{"id":12491,"date":"2023-11-15T09:29:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T16:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=12491"},"modified":"2023-11-15T09:29:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T16:29:58","slug":"31-b-aida-receives-another-uninteresting-letter-december-1877","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=12491","title":{"rendered":"31\u2013B. Aida Receives Another Uninteresting Letter, December 1877"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Demolition<\/a>
Demolition of buildings for the NY approach to the East River Bridge. Harper’s Weekly, November 1877. LOC: 90715542.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Walton, New York, to Aida Austin, December 16, 1877<\/strong>
\nMy Dear Aida,
\nA note from Emma the other day stated that if I would only write once more you would answer No. 2. So you see I am bound and determined to fulfill upon my part all that is possible to get a note from you. <\/p>\n

I am well aware how uninteresting anything which I may write will be to you but I will make it so brief that you will not be very much fatigued in reading it providing you can read it at all.<\/p>\n

Four weeks of school has already passed which time seems very short to me. I think this is the pleasantest winter weather I have seen for a long time. Not any snow (except an occasional spot now and then) to be seen and the sun shines war as summer.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m away from home just now and am using someone\u2019s writing material besides my own. And of course I shall have to break my word with Emma (I s\u2019pose it\u2019s of little account at the best) as I told her I\u2019d write her when I wrote to others. <\/p>\n

You may ask her to excuse me this once besides an average of once a week in the future. I shall have to make you a visit before many months seeing I did not see you last summer in Sull. co.<\/p>\n

Do you expect to live in Sull. again? What part of the year could you entertain me with the greatest convenience for a very short time? (Taking it for granted of course that my company will be agreeable.)<\/p>\n

What are you doing now? What is Emma doing too? But I must close. Write soon. Don\u2019t be afraid.<\/p>\n

Yours in love, Chester Beers<\/p>\n

Note: Chester’s letters are written to Ida, who (apparently) spelled her name Aida, when she was older. So I have usually changed Ida to Aida. <\/p>\n

It will be December before the next post. Busy times here in Cave Creek!<\/em>
\n<\/p>\n

Previous Posts<\/strong>
\n1. Is that the New Teacher?<\/a>
\n2. The Math Tutor<\/a>
\n3. Chester Beers to Friend Emma, Correspondence Continues<\/a>
\n4. What is the News? October 29, 1869<\/a>
\n5. The Merry Laugh of the Village School<\/a>
\n6. Teaching Advice in a Poem<\/a>
\n7. I Would Not Wait for Erie’s Train<\/a>
\n8. 1870 Highland<\/a>
\n9. Mrs. Prindle’s Soliloquy<\/a>
\n10. February 28, 1870, What Is the News?<\/a>
\n11. Who Teaches in the Village, April 1870<\/a>
\n12. Fair Hagan’s Pool, June 1870<\/a>
\n13. Shades of Night, 1870<\/a>
\n14. Deposit, New York, 1871<\/a>
\n15. Dear Father, January 1872<\/a>
\n16. Emma Attends Albany Normal, March 1872<\/a>
\n17. Lumberland Schoolhouse, 1872<\/a>
\n18. Verdant Meadows, June 1, 1873<\/a>
\n19. I Have Been Very Busy, August 30, 1873<\/a>
\n20. 1874\u20131875<\/a>
\n21. 1876, A Challenging Year<\/a>
\n22. Impossible To Be Your Friend, 1876<\/a>
\n23. The Old Schoolhouse, May 1876<\/a>
\n24. Centennial 1876<\/a>
\n26. Save Your Patience, June 1876<\/a>
\n27. More 1876 Centennial Images<\/a>
\n28. Old Acquaintance, February 1877<\/a>
\n29. New York Visit? 1877<\/a>
\n30. Fall 1877<\/a>
\n31. Chester Writes Aida, October 1877<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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