Background: Samuel and Laura Sherwood moved with part of their family from Delhi to New York City in 1830  (see also the Biography of Samuel Sherwood) . Samuel was a lawyer. They continued to summer in Delhi.

Diana and Betty leave us this afternoon for Delhi and I send you buy them a small basket of oranges with a few prunes. We are all in our usual health and it gives me sincere pleasure to hear you are enjoying the winter so well. Your father has been all winter wishing to go to Albany and now the river is open intends going tomorrow morning.

Your father has at length decided that we shall move this month into our Ninth Street house and we shall probably mover as early as the third week of the month. There are several small jobs of carpentry and other work to be done before we can move in.

The distance from your Father’s office forms one of the objections and the small yard another one. Mary is present and begging me to send Dear Oakley some more prunes. Robert is in the yard perched on the fence playing with the neighboring boys. He and Mary are going to dancing school this afternoon and the exercise forms quite an amusement for them this winter. How often I have wished Dear Sherwood could be included with them. The children are anticipating his arrival with impatience and we shall all feel delighted to see the little fellow.

William and Samuel are well, the latter has recently been to Buffalo on Business for your father and William went to Washington to the inauguration of the President and was highly gratified with his journey.

You have doubtless heard of the numerous failures here and the disastrous times in the money market. The gentlemen in conversation together say everything looks prodigiously blue. Some talk of economy and retrenchment, but as yet there are no evidences of a change, and our winter they say, has been one of unusual gaiety and extravagance.

Please remember me affectionately to A.E. (Gould) and the Dear children. Samuel Augustus must be a fine boy by this time, for he was almost a man in appearance last summer. Our spring so far has been unusually mild and pleasant, the yards opposite us begin to show a passing of green grass.

When we last heard from John he was well and in one of his letter quite deplores the loss of the schoolhouse. His vacation commences the last of this month when he will be home.

Your ever affectionate mother

L. Sherwood.To: Mr. George O. Sherwood
Delhi, Delaware Co.
 

Transcribed for this website by Terri Nan Treibits

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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