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Bean family letters, 1845-1860
1846-03-07 Page 01
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Spring March the 7 1846 Dear Friend I take my pen in hand to inform you that I am well and hope that these few lines may finde you enjoying the same blessing. I received your last leter mailed the 20 of Dc and it is so long since that I hardly know whare to write but I am in hopes of receiving a line from you before this is ready to mail. My Mother has ben sick for 9 weeks and I have ben verry bisy wating on her she is gaining slowly from her sickness. I hope you will forgive me for not writing before this time I think sometimes it is not worth while for me to write for you have such verry dad luck in not receiving them maby it is bad luck and maby not I have writen to leters of lait and have not herd that you have received them I wood write sometimes but know not where to direct it and thinking that I will have a leter in a fiew days This is a verry pleasant eavning. the sun is jist set in the west but it is light enough for me to see to write. I have herd no les than to or three inquireing for Margaret since I came up to write and I must soon stop for the present wee have had a verry could winter but are in hopes it is most over with. thare has ben a verry deep snow for a month past but a fiew more pleasant days will melt it a way I under stand that it has ben coulder this winter in the south than for sevrel seasons past. I went with a cousin not long ago and had some new warm maple shugar it was verry good. Margaret P. Bowman [Vertically, at left-hand side of page:] The moon shines verry bright and I think if you were here to night wee would have a verry pleasant walk this eaveninge I have spent menny hours in thinking of the pleasant walks wee have had when to gether but they may not have ben as pleasant to you as they were to me but I hope they were and think that they were by all appearances
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Spring March the 7 1846 Dear Friend I take my pen in hand to inform you that I am well and hope that these few lines may finde you enjoying the same blessing. I received your last leter mailed the 20 of Dc and it is so long since that I hardly know whare to write but I am in hopes of receiving a line from you before this is ready to mail. My Mother has ben sick for 9 weeks and I have ben verry bisy wating on her she is gaining slowly from her sickness. I hope you will forgive me for not writing before this time I think sometimes it is not worth while for me to write for you have such verry dad luck in not receiving them maby it is bad luck and maby not I have writen to leters of lait and have not herd that you have received them I wood write sometimes but know not where to direct it and thinking that I will have a leter in a fiew days This is a verry pleasant eavning. the sun is jist set in the west but it is light enough for me to see to write. I have herd no les than to or three inquireing for Margaret since I came up to write and I must soon stop for the present wee have had a verry could winter but are in hopes it is most over with. thare has ben a verry deep snow for a month past but a fiew more pleasant days will melt it a way I under stand that it has ben coulder this winter in the south than for sevrel seasons past. I went with a cousin not long ago and had some new warm maple shugar it was verry good. Margaret P. Bowman [Vertically, at left-hand side of page:] The moon shines verry bright and I think if you were here to night wee would have a verry pleasant walk this eaveninge I have spent menny hours in thinking of the pleasant walks wee have had when to gether but they may not have ben as pleasant to you as they were to me but I hope they were and think that they were by all appearances
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