Hemans, Nancy A. (b. 1843) to Frances B. Shiras
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02429.30 Author/Creator: Hemans, Nancy A. (b. 1843) Place Written: Nebraska Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 21-22 November 1872 Pagination: 1 p. ; 23.9 x 18.4 cm. Order a Copy
Discusses her son, who was sick recently, and her husbands work as the sole clergyman at the Santee Mission. Notes they are currently living in Reverend Hinman's house, until they can have their own built. Discusses her housework, which interrupted the writing of this letter. Thanks Shiras for things she sent her. Comments on a problem with mice eating cloth. Recounts a story in which her small son Joseph accidentally locked himself in a room. Discusses her desire to get her picture taken, if not for a want of money.
Quotes
"Dear little Ally was very sick one or two weeks ago. I thought he is going to die…I took him to Mrs Hinman she give him does and he stop crying and fast asleep."
"that day Daniel had a hard headache too, he always been unwell in the Sundays. You know he is only clergyman is here, he is preaching and reading makes him so tired sick."
"My little niece is dead few weeks ago."
"I is very hard work to me to write I never finish writing in one day, if I sat down and commence writing, then the baby is cry or fell down the chair and ought to be attend to, then I got up and take him their again sat down and write then Daniel came in and ask me to sewed on the button or ask clean handkerchief or told me to go somewhere so hat is the way goes every day…"
"the mice so thick up here they could not find anything to eat so they eat up all our dirty cloth…"
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