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Listen my friend. The diallogue is short but singular. Heaven has perhaps not
hitherto afforded you the opportunity of being present at a similar Interview.
Ah! This is vain that I endeavour to describe it to you. My powers are unequal
to the undertaking. Tis only by the eye and ear that any just conception of
the Scene can be communicated. The passionate and visionary Youth! His
whole soul appeared to be absorbed in the contemplation of one idea. The world
had vanished; Nature was extinct; Nothing was seen but the bearer, of the
precious the inestimable letter. See, in his countenance and manner, what
mark of phrantic eagerness and impetuosity.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1791-L-003.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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It is certain that in general the excellence of the workmanship
depends upon the nature of the tools, which are employed in executing it
but I know not whether the quill of a crow is better than of that of the
goose, or whether it is plucked from a Nobler Animal. I once was guilty
of a Peter-pindarical performance in which those ‸creatures were converted into
orators and were suffered to plead, each his own cause, in presence of
a critical judicature. And what decision do you think? As I have not
now the piece, I cannot certainly inform you, but there is reason to Imagine
thathttp://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-004.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To William Wood Wilkins. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Here am I seated at my desk. With pen and all the writing implements at
hand; and shall I not employ them? Yes in good sooth I will, and they
shall, for the present, be devoted to the pious use of shewing my friend
that his absence does not annihilate him; his local absence for he is
always intellectually present, and as he stands almost single in the
Writers catalogue of Friends, my soul principally converses with his
kindred spirit.—Lend me your wings I pray you, tend me your wingshttp://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-005.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I have been conversing with Rousseau. I have, since ten OClock,
been flying with a rapturous attention through his illumined and impassioned
pages. Notwithstanding the obscurities and difficulties of a foreign tongue
of which my knowledge is extreemly imperfect I can easily percieve
the transcendant excellence of this performance. What a model of pathetic
eloquence! Thus it must always be when the sentiments are the genuine
offspring of the heart: when we speak with the voice of truth and
nature. Love has been said to be the most prevalent and universal of
human passion; And yet what numbers have never felt its influence? How
much idle declamation has it occasioned? I have always been of opinion
that it is impossible for any one to judge of the truth and accuracy of of
representation of the progress and effects of love, who has not pe...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-007.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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O My friend! Can I stay the torrent of my emotions? Can I stiffle
the burst of tenderness or check the tears of rapture, with which my
heart was agitated and my eyes suffused, on the perusal of thy letter?
Shall I suffer them to fall unheeded? Shall not my pen, fly with
tenfold rapidity at this transporting moment? Thou eloquent and
amiable Preacher! This is the argument which is adapted to convince
me. This the mode of demonstration which leaves me not at liberty to
doubt or to dissent. All thy reasonings would have been unavailable,
but thou hast now furnished thy hand of with the Rod of Hermes
whose slightest wafture dissipates the mists of incredulity and inconviction
Knowest thou not that age and experience have only
‸ have only augmented the
enthusiasm of thy Correspondent.? That he is still ‸ a vis...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-008.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To [Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.]. Brown, Charles Brockden
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"Consolation" didst thou say? Ah! It is a much higher
gratification: It ‸ is the felicity after which I languish: It constitutes
the only happiness of which I can be senciblehttp://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-009.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To [Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.]. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Tarry a little, my good friend. I want only to furnish myself
at this Booksellers shop, with a Rhyming dictionary, and to rob younder
Crow of a quill or two, and then I will attend you on your journey to the
paradise of poets. I will contribute my endeavours to unsphere the
soul of VIDA, and compell the presence of the jest-provoking,
wit-dissecting, Eight-syllable'd Thalia. Alas! my friend, these are
only my wishes. Neither my leisure nor abilities will suffer me to prosecute
my Undertaking. To write indeed like Peter Pindar would not, I believe
be very difficult, but were I to undertake the prise enterprise I should
scorn to talk in such barbarous diallect, but should endeavour to
emulate the polished elegance and classical purity of Pope and
Vida. Writers whose celebrated performances I should wish attentively to
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I devote almost all my leisure to the transcription of those letters
of which I have already shewn you a specimen. I think I have already
assured ‸ you that those letters are genuine, and I suppose you easily percieve
that one of the parties in this correspondence is myself. Consider then my
friend, what felicity I must have heretofore enjoyed, and whether one to
whom recollection is at once a source of happiness and misery unspeakable
can take much delight in playing, or poeticising upon, Loo.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-011.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I very much regret that my last last letter was so perfect and inexplicable
an Ænigma. I do not, my dearest friend, recollect that any thing was
contained in it which could render it absolutely unintelligible, or warrant
my ingenious Correspondent in answering it by a riddle which to me
is solutionless and incomprehensible, unless it were the abruptness of the
conclusion; but this I hope will be forgiven when you are told, that
just as I had finished the concluding sentence, a messenger informed me
that all the letters which were go to America by the Harmony, must be
sent immediately to Deptford, & that a single moments delay would
prevent thier passing the Atlantic in that Ship. There was, therefore, my
friend, a necessity for finishing my letter instantly, and to this cause
you will be so good as to ascribe the obscurities or inaccura...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-013.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To William Wood Wilkins. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Write to me, my friend, I beseach you in a less melancholy style. I would
set you an example, but that I fear, in my present situation is impossible
but I shall always be prepared to smile at the elegant vivacities of my
dearest William, and to applaud the effusions of his wit and gayety. They are
rays which illume the gloomy atmosphere by which I am frequently surrounded
whose approach I hail with the utmost pleasure, and whose departure I
observe withou the utmost regret. I wish thou wouldest teach me to be witty
to tell, with suitable gravity, a mirthful tale, and to give to the thread-bare
Jest its original texture and the gloss of Novelty. These accomplishments are of
wonderful Advantage, they will render him, who, in other respects is incorrigi
bly obstinate or stupid, an agreable companion, and without them, the
man of real Geniu...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-014.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I have, my dearest friend, pretty copiously explained my present situation
in a letter which I have just transmitted to W W.W. The perusal of which
will sufficiently apprize you of all the circumstances, necessary to the comprehention
of that before you, and will therefore take away the necessity of repetition.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-015.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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My friend, I cannot express the pleasure with which I read your ‸ letter
The more accurately I know you the more my affection and esteem for you are
heightend, and I exclaim involuntarily, "Surely in the spacious world there is
no one ‸ for whom it is possible ‸ for me to feel a more sincere and ardent attachment than
to this admirable correspondent? Who is more worthy of my friendship? And shall
he not possess it? Yes. Whatever be his sentiments with regard to me, whether
he esteem or despise me, I shall always contemplate his image with the
Enthusiasm of a friend. My heart already flutters with joy at his approach
Serenity and chearfullness accompany him. I should struggle in vain to be
unhappy in his presence; but melancholy oppresses me at his departure.
Let me assiduously cultivate his good opinion. Let me introduce him to the
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Proceed my friend in your career. I cannot follow you. My Ambition
is no more. The Situation which I have just described is not my present
situation; but what would I not do to facilitate the progress of my
friend. What mighty effects might not be produced by the Union of
yourself and Wilkins and me, in the prosecution of any laudable disign
How would every obstacle vanish before our united efforts? What various
and cogent motives of perseverance would not be furnished by our
combination?—http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-017.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I am extreemly pleased with your vision, and you cannot easily concieve
how highly I am gratified on finding that the poor neglected and disponding
Julius is sometimes present in the airy parties of slumbering fancy. That in
sleep, as well as in wakefulness I am not forgotten. Surely it is impossible to
solicit heaven to confer greater felicity upon you, than that which arises from
a continual succession of dreams like those. I wish I wish I were so fortunate
a visionary, and that, during sleep, my soul could mingle at will, with
the beings that people the world of Allegory, but the priviledge of dreaming to
any agreable or useful purpose is denied me, and I am forced to be contented
with insipid realities or at least with those shadowy and fleeting images
which the wand of wakeful Imagination can call into existance.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-018.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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There are certain persons, who, in all their enterprises display ‸ an ardour and
impetuosity, which never fails to infect those by whom they are surrounded
They impart to others the same enthusiasm by which themselves are
actuated. This is certainly the characteristick of the noblest minds, but
whether my friend has exhibited any proofs of this intellectual elevation
I cannot certainly determine, or whether any opportunity has hitherto been
afforded him of shewing it. There are only two persons within the sphere of
its influence, of whom one, would, if his passions of a different kind
were at rest, want not extrinsic or additional incitement to the
pursuit of literary excellence, and the other I am sorry to observe that
I think the indifference with which he regards those sublime objects
of Juvenile and rational Ambition absolutely incu...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-019.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Joseph Bringhurst ~http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-020.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I am extremely Sorry to hear that you are indisposed. The debt
which you have, with so much difficulty, discharged, I could have easily
forgiven you. Think me not the Slave of Ceremony, and believe that
the pleasure which I derive from the employment, would be a sufficien
motive to uphold this correspondense by my single strengthhttp://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-021.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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As I have already observed my dear friend, I lay no claim to the reputation
of Sagacity, but to to obtain a knowledge of those with whom we happen
to converse, and are ‸ not studious of concealment, little more is necessary
than common sense and a‸ a disposition to observe.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-022.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter to William Wood Wilkins. Brown, Charles Brockden
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In answer to your note I shall transcribe a part of what I hastily wrote
as soon as I
hastily
parted from you yesterday morning, in a self-arraigning
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To: Joseph Bringhurst Jun—
Front Street—http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-024.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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No sooner have I read your letter than I borrow Ink
and paper from the friendly Poulson, and sit down instantly
to write an answer. The seriousness with which you speake
and the striking and affecting manner in which you describe
your emotions on the perusal of mine from the banks of
Deleware, produced in me sensations which I will not attempt
to describe. What have I written (said I to myself.) that
could justly occasion so much terror and alarm? This is a manner
of address to which I have not lately been accustomed and have
I not reason to congratulate myself on finding having once
more found a persons who can be so greatly interested in my
welfare? That he is capable of feeling pain on my account
I cannot reflect without a new and uncommon kind of
pleasure; and felt that this pain is ac...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-026.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I have read your letter with the utmost satisfaction. I hope
that the continuance of this correspondence will not prove disagreable
or inconvenient to you. I perswade myself that if it be suffered to
proceed, I should derive the highest entertainment and instruction
from it, and may I not flatter myself that it is calculated to
afford you equal pleasure & improvement? I am not vain enough
to imagine that my weak and desultory efforts will, in any degree
facilitate the discovery of truth. I do not pretend to be rasoner
and shall do little more, at any time, than throw upon the
page the conceptions of the moment, than mingle, with capricious
eagerness and copiousness, the streem of Sentiment and fancy,
amuse my able
‸ amiable correspondent with the air built Structures
of a wild, undisciplined, intractable ...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-027.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To William Wood Wilkins. Brown, Charles Brockden
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The more I reflect the more clearly do I percieve that love and
friendship are no otherwise distinguished from each other than in
name. Friendship therefore can be understood rightly only by those
whose bosoms have felt the emotions of love. Friendship constitutes my
felicity. Without a friend I am miserable. Power! Riches! Reputati
Sounds of mine unmeaning emptiness! The discovery of a kindred
Spirit would indeed afford me pleasure and rconcile me to
existance, and I live only in the expectation of deserving a friend.
"What (do I not hear you say?) do you not find a friend in
me?' No, let me perish if I do. Mistake me not however.
I must again repeat, that friendship is, perhaps, more pure
but certainly not less violent than. ‸ love Between friends there must
exist an perfect and intire Similarity of di...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-028.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To William Wood Wilkins. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Dear Friendhttp://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-030.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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There is a kind of intercourse which I wish to maintain
with you. how shall I describe it? In what language do
we speak to our own hearts? Are you master of it? If you are
you will understand me when I tell you that it is in that
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You seem, my friend, to think very highly of the importance of correctness in common speech. Have you had always these
opinions? But your ideas of excellence are extremely nice, if you think that you are guilty of shameful
inaccuracies. I sincerely affirm, that I never met a more correct speaker than yourself, but one, and he can only be excepted
because, in my opinion, it was impossible to go beyond him in this respect. I am indeed an imperfect observer, and to
this cause you may, if you will, impute it, that I have not yet discovered those faults which it seems are so visible to your own
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Dear friendhttp://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-034.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I must solicit your forgiveness for thus delaying my answer to your last
letter; it was occasioned by accidents that could not be prevented or avoided.
How infinitely and inexpressibly agreable is this correspondence and what
pleasure shall we not hereafter derive from reviewing it! I hope nothing
but necessity will ever put an end to it.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-035.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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What abundance of absurdity and impertinence is there in this
wearisome and worthless world. He whose passions have decorated some
real object with imaginary charms, and exalted moderate excellence into
absolute perfection, is happy as long as his delusion lasts, but surely
miserable when it is at ‸ an end, and more deplorable ‸ is his condition than
if he had never been deluded.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-036.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To William Wood Wilkins. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I have just recieved your letter though dated an age ago.
The post will doubtless be the best method of conveyance; but you
say you you will pay the postage of your letters. I make the less
objection to this proposal, as I have it in my power to be even with
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Dear friend; I said
truth when I said that my silences
arose principally from the silences of the weather, for this serene
and lightsome atmosphere has had a corresponding effect upon
my intellects “Ah tis a happy revolution here”http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-039.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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My dear friendhttp://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-040.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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My Dear Friendhttp://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-041.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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My dear friendhttp://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-043.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I reflect upon my present situation with a surprise that time has hardly
yet subdued. On considering that two months ago, Connecticut was utterly
a stranger to me; That the only person in it to whom I was known, knew
me scarcely otherwise than by letter, that even personal acquaintance was
short, accidental, superficial, and such, as with any other person would scarcely
have given me a right to accost him at a distance, and that in less
than a fortnight, I should be personally introduced to almost every considera
=ble person in it, be treated by ten or fifteen most almiable men with the
affectionate familiarity and confidence of a brother, to be adopted as it
were, to be admitted into the bosom of many perfectly respectable and
enlightened families, is surely wonderful. I know not whether I can give you
a just idea of my situation. It i...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-044.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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My dear friendhttp://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-045.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I cannot help regretting that I did not receive these invaluable letters
while I was in Connecticut. They would have prevented abundance of anxiety
and uneasiness, and rendered the remainder of the time that I passed
there infinitely more pleasing. However unseasonable as they are, they
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My dear Friendhttp://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-047.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter to Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I think the date of Year erroneous
In Aug 29. 1793 – neither of them were acquainted with Laura. } Aug. 29. 1793http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-047A.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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My dear friend,http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1793-L-048.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To William Johnson. Brown, Charles Brockden
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My dear Sirhttp://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1794-L-049.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter to Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Phila~February Sunday 24. 1794~http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1794-L-049A.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To James Brown. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Our brother Joseph is just leaving us. Had I any thing
to occupy a Sheet, a sheet should be employed, but there are no
topics of conversation between us, which will not be much better
discussed by word of mouth, between my two Brothers. What
of importance has occurred since your departure? An event
of very great moment, and the least expected that could
almost possibly occur, has indeed been witnessed by us.
It has been of particular importance to me. Wilkins’ life
was, indeed, the pledge of my Success in the legal profession.
It was necessary also to my qualification as an Atorney. The
Knowledge that was necessary, most necessary, practical Skill,
the result of experience, was only derivable from him. It
is his death that hatth prevented me from fulfilling your
expectations, and obliged me to defer my ad...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-053.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I have just recieved your letter. I delivered the enclosed immediately. Whatever
fault is imputable to you, or on whomsoever censure may justly fall in this affair, I am
well perswaded that a continuance of this Correspondence of yours with Stella, can answer
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I shall not I fear be able to finish and dispatch this today as you so anxiously
desire. It is already near ten: so you must wait a day or two longer. You put a severe
construction upon both parts of my letter. I meant not to impute to you bigotry
or more than a very common and natural degree of zeal for the truth: yet certainly
a Zeal that, in its effects, is somewhat censurable. I far more sincerely condemn
and more anxiously lament my ‸ own incapacity of bearing with complacency the
heat and impetuosity of others in debate. than inhttp://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-058.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I was going to apologize for my negligence, but a moments reflexion
convinced me that my negligence admitted of no apology, and that the
only way was to repair the injury of past negligence by future punctuality
But though I cannot excuse, is there no possibility of accounting for this
negligence? Dunlap has written to me, and in a manner that required
an immediate answer, and yet not an answering line has he recieved
from me. How have I been employed you will ask me? In truth I know
not. I have slumbered rather than been busy in the bosom, as you say, of
literary indolence. Comparatively with yours, my situation is happy and tran
=quil: My Soul sympathises my friend, in your misfortunes, but while
I condole with you on your calamities, I cannot help congratulating you
on one consolation: for the sake of which my heart would willingly...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-061.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I have just recieved yours. I shall readily admit the excuse
for not being frequent or punctual in your Correspondence. In your
present Situation you have doubtless but little liesure to look so
far as this from your immediate ingagements. Had I recollected that
there was a key in my possession, capable of unlocking the desk
I might have saved Isaac Miclle the trouble of paying you a
visit to I found the papers of which he was in search immedi=
-ately on looking for them. Elihu Smith was to have been here
last Evening. The badness of the roads, or some accident has prevented
his arrival yet. I knew not that he intended to go to you at Wilmington
If it be, I shall encourage him in it, but doubt whether I shall be
able to bear him company. I shall, however, at least, send with him
my love to you and my warmest respects to...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-062.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Thou escaped’st, my good friend, without leaving thy adieus behind
thee; at least without leaving them at my door. I will pardon the, however,
and prove the sincerity of my forgiveness, by transmitting thus speedily
to thy retreat, this friendly greeting. Whether it may find thee disenga
=ged, and at liesure to listen to its still, small voice, I cannot predict.
Not that I imagine thee absorbed in occupations, whose purpose is
gain, for it is thy fortune to be ingaged most intencely, when most
disengaged from pursuits merely lucrative, to find thy social &
studious hours far the busiest, and, in the precious intercourse of souls
a centre more irresistably attractive of thy thoughts, than the importu=
ties of necessity, or the allurements of Avarice~http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-066.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter to Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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5. Mo: 13. 1796http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-066A.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Why have I not lately heard from thee, Josepho? Thou promisedst to send me Condorcets
Work of which thou and thy friends have doubtless long since finished the perusal: but
I have seen neither that or any thing else from thee, this Monstrous long while: Not
that I am at any loss to find for thee, in thy present situation, employments far more
profitable and delightful than that of endighting letters to the absent: Thou art, perhap
busy to a lucrative purpose; thou art not remarkable for neglecting the chief concern
of human life: that of acquiring the means of subsistence. If thou art employed to
that end, it will give me pleasure to be told of it. Thou wilt readily imagine that
information of thy health and welfare will not be the less acceptable if given under
thy own hand.~http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-069.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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How
sha How shall I account for the agreable Sensations which thy Yesterdays letter produced? Perhaps the concern which thou expressest for my welfare is the cause of it: Never did the reason
which thou givest for thy long silence, appear of less weight. Assure thyself, my good Josepho
that with all my errors, and in spite of them, I love thee much nor will the existance of those
differences of Sentiment to which thou alludest ever render, if I may judge from my present Emotions
thy letters otherwise than very acceptable.—
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pectations of the beginning of last
week I did not come ill Tuesday Evening. One Accident or
another prevented our coming sooner. Immediately on my arrival
I recieved your letter. I thank you for it. It is worthy of youhttp://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-073.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I came hither yesterday. I had such slight hopes that thou wast in the
City, that I felt their disappointment by thy absence the less forcibly; and now I
I hardly know why I take up the pen to write to thee. Thou hast lately totally
abandoned me, and hast furnished me with nothing on which to comment. Thou
deemest me unworthy of being informed with respect to the present Situation
of thy affairs, thy health or those of thy Laura. Thou art doubtless influenced
by thy old opinion, that the difference between our principles justifies or requires
the ceasing of all intercourse between us.~http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-074.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter to Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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New York. January 10, 1797 [7 overwrites 6]http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1797-L-075A.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter to Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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March 14. 1797~http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1797-L-076A.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter to Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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3d — Mo: 24. 1797 —http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1797-L-077A.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I arrived safely in town at 2 OClock. Jna. Biddle was my Companion. I found him, I
assure thee, most agreably sociable; Much more than I had reason to expect. ~ Both
his capacity & his Knowledge seem to be respectable. I had several times an incli¬nation
to remind him of former transactions, to say to him. , “John; thou & I, when we have
formerly met, have treated each other with . . . . . . . . . great cold¬ness. I will not de=
sire thee to explain the reason of thy reserve, but I will frankly tell thee what
I believe to have been the reason. Thou art religiously disposed. Thou deemest me to
be otherwise: to be blinded by a very terrible delusion. What benefit could flow
from intercourse with one whose sentiments were so little akin to thy own? Those
who are guilty in the sight of God, cannot be accounted blameless in the opinion
of an upright man. Th...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1797-L-082.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter to Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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9. Mo: 21. 1797—http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1797-L-083A.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To William Dunlap. Brown, Charles Brockden
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It is nearly twelve months since I parted from you. I believe I have not written to you nor you written to me since.
How shall I account for your silence? The task is an easy one. I was not an object of sufficient important to justify
the trouble. My infirmities & follies were too rooted for you to hope their cure. Admonition & remonstrance under
your own hand, would be superfluous to this end. Hence your habitual reserve & silence of the pen suffered no in=
=terruption on my account. I lived with you six months. During that time you, no doubt scrutinized my conduct
& character with accuracy. You must have formed some conclusions respecting me, but you thought proper to be
silent respecting them. You weighed the opposite advantages of communication & reserve. You decided in favour
of the latter. I revere your rectitude my friend, in as great a degree as I detest my own imbecility: but it is allo...http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-084.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Maria Nicholson. Brown, Charles Brockden
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So! a postscript, from whom? An impertinent fellow, I am affraid you will call him; And
yet that is a fib. I have no fear of this kind about me. Whatever is a token of genuine
respect cannot but be acceptable to Maria Nicholson.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-100.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter to Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Inclosed is the letter that I promised to send thee. Though
short it can hardly fail of interesting thee, as relative to
thy friend Elihu. I shall go, in a few days, to Perth
Amboy, where thou wilt not suppose that a Script from
thee can prove unacceptable. Thou wilt of course preserve
this letter till my return,~~http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-103A.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter to Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Amboy. Octo. 20. 1798http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-106A.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter to Joseph Bringhurst, Jr.. Brown, Charles Brockden
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NY. No: 45, Pine Street. Mar: 19. 1799http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-L-111A.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMTLetter To William P. Beers. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I am sorry that the first time I should have the pleasure of
addressing you, should be, in some sort, soliciting a favour, & impo=
=sing on you trouble, but you have the goodness to excuse me.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-L-113.xmlWed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMTLetter To [Unknown]. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Pray tell me what sort of woman is this, we are goi
to see.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-L-116.xmlWed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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When with you, it is your province to talk: to delight me
with the effusions of that noble & ingenuous mind: & so
seldom does the occasion offer on which my fastidiousness
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What a melancholy, mortified, perplexed hour has my un=
=kind, unaccountable friend given me. I have scarcely
strength enough to lift the pen.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-118.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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So, it seems, my note placed things on their right footing
‘Twas just as it ought to be. To die & be ho‸noured
with thy tears—is just the suitable & becoming
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Seated, I suppose, at her needle is my friend: a thought,
now & then, I hope, wandering to me, & a faint solicitude
as to how I am. “Is he well? Is he happy?” methinks I hear
that tremulous, bewitching voice utter.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-120.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I must subdue this disposition to repine, for what but
evil can it produce. ‘Twill not render my hold on your
affections less precarious than it is, now. It will not
cure my own imperfections. It will not enable me so to
clothe my feelings that my love will have no longer to
doubt my sincerity.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-121.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Let me overlook—let me erase, not only from the paper
but from memory, all, in this letter, that is mortifying &
distressful.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-122.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I hope, my best friend, thou wilt be abroad this fine day.
If I cannot disengage myself for the same purpose, or am
not so fortunate as to meet thee in thy rambles, I will console
myself with thinking on thy gratifications.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-123.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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How arrogant & how ungrateful was, I, to recieve thus
gloomily, the offer of thy heart, because thy delicate
discretion refused to join with it, thy hand!http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-124.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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What would I not give that every evening for years to
come, were spent like the last. With some improvements
I mean. The open air, moist skies, & the frequent passen=
=ger, I have no particular attachment to.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-125.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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So, says my Domestic Physician, you must not incoun
ter this sharp breeze. Sore throats are dangerous & the
state of your’s requires caution. I will do the out o’door
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So; you wish me to your task setter. Charming pupil,
whom my whole life shall be devoted to instruct in
that wisdom that makes happy. Of what value is any
other wisdom. The art of extracting from every every
event, causes of gratitude & joy; of lifting our self above
the prejudices & passions of others; of preserving our
contentment unimpaired by their misconduct, while their
virtue & prosperity increase our happiness, is the only
valuable art. In this do I desire to be, by turns, thy
teacher & thy pupil.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-127.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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What a peevish, discontented wretch was I in my last
to thee, my friend. The demon of impatience had got hold of
me. Not to be amply, doubly compensated for an disqui
=ets, by that bewitching confession! Will my beloved Crea=
=ture pardon me? I cannot be at ease till you forgive me.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-128.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I write in odd situations. With some always present: generally
several & these talking, to me or to each other. How sacred,
how desirable is privacy; especially on occasions like these
when the mere presence of another, inspires us with some embar
=rasment.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-129.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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What impertinents and headaches. I am more out of humour
with this, because it may possibly hinder or mar the walk
that we propose tonight.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-131.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Know you how I disposed of your precious billet, last
night? Sweet tranquilizer did it prove. Inspirer of
happy dreams.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-132.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Another charming evening with my love! How often shall
it be thus, before we part. Thus tender; thus generous; with
countenance thus beaming with enraptured sensibility.
Nay; more kind shall thou be. Thy tenderness, thy generosity
shall know no bounds but those prescribed by virtue &
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Fancy is a kind friend. She was very serviceable, to me this
morning. In spite of distance, she enabled me to awake my
Love with a morning salutation, & to borrow pleasure & tranquili
=ty from her features, as she sat at the breakfast table.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-134.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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You did sit down, a few minutes in the day, then. Did I guess
truly at your motives for sitting? at your employment? On
what slender threads, & slight hints does hope hang her
visions? I was sadly disappointed that I did not receive
the fruits of these few sedentary minutes: but, I trust,
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I believe I am an arrant simpleton; easily deceived; one whom
simplicity & love have made credulous. For here’s a girl writes with
a pen of dignity & eloquence; utters strains of noble & sublime
thought; & calls it nonsense; talks of her shame on shewing it to
another.—Now surely all this is jest or affectation. ‘Tis impossible
that one capable of writing thus, should not see her own merits
Yet I believed the charming dissembler!http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-136.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Did you see your friend to day?
Yes: to be sure. It is possible, they say, to love too much. That
is too much, which breeds impatience & repining, & I sometimes have
=need to struggle with the rising gust of my impatience; But
I shall always effectually struggle with it. My affection shall
be worthy of that adorable creature who is the object of it. It
shall never teach me ingratitude to that beneficence who rules
my destiny & who has, of late, conferred a blessing so raptu=
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How sweetly serene, how joyously bright is this day! One of the
cares that might have interfered with my enjoyment of it is
removed, for I have seen her & she is well. She likewise promises
to walk with me at the close of this enchanting day. What
spectacle, most delicious, does this World afford? The
smile of contentment & serenity on the face we love is that
spectacle; with the sweet belief that this contentment is confirmed
& this Serenity brightened, by our own presence, welfare & love;
And such was the spectacle, which, this morning, I beheld.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-138.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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How does my friend to day? My longing heart prolongs the
two days of our separation into tedious months: more tedi
ous has it been on account of the impressions which my
mind still retains from our last interview. A renewal of
your generosity & tenderness is still requisite compleatly to
heal those wounds, which were then inflicted: to compose
my spirits again into that state of exquisite complacency
& harmony which the preceding week had produced.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-139.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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What words can sufficiently convey my gratitude for this
precious billet! Dost thou wish me to be with thee; to punish
thee, my Angel? For that wish am I thy everlasting debtorhttp://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-140.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I saw my love, an age ago, but then if any thing could
reconcile me to inevitable separation, it would be the
pleasure of such interviews. By filling my imagination
with images of recent happiness, my soul is kept up to
the same elevation. It has now, however, liesure to repine
& I would not, for the world, be denied a meeting with
you, this afternoon.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-141.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Am I not to share with my beloved all my woes. Is she
not, henceforth, to be my Eliza.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-142.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Did you not request me to be your monitor; your tutor?
Yes: Without reflecting on the little eloquence that I possess
the little power which the most earnest of my intreaties
the most cogent of my reasonings have had upon you.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-143.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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How strange, how whimsical, that one who can charm thus
should talk of being homely & unlovely; one who can write
thus, should talk of being stupid & insipid!http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-144.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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It does not much become a wise man to allow his feelings to
be influenced by the atmosphere: Does it? Yet how is it with
me? This week has not been chearful & serene as former ones
Much, doubtless, must be laid at the door of consequences flowing
from the evil skies; to the want of those delicious interviews
with which the former week aboundedhttp://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-145.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To John E[lihu] Hall. Brown, Charles Brockden
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The printer has made considerable progress in the publication which I
believe I mentioned to you in my last, as having been begun. It will
be, typographically considered, a very beautiful book.—http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-146.xmlThu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Mary Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Will my friend do me the favour to accept the enclosed little volume
It may not unprofitably amuse a vacant hour, & the ruled pages will invite her
to practice the first & simple rules of a necessary economy. Take it, if you wish
to oblige one, who will always feel the interest of an affectionate brother, in the
cares & pleasures of Mary Linn.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1802-L-148.xmlFri, 01 Jan 1802 12:00:00 GMTLetter To [William Johnson]. Brown, Charles Brockden
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The bearer of this is W Roberts Cumming, the defendant in
the suit of which you have the management. He seems anxious to bring
this affair to some amicable termination, &, for his own satisfaction, wishes
to be indulged with the sight of a certain letter of instructions, dated some-
time in March, 1800, from himself to M Dawson, which letter, it appears
by a Memorandum with us, is in your possession. If you should not be able
to find it among your papers, you must let us know, that we may, if we can,
supply you with it in due season. Of the propriety of indulging WC. in
this particular, you, of course, are the suitable judge—http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1802-L-149.xmlFri, 01 Jan 1802 12:00:00 GMTLetter To [John Blair Linn]. Brown, Charles Brockden
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Every day have I said: “Well; this morning will I write to Mr Linn,”
& every day has gone by without writing. And how has this omission happened?
I cannot tell. I, that, while here, have scarcely any thing, to do but to consult
my pleasure, am overwhelmed with business. I have scarcely time to write a
friendly letter. What with Walks to the battery; to Hearlem; to Hoebuck; to
Long Island, what with visits & conversations, I have less time, if possible,
than in Philad.ahttp://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1802-L-150.xmlFri, 01 Jan 1802 12:00:00 GMTLetter To Elizabeth Linn. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I wish I could see & talk with my friend
My heart wants to commune with yours. Your
image rests on my memory in a guize thoughtful
& almost sad. I want to know your thoughts
& dissipate your sadness: if that be possible.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1802-L-154.xmlFri, 01 Jan 1802 12:00:00 GMTLetter To [Elizabeth Linn]. Brown, Charles Brockden
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I hope to see my beloved in a few hours, yet
I cannot help writing. To what purpose? Can
not I say, my feelings, so much better than I can
write them. Yes I can: yet I cannot help
letting my heart flow upon paper.http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1802-L-155.xmlFri, 01 Jan 1802 12:00:00 GMT