Having just returned from church and my feeling tranquilized by the devotions and services of the day, I cannot better occupy the vacancy between this and the mid-day closing, than communing with my Laura.

Although I enjoy much the pleasure the grateful communion which letters afford, yet I would be willing for once to substitute a personal interview.

I would attend you in your moonlight reflections, indeed the twilight promenade and which you would extend into an evenings long walk. I would help you admire the stillness of the evening, listen to the fanciful manner you would play with a moonbeam, and perhaps, if we wandered to the banks of the Hudson, hearken to the distant sound of a boatman’s oar, or more fortunately, perhaps the soft notes of the flute, attuned by some floating swain, might be brought by a passing zephr, and our feelings would thus be harmonized and melodized (if I may be permitted to make a word).

Transcribed for this website by Terri Nan Trebbits.

Courtesy of the Delaware County Historical Association Archives, 46549 State Hwy 10, Delhi, NY, 13753.

Further information on the Sherwood Family is available in the Letters and Journals of Samuel and Laura Sherwood (1813 - 1823), edited by John Crocker, Delhi, NY, 1967,  available in the Delaware County Historical Association Archives.

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