North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-03-25
Glove In Letters.1

"Lovc In Letters."
Carleton has published book contain.
ing letters Of love, written by some Of the
heavy y-brained men Of English modern lit,
erature. The letters show that talented
men, like Shakespeare, Milton, Burns and
Moore, etal., were as susceptible to loves
&c mite (soft) sway as was the uncducatcd
ADAM of the Hotel de Paradise. Women
~iU rule us before marriage, and many oI
them "handle the ribbons considerably
after that interesting event. When Is
year-old-about-our residence was a,
Ridgcville, Warren Co., Ohio. Our daddy
was schoolmaster, (bless his memory, he
was good one, too) and almost every
summer, Judge JouN Mclean, at tina,
time p. NJ. General in Jackson's Cabinet
used to visit his father Fergus Mclean
who owned a large farm adjoining the
village. The Judge and father were both
naturally social, and of course intimate
Boy-like, we were often interested in their
conversation we recoliect once to have
heard them talking of the simplicity o
Courtship, or the simple conduct of lovers
towards each other prior to marriage. The
subject was just beginning to interest the
youthiulness of the "boy," snd this re
mark, in substance, is remembered sale
Mclean to my patcrnal ancestor Z: ''Char
ley, | have occupied some prominent posi-
tons in public life. and am now holding
an important national office, but would II,
have the word know the Stiffness of talk o,
the soltness Of behavior which preceded my
marriage for all the political notoricty
have since succeeded .o.'
But "reminiscences be hanged. 1t makes
us melancholy to look back to the days pi
hoyhood. Below is letter from Vim.
Hazlett to his intended. Its date is Jan
uary, 1898. Charles Lamb and his sister
Mary, were "attendants" at Iazlett's mar
riage in May of the same year. Lamb was
q lover Of fin and Il wit of the first order.
lie writes IL was at IIazlett's marria. .e
and had liked to have been turned out sew
eral times during the ceremony. Any
thing awful always makes me laugh. -
The probability is that Lamb never marri.
cd
Here is Uazlctt's letter to Miss Sarah
Stoddart:
THURSDAY MORNING.
The book has come. When | saw it /
thought you had, sent it back in ahuBS tired
out by my saucineSs, and coldnes and de-
lays, and were going to keep an account
of dimities and saves, or salt pork and
chrencle small beer as the dutiful wife of
some fresh looking rural swain so that
you cannot think how surprised and pleas
ed was to find them all done. l liked
your note AS well or better than the
extracts ; it is just such a note us such a
nice rogue as you ought to write after the
provocation you had received. would
not give pin for girl "whosc cheeks
never tingle,' nor for myself if l could
not make them tinsle sometimes. Now,
although l am always writing to you
about ''lips and noses" and such sort of
staff yet as sit by my lireside (which do
generally eight or ten hours day. often
think of you in a serious, sober light.
For, indeed, never love you SO well as
when think of sitting down with you to
dinner on boiled scrag end Of mutton
and hot potatoes. You please my fancy
more then than when l think Of you in
no, you would never forgive me if
were to finish the sentence. Now l think
of it, what do you mean to be dressed in
when we are married? But it does not
much matter! wish you would let your
hair grow: though perhaps nothing will
be better than ''thc same air aud look with
which at first my heart was took" But
now to business. | mean soon to call on
your brother in form, namely, as soon as
l get quite well, which l hope to do in
about another tortnight; and then hope
you will come up by the coach as fast as
the horses can carry you, for long hi yht-
lily to be in your ladyship's presencc-to
vindicatc my character. think you had
better sell the small house. | mean at 4,
10, and | will borrow flOO. So that we
shall set of mcrrily, in spite of all the
prudence Of Edinburgh.
Good bye, little dear! W. IL.
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