| | 9 | Author: | Hamilton, Alexander | Add | | | Title: | Letter to Angelica Schuyler Church (November 8, 1789) [a
machine-readable transcription]  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-ASChurchletters | | | | Description: | After taking leave of you on board of the Packet, I hastened home to sooth
and console your sister.[1] I found her in bitter
distress; though much recovered from the agony, in which she had been, by
the kind cares of M.rs
Bruce[2] and the Baron.[3] After composing her by a flattering picture of
your prospects for the voyage and a strong
infusion of hope, that she had not taken a last farewell of you; The
Baron little Phillip[4]
and myself, with her consent, walked down to the Battery, where with aching
hearts and anxious eyes we saw your vessel, in full sail, swiftly bearing
our loved friend from our embraces. Imagine what we felt. We gazed, we
sighed, we wept; and casting "many a lingering
longing look behind" returned home to give scope to our sorrows, and
mingle without restraint, our tears and our regrets. The good Baron
has more than ever rivetted himself in my affection : to observe his
unaffected solicitude and see his old eyes brimful of sympathy has
something in it that won my whole soul and filled me with more than usual
complacency for human nature. Amiable Angelica!
how much you are formed to endear yourself to every good heart. How deeply
you have rooted yourself in the affections of your friends on this side the
Atlantic! Some of us are and must continue
inconsolable for your absence. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 12 | Author: | Hamilton, Elizabeth | Add | | | Title: | Letter to Angelica Schuyler Church (n.d.) [a machine-readable
transcription] | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-ASChurchletters | | | | Description: | My very Dear beloved Angelica I have seated my
self to write to you, but my heart is so sadend by your Absence that
it can scarcly dictate, my Eyes so filled with tears that I shall not be
able to write you much but Remember. Remember.
my Dear sister of the Assurances of your returning to us, and do all
you can to make your Absence short. tell Mr. Church
for me of the happiness he will give me, in bring- =ing you to me, not to me alone but to fond parents
sisters friends and to my Hamilton who has for you all the affection
of a fond own Brother. I can no more. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 15 | Author: | Ceasar, Samson | Add | | | Title: | Liberian letters: Samson Ceasar to David S. Haselden 1834
February 7 | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters | | | | Description: | I embrace this opportunity to inform you that I am well at this time
hoping that these few lines may find you enjoying the
Same
blessing after
fifty sixt days on the ocean we all landed
Safe in
monrovia
I was very Sick on board of the vessle
but I thank god that he has taken Cear of me untill the present time I
hav Seen Agreate manys things Since I left home that
I never would of Seen in
Buchannon
it
urengs to mind the words of Solomon that the eye is not satisfide with Seeing nor the eare with
hearing I must say that I am as well pleasd as I expeced to
be in
Liberia
we hav most all had the fever and hav lost four of our number one woman about Seventy five two
Children under twelve allSo the
Rev
Mr Rigt
[1] one of our misenarys lost his wife and we may Say She is aloss to
africa
but we hav evry reson to belive that she
is at rest the balance is all on the mend this is my twenty fourth day Since I first was
takin and I thank god that I hav not kept my bed one hole day at atime the people do die through imprudence we
hav the best
docter that ever was in this place I can not tell you much about
africa
I hav not been from
Monrovia Since I landed I
must Say that the people are doing better than I expected them
two agreat many of them got rich Since they
came to
Liberia
their is Some that are doing bad like in all other
places I think from what I hav Seen and heard that any body Can liv in this place if they will be industrous
the natives are numerous in this place and they do
the most of the work for the people in this place
they will Steal every Chance They they hav they are most all Croomen[2]
in respect to my Self I think
that I Could make an independent living if I was to put
my Self about it but as my intention was to Spend
and be Spent for god I feal like standing to my
post I hav not been employd by the
methodist yet the Presbytterians offer to take me in to their famely and Support me and give me the best education that they
Can their is four in famely two white men one white woman and one Coloured man
they hav treated me with greate kindness and
all So the methodist the methodist
preachers are plenty in this place and their is
not as larg A field in
monrovia
as would I wish to find and be
spent for god our methodist bishup told me that as soon as he got over the fever he
would find me A Station I Can not tell you
at this time what parte of
africa
I will be placd
in I will write when I can tell you more A bout
it you must excuse bad writing and
all So bad Spelling I must
come to A close | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 16 | Author: | Ceasar, Samson | Add | | | Title: | Liberian letters: Samson Ceasar to Henry F. Westfall 1834 March
18 | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters | | | | Description: | I embrace the opper tunity to let you no that I send this paper to
Adam Carper
I am on my road to
Calwell
and met the oppertunity to send one
paper home please to send it to him
youy
you must excuse me for not writing more and better my company is wating to go to
Calwell
I
hav not been there yet
but am on my road at this time.
tell
Adam to read the news of Africa and let his friends read the same and all so his neighbours I did not
no when I wrote to
Daniel that I could get A paper to send home my Company is waiting on me and I must Stop
the writing is bad the Spelling is bad and the lines
Crocked. The
indorcment on the paper is put on by one of
our store keepers pardon me for not senen sending you A paper | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 17 | Author: | Ceasar, Samson | Add | | | Title: | Liberian letters: Samson Ceasar to Henry F. Westfall 1834 April 1 | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters | | | | Description: | I embrace this oppertunity to inform you
that I am well hoping that these few lines may find you all in good helth I wrote to you by the same ship that I came
in and I now hav the oppertunity of writing to you by a vessel that
brough out emegrants
from
baltimore
to
Cape Palmus
About five hundred miles from
monrovia
their is anumber
gon from this place to
Cape Palmus
as I wrote before I can not tell you
much About the Country as their has been so many
people died in this place I though I would not
expose my Self in travling So I hav not been from the
Cape
we have vessels coming in harber
All most every
weak from
urope
no man could tell what trade is going on in Africa unless he could See it I
hav seen so many Strang
things Since I left home that evry thing
be comes
old when I first Saw the nativs
all naked I though that I never could get ust to it but
it is an old saing use is second nature I do not mind to See them now
if I could talk with you face to face and tell you
about the nativs you would not belive
me to See their cloth that they make and other
Articue els that they make you would be
Supprised To be Short, their natturel
talants are grate
in deed Some of them can read and write.
I am sory to
tell you that we hav lost the Rev
Mr. Wright
after he lost his wife he had got on so fare that he came to Church and he took re laps and on the 21 of march he fell Asleep in
Jesus
arms ware
Sickneys and Sorrow pain
and Death are felt and feard no more
Mr. Spaulding is very low at this time and all
so the Single Lady, but She Says Se would
Sooner Die than to go back and discurage the
mishen it seem
all most
imposable for white men to liv here but still their is A greate many on the cost at
the
British Colenny
their is a greate many
white people in short they are coming and going out and in Monrovia most evry day
we hav lost but five out of our number yet but
God only noes how Soon Some
more of us will
hav to go but thank God it is
as nigh to havin in
africa
as it is in
America
the time is not
fare distant when
Gabril
will sound the
Trump and gether us all
together O that I may be so hapy to meet you and
all your
famely on the Right hand of God and all So all my neighbours
ware we can enjoy the company of each other for
ever and we will be clear of truble for ever
and we will see our God face to face and live for
ever.
O Henry when
I look back and reflect on the many
ours I spent with you and your famely I am led to wish that I could see you all but we are
severl thousand miles Apart at this time
the Captain of our ship says it is five thousand and six hu ndred miles from Norfolk to
Liberia
he can measure A mile on sea as correct as you can on
land I want you to write to me as often as you
can vessels are coming from the United States
evry
month let me no all about
the people how many
hav died and who they are and how many hav
mared and who they are and who was elected to
the next Legislature. Write evry thing [HOLE IN
MS] [HOLE] fit to write and I will do the same. [HOLE]
Give my love to your
wife and mothernlaw tell them to pray for
me I often think of you all
giv my love to Simon and
Harison
and to
Bety
tell them that I want them to have good education and good Religion
Against I come to
America
Giv my love to your Father and
Step mother tell them I often think of them
Tell them to pray for me Giv my love to the
Boys and tell them if they ever want to see any
thing to leave
Buchannon
giv my love to all the Children to Philip Reger with all his family and to Mr Haselden and Goff
and all inquireing
friends Tell Lydia that their was A vessel from
Jermany
landed here About ten days Ago and I never saw better looking men
in my life than some of them ware if She wants
a Jerman and
will write to me I will try to send
hur one for I think they will suit hur Tell
hur Above all things to get religion so that she may
Save hur
sole May the Lord bless you all and save you is my
pray for Christ's
Sak | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 18 | Author: | Ceasar, Samson | Add | | | Title: | Liberian letters: Samson Ceasar to Henry F. Westfall 1834 June 2 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters | | | | Description: | I embrace this oppertunity to inform you
that I am well hoping that these few lines will find you in and all yours in good helth it
affords me adegree of Comfort that I have the
oppertunity of conversing with you by
way of paper and ink I have been in Africa almost Six months and I have not kept my bed one
day at A time I had but A Slight tuch of the fever I have Chills now
and then and also the fever with them the
fever is not as hard in this Country as it is in the United States if you get it around here it is very hard to
heal but I thank god that I have had none yet
it is almost nedless for me to undertake
to dis crib
Africa to you I have Seen but
little of it but this I can Say the more I See and
the longer I Stay the better I
like it I am convinced in my owun own mind that all that is wanting is
industry and good management and then we Shall be independant and can enjoy the comforts of life I visited A Town by the name of
New Gorgia
it is Settled by the recaptured Africans by the name of
Ebose and
Congose
they had not been in the United
States long enough to learn to talk
English if you Could See their town and
their farms around it you would Say that any person that could not live in
A A
Africa
ort
to Starve I Seen three Crops all at
one time on one peace of ground their was corn rice and Cosider and they all
look as promising as I would wish to See them
Swete
potatos look as fine as any I ever Saw I must Say that I am afraid that our Country never
will improve as it
ort
untill
the people in the United States keep their Slaves
that they have raised like as dum as horses at home and Send those here who
will be A help to improve the Country
as for Virginia as far as my
knowledg extends I think She has Sent out the
most Stupid Set of people in the place while they have them their the cow hide is hardly ever
off of their backs and when they come here they feal So free that they walk about from morning till evening
with out doing one Stroke of work by those means they become to Sufer
people in the United States
ort
to have more regard for Liberia than to
Send Such people here Some think that every thing grows
by
in this Country with out labour but they are mistaken I must Correct an error that I made in William Jackson's
letter I Stated that every
thing grew almost
Spontanious in this Country I wish to be un derstood by
that expresion that we need not labour half
So hard here as in Some parts of the United
States yet we can not live with out work
their have com agrate many from
North Carlina
who are dregs in the place the most
enterprising men that we have here is from Baltimore and
Charleton
I can only Say that if the
Coulard man had the Same oppertunity with the White man he would not be one Step
behind him in no respect
the
their is not much Sickness in Liberia at this time god Still
preserves our lives
time would fail
m with me to tell all that I have
Seen and heard Since I left
Buchannon
I often think about you the thousands of miles apart we have had
Seet
intercourse together on Buchannon and
I feal in hopes if god Spares us we will See each
other in the flesh I am now living in
Call well
imploid to assist in giving out provis ion and Selling goods in the mean time I am studing grammer and the
arithmetic I want to get all the Learning
that I can for with out it we can do but little
both in temperl and Spirituel
matters your assistance to me will never
be forgotten by me while I move on the globe as it respects my religious
enjoy ments I think I enjoy my Self as well as I ever have Since god Spoke
peace to my Soul the more I See of the world the more I feal like Serving god as I n
no that I have but afew
days to live in the world I want to do all I can in god's service I feal that when
god calls me from this world that it Shall be from the walls of Zion I have been trying to Blow the gospel trump
ever since I landed in
Africa
I Still feal that god is with me god is reviveing his
work in
Caldwell
I feal as if the time was not far distant
till the Clangours of truth will be Sounded to
the last green verg on erth
when I look back to America
and See how the people in Buchannon Stood in my
way in trying to Serve god I fear that if they do not repent they will
be Sorry in the morning of the resurrection I can appeal to god and Say I love all my old neighbours I want you to give my best love to
your wife and tell her that I am Still trying to [illeg.]
tell her not to forget
me at athrone of grace Give my
love to all the family tell your boys to improve their time in
learning while young and when they grow up they will be glad that they
Spent their time in gaining knowledg tell
Betty likewise to get learning tell
Lydia that I expect She has all the learning She
can get unless She goes to
Germany
if She is not mared yet
[illeg.] tell her to write to me and I will try
and bring A German with me when I come to the
United States
I want you to give my love to your father and all his family both
at [illeg.]
and
abroad I have not time to mention [illeg.]
[illeg.]
names
tell them all that I am better contented than I
ever was Since I
blivd
that god called me to preach his gosple
their is a large field
opend
for me and I intend to labour for god untill he Calls me from the world and then I hope to go
whare the wicked Seas from trubling and the wared Soul be for ever at rest O Henry never sufer the vain and sorded things of this world to deprive you of the
immortle
crown
[illeg.] that awaits the faithful
at god's right hand Give my love to
Mr Haselden
tell him that the world has not got my hart yet I and
I hope by the help of god that it never will get the advantage of me
for their is nothing in it worthy of our affection give my love to all my
old neighbours and to all
inquireng friends I want you to write
as often as possible and let me no what is going on
in your Settlement how many have died and who they ware also how things are generaly
both in State and in Church in Short write
all that you think will be profitable to me
this is the fourth letter I have written [illeg.]
to you Since I landed in
Africa
I will write as often as I can
please to excuse bad writing and Spelling for I am Surrounded with
company
I want you to tell the people to direct
their letters to Mr Robert R Gurley in
Wash ington
for him to send to me and I think that I will get them by so doing you will oblige your
friend. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 19 | Author: | Ceasar, Samson | Add | | | Title: | Liberian letters: Samson Ceasar to Henry F. Westfall 1835 March 5 | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters | | | | Description: | I Embrace the opper tunity to inform you that
I am well hoping that these few lines will find you all
well I hav written to you
not long Since I will not write but a short
letter I want to in
form you that I hav received but two letters
from you since I landed I hav written as many as a dozen to you you
hav no excuse for not writing
vessels are coming from the
united states
everry month
the most of the vessels are from New York
with out it is and Emigrant vessel
they are mostly from
Norfolk
three of our Preachers are expected to
l Sail from Liberia to
new york
to morrow in order to bring their
familys to Liberia to
remain for life one is a white man
Super intender of the Methodis
Epistal Episcopal Church Several more of the people in this place are going I can not tell when I will start to come to
America I am employed to teach
school I do not know when I can come but if God
Spares me I hope to See you all in this world
if not I hope to see you in a
better world than this
I hav been to
one Camp meeting in
Liberia
I must say I never was at a Camp meeting in my life that
people acted better
it has been very sickly here for a
bout three month many
hav gone to eternity in that time I thank God that I am still living
Giv my lov to Mother Eade
an to David and his wife
tell them that I am well and doing well I am still striving to serv the
Lord in my weak manner and to Preach the Gospel
also
giv my best lov to all the
family tell them I often think about
them and would like to see them all but the proud ocean rolls between
us tho the ocean bet between us roll friendship shall unite our
souls giv my lov to your
wife and
and Children and to Miss Lydia
Simmons to all your friends and to all
the neighbours I will send your father one of our
herbals I hav not time to
write much now please to excuse me
as for you my best lov is alway with you I want you to write as often as possible and I will do the
same | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 20 | Author: | Ceasar, Samson | Add | | | Title: | Liberian letters: Samson Ceasar to Henry F. Westfall 1835 August
3 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters | | | | Description: | I feel happy to have the
oppertunity of writing you in order to let
you know that I am well at this time hoping that these lines will
find you all well. I am sorry to have to inform you that we have been
attacted by the natives at the place called
Bassaw Cove about one
hundred miles from here they
k killed about 15 or 20 Americans our people attacted them
twice and the first time we lost one man they sent up for more men they
went down and made the second
attact and drove the natives all out of Town it is not known how many natives got killed
but it is
Sertain Several was killed
I Can not Give you full Satisfaction in this letter I will send you
one
Herld and if I can I will send you a paper witch will be printed to
morrow or next day & witch will
Give you a full Statement of all the
ware. I Can only say that we are in no danger of
the natives if we manage Right as for my own part I feal no fear at all of the natives I
receive
a letter from Eade in July and was Glad to
here that you ware all
well tell
Eade
I have not time to write to her now but will write the first
vessel that Sails from here to America After this one Give my love to all your famely and
to all my old neighbours tell Mother
I am well Give my love to all the famely tell Daniel I have
never received a line from him Since I left home I am in a hurry the vessel is expected to Sail in a few
days. God is with us of a truth. I still feal
Intent on Serving God untill I die write as often as possible I remain your friend | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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