[Lydia] Maria Child ALS to Anna Loring, February 15, 1842

Lydia Maria Child Papers, 1831-1894 [Box 1, Folder 13]

it Bettine; for she looks deep and earnest as I fancy her, though in the stillest repose. John, moreover, planned an excur- sion to Staten Island, which was very pleasant; for the sun shone clear, and the air was mild as May. All along our road, he gave sixpences, oranges, and coppers, to every vagabond and poor child he met; because he said "he wanted everybody to be happy on his mother's birth-day." Aunt Maria thought this was more beautiful than the transparences. All the world is crazy about the Boz Ball; of which I hear only the echoed rumor, in my Quaker retreat. My birth day was the only holiday I have had for a long, long time. I sent you a paper, giving an account of the ball, because I thought it might

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Lydia Maria Child Papers, 1831-1894 [Box 1, Folder 13]
Title
[Lydia] Maria Child ALS to Anna Loring, February 15, 1842
Writer
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880
Type
letter
Recipient
Dresel, Anna Loring, 1830-1896
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N[ew] York
1842 February 15
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autograph manuscript signed

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"[Lydia] Maria Child ALS to Anna Loring, February 15, 1842." In the digital collection Lydia Maria Child Papers, 1835-1894. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/child.0001.013. William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2025.
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