[Letter from Andrew D. Campbell to Littleton Dennis Teackle - February 26, 1799]
Mentioned in this letter
- Home, Health, and Social Life
Celebrations - Balls
Indeed now my dear Teackle you must not be angry with me for neglecting your last l[ette]r. I have already too much to bear and a heart that on Friday ev’ning beat high with enjoyments various and delightful is since, owing to an unfortunate coincidence of circumstances, tho trifling in themselves, very much depressed. Do not, I beg, add your displeasure. I cannot give you particulars. Suffice it to say I applaud the sentiments of the person in whose esteem I have been injured and tho’ I should make great sacrifices to regain it, fear it is out of my power. But why do I annoy you thus with perpetual jawings? I know not unless it is a relief to make known vexations, and by distributing them, imagine I do not feel them all. Accursed vanity! Which made me figure myself as able to direct my conduct with propriety almost from the impulse of the moment. I am chagrined at my own folly. Yet
away with moralising and sentiment. I know not what has introduced it as Joseph in the School for Scandal1 had very lately determined me never to speak, far less write any until I am forty.
You are freed from any fears of Mdme D.2 accident and not my elocution has saved you. I long since swore that even the pleasure of her company would not induce me to go to France, but you and her might make an “arrangement.”
I have had many and agreeable letters from home (on Friday) all well, so I do not feel myself in a very great hurry to move but leave it to your Father to start me any time after the 10th and I give me a day or two at Snowhill and a week in Philada
I danced a very great deal at
the ball – Miss Upshur [page blurred] as usual. She has you [page torn]. I fear these things are so un[de]termined that you may not be able to make out your visit. I shall go, if but for an hour, before I leave this country and I hardly know if I am priviledged to do that.
I had no inclination and should not have wrote you to night but the stage coming in without any news from you makes me fear you expected my answer sooner.
You must have mistaken my last relative to silence. I meant not to write the Lady till she wrote you.
With kind Compliments to your family, I remain L' L' A. Campbell
Tuesday Night
26 Feb 99