By Daniel Tyler, Betty Henshaw
Whilst Leroy chippie left his domestic close to Tipton, Iowa, in April 1871 to pursue farming within the lately settled Union Colony of Greeley, Colorado, he left at the back of Martha Bennett, a tender girl from De Witt, Iowa. the 2 were brought the former fall and commenced writing letters to one another in December of 1870. Over the following 16 months their correspondence may combination romantic parts with the sensible demanding situations of frontier existence because the constructed intimacy, fell in love, and at last married.This compilation of fifty-four letters exchanged among wood worker and Bennett finds the societal adjustments dealing with women and men within the late-nineteenth-century West and gives a substitute for experiences of sophistication and gender that have a tendency to target the extra city and industrialized jap seaboard of the time. Their correspondence displays their roots in agrarian tradition, supplying a glimpse into the personal international of middle-class, rural the US and the social, political, non secular, and monetary panorama that affected their lives.
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He expressed a wish to become better acquainted with me. He is from the East and has a few friends here, and wishes to become acquainted with some there. 28 You were very kind to send me a map of the vicinity of Greeley or location of Union Colony. I can imagine very much how the country appears. It must be beautiful. I expect the mountains look majestic at times. I hope you did not think I really meant you to send me a picture of Greeley. Of course I should feel it a very acceptable gift, but when I wrote I was jesting more than otherwise.
Certainly I will excuse the style, and would be only too glad to receive longer letters from you. I thought . . I could write a longer letter to you but my thoughts seem quite well scattered now and being rather tired they fly farther still. Mr. Rogers has not been here since I wrote. I saw him pass the school house one day but that is all I have known of him lately. Have you heard any thing of Aggie’s father Letters e 21 since you have been out west? ] I often think of her, she is such a sweet disposed little girl.
I think you must have enjoyed your excursion very much. I think if that lady who informed you that she had a daughter could not have trusted that a country schoolmarm had a part of your heart or all of it, if you will allow such an expression, she would not have spoken as she did, but maybe she will learn the facts in the case some future day. We are favored with a very good rain last night. Two weeks ago Monday, we had quite a hail storm which cooled the air very much and we have had cool weather since.