Letter from the Samuel Blatchford to Lazette Miller Worden, August 13, 1842
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Letter from the Samuel Blatchford to Lazette Miller Worden, August 13, 1842
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Repository:Rare Books and Special Collections
Date:1842-08-13
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Letter from the Samuel Blatchford to Lazette Miller Worden, August 13, 1842
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sender: Samuel Blatchford
Birth: 1820-03-09
Death: 1893-07-07
location: Auburn, NY
receiver: Lazette Worden
Birth: 1803-11-01
Death: 1875-10-03
location: Canandaigua, NY
transcription: mlb
revision: crb 2017-11-10
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This letter was originally included in Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, August 14, 1842
Auburn, August 13. 1842
I have been out of humor ever since I left you, because I
found no opportunity to discuss at length about matters of importance
and interest to me and in a decision upon which I deemed your advice
and opinion very useful. I have arrived at no decision as yet. When you
shall come to know me better you will not deem me given to relapses
even to those matters about which perhaps my past conduct has given
you reason to believe me weak. I have been revolving in my mind for
two to three months the matter which now occupied my thoughts. As I
mentioned to you until within two or three weeks I had not entirely
freed myself from the embarrassment of other influences. But that is
now done and I am approaching this new question uninfluenced by
feeling and pride by judgment alone. A reason which weighs strongly
with me is, that, all personal considerations being determined favorably
not only by my own conviction but by the judgment of friends in whom
I confide. I shall be learning around myself in perpetuity influen-
ces and associations at once pleasing and useful and which have
in the last four years exercised a controlling influence in moulding
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my character. Whether these contributions to my happiness and wel-
fare will be overbourne I have not yet determined. I would like
to have your judgment on the question, and I have conceived the
idea that your expression of opinion would be more fully and freely
communicated in writing than in any other manner.
If you write to me of course you can adopt such methods
as you prefer for the conveyance of your letter. I yield to you now what
I have before ungenerously denied to you, a mind which you have
produced in a spirit so noble and evincing so much personal
regard, that my esteem and affection for you are established beyond
the power of disturbances.
Faithfully and affectionately yours
S. Blatchford
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Editorial Note
I have been out of humor ever since I left you, because I
found no opportunity to discuss at length about matters of importance
and interest to me and in a decision upon which I deemed your advice
and opinion very useful. I have arrived at no decision as yet. When you
shall come to know me better you will not deem me given to relapses
even to those matters about which perhaps my past conduct has given
you reason to believe me weak. I have been revolving in my mind for
two to three months the matter which now occupied my thoughts. As I
mentioned to you until within two or three weeks I had not entirely
freed myself from the embarrassment of other influences. But that is
now done and I am approaching this new question uninfluenced by
feeling and pride by judgment alone. A reason which weighs strongly
with me is, that, all personal considerations being determined favorably
not only by my own conviction but by the judgment of friends in whom
I confide. I shall be learning around myself in perpetuity influen-
ces and associations at once pleasing and useful and which have
in the last four years exercised a controlling influence in moulding
my character. Whether these contributions to my happiness and wel-
fare will be overbourne I have not yet determined. I would like
to have your judgment on the question, and I have conceived the
idea that your expression of opinion would be more fully and freely
communicated in writing than in any other manner.
If you write to me of course you can adopt such methods
as you prefer for the conveyance of your letter. I yield to you now what
I have before ungenerously denied to you, a mind which you have
produced in a spirit so noble and evincing so much personal
regard, that my esteem and affection for you are established beyond
the power of disturbances.
Faithfully and affectionately yours
S. Blatchford