Lot 31 Letter 3 - 9th of April, 1848

9		April		1848

To: Mr Lloyd Mintwin

Savannah, Georgia.

From: Anna

Fenisburgh, Vermount.

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Fernsburgh April 9th 1848

Ever dearest Lloyd-
Thy most welcome and long expected letter was received on the 4th inst. and no doubt in this there has received mine of the 11th inst and perhaps there is no answering it but I hope the answer is on it way - it was a very very long time that I did not hear from thee - from March 8th till April 4th - Why was thee so long? did thee not know how anxiously I should wait and wait for tidings from the beloved one of my heart how heavily the days would pass - how my heart would sink when at each return from the office there was no letter from them? all this I feel dearest when an unusual length of time passes between thy letters - I imagine to much that may prevent thy writing that I feel no rest till the wished for letter comes - does thee feel at all so with regard to my letters.

I am very glad my letters cheer thee so - even if writing of itself was no pleasure this would be an inducement - I was intending to write to thee during the past week - before thy letter arrived it is a please to me to write to thee and to know that I express intelligibly what I feel - the dearest love. To dearest the long catalogin of faults does not make me afraid in truth. I knew or suspected them all before but it does make me afraid of myself. My faults to like hi, that I sometimes dread the consequences but I hope for the best that with mutual forbearance and a world of love so shall pap through life for more happily than most do- though perhaps Father and Mother will __________ so but when we are as good as they as be shall be as happy but do not speak so about one future life been to be no more to each other then marry - nay must - am who

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I should rather far rather turn back upon my heart this mighty stream of love and let it burst its fountain - so have our ______ probably be always shall him but so long as we know that there is in this heart of each a strong, enduring love for the other then non _____ in this charde distinct _______ or coll indifference world break my heart but no one world know it I should change but to be younger not sadden but why do I feel so much happier in the future than then is it ___ then has the sad temperature of looking on the dark did or propopsed of a selfish insedibility ir sadden yet does the expert the step them had taken if so tell me now that I know the worst.

I have been reading today thy first letter to me in what a ______ letter it is - oh how my heart thrilled as I read those protestations of love - I sometimes wish I could hear thee again for the first time. Tell me thee loud - oh how my heart beat and my breast quivered and I was afraid thee would kiss it and I tried to force a calm up I could not feel and then I ___ long so gone home so from I wanted to day more than I did more than I should if one rid had been six miles long for I could not talk ____ evening does thee surrender all this or is it I alone that have treasured it in the ________ call of my heart? What a dull affiar my first letter to thee must have been - I remember. so will my feelings I ____ this them - I would have loud to tell them so but I was a little afraid of thee - some of the feelings of the chold towards cousin . Lloyd in the heart of the firl who them addaped him as _______. Strange it all seems. I pray that I may not dissappoint thee I may not be found inworthy of they love and dearest if the finds me in fault more than tee now thanks I have bear with ____ me still and by kind _______ try to improve the child whose greatest

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virtue perhaps is in loving thee devotedly.

How I wish tee could renouce ______ forever. The business things so much dislikes, I wish I _____________ them in

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I fear costionms that I ____ than friend

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April 11th

Thy letters of the 2nd was handed me last night do not despond my dearest Lloyd all may yet be successful and if not let us hope that it may be over _____ for good by Him who knows do much better than we can what is ______day to justify us would that be any sacrifice I could assist thy, but I can only sympathise encourage and love most disbutely never does thee seem so inpupitly down to me as whom ______ or _______ beg them kindness upon thee but dearest hope on hope _______ and know what that whatever _____ them signed ______ in my heart is that a soothing thought. Oh that I could aid them is at best that I could lay my cool hand upon thy brow play with they glossy hair ____ my lips upon thy forehead and can those dreadful headaches that I know thou had worn I will answer thy letter soon, The confidence then unfolded in me is qualifying in the extreme not for the sake of the knowledge but the feeling that prompts it dear me not.

Write to me when thou can but if thee could ___ when writing to me then ____ again. My dearest wish beloved I say be of good cheer,

Keep _____ goodnight
faithfully
thy _____
Anna

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