Letter from Lizzie Lane to Harry Lane, November 15, 1875
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Title
Letter from Lizzie Lane to Harry Lane, November 15, 1875
Subject
Correspondence--1870-1880
Description
letters
Creator
Lane, Lizzie
Date
1875-11-15
Format
2 JPEGs
600 ppi
Language
English
Identifier
1874_11_15_bl
Coverage
Brompton (Fredericksburg, VA)
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Text
Dear Harry,
I received your sweet letter on Saturday the drawing was so nice. Your telegram came today and frightened us so Ma and Pa were down town and I was here by myself the door bell rang I went to the door and the boy handed me the telegram I thought something dreadful had happened untill I read it ma met the boy on his way to town she came up thinking as I did and burst out laughing as soon as she heard what it was. I mis(s) you so when I go to sunday school I go evry Sunday. Ma and pa spent the evening at aunt Fannies on saturday and I at the Murdaughs but had to leave at 8 with a sick headache which was very bad. but I am well now. Ma has a new sewing woman because there are so many new babies in town. Dot has learned to sit in the corner and give you his paw he speaks when you tell him to and I am teaching to sit up on the floor without touching anything he looks so sweet he is like Cousin Hennies punch.
We eat supper in the library. Aunt Fanie has given me a right large box of paint she gave me four plates with pictures on them. We have fixed the wood house into coop the hens have just commenced to lay.
The is nothing more to say so I must stop now all join in love your devoted sister Lizzie.
PS [ ] sends her best love and says she wants to see you so much all the girls say the same but she more often than any. Carter says you never write to him but you must write to me I have felt so much nearer to you last week because I heard from you so often.
Nov 16. Ma sick in bed with a headache to day and I the housekeeping to do which is not hard to do. It is raining now right fast dot is in the bed with Ma. I must stop.
Lizzie Lane
I received your sweet letter on Saturday the drawing was so nice. Your telegram came today and frightened us so Ma and Pa were down town and I was here by myself the door bell rang I went to the door and the boy handed me the telegram I thought something dreadful had happened untill I read it ma met the boy on his way to town she came up thinking as I did and burst out laughing as soon as she heard what it was. I mis(s) you so when I go to sunday school I go evry Sunday. Ma and pa spent the evening at aunt Fannies on saturday and I at the Murdaughs but had to leave at 8 with a sick headache which was very bad. but I am well now. Ma has a new sewing woman because there are so many new babies in town. Dot has learned to sit in the corner and give you his paw he speaks when you tell him to and I am teaching to sit up on the floor without touching anything he looks so sweet he is like Cousin Hennies punch.
We eat supper in the library. Aunt Fanie has given me a right large box of paint she gave me four plates with pictures on them. We have fixed the wood house into coop the hens have just commenced to lay.
The is nothing more to say so I must stop now all join in love your devoted sister Lizzie.
PS [ ] sends her best love and says she wants to see you so much all the girls say the same but she more often than any. Carter says you never write to him but you must write to me I have felt so much nearer to you last week because I heard from you so often.
Nov 16. Ma sick in bed with a headache to day and I the housekeeping to do which is not hard to do. It is raining now right fast dot is in the bed with Ma. I must stop.
Lizzie Lane
Original Format
Paper
Physical Dimensions
3 x 5
Files
Citation
Lane, Lizzie, “Letter from Lizzie Lane to Harry Lane, November 15, 1875,” The Lane Family at Brompton, accessed April 18, 2026, https://lanefamily.umwarchives.org/items/show/16.