File:Frances (Appleton) Longfellow to Anne Longfellow Pierce, 25 June 1855 (830a00b1-c3a8-4038-9e4e-183e7b027139).jpg

Manuscript letter

Archives Number: 1011/002.001-024#009

Cambridge June 25th
Dear Annie,
Louly Baylor left us on Thursday for Swampscott, near Lynn, where she intends to remain ten weeks. Her mother consents to join her, with Annie & the old nurse.
She has found a nice boarding-house, with only two or three other boarders, directly upon the sea-shore, & very near the house Mrs Alex. Wadsworth has taken for the summer, which was her [p. 2] great inducement to go there. My papa & many pleasant people live within walking distance of her, so she will not be too lonely, as she feared she might at Portland if she went to the sea-coast away from you all. I confess I am relieved to have a little quiet after her long visit, - & Miss Davie having gone too to Mrs Tudor at Nahant we begin to enjoy our old blissful privacy – soon to [p. 3] be broken up alas! for on Tuesday week we go to Newport. I dread the bustle there, but hope Henry will enjoy it. Louly has been a great trouble & a great care, for she is so young & imprudent that she brought on a passe couche by over-exercise, & would not tell her mother, so I had all the responsibility on my shoulders. Her husband seems an amiable man but with no financial talent I imagine, & encourages her extravagance. [p. 4] He was a week with us, & has now gone South, to return again in August – when they think of travelling about a little, looking in on you en route.
We were glad to see the Nichols’ kindly faces again & sorry the Dr was not well. Henry has the beautiful Red Riding Hood to bring you, with the boys for a day, perhaps on the heels of this. Dont let them give you a moment’s trouble, but one could not bear to be left, & Charley has long been promised a visit to P.
I hope you were not worried by all the excitement & uproar [p. 1 cross] in your neighborhood & that Aunt Lucia’s nerves did not suffer. I am greatly grieved to hear your eyes so trouble you.
With love to all
ever yr affte
Fanny.

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