[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her daughter, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle, November 2, 1815]

Mentioned in this letter

Business, Economy, and Travel: Farms; Newspapers; Travel
Home, Health, and Social Life: Fashion - Bonnets and Hats; Fashion - Cloth; Fashion - Handkerchiefs; Food - Dairy; Food - Fruit; Food - Meat; Gardening; Gardening - Flowers; Health - Disease and illness - Influenza; Livestock
People: Bancker, Charles Nicoll, 1777-1869; Bancker, Sarah Upshur Teackle, 1783-1843; Brugiere, Marie Antoinette Heloise Teisseire, 1785-1838; Campbell, Andrew Donaldson, 1777-1854; Chauncey, Elihu, 1779-1847; Chauncey, Henrietta Teackle, 1780-1832; Eyre, Ann Matilda Upshur, 1780-1829; Grelaud, Marie “Deborah” Claudine D’Espaigne, 1765-1856; Montgomery, Elizabeth Dennis Teackle, 1788-1823; Montgomery, James, 1787-1834; Montgomery, Mary Keen Crathorne, 1765-1848; Quinby, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle, 1801-1875; Teackle, Elizabeth Upshur, 1783-1836; Teackle, Littleton Dennis, 1777-1848; Williams, Isaac H.
Places: Scotland; United States - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia County - Philadelphia

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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 that Littleton Dennis Teackle, Elizabeth Ann's father, will be visiting her in Philadelphia in December. Also, Andrew D. Campbell has written the family and asked them to come visit him in Scotland. Elizabeth is very excited by this prospect and thinks it would be a great learning experience for her daughter.
Creator: Teackle, Elizabeth Upshur
Creation Date: November 2, 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
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 - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia County - Philadelphia

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Nov^r 2,

My dearest child

I am truly happy to observe by your letter to your father that you still escape the prevailing influenza, and that your spirits are good. You will have an additional cause of happiness soon in seeing your Papa who will be with you about the 4th or 5th of December, (tomorrow week). I sincerely wish I could participate in the delight he will feel in seeing you. Next spring must come, and then I hope to have you with us; to which end, you must keep your aunt Bancker in the [torn page]cour of paying her promised visit. It is with much pleasure do I look forward to seeing you all! Heaven grant it may be realized. I have written to Mr. Montgomery requesting him to bring his Mother and Eliza also, and I wish you to repeat to your Aunt Chauncey and your uncle, too, how much we should be gratified in seeing them here also, and write me what she says. I hope to have a fine garden next spring, and have

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already [Page torn] large parcel of early strawberries, which [Page torn] will bear finally to regale you with, in addition to the quantity I had before. I shall also make an exertion for early pinks next season, and no doubt we shall have eating in abundance. We have fared sumptuously this year from the produce of our farm which yields us fine veal, butter and poultry. Now we are going upon beef and moutton and soon shall have a number of fat hogs for bacon. By the bye has Mrs. G. ever got the hams I sent her so many weeks ago? And how did the rose water turn out which I [sent] your aunts and Mrs. Bruguiere? [Page torn] very good when I sent it; but I fear that the bottles having remain’d corked so long will injure it, it shou’d never be corked.

I sent you by Mr. Williams (Isaac) a very pretty silk handkerchief, pink and green. Did you get it? And have you got your winter bonnet? And is it pretty?

How will you ever answer all these

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questions?

Mr. Teackle today [Page torn] a letter from Mr. Campbell wherein he particularly invites us to go to Scotland, and to take you by all means. Now as we do think of the thing when we have nothing else to do, it should be well for you to make haste with your accomplishments, and have them all ready cut and dry against the time comes round for I shou’d be loth to present my only daughter to the gaze of all Europe, as one entering into life like Richard¹ “but half made up”. Mr. Campbell writes that he has lately been [Page torn] and was present when Wellington rev[iewed] his troops there. He promises soon to write me a long account of it all. This will be very interesting, you know, to have such details, from an eyewitness, of events more important than ever were witnessed in Europe before. He will be able to tell me many little anecdotes, highly interesting, and which do not come into the compass of a newspaper. You can form no possi