I shall be obliged to stay yet a day or two. I hope for your health and trust my absence will not cause even a momentary unpleasant sensation.

I have seen Ann…think she means to continue where she is. Have seen Mr. Tappan, rather like him, brisk pleasant little man having a business character mingled with a taste & tact rendering agreeable to the “better part of creation”. Have been at Mrs. Wright’s; she has been sick, now recovering.

The death of Jefferson & Adams on the 4. July. are events which occupy the Day. The coincidences are deemed extraordinary, and afford to ingenuity great opportunities for accounting for the event.

You will see all by the papers which I can write. I am uncertain what day I shall return. Therefore, appoint no time. Love to all the family. Mr. G. & A.E. are of course home by this time.
Yours affect’ly

S-.

Transcription courtesy of the Delaware County Historical Association Archives, 46549 State Hwy 10, Delhi, NY, 13753. Transcribed for this website by Margaret Monaco.

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 and Milne Library, State University of New York College at Oneonta.

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