[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton Dennis Teackle, August 18, 1811]

Mentioned in this letter

Business, Economy, and Travel: Hotels - Fountain Inn
Home, Health, and Social Life: Health - Disease and illness; Health - Disease and illness - Ague; Health - Remedies and Medicine
People: Gilmor, William, 1775-1829; Jackson, George Wilson, 1780-; Ker, Hugh, 1767-1845; Montgomery, Elizabeth Dennis Teackle, 1788-1823; Quinby, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle, 1801-1875; Teackle, Elizabeth Upshur, 1783-1837; Teackle, Littleton Dennis, 1777-1848
Places: United States - Maryland - Baltimore City; United States - Maryland - Somerset County - Princess Anne

About this letter

Description: Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton D. Teackle, discussing her health and their daughter, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle's health. She also mentions William Gilmor and says Elizabeth Dennis Teackle is staying with them.
Creator: Teackle, Elizabeth Uphsur
Creation Date: August 18, 1811
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

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I shou’d have written to you last week but real indisposition prevented me from following the dictates of my duty and heart in that instance. I have after all my care and apprehensions slipt my [cable] once more, occasion’d by a diarrhea. After this the ague attack’d me and I am but not sufficiently recover’d to write a short letter to you and one to W Gilmor who complains loudly of me. Elizabeth is just getting the better of the ague by the timely assistance of mercury and jallops. So you see we are coming on again after having tasted the delights of this “pitiful complaint” as Lead^r Ker calls it. This gentleman has at last paid a visit to Somerset and spent 3 or 4 days with Major Jackson. He was much attended to - Call’d three times to see me.

Eliza has been here a fortnight and today pays a visit to Mr. J Waters' family. She's really the most delightful tete a tete companion in the world, and also a capital nurse.

God bless you
E.U. Teackle

18^th Aug.

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18 Aug. 1811

Princess Anne, Md.
20. Aug.
FREE Mail
L.D. Teackle, Esq^r
Barney’s Hotel
Baltimore