[Letter from Andrew D. Campbell to Elizabeth Upshur Teackle, September 21, 1806]

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Business, Economy, and Travel: Newspapers
Education, Religion, Literacy, and Culture: Duels; Religion - Churches; Universities - Columbia University (King’s College); Universities - University of Edinburgh
Government, Law, and Military: Political Parties - Whig (U.S.)
Historic Homes and Places: Bothwell Castle
Home, Health, and Social Life: Health - Death; Health - Disease and illness; Health - Doctors; Health - Treatments - Bloodletting; Hunting; Marriage
People: Campbell, Andrew Donaldson, 1777-1854; Chauncey, Henrietta Teackle, 1780-1832; Elliott, Juliet Upshur, 1784-1854; Eyre, Ann Matilda Upshur, 1780-1829; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; Jeffrey, Lord Francis, 1773-1850; Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852; Parker, George, 1761-1826; Parker, Jacob Godwin, 1782-1829; Quinby, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle, 1801-1875; Teackle, Elizabeth Upshur, 1783-1836; Teackle, Littleton Dennis, 1777-1848
Places: England - Greater London County - London; Scotland; Scotland - Lanarkshire - Bothwell; Scotland - Lanarkshire - Glasgow; United States - District of Columbia - Washington D.C.

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Description: Letter from Andrew D. Campbell to Elizabeth Upshur Teackle, written from Sundhope, sharing news of his recent activities and enquiring about her family. He talks about fellow alums from Columbia University.
Creator: Campbell, Andrew Donaldson
Creation Date: September 21, 1806
Subjects: Teackle, Elizabeth Upshur, 1783-1837; Eyre, Ann Uphsur, 1780-1829; Elliott, Juliet Upshur, 1783-1854; Teackle, Littleton Dennis, 1777-1848; Jeffrey, Francis Jeffrey, Lord, 1773-1850
Item Type: letter
Identifier: MSS 2338, 2338-a, 2338-b Box 1
Publication Information: Papers of the Quinby, Teackle, and Upshur families, 1759-1968, Accession #2338, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
Institution: ASSSC
Collection: VOESH
Place Names: United States - Maryland - Somerset County - Princess Anne; Scotland - Glasgow City Council Area - Glasgow

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Sweethope¹ Sunday, 21 Sept, 6

Altho' my dear friend I have but an hour at present to write, while a society of my friends are at their devotions at church, I embrace it to render you my warmest thanks for your kind letter of 17^th Dec, prolonged till 28^th. Which has completely dispelled all idea of my frank and amiable friend having assumed the cold manners of reserve. Nor shall I ever again accuse you of it, hoping also, that your writing a little more frequently will acquit you of the only sin I know you possessed of. Laziness is much too strong a term. Shall I call it procrastination, but I think I hear you exclaim, by what title does friend Campbell accuse us of
laziness in answering in the 21 Septr. since of Decr last? To say that I have been much occupied is hardly an excuse but there really exists more than one good apology. It was the month of March before I received your

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truly estimable epistle before me and thus intending a pretty extended excursion to England. I considered delaying answering in the hope that my trip would afford amusement sufficient that the detail would prove agreeable, at least a change from the monotony that must pervade my letters, but unfortunately the business I went to elucidate and [alone] got so much more complex and extended that it engrossed every hour and so much occupied every thought that altho’ I accompanied a sister, who paid her first visit to the metropolis to most of their scenes of gaiety, I entered not into them altho’ they were then at their zenith. With heartfelt pleasure I hailed the [home] that enabled me to quiet the perpetual [which] in which I had been kept by employment and dissipation, but after my return home a few weeks only elapsed when a most sudden and dangerous illness had very nearly sent

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sent your friend and correspondent to “that Bourn from which no traveler returns."¹

A strength of constitution which I hardly thought I possessed inabled me to withstand the severity of the disease, inflammatory, and the still more severe treatment of my medical attendants who have since frankly told me they never saw any person so nearly bled to death. Sangrado² like they considered this and hot water as the grand specifics tho’ they changed his practice so far as to put me into the Hot water in place of putting it in me and I doubt much which is the most scour’d. However, in spite of all am now quite recovered in health tho’ hardly in strength. Having thus accounted for my silence, I intended offering a few words expressive of my sincere regret for the loss which you sustained of which your letter conveyed³ the first initially since, but am unwilling to hazard any thing that might