BIB_ID
246806
Accession number
MA 4750
Display Date
[18th century].
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, 1993.
Description
1 item (3 pages)
Notes
The letter is neither signed nor dated. Based on the contents, the writer may have been female and based in Ireland, though this has not been definitively established.
Provenance
Herbert Cahoon.
Summary
Writing of her love for the letter's recipient and her fears about whether it is returned; saying "I consider you come the neerest my notion of a fine gentlman of any I ever saw"; mentioning a discussion between them about religion: "I believe you are made of matter [...] since we are told it is capable of impression how does it appear I have made any on you[.] if some other nimph has impres'd her self in your hart [...] you are no other ways in fault then not telling me so"; mentioning that her correspondent has left Carrick and anticipating how much she will miss him when he leaves "the kingdome"; saying that a friend told her that "my reading [John] Lock[e] and natural philosophy would corrupt my notions"; writing of her sense of her own attractiveness; promising to "do you all the good offices in my power, wh. is genirous in me"; writing teasingly of her commands to him; commenting "I fancy it is not costomery in your country for Ladys to express thyer love first & offtenest"; writing further on natural philosophy; adding "I dreamed Last night you fell & was hurt if you come home well my pleasure will make me for get my resentment at your delay."
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