Montgomery Throop Letter
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- Title:
- Montgomery Throop Letter
- Collection:
- 19th Century Prison Reform Collection
- Date:
- 1858-12-24
- ID Number:
- RMM01157_B01_F11_022
- Collection Number:
- 1157
- File Name:
- RMM01157_B01_F11_022.pdf
- Transcription:
- My dear Uncle,
I have your letter of the 17th and am very glad to hear from you again, especially as your letter informs me that we are to have the pleasure of seeing you so soon. May Martin writes to Charlotte that she and Tully[?] will make us a visit on their way home and as [??] as I can judge they will be here an [??] time with you. This will be very pleasant for us and I think also for you. We have two spare bedrooms so that it will be perfectly convenient, and two sitting rooms besides the parlor so that [??] and [??] generally would not annoy you.
The "[??] parties" [??] every work out the differences however and it is Charlotte's intention to have them much at our house while the girls are here. We intend however to keep the girls for a much longer time than you [??] to stay, so that if you will inform us on [??] a little more definitively about what time you want to come we can easily arrange where our party [??] before or after your arrival. I say this of course with the supposition that you would prefer that [??]-- if you would like [??] the young guests together, I [??] [??] say that it will give me great pleasure to have you present at our humble entertainment.
I hope you will make your arrangements to stay as long as you can amuse yourself. The weather is such as to cut you off from much that would entertain you, otherwise I should complain a great deal of the brief limit which you assign to your stay: but I shall expect you to make your arrangements to come again when the weather is pleasant and remain with us several days--
I have, as you suggested, written to [??], although as my knowledge of the proper manner of address [??] great official [??] has become rather obsolete, I should have preferred that you, who doubtless obtain your [??] acquirements have yourself written the letter. I shall probably hear from him before you come here.
We are to have a family dinner party at our house tomorrow-- it includes Mrs. Licard[?] and her two sons, now grown into young men, with [??] and [??]'s family. There have been great preparations made in the [??] line, especially for our boy, who, being the only child of our family, and the only resident grandchild of the [??] family, is [??] so [??] with presents that I should not be surprised if we should so [??] the other that he did not care for any of them. He is now [??] and I think slowly recovering from his severe cold: but still far from recovered, [??] his general health is good and his spirits as buoyant as ever. Charlotte has also a cough but it is not a serious matter--
I received this morning a letter from [??] in which he said that he and his wife were well and had another baby but does not mention the [??], [??], [??].
Remember me kindly with the family at Willowbrook[??]. Charlotte joins with me in wishing to you and [??] a very "merry Christmas."
Yours affectionately,
Montgomery Throop - Work Type:
- documents
- Cite As:
- Enos Thompson Throop. Papers, #1157. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Enos Thompson Throop Papers
- Box:
- 1
- Folder:
- 11
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the 19th Century Prison Reform Collection is believed to be in the public domain by virtue of its age, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright]. This collection was digitized by Cornell University Library in 2017 from print materials held in the Rare and Manuscript Collections, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Katherine Thorsteinson. For more information about these volumes, please contact the Rare and Manuscript Collections at rareref@cornell.edu. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.