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19th cen: Huntington family correspondence
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Original documents and annotated transcriptions primarily of letters between Elizabeth and Dan Huntington and their eleven children.
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Original documents and annotated transcriptions primarily of letters between Elizabeth and Dan Huntington and their eleven children.
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A project of the Amherst College American Studies course "Global Valley" in collaboration with the Porter Phelps Huntington Foundation and University of Massachusetts Special Collections and University Archives.
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1840.04.21 - Elizabeth Huntington to Frederic Dan Huntington, April 21st, 1840
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Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family Papers (Box 12 Folder 8)
Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
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1840-04-21
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Correspondence
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Elizabeth Whiting Phelps Huntington
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Elizabeth begins with apologies for not writing sooner, and thanks for Frederic's attentions through her sickness. Letter discusses Frederic's missionary work visiting prisoners, ferry transportation to Northampton now that the bridge is out, rules about visiting a child at school, reading Longfellow's poetry collection Voices of the Night, Frederic's eye troubles, herbal medicine, and the illnesses of various friends. The letter contains much religious commentary on prayer, church services, various ministers and a mention of Dan Huntington preaching in Deerfield. It ends with a detailed description of reunion in Heaven. There is a lot of cross-writing additions to this letter, including a joke about a neighbor and the Whig Party.
afterlife
Cabotville
church
Deerfield
EDITED
Elizabeth
ferry
Frederic
Hadley
Hatsfield
illness
missionary
Northampton
poetry
prayer
prison
Quincy
reading
school
South Hadley
transportation
Unitarianism
Whig Party
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19th cen: Huntington family correspondence
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Original documents and annotated transcriptions primarily of letters between Elizabeth and Dan Huntington and their eleven children.
Description
An account of the resource
Original documents and annotated transcriptions primarily of letters between Elizabeth and Dan Huntington and their eleven children.
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These letters are the property of the University Massachusetts Special Collections and University Archives. This is an ongoing project and additional letters will be added over time.
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Contact UMass SCUA for permission to publish or reproduce these materials.
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A project of the Amherst College American Studies course "Global Valley" in collaboration with the Porter Phelps Huntington Foundation and University of Massachusetts Special Collections and University Archives.
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1829.04.21 - Elizabeth Huntington to John Huntington, Apr. 21st, 1829
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Elizabeth Whiting Phelps Huntington
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Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family Papers (Box 12 Folder 11)
Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
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Courtesy of the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Foundation
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Correspondence
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1829-04-21
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This letter is made up of two parts: one written by John Huntington’s sister Catherine, the other written by his mother Elizabeth. Both parts are general updates about life at home. They write a lot about their family members (like Pa, Theophilus, Bethia) as well as about neighbors and townspeople. Elizabeth updates John about the spread and effect of disease and death in town, which may have been interesting to him because he probably knew the people she wrote about. The most intriguing part about this letter was Elizabeth’s cryptic mention of the “expected object”; she goes on to talk about the status of the help at home. Catherine does not mention religion at all, but her mother brings it up twice, as what seems like a way to remind John to thank God for his health and situation currently and in the future.
agriculture
Catherine
death
Elizabeth
Hadley
household help
illness
Indians
John Whiting
merchant
missionary
NEEDS EDITING
Oswego
school
socks
Wyandot