[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her daughter, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle, November 7, 1815]

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Business, Economy, and Travel: Travel - Watercraft
Education, Religion, Literacy, and Culture: Christianity; Education
Home, Health, and Social Life: Fashion - Cloth; Food; Food - Grains; Health - Disease and illness; Home economy
People: Bancker, Sarah Upshur Teackle, 1783-1843; Eyre, Ann Matilda Upshur, 1780-1829; Eyre, John, 1768-1855; Gibbon, Mary Heysham, 1761-1824; Grelaud, Marie “Deborah” Claudine D’Espaigne, 1765-1856; Hack, Ann Q. S., 1788-1827; Quinby, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle, 1801-1875; Teackle, Elizabeth Upshur, 1783-1836; Teackle, Littleton Dennis, 1777-1848; Upshur, Littleton, 1783-1832

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Description: Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her daughter, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle, while she was attending Madam Grelaud's French School in Philadelphia. She thanks Elizabeth Ann for sending gifts to her and praises her hard work in school. She also talks about Ann Upshur Eyre's visit to Princess Anne and says that Littleton Dennis Teackle is sick.
Creator: Teackle, Elizabeth Upshur
Creation Date: November 7, 1815
Subjects: Teackle, Elizabeth Upshur, 1783-1837; Quinby, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle, 1801-1875
Item Type: letter
Identifier: MSS 2338, 2338-a, 2338-b Box 1
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 - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia County - Philadelphia

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7^th Nov^r. 1815

My dearest Elizabeth

Today's mail brought your father and myself a partnership letter from you which enclosed my red cotton. I thank you for your attention in sending it, as I wanted it. I also thank you for the scissors sheath you have promised me. But I, by no means, my dear, wish you to spend your small allowance in presents for me, however gratifying it is to my heart to have such instances of your affection, which I value more as marks of love than for their intrinsic worth; though your selections are always useful to me.

Your aunt Eyre’s departure has created a blank in our house, and I terribly feel it so. Although she was really indisposed during her stay with us, yet at times she was some thing like her former self. Mrs. Gibbon too is really a very agreeable companion. She has a great fund of anecdote, and much miscellaneous information: and with all, appears to

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possess an excellent heart. Miss Ann Hack too, you know, is a genteel and charming companion, and your uncle Eyre’s talents in that line are well establish’d. No wonder then, that I feel the loss of their society. If I had you my darling, I think I shou'd never feel the want of any other company. But this cannot be, yet awhile. The time will come when I hope to receive the reward of my sacrifice in suffering you so long from my sight; when with an enlarged mind, improved and cultivated, my daughter will be fitted to converse with her mother as a friend and equal. These are delightful anticipations my Elizabeth. I daily pray to God to realize them. In the mean time, my love, endeavor to perfect your mind and heart by a steady attention to the improvement of the one, and by a watchful guard on the impulses of the other. I was pleased to learn that you had been “studying at such a rate”, and I have always thought that

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strong minds exert themselves according to their necessity of exertion. On the other hand, weak ones instantly give up when the least additional load is laid upon them. It will be a comfort to you to find that this severe course of study will become easy to you in time. Your mind will become more and more elastic as you exercise it, [small hole in page] the body does.

I wrote you on Saturday by cousin Littleton who will deliver the letter, before you get this probably, with a bundle. You will no doubt attend to the several requests I have therein made.

Your father is just now a little indisposed with an epidemic cold; nothing, however, to make us the least uneasy about him.

I wrote to sister Bancker to send me 1^bbl buckwheat meal, to which request her to add a barrel of shell barks at your father's request. Let her know this is as soon as