{"id":6422,"date":"2015-03-11T12:01:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T16:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=6422"},"modified":"2015-03-11T12:01:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T16:01:33","slug":"march-1872-albany-letters-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=6422","title":{"rendered":"March 1872, Albany Letters 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Albany, New York, March 1872 <\/strong>
\nMy dear Mother,
\nI have been copying poetry and drawing maps all day and now I am going to write a few lines to my mother as I am tired and I know this will rest me as much as anything. <\/p>\n

I am glad we do not have school Saturday. I never should have anytime for writing if they did. <\/p>\n

The lessons are not very hard to learn, but they are hard to recite and it takes me all the time to think what I shall say and how I shall say it when I get up in the class and then I very often forget and say something wrong. <\/p>\n

We have been having review in Geography all this week. I asked Mrs. Stoneman yesterday how many failures I had made. She said I had not made any, but my recitation on Tuesday was not very good. She gave me Mr. Parish\u2019s to recite from and I could not tell what it was and consequently failed to recite. I was afraid she marked it a failure, but she did not. <\/p>\n

I think this school is very good for those who intend to teach. But I think we could learn more in one year at Monticello Academy, than one can here in two. <\/p>\n

I am going over now what ought to have been taught me at school just as soon as I commenced studying\u2014grammar, geography, arithmetic, etc…<\/p>\n

Mary seemed quite surprised that I am here and advised me to go to the observatory should I be up for a flirtation and graduate in matrimony, instead of spending my time in the schoolroom…<\/p>\n

I was just as lonesome as could be when your letter came. I feel considerably better now. I know you do not have much time for writing…<\/p>\n

I wish Mr. B. had sent a valentine or something so I could have written. It would seem kind of good to hear from him again. <\/p>\n

Please burn this letter won\u2019t you…Emma<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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