Strick, H ?. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.

Title

Strick, H ?. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.

Creator

Strick, H ?

Contributor

Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889

Date

1848-12-21

Description

Handwritten letter from H ? Strick to Amy Kirby Post, December 21, 1848.

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

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Identifier

722

Location

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

Transcription

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                                                                                                East Troy Dec 21^st 48
My Dear Friends

                                it is near the close of the day, and the
first day of your Annual Bazaar - and as I have passed
^the day^ alone my mind has been much with you - my thoughts have
been various and full of conjecture - and yet here I am, and
must remain patiently waiting untill [sic] informed of the result
immagnation [sic] sometimes pictures you with beautifully arran
ged tables adorned and embelished [sic] with a variety of elegant
and useful articles, from your English & Irish friends as well
as an abundant quantity of your own skillful manufacture ---
with a crowded house of the wealthiest class of citizens making
heavy purchases--your faces beaming with smiles of encouragem^ent^
chatting and laughing at intervals, in the height of you [sic]             enjoyment--- then again fancy changes the picture, ^and^ finds
you with rather a thin house, few buyers of the right stamp
(with full purses) many calling from motives of curiosity
to see the foreign articles--and make observation, and
turn and march out again without making a single pur
chase-- then ^it is^ I see the sober spiritless looking faces tired
and worn with weeks & months excessive fatigue previous
to this time, of the two pictures, I sincerely hope the former
will be realized-- then you will feel not only amply rewar
ded for your unceasing devotion to the cause of suffering
humanity, but that your labours have not been in
vain-- company is at the door, my writing will have to be
defered [sic] untill [sic] a more convenient season---Joel has seated the
friends and I stole a moment to tell you who they were, 7 or
8 [Barkers?] and a sort of a Cousin from Michigan

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Alexander Morgan & [son?] was up a few days ago and were well H Strick [illegible]
                                                                                                                                      sister

                                                                                                                                .

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Elizabeth & Emeline send their love to you all---Joel desires ^his remarks^ and said
he has thought of writing but he dont [sic] seem ready-- in the enclosed you
will find two letters one from Minerva Drake to her Cousin in
Birmah and his answer-- would you think well of having them put
In the North Star—I should like it as I send the only [copies?]
[illegible] has you to see her [feelings?]

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                                                                                      Feb 13^th
well Amy a long, long time has elapsed since these lines
were commenced-- very many things have occured [sic] to hinder my
writing. many natural attendants of a woman that is her own
domestic and has much company in the bargain. the sleighing
has been so good all winter there has been much visiting going on in
Wisconsin-- and we have been sharers in that enjoyment. Joel
took me to Milwaukee on a load of wheat and I passed a very
pleasant week with Joseph and Mary and William and Cynthia
called on Mrs Amos Sawyer met with a kind reception but did
not see Amos-- next day he met with Joel at the office and gave
an invitation for us all to come up to tea first day-- said never
mind if it is Sunday-- that being the day we were to leave for home
thought best not ^to^ go untill[sic] another time-- the evening we arrived
at Josephs they were just starting off to the Odd fellows festival
Mary appeared loth [sic] to go and leave us-- but we told her not to stay
a moment for us-- they finally went, and when she went out she
handed ^me^ her mothers letter, received a day or two before-- the peru
sal of which afforded me no small gratification as well as surprise
it seemed so like being with her and hearing her converse to read
her letter and some little particulars respecting the fair was what
I much desired to learn—we felt very sorry you did not make
rather more sales-- but from accounts in the Star think you
have been very industrious and persevering -- oh! how I would
like to have mingled ^with^ you in all your gatherings-- but instead
of that have sat many days last fall and fore [sic] part of winter
not able to walk from lameness in my ankle, -- though now
it is quite well -- I have discarded Phiscians [sic] and am bathing
in cold water-- and think it will benefit me.
that part of Sarahs letter relating to those spiritual raps

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takes me by surprise I know not what to make of it-- it is
something new-- it appears that a part of you are favoured with
those these spiritual visits and a part not, why not all spirit
ually minded persons receive these visits -- that they may become
convinced -- I do not doubt but the spirits of those now living
mingle with those that are gone. I speak for myself when
I say that my spirit often dwells with those departed ones
who was near and dear to me-- but to think they ever returned
in the form of any outward noise, would be hard for me to
believe without I had very strong evidence that it must be [so?]
and the Idea that the voice of a beloved [brother?], came from
the tomb to assist in the selection of a new dress, is preposterous
I cannot think the spirits of departed friends return here
to talk about dress and such trifles--I know you are sincere
in your beliefs, but do dear friends search into the cause
and see ^if^ it does not originate in some trivial affair-- that
as yet you have not discovered-- it is the love and friendship
that I ardently ^feel^ for those that are thus led, that induces
me to speak as plainly as I do
                                                                5^th day, morng [sic] 15^th and very
cold weather it is -- we have had two severe mornings -- colder
than any previous -- how pleasant the thought, that the Star
is like to be kept up -- by so many generous donations home
and abroad-- I feel rejoyced [sic] at it’s [sic] success -- Mrs Drake
would have taken it this winter had it not been for an infliction
bereavement in the loss of her husband-- her trials have been
of the deepest kind-- she is one of the most devoted friends to
the slave-- and opposed to oppression of every kind-- and comes
out against the church & Clergey [sic]-- and for that very reason

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suffers the most bitter persecution -- when they were consulting her
about his funeral --she told them she could not have Elder Delaney
of East Troy to preach the sermon ( who was bitterly opposed to her)
and as her husband made no request of the kind, -- but told them
to get any other person they chose-- and they accordingly proucured [sic] a
Baptist Minister from a strange Neighbourhood [sic ]to preach the sermon
sermon -- all passed off, with much solemnity -- this being the first
of the week -- in a very short time the word was announced that
Minerva Drake had poisoned her husband and Elder Delaney
was coming to preach his funeral Sermon the next sabbath
but her friends would not listen for a moment to either-- and some
thought with herself that he had better be taken up to satisfy the
public mind-- when first day came however Elder Delaney was on hand
previous to the time. one of his [obliterated] friends was overheard to say to him
Elder if you preach that sermon it will injure you very much -- so it
was all given ^up^ except to eulogize him -- she attended the meeting and
spoke in her usually calm manner -- adverted to the report and
asked the audience if he had not better be taken up -- but all arose
and with one voice said no! -- it would be acknowledging a possibility
that it might have been done -- and it died away very soon, though
not untill [sic] it was ascertained that it came from a member of the bap
tist Church-- we were at Mrs Drakes [sic] much of the time about the time
he died he suffered much with his lungs for 6 weeks -- doctord [sic] with
Thompson remedys [sic] -- she would ^often^ arise from her bed and administer
^them^ and lay down again -- her health being very poor -- he would say
Oh! Minerva what a nurse you are-- I dont know as many would
be interested in this little history of a stranger -- but thee Amy
enquired particularly about her -- and I thought it might not be
uninteresting to thee as she had been spoken of before -- how singular
those that ^take^ up reforms and go against the popular religion of the day
^will^ meet with persecution -- I was reading the report of the Boston [Bureau?]
in which I discovered amongst the little presents from England a
small parcel -- for the young girl who volunteered to sit by the
side of Ellen Douglas -- do please tell me who she was and what
the present was -- from the statement in the Star I thought several
volunteered to sit by her side -- how my heart was pained for
that dear child -- I thought how soon she began to feel ^the^ pangs of
of wrong and outrage which have pursued her race -- things
look more [cheering?] at present -- the question seems to be agitating
everywhere now with more fearlessness , --- my paper is nearly used
up and I have not said near all I want to -- but must stop Isaac Amy
and Sarah will you not write some good long letters tell us all
the news -- what was the matter at your Annual Meeting -- was sorry
to see what was published -- will you come and see us next summer
some of you pay that very pleasant but flying visit ^we made^ for two months I
felt afraid it had done us no good -- my thoughts were with you so
much -- my mind was often forcibly reminded of a line in Goldsmith
“at each remove I seem to drag a more lengthened chain”
we thought could we only see our Rochester friends occasionally
we could get along very well -- the thought of
Mothers coming is very pleasant
to us I have been watching
the paper for the
consumation
of a union

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amongst some of my friends-- love to one and all of my friends William Mary Edmund

Tags

Abolitionism; Medicine; Personal; Spiritualism

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Strick, H ?, “Strick, H ?. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 25, 2024, https://rclomeka2.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/3013.

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