File:Jas Mickle letter to Richard Hunt, II (7e944b09d46b4b1ea17ba297656c5cdb).pdf

English: NPGallery

English: Jas Mickle

English: Organization: US National Park Service
Role: Curator
Address: Women's Rights National Historical Park, 136 Fall Street, Seneca Falls, NY 13148

English: Richard Hunt, II

English: Page 1: “Feb 22nd 1854
Dear Dick
I received your letter on the 16th and I was very glad to hear from you I can tell you I wrote to Dan Flax about a month ago but I have not yet received an answer. We had a very larg snow day before yesterday and it has blocked the roads up very full the snow is six feet deep. It stops me from going to school. I have only 7 more days to go to school and then the school closes and I will have to go to work. I have not been well for a week past. I have a pain in my hart and I dont know the cause of it Last Sunday one of my cozens and Charley Starr was here and I was a holding a piece of board while they threw the hatchet at it to see if they could hit it but they could not throw it very straight. Charley Starr threw it and it struck me rite in the head just below my left eye. And I tell you what but I droped the board and it set me a rheiling it nearly nocked me down He threw it with all of his might."
Page 2: "And my head is very soar yet. There is very good skateing here now but I dare not go on it for fear I would get cold. I was out in the Snow though yesterday a wallowing the dog in it i tell you what but he got mad enough to bight himself but he was affraid it would hurt to much. I want to Wright to Dabys tip as little Frank Garrigues used to say or black Dave as you ues to say. If I can get time this after noon. We use to have nice times a playing in the thicket do you remember how we ues to catch a hold of old Davys [lips?] and he ues to ball out now Dick Hunt you see if I dont tell Preceptor just as soon as he comes home Poor old Davy how I would like to see him, you know on Saturday nights when we would be a washing and I wes to sprinkle water on him or slap him with the towel and then he would scream out who was that now if you do that again I will go right down and tell Preceptor now [ming?]. We ues to pick on old Davy to bad but it would soon be all over though after we would get to cutting up with him and make him believe that we was a making up with him."
Page 3: "& how mad he would get at me when I was in bed because I would stick my cold feet between his leges. And then he would ball like a calf about three days old and then the Gray goose would come a creeping up the stairs and call old davy out of his warm roost. Down into the school room & keep him there an hour or two and old davy did not like it right well either I was out into the orchard this Morning and I had the dog with me and he started a big Rabbit out of the snow and run him into Starrs rail pile he could not keep any where near the rabbit because the dog would break into the snow and the rabbit would not. the Irishman sang out I am I am there goes a rabbit I was one day a gunning and the dog run a rabbit in the rail pile and I went and shot at him while he was into the rail pile and I set it on fire and burnt about one thousand rails [which?] was worth about Forty dollars gunning time is over now and my gun is a resting in the kitchen Dick please excuse bad wrighting mist spelt words imperfections. Punctuations. Grammatical errors:
Page 4: "Please write soon & tell me about how you come on & off
I Remain your friend
Jas Mickle”
On front of envelope:
"[Stamped in black ink] PAID 3
[Post marked in black ink] [illegible] NJ FEB 25
Richard Hunt Care of R.P. Hunt Waterloo Seneca Co. New York
Paid 3 cts"

English: 1192

English: Location Content: New Jersey; Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca County, New York; Latitude: 42.9025993347168, Longitude: -76.8444976806641

English: U.S. National Park Service