Letter from Eliza Lugbee
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- Title:
- Letter from Eliza Lugbee
- Collection:
- 19th Century Prison Reform Collection
- Date:
- 10-14
- ID Number:
- RMM01157_B01_F19_019
- Collection Number:
- 1157
- File Name:
- RMM01157_B01_F19_019.pdf
- Transcription:
- Dear Uncle,
You wished me to give you the particulars of Mr. Reeves' death and the situation of the family-- the physicians thought him better about a week after you left here, but the fever did not entirely leave him which prevented their giving him stimulants sufficient to raise him-- this with his old difficulties terminated his life-- he was a great sufferer. Mr. [Lugbee?] was with him the night he died-- a short time before his death, he called [??] Powers three or four times, then he said he must get info. Mr [L?] and Mr [Post?] raised him and he put his feet off the bed. Mr. [L?] having his arm around him did not feel his heart beat, he looked at him and he was gone. Although being sick at the same time with fever the whole of Aunt's time was devoted to him and she did not seem to realize Mr. Reeves' death of [??] she had a little more since she says all her [??] is gone and her children will not have the patience with her that her husband had. Charles came down last Saturday and took her and Albert to Buffalo for a few weeks. [??] [??] has taken his wife to Buffalo and leaves to day for California. Aunt preferred having Thompson take charge of the farm and I suppose she will do better with Albert and Thompson. Mrs. Fitch [perhaps wife of Augustus Benjamin Fitch or his philanthropist uncle, Mr. Fitch] and Eliza were here last week on their way to New York. They stayed a day with Aunt. Eliza thought Aunt appeared more like herself. Mr. Townsend, Mr. Reeves' neighbor, dies about a week after he did and [??] was buried about two weeks since. Our village is healthy at present no new cases of fever.
My sister writes me that herself and Mother have both had fever for the first time in Michigan-- they are convalescent. Mrs. Baldwin had returned to Brooklyn.
Eve went to New York last week with her Uncle's family and with [??] until her Father [??]. My family have been remarkably [??] with health and after [??] have wealth and live at their ease. I should not be willing to exchange with them. We have had a visit of a week from Aunt Margaret Smith. She is a strange and amusing person. I am glad to hear you are so comfortably situated with your tenant, but, I do not think it would be pleasant for you after the winter sets in-- we hope to have you with us part of the winter. [??] the little Brook welcome you on your return. I can't imagine how beautifully it glides along this pleasant [??] summer day. The children all join in love to Uncle. I suppose you will hear from Mr. Lugbee[?] soon.
Your affectionate Niece,
Eliza Lugbee - 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:
- 19
- 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.