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Frances (Appleton) Longfellow to Thomas Gold Appleton, 10 August 1850
Manuscript letter
Nahant. Aug 16th 1850
Dear Tom,
We are very glad to hear you are so comfortable at Newport, tho’ we shall be most happy to welcome you back again It was a much better move for papa & all than to New York, & I hope he & H will enjoy a little visit there & improve in that soft air. It wouldnt [sic] be a bad winter climate for him tho’ hardly warm enough. What think you of the Pyrenees or south of France? I hear Mr Gardner gained greatly at the former.
Sumner has been passing a day or two with us, & he & Henry this morning visited Gloucester & were [p. 2] charmed with the Hotel there. They have now gone to call on Mrs Sidney Brooks at our Hotel, who is here for a few days – as fair & exuberant as ever – Miss Everett is to be married on Tuesday which partly brought her hither. Mrs Bacon is with her, but Payson says the Hotel is so intolerably kept he has left in disgust & has a room in the village.
We have been very quiet since the visit of the Cadets, which made quite an excitement, all the ladies hovering their encampment & getting serenades in return. Many went up yesterday to the solemn show; but after seeing the living man, a mock funeral was too tragic for my taste.
A dual & awful tragedy was ta [p. 3] king place at the same time not far off – the loss of 13 people by drowning – who left Lynn for a picnic. Behind Mr Tudor’s were 80 & more collected, with their fires & kettles among the rocks quite picturesquely grouped. Sumner has lost his heart to the two fair Mrs Peabodys & would like a wife warranted to wear as well. An impossibly foresight. I intend to call on the fair Martha tomorrow.
Jewett passed one day with us, but tho’ hie brought bundle with him could not be persuaded to pass the night – for his dainty taste even your apartment was far too ordinary!
Grace Greenwood, the authoress, comes to dine with us on Monday. She is rather a striking damsel.
Poor Marianne Greene is still [p. 4] on her couch & Copley lingers to attend her.
I hope papa didn’t find the caustic very painful - & that it wont be necessary to repeat it very often. Much love to him. Remember me to all friends. Hastily but affly
yrs Fanny E.L.
ENDORSED: FANNY AUG 16. 51
Dear Tom,
We are very glad to hear you are so comfortable at Newport, tho’ we shall be most happy to welcome you back again It was a much better move for papa & all than to New York, & I hope he & H will enjoy a little visit there & improve in that soft air. It wouldnt [sic] be a bad winter climate for him tho’ hardly warm enough. What think you of the Pyrenees or south of France? I hear Mr Gardner gained greatly at the former.
Sumner has been passing a day or two with us, & he & Henry this morning visited Gloucester & were [p. 2] charmed with the Hotel there. They have now gone to call on Mrs Sidney Brooks at our Hotel, who is here for a few days – as fair & exuberant as ever – Miss Everett is to be married on Tuesday which partly brought her hither. Mrs Bacon is with her, but Payson says the Hotel is so intolerably kept he has left in disgust & has a room in the village.
We have been very quiet since the visit of the Cadets, which made quite an excitement, all the ladies hovering their encampment & getting serenades in return. Many went up yesterday to the solemn show; but after seeing the living man, a mock funeral was too tragic for my taste.
A dual & awful tragedy was ta [p. 3] king place at the same time not far off – the loss of 13 people by drowning – who left Lynn for a picnic. Behind Mr Tudor’s were 80 & more collected, with their fires & kettles among the rocks quite picturesquely grouped. Sumner has lost his heart to the two fair Mrs Peabodys & would like a wife warranted to wear as well. An impossibly foresight. I intend to call on the fair Martha tomorrow.
Jewett passed one day with us, but tho’ hie brought bundle with him could not be persuaded to pass the night – for his dainty taste even your apartment was far too ordinary!
Grace Greenwood, the authoress, comes to dine with us on Monday. She is rather a striking damsel.
Poor Marianne Greene is still [p. 4] on her couch & Copley lingers to attend her.
I hope papa didn’t find the caustic very painful - & that it wont be necessary to repeat it very often. Much love to him. Remember me to all friends. Hastily but affly
yrs Fanny E.L.
ENDORSED: FANNY AUG 16. 51
Archives Number: 1011/002.001-020#027
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Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Latitude: 42.3769989013672, Longitude: -71.1264038085938
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NPS Museum Number Catalog : LONG 20257
Title: Finding Aid to the Frances Elizabeth Appleton Longfellow (1817-1861) Papers, 1825-1961 (bulk dated: 1832-1861)
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Manuscript letter in Frances Appleton Longfellow Papers, Series II. Correspondence, A. Outgoing, 1850. (1011/002.001-020#027)
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