"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?
Friday, May 18, 2012
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"
"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"
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