UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL CENTER FOR LOWELL HISTORY WRITTEN BY EMMA ELIZABETH LIZZY CLOUGH 1 TO LAURA F. ROWELL 2 Dear Laura Lowell 3 Sabbath Afternoon 1855 4 Agreeable to your request do I sit down to answer your kind letter which arrived safely here nit long since. I was very happy to hear from you again. & wishing to be happy again I thought I would write an immediate answer I have been to meeting this forenoon had a grand meeting & grand Singing. I think your journey home must have been very ardious most of the way-it was too bad you had to wait so long in Lawrence. Haverhill I wish you could have had that time with us (Dont you?) I have commenced another term of school the school is very large much larger than last term two hundred & Thirty five belonging I believe Mr. [B---] has his hands full to keep order with so many. I did not whisper last week and I am not going to whisper this term if I can help it he asks every one who have whispered and who have not and those not have whispered have to wait until all the rest are gone. I am going to try and not be absent too if I can but I expect every day when I shall be sick then I shall have to stay at home 1 Emma Elizabeth Lizzy Clough b: 1840, South Amesbury MA; parents: Ira and Hannah Clough; married 1864: Charles K. Fiske b: 5 Mar 1836, Concord, NH. 2 Laura Rowell b: 6 Oct 1837, Amesbury, MA; parents Charles Rowell and Mar Ann Sanborn; married 1861: Charles L. Titcomb b: 1836, East Kingston, NH. 3 Lowell, Massachusetts. 4 January 7, 1855.
I have been to meeting this afternoon & had a grand meeting. Singing revives me. Stevens has been up to New Boston to make a visit since you were here he had a grand time he said. He went up one Thursday & came back the next Wednesday. He saw Sam there and a hanging round just the same as ever. Did you ever see such a thing to hang round Dear me I never did get so sick of any one as I did him. I thought he never would go away from here (Did you?) Steven saw Jennie Gregg she is the same old [----] I had a letter from her a week or two ago I believe it was the fourth one she had written to me tho since I had written to her so I thought I would answer this one so I sent an answer by Steven. She sent me a present of a Gold ring a very pretty one indeed very kind in her I think Dont you? I had a letter from Hattie last Tuesday she had got quite smart then and was in hopes of soon being better
she got so much better that the Doctor told her that she might eat anything she pleased so she went had ate some Beef Steak and it hurt her & caused relapse of the Fever so the day that Steven she was a great deal worse than she had been & I have not heard anything from her since I am very anxious to hear from her think some of writing to her so might Mother is sitting here and says tell your mother she is expecting her up [----] says if she will come up they will go to Boston together she says she would write a little but been to meeting all day & has got quite a dreaful head ache. she likes here on account of the meeting very much she went and had a Grand meeting last Sabbeth morning
It being the last Evening of the year they had a Watch meeting which lasted untill twelve Oclock. She & Father went and stated and heard the two Sermons. Mother has been in to see the Candy man again and got more then she will eat for a week. Says she would send you good piece in the letter if she could. I have found a pair of Stockings which I suppose are yours I did not see them untill after you had written there is no way I know of sending them to to you at the present time without it is by Express I have not been in to the New Depot lately I think of going in soon. Oh, Laura I went to a ball New Years night & if I did not have a grand time. I had a altitutatiously good time. and I went to another cotillion party last Wednesday Evening and had a grand time but my page is about full so I think it is about time for me to close now I have been so good to write such a good long letter please be so kind & cordially as to write immediately. Emma [written on edge page 1 and 4] Please give my best regrets to Charles and tell him he must fulfill his promise that I [----] ask him if he does not need some more oysters if he does tell him Leonards is the place I here had some a number of times since you you were here down to Frenches Salon once since you were here they were great but I do not think they were as great as those were at Leonards.
[written on edge page 2] I am very thank full for a lock of your hair & also for Charleys please thank him for me for being so kind as to send me a lock of his - I think you fixed it very tastefully indeed. Give my love to your Mother [S----] sent his love to you he has had a letter from California lately he wants to go out there very much indeed [written on edge page 3] All the children send their love to you - come up again cousin if you can [written on edge page 4 and 3] I wanted Father brought me a Silk dress at Boston for a Christmas Present I would gladly send you a piece but I have not got it made yet & I cannot cut it very well but perhaps I shall get it cut by the next time I write then you shall have a piece of it [on cover] Jan 9 Laura F. Rowell West Amesbury, Mass