Harriet Willcox to Lyman J. Willcox, July 14, 1836

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Description:: Oriskany July 14th 1836. Dear Brother I would gladly write you had I any confidence to believe you would receive my letter. I have written to you many times during the past year, but have never received so much as one word. I have called at the office, until I am quite ashamed to inquire for a letter. I think your letters must have been miscarried. I cannot believe that you have so entirely forgotten me as not to write at least once a year. No! It is impossible that nine or ten years absence would make you forget that you have a mother and sisters, a mother who would be willing to make any sacrifice to promote the happiness of her children. Often does she inquire, have you heard any thing from G and L. many a sleepless night has she passed, thinking that you were sick and in trouble, perhaps dead! I hope it may be nothing more than imagination; but I am fearful at times last some serious accident has befallen you. Your silence I think is sufficient to excite alarm in the minds of your friends, but I hope (altho it is but a faint hope) that I shall yet hear from you and learn the cause of your silence. Dear brother when I reflect how our family is scattered over the wald one her and another ther not even two in one place to emoth the path of life, it gives me feelings of sadness and melloncholly. How much more pleasantly we should spend our days could we but egoy each others society, for my part I feel as tho I was alone in the world, without a home or a relative; altho I believe I have manny friends in Oriskany yet they do not fill the place of a brother or sister; but if I am destined to spend my days thus, far from my relation I hope I shall not refir it my lot. Harriet To Lyman J. Willcox
Date Issued:: 1836-07-14T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: University of Michigan - Flint
Collection:: Lyman George Willcox Papers
URL:: http://digitalarchives.umflint.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16210coll1/id/87