Friday, May 18, 2012

Thoughts from the Archive: Sympatico Edition

"We of course had been much delighted with the evening-- 'Call it but pleasure and the pill goes down' for under other circumstances to have passed two evenings in weeping & shrieking would be deemed an odd way of being amused and really does it not seem ridiculous to go to be made to feel miserable"
--Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy, April 19, 1833

Clearly we understand one another...who doesn't enjoy a good sob from time to time?

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Thoughts from the Archive: Historical Dreamboat Edition

John Lowell to Rebecca Amory, 1789
"Mr Lowell's respectfull Compliments wait on Miss Amory - he has inclosed a tune apparently the same, she expressed a wish for, but from the shortness of it is apprehensive he is mistaken - he indulges a hope that Miss A. will in future honour him with her commands; and he can add with sincerity, that it shall ever be the study as it will certainly be the happiness of his Life to Afford her the smallest Gratification"