
The “friend” to whom this letter is addressed was Jerome, based on the address on the envelope, which reads Mr. Jerome Peirce, Charlestown, Mass.
Albinia (Allie) Jaquith and Jerome Peirce were married on September 10, 1857. So, they apparently knew each other for a while before they were married.
The “friend” to whom this letter is addressed was Jerome, based on the address on the envelope, which reads Mr. Jerome Peirce, Charlestown, Mass.
Albinia (Allie) Jaquith and Jerome Peirce were married on September 10, 1857. So, they apparently knew each other for a while before they were married.
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Reference
Allie 1856, From Allie to Jerome, January 30, 1856, HIST 428 (Spring 2020), University of Mary Washington
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