Catharine Maria Sedgwick to Theodore Sedgwick I Transcribed by Patricia Kalayjian Transcribed on Primary Source Cooperative 2022

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Stockbridge February 1st 1801 My Dear Papa

Pray excuse me for not writing you by the last Mail indeed I did write you but through carelessness left my letter at the Schoolhouse I am confident it would not have given you any pleasure I know that my letters do give you pleasure My Dear Papa for you say that they do that is sufficient fo to make me beleive it I think that letter would not have given you any pleasure it was very short and had nothing worth reading in it I will try my Dear Papa to make that up by writing a long letter this time you say in one of your last letters that the time will soon come when you shall take leave of congress forever that that day shall I in my own mind celebrate forever yes as long as I live I shall reflect on that dear time when My Dear Papa left a public life to live in a retired one with his Dear wife and children then you will have the pleasure to think when you quit the door of the house that you are agoing to join your family forever but My Dear Papa I cannot feel what you will when looking back on your past life in congress 2 you will remember how much you have exerted yourself in order to save your country what a blessed reflection that will be in your other letter you say that you sat up half after ten oclock to write to me for that my Dear Papa I feel very ah truley grateful again I thank you for wishing a happy new year you may be assured I wish you many. you say in old age when almost all our friends leave us and we have little more in this world to enjoy our friends ought to be resigned to our leaving them do you think My Dear Papa that I could leave my Dear parents in their old age no I should be happy in reflecting that I could in a measure reward them for all their kind care to me when I was young I do not think that we can have any reasons for leaving our friends when they grow old I think the longer we live with them on earth the more we are endeared to them at least any body who has ever entertained any affection for their parents. Sister Eliza intends leaving us soon Mama says she does 3 not think Washington is at all fitted to make you happy she hopes you will return home soon she sends her best love to you Mumbet wishes to be rembered to you she longs to have you come home she says _____

Your Dutiful Daugh^t^er Catharine M Sedgwick4

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Mr The Honble Theodore Sedgwick/City of Washington

C M Sedgwick/Jany 1801

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