Bathsheba's Letters to Her Cousin Deborah 1831-1861 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: at a distance until she comes to Bath- sheba's home as matron of the hospital, which closes the correspondence, although they both live many years longer. But the letters explain themselves. We will let them tell their own story of a life nearly all sunshine, clouded only by some half imaginary griefs and unsatisfied longings. chapter{Section 4Bathsheba's Letters Fifth Month Twentieth 1831. Dear Cousin: I love thee very much?More than George Fox would approve of. Bathsheba. Third Month 10th 1832. Dear Deborah: I want thee to come to see me. Charley is a good boy. Calista is a good girl. I am a good girl?sometimes. Bathsheba. Fourth Month I5th 1832. Dear Deborah: Mother has gone to Farmington Spring Quarter. Me and Charley eat crullers all day. Bashy. 8 mo. 1st, 1833. My dear Cousin: I am eight years old to-day. I go to meeting now. I must be good and sit still and not talk. We are all good but one man, he gets up and talks licketysplit. Bathsheba. 6 mo. 8th, 1834. Dear Cousin: Mother told Charley he must not go to sleep in meeting. Friends do not go to sleep in meeting. Pretty soon he pounded the bench. She shook her head at him, and he asked out loud: "Don't Friends pound chairs?" What can we do with him? Ba shy. Twelfth Month First, 1835. Dear Deborah: I am in love with Jerry, and Jerry is in love with me. I will marry him,because then a girl changes her name. I want to change mine to Lonicera or Glencora. Bathsheba for the present. 6th month 2d, 1837. Dear Cousin: This morning I told mother I heard father swear. She turned as white as chalk and looked scared out of her seven senses, for Friends who swear cannot sit on the facing seat in meeting as father does, but sit way back somewhere by the door. She asked me:...