[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her daughter, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle, November 6, 1815]

Mentioned in this letter

Education, Religion, Literacy, and Culture: Christianity; Music; Poems; Poets; Schools - Madame Grelaud’s French School
Home, Health, and Social Life: Fashion; Fashion - Cloth - Silk; Food - Fruit; Food - Meat; Health; Health - Disease and illness; Home economy
People: Bancker, Sarah Upshur Teackle, 1783-1843; Berrien, Mary MacPherson Pryor, 1765-1832; Brown, Samuel, 1787-1829; Brugiere, Marie Antoinette Heloise Teisseire, 1785-1838; Chauncey, Henrietta Teackle, 1780-1832; Eyre, Ann Matilda Upshur, 1780-1829; Gibbon, John Heysham, 1795-1868; Gibbon, Mary Heysham, 1761-1824; Grelaud, Marie “Deborah” Claudine D’Espaigne, 1765-1856; Quinby, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle, 1801-1875; Teackle, Elizabeth Upshur, 1783-1836; 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 writes about the packages she is sending her and asks for items to be given to certain acquaintances throughout town. She also gives care instructions of the ruffle she made for her daughter.
Creator: Teackle, Elizabeth Upshur
Creation Date: November 6, 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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6^th Nov^r. 1815. P.A.

My dear child

I was unavoidably oblige’d to omit writing by the last mail in answer to yours of the same mail. Tomorrow your cousin Littleton sets out for Phi:a and has promised to take charge of a small package for you with this letter. I send your ruffle, and Petrarch’s poems. I have not been able to get the silk for your frock, having depended on Mr. Samuel Brown's arrival with his new goods which have not yet come. If however, he does not bring anything suitable I shall enclose the money to your aunt Bancker who will buy it for you in the city. I also send you a small package directed to Mr. John Gibbon at Mrs. Berrien’s, our friend, Mrs. Gibbon’s son. You will, when you go to see your aunt Chauncey, just step round to Mrs. Berrien’s and leave it for him. Attend to this.

I sent to Kegotank a box of

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hams, six in number, which I wish you to
make acceptable to Mrs. Grelaud. They
were excellent when put up, but having
remain’d so long in the box they may have
become moldy and ought to be taken out and
scrap’d and air’d. These with some dried fruit
to your three aunts and rose water, to
each two bottles were to be shipped to Mrs. Bancker’s
care. I also sent Mrs. Brugiere
two bottles of rose water, and wish you to let me
know when these things all come to hand
and when delivered. I shou’d have written
a note to Mrs. Grelaud and Mrs. Brugiere,
but I am really so taken up with my
family and attending to your poor aunt Eyre
that I have scarcely a moment
to share. Your aunt has been here ten or
twelve days and has been much indisposed,
but I hope she is now getting better.

I think you will like the ruffle. Be sure
you have it wash’d as I directed in a former
letter, and pinned out on a bolster lengthwise

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otherwise the work will be spoil’d in
one washing. You can do it up yourself,
always gather it and sew it slightly to a narrow ribbon
every time it is wash'd. I have
doubled it the proper width. It is intended
to hang over.

Write me how you come on
with your French and musick, and also give
me information of your health and that
of all our friends.

My dear child this is [a hurried?] [torn page]
scrawl as you may see. I hope
to have more time and matter the next
time I write.

God forever preserve, and bless
you, dearest of all dear children to

Your Mother
E.U.T.