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The Dorr Letters ProjectThomas Wilson Dorr to Lydia Allen Dorr: |
Letter
Oct. 23. '44. -
Dear M. Yours of Oct. 12 gave me the pleasure of hear-
ing once more from yourself and the world without. I regret that
you were under such depression of spirits when you wrote, and
trust that you have recovered the equanimity so necessary to sup-
port the troubles of this moral lot. I cannot sufficiently
thank you for the most excellent wishes in my behalf expressed
in your last; and they are reciprocated with the utmost sin-
cerity. This short note will be accompanied by the verbal ac-
count of the bearer respecting my health. On this subject I cannot
add but little. We do not expect any unremarkable ewes in a
place like this so little adapted to rheumatative cases. – I
notice you hint respecting “enclosures”, and will observe the same cau-
tion as before. In return I would suggest that there should be an in-
ner envelope around all that you send, properly sealed – I hope that
Henry was honorable enough, in his reply to the recent tender of a nomin-
ation to the assembly from N. York, by the democratic committee, to say that
he ceased to be a democrat (if ever he were one) more than two years ago.
He certainly could not wish to avoid himself of the goodwill, or patron-
age, of democrats, under any false pretense. – Of the new “Baptist ball”
mentioned in your last, I cannot very well judge in this confinement. It
sounds better than its predecessor, but not so well as the old one. One more
casting will bring it about right. – The assembly will probably do nothing
next week, or will annex conditions which they will know will not be accepted.
Yours very truly, T.W.D.
I think I have had more than my proportion of the orchard grapes and sickle pears.