Letter from Charlotte to Samuel Cowles, 1838 June 11.

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    Farmington June 11th ’38.


    My Dear Brother,


    I had almost finished a letter to you on Saturday when the stage passed, and after receiving yours, I was very glad that it had so happened; for I should only have made you additional trouble, which the statements in yours will now prevent me from doing. The bonnets arrived on Friday safe and sound, and are wonderfully improved. Mrs Orcutt is certainly the queen of all milliners for low prices. Perhaps she had forgotten the cambric cover which was sent on my box, or she may have kept it to help make up the difference in the price of the boxes. It was good and new, and, I believe, had a paper sewed upon it with my name and the Beacon Street mark. However, it is of no great consequence, and I would not have you take any trouble about it; you have had enough already.


    I am sure you must suffer a great deal with the heat. It is not quite so warm however as it was yesterday. We have as cool a place as any one, and we cannot keep comfortable at all. How I wish you could be at home. We were very sorry that you could not come last Saturday. There were sixty four added to the church yesterday. The house was very full, and the scene such as I never witnessed before. Miss Lucy Cowles was among the number. I believe she has been an Episcopalian.



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    I wish you and I understood some language which no one else did; it would be a good time to use it now. I am sure you cannot imagine how much I want to give you a full account of what has been going on here, but I dare not. There are a hundred chances by which what is put on paper may be exposed, and I know that you would rather wait a little while for particulars than that by any mischance the last drop should be added to the cup of misery that is now well nigh full. And if I had no fears, I could not by any words give you the least idea of the terror and anxiety which we yet feel. – I fear I have written too much already: do be careful that this falls into no other hands. And by all means write to me tomorrow, if you have only time to say that you have received this. The time will come when I can tell you the whole story.


    We have another cousin at Uncle Solomon’s -- a daughter. I shall be too late for the mail today if I write any more.


    Do not fail tomorrow.


    Yours &c.


    [annotated by Samuel Cowles, perpendicular to the text above:


    Charlotte


    June 11, 1838]


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