Memorial Tributes to Daniel L. Harris; With Biography and Extracts from His Journal and Letters (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... LAST LETTER TO HIS WIFE. DURING Mrs. Harris's brief absence from home Mr. Harris wrote her the following letter concerning household affairs, which was the last she ever received from him: --Springfteld, May 16, 1879, 11 o'clock a. m. My Dear Wife: --I presume you have by this time concluded not to come home before the middle of next week, and would therefore be glad to hear from home. After you left on Monday, I felt that I could not carry on the house repairs any longer without the assistance of Mr. Fisk, and he has been at work since yesterday morning. I have had him repair the lattice-work under the piazzas of the kitchen part of the house, and this morning he got out some sticks for the rose bushes, and now he is hanging and trueing up the grindstone, mending the barn floor, etc., etc. John is doing very well with the horses. I have tried two or three times to get some of the health food. Once or twice Anna got out some fair griddle cakes, but the thing is not yet quite a success. I have ordered fish chowder for to-day's dinner, also some canned corn. Joel and Mary are still with their daughter, having planned to go home on Saturday. Yesterday morning I sent over the horses for them to ride. They were to have the single horse to drive themselves this morning, but when John took it over at nine o'clock they sent him back, saying to him that they did not want it, for the reason that Mrs. Harris had been sick all night; they had found it necessary to call the doctor at midnight, and he was to come again this morning. This is all I know about the sickness. Shall call there when I go out. Azariah is away from home, having started for Keene yesterday morning and gone thence to Boston and Concord. He was yesterday elected a director of the...