[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton Dennis Teackle, March 15, 1813]
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- Description
- Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton D. Teackle, responding to his claim that she has not been writing him. She details how she has written for every mail. She thanks him for sending her $10, but asks him to save money for himself. She talks about the new curtains in their carriage.
- Creator
- Teackle, Elizabeth Upshur
- Creation Date
- March 15, 1813
- Subjects
- Teackle, Elizabeth Upshur, 1783-1837
- Teackle, Littleton Dennis, 1777-1848
- 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
- Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
- Collection
- Voices of the Eastern Shore
- Place Names
- United States - Maryland - Somerset County - Princess Anne
- United States - Maryland - Baltimore County - Baltimore
March 15th 1813
My dear husband
Yours of the 13th came to hand; and I am really griev’d that you have cause to complain for me for want of punctuality. The first mail after you left there, I did not write, it is true, but I assign’d my reason, which was the real pain in my head, in the first letter I wrote which must have been written before you arriv’d in Baltimore. Every mail since that time I have regularly written and notice’d the contents of yours. I wrote too, by Mr. Done, who set off for Baltimore via Cambe on Sunday last. In this letter, I notic’d particularly all the articles receiv’d &c., mentioned in your list which were brought to hand in good order.
I don’t perfectly comprehend what other dispatches you allude to as wishing to have a reply to. I have answer’d all your letters on every important point and this mail has brought me no other letter than the one before me which encloses 10 dollars, for which I sincerely thank you, as well for the kind intention you hint regarding the carriage. I know you mean this for my sole comfort and as such I feel it, but I beg of you my dear husband not to put yourself to any inconveniences nor to
appropriate any money in that way that might be more usefully employed as it regards your own care. You certainly know better than I can possibly do what you ought to do, but perhaps if we get a new carriage some malicious remarks might be made. And God in heaven know, I wou’d not subject you to animadversion1 in any way to gratify my own self in any matter either for comfort or show. You can’t think how snug our old carriage is now the new curtains are to it. Nor do I feel any consequence in the least compromised by riding in it.
I pray god nightly to preserve and prosper you.
Elizth is well and sends her love to her father. I too have felt better since I have been enabled to exercise, and I am glad to see you make no remarks on your sciatica as from this circumstance I am led to hope you are entirely relieved from so painful a disease.
Your affecte wife
E.U.T.
You don’t say what I am to do with the volumes of the select reviews. Must I deliver them to their respective subscribers?
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15 Mar 1813