Sunday Afternoon                                                                                                

Sept 5^th 86

Rocky Hill N.J.

 

My Dear Papa,

                        We are all well home at present, and I hope you are the same. How I wish we could see you, it is very lonesome with out you home I presume you have received Mama's letter, she wrote to you Thursday Eve, and I thought I would write to you today. I expect you are writing to one of us today also. I am looking for a letter from you every day as you have not written to me in quite a while, but we will write to you often. Oh My! what terrible earth-quakes they have had down near you, especially at Charlestown S.C. is it not horrible? I do hope their will not be any hard ones with you, although you did have a light one. / Was it heavier than the one we had hear once? You remember it the time it made the river muddy. Papa will you tell me when bass law goes out here if you know tell me. I dont, I forgot when it goes out. Albert Robb has not called me yet, Mama told him to, but has not yet. I had a very nice ride last Wednesday, up to Rock-Mills, or above at 2 or 3 miles up to Richard Scott's, dont you know him? I think Mrs Scott is a very nice woman, what I saw of her, she is just the style of a woman as Aunt Sallie, and she is just as fleshy, only not just as tall, and play on the piano? Oh what can she play and sing good, and lively. Elias & I enjoyed ourselves, as Mama told you he took me up there, and there after dinner Mrs Scott got her horses hooked up to her carriage and we all went to Neshanic Station, had a splendid ride. I saw Tom & Sallie, few moments, Aunt Sallie says I must tell you she is very much disappointed that you dident come up to see her while you was at home. / I told her you couldent as you was only home a little while. She wants Katie and I to come up there Wednesday of this week, they are going to have a peach festival, & Tom has got his name on the bill of it, as I saw it on I read one of the bills (he gave one to Mrs Scott to post up) It is a temperance affair, Grandmother told me a month ago that Aunt Sallie wanted us to come and stay a night or two, so Katie wants me to take her up before the school commences, and I think Wednesday morning if the weather is favorable we will drive swallow up, to Van Griggs pheaton. Mr Griggs says we can have it two or three day's, and while I am up there I might as well go home back by Mrs Scott's and spend a night their, as she wanted me to bring up my little sister to see her. you know I was telling her about her, how she could sing. This woman has got two little boy's also. She travel's a great deal to, and is well educated. School commences next / Monday. it was to commence tomorrow, but Charlie Conover told me yesterday, that he had a dispatch from the Teacher that he was sick. his name I belive is Folett. Old Dutch Jake he wants to buy swallow yet, he stoped by the door yesterday morning and said he would give $15 for her we told him we wanted more than that, and I wanted to use her a few times more. Mama told him to stop some other time. I think she is worth $18 cash any way, we wont sell her to him, I am afraid he'll use her to hard, but I cant help we had better sell her, as we got no good place to keep her, and we want the money ourselves, that it takes to keep her. Oh well we will get a long all right I hope, providence will take care of us I hope. Mama is going to write you a sheet full also. take good care of yourself and write as often as you can. We all send our love to you & kisses. Good Bye From Your Dear Daughter,

Mary B. Covert,

 

P.S. Oh Papa I forgot to tell you in my letter, that Bernie Haganien called here at the door the other day, and wanted to see you about buying your gun, wants to know if you want to sell it. I told him I would write and ask you a bout it. He told me to drop him a few lines and tell him, his addres is at [?]enburgh. And if you want to write to him and tell / him about the gun all right or tell me what to tell him. Now be sure and write and tell me about it.

 

Good Night

Mary B. Covert

Rocky Hill

N.J.

 

Dear Papa I thought I would write you a few lines to night to let you know that Llewellyn and Everard and I are going to bed now. Our school has comenced and Llewellyn and I am are going ralager every day we have a nice young man to teach us he has got a / nice moustache to I beleive that is all about school. how is yours self and Ponto and George please Papa write to me in mama letter and tell me how George and Ponto is and tell George to write to me. Good Bye Dear Papp

 

From Your Daughter

Katie S Covert

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