[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton Dennis Teackle, July 21, 1812]
Mentioned in this letter
- Home, Health, and Social Life
- Fashion - Cloth
Health
Health - Remedies and Medicine - Mineral springs
- People
- Eyre, Ann Upshur, 1780-1829
- Eyre, John, 1768-1855
- Lyon, James, 1756-1811
- Lyon, Sarah Eyre, 1770-1813
Teackle, Elizabeth Upshur, 1783-1837
Teackle, Littleton Dennis, 1777-1848
- Upshur, Anne Billings Steele, 1791-1835
- Upshur, Arthur, 1789-1830
- Places
- United States - Maryland - Baltimore City
- United States - Maryland - Dorchester County - Cambridge
- United States - Maryland - Somerset County - Princess Anne
- United States - Pennsylvania - Adams County - York Springs
- United States - Pennsylvania - Bedford County - Bedford
- United States - Pennsylvania - Franklin County - Chambersburgh
About this letter
- Description
- Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton Dennis Teackle, discussing a trip proposed by her sister, Ann Upshur Teackle. They plan to be gone for 4 to 6 weeks, visiting towns in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Maryland. Elizabeth is unsure about attending, but thinks the trip might improve her health.
- Creator
- Teackle, Elizabeth Uphsur
- Creation Date
- July 21, 1812
- 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
21th July P.A.
My dear husband
Last mail I received a letter from my sister proposing a trip to the Bedford or York Springs, in which she begs me to join her. The plan was arranged by Mr. Eyre, who goes on with his sister to Chambersburgh, and wish’d my sister to remain at the Springs whilst he was engaged with Mrs. Lyon in arranging her affairs in Chambersburgh. This plan I believe was chiefly settled with a view to my convenience and the promoting my health. They propose to go to Cambridge in their own carriage, and thence to Baltimore in the packet and when in B-e to hire a hack and proceed on to those springs near that city, then to remain ‘till Mr. Eyre joins us. They think of setting out in the first of August and remain from home 4 or 6 weeks. Their plans to be on as cheap a scale as possible. As to myself, I feel rather a repugnance to going than a desire; and nothing but the hope that my health might be benefitted by the excursion wd induce me to submit to an exertion which almost terrifies me to think of. All this I submit to you and shall be entirely guided by your convenience as to pecuniary matters - wh[ic]h you know I always shall consult and by [torn page]
as to the probable benefit that might result to me in the execution of my sister’s plan. You will be good enough to give me your ideas on the subject certainly by next mail, as her going depends on me.
I have receiv’d the bale of cotton and the spun do. Also the [grassidey] the.
I don’t know how much expense this plan will give rise to, but if you find it inconvenient, I will gladly relinquish it altogether.
I wrote you per last mail; but the letter happen’d not to arrive in time for the mail's closing. You’ll receive it together with this.
My brother and sister Upshur are here on their way to Came. Ann is very burly.
God bless you