Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1842-12-17
,ss. The direction is to Miss PLY South


! Boston,
"Dear Miss Pilly--I want 10 see you very
much. will come Fiday TO see you. Miss
J. send love to you and r. Miss Morton
send love to you and kiss for You now. She
send love TO Il aud you. How do you
DO now Twill bring you new cotton belt
R-- uust tell YOU send Kiss for PLY,
very, very much. took good care of You ma
ny days when you were sick You must write
to me now. LAURA BLDcMAY.'
Here is yet another, written to one of her
fivorito teachers, during the vacation. and
giving an account ofa little shoPpiag crcur-
sion. Just think of Laura going shopping =
"My dear Miss RI want to see you very
much. send much love to YOU and sisters.
VIII you please to write a long letter to me
soon, sometime have had letter from my
mother Do your sister make cloak .or my
doll now am happy. Miss !. and DR.. are
very well now. Now it is very warm in days
want you to write TO me soon.-Iou are my
friend many days because you teach me much
smooth paper for me to write to you, Wednes-
day, with Swift and saw ladies'. Good s
brought many things for her. | walked much.
Good bye. LAURA BRIDGMAS"
The next, and last which shall present, is
of higher order than either of the others,
and being of 3 later date shows great improve
ment in the style. Some of the sentences, it
will be observed, are quite complicated but
nevertheless the whole is very we'll expressed
and well put together. 1t Is addressed to her
mother.
"Dear my Moher-llow does my little sis
ter do now am well and strong | send
mnch love to you and kiss TO little sister Is
she very happy | asked DIR. if may 90 to
Hanover with Miss Jcnnctte He said yes, in
the vacation, after six weeks. | hope shall
come with Jennette and Mrs. Morton Dre,o is
Morton. She said she would think to come TO
Hanover. Can you have Morton and j. in
Hanover VIII you please to write me let
ter soon, about Jennetc and Morton coming, be-
cause the blind girls ara going home after six
weeks J lam rcry happy to sec you. send
love father and my aunt. | want to sec you
very much and baby. ! keep rery fine hair
rcry nice many days. Good bye.
LAURA BIRDGMAN"
How aifectionately she remembers her rela-
tIyos; what an interest she manilests in fami-
! Iy matters how earnestly she pleads that her
! friends may be permitted to visit home with
her; and how CONSIDERABLY she inquiries ifher
mother can accommodate them Happy Law
ra though thy fortune appears to us 80 wretch
ed and rcpulsivc, yet thy life is not altogether
| joyless, nor thy heart cold and lonely. Though
the world seems all shut out from this thine
earthly tabernacle gueless and amiable spi.
rt dwells within, giving uttorance 10 the
hearts best affections, and, while cheering thee
on thy darksome way, searching with the silk.
en- cords of love the tenderest sympathes of all
who approach the
The expression 'Dre,r is Norton in the a
bovc letter s a curious mode of ofcommuncatnQ
her meaning. 1t seems that there had been
change Of teachers, Drew helng the name o.
her former instructrcss and Morton that of the
one she was then ENGAGED with. Hence in no
tcing the change she says 'Drci0 is Morton
now. The last sentence. rhcep rcry .fat
hair rCry nice many day,,' also needs cx
planlton Her mother had sent her a lock o
her infant sisters hair which she was very
choice OF, and, therefore, 10 inform her parcu
Of the tender care, with which she rcgardc,
this liue remembrance OF baby and the
pleasure she enjoyed from the git, she usc
the words alluded TO.
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comments on tins interesting subject aud sub
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