Letter from Rose Terry Cooke to Unknown

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Winstead. May 12the 1879.

My dear friend. I send herewith the second of that series of three stories I meant to write on the old ditty, and have been as hindered about! Send it back please, as soon as may - be, if you don't want it, so I can use it elsewhere, for I am now beginning to write with new impulse, and desire to scratch together all the dollars possible, for - only think! We have bought a house! Not this old and shackling mummery: yet we are so far true to the record of not inhabiting common - place resources, that we have lived, since we were married in an Opana house a mummery, and now are about to take up our abode in an old manse: just as sunny, more roomey, and much cheaper

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than this house, and having a good garden outside and great square beams within: beside open fireplaces all over it. The next thing is to pay for it! but you don't know how the prospect of a place of my very own encourages me. Why does one thing so to a bit of the south they must leave before long? I have all my life been so tossed to and fro in the wind of the world that I ought to be used to it! Yet I long for a fixed home as much as if I were just beginning my life. When we get into our new (!) house I shall expect you and Miss Wright to "housel" it: and make me a good long visit, for there I shall have room enough to make you comfortable - I am glad you liked the albutus. I sent Mrs Coullard a box the next week, but fear it did not reach her, as I received no acknowledgment. (how funny that word is, divided that faction?) But ma'am, I

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did not send you any Easter egg: our hens do not celebrate times and seasons: they are Puritanic hens, and do their duty, but despise ginnbrack. I wish I had sent it if you liked it. I know who did send me a lovely Easter card, and thank them for it heartily. It is so good to be thought of by friends. I am almost well now though the weather seems to have a spite against me, and pains & aches do not "forsake my day" as the hymn book says, keen do I get a sting: but I am so fat!! Did one even see such a Spring? Decoration Day will come to grief for there will be no flowers till the Fourth of July at present rates of progress: leaves are just suggesting themselves on the earliest trees, and the air is such as causes people to say "what a pleasant winter we are having!" My poor husband is undergoing this annual expectation of his malasia which comes on at this season as regularly as house-cleaning. The only comfort I can take is that he is better than this time last

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year, which is a comfort. Lizzy is nearly well, and as gay as a lark. I find now the time is come to tinker at her moral nature since her physical is established, so I have begun to teach her the Assembly's Catchetism. I don't believe you know what that is: You're not orthodox enough: but I can tell you it is a pretty tough compendium of theology. If she were morbid or speculative I would not do it, but she needs moral backbone. Dear me! I do wish I had you both out in, this fresh country. If it is told it is sweet and coyly vernal; just at that exquisite girlish time that is neither but our blossom yet, but full of odinous promise, and persuasive winds and sunshine - gently persuasive I must own, as yet! Rollin sends his love to you as I do mine - Tell Mrs Wright when you give it her that I am so sorry she is ill. I know all the ins and outs of that business, and do not admire them. Goodby. Yrs very lovingly.

Rose G. B

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