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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 34m

"Jane deeply disapproves of the prospect of our breaking up this winter, she has a regular reader here . . . They have been listening lately to the seven lamps of architecture." JMSI to LDM, 10/1/1853, SFP 28:11

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"...We had eight members of the hon-ble Council to dine with us on Friday, & yr Father was pleased with the dinner, & John's attendance; which latter was quite marvellous."

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"...We had eight members of the hon-ble Council to dine with us on Friday, & yr Father was pleased with the dinner, & John's attendance; which latter was quite marvellous."

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Charley’s illness has been a source of deep sorrow to us all but it seems to be passing over very favorably." JMSI to Hal, 9/29/1839, SFP 25:20

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Charley’s illness has been a source of deep sorrow to us all but it seems to be passing over very favorably." JMSI to Hal, 9/29/1839, SFP 25:20

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Your note by the wayside came in at noon, & I enclosed that to Miss Curtis in season for the 12 oclk mail. I am glad that you had much glorious scenery along the road to rejoice in." RHD Sr to RCD, 9/28/1964, DFP 34:29

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The baby grows ugly & good - she suffers me to read & work with her very comfortably so that I never find her company the least irksome"

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The baby grows ugly & good - she suffers me to read & work with her very comfortably so that I never find her company the least irksome"

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"I left Jane at S. with Lizzy for a companion" JMSI to LDM, 9/25/1850s, SFP 28:11

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"I left Jane at S. with Lizzy for a companion" JMSI to LDM, 9/25/1850s, SFP 28:11

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Do write to me soon; a letter from you always makes a gala-day, and leaves a long track of light on my path." CMS to Mrs. Frank Channing, 9/5/1821, L&LCMS.

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Do write to me soon; a letter from you always makes a gala-day, and leaves a long track of light on my path." CMS to Mrs. Frank Channing, 9/5/1821, L&LCMS.

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"you could keep the french banknotes as you could not sell them for more than twelve cents to a frank! I think you do well to keep them as unless the french nation is entirely destroyed I think they must later be worth more than that." Jane to Hal, 9/24/186?, SFP 86:2

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"John is so oppressed with business as to find it impossible to go to Stockbridge and I write you a few lines in great haste to beg of you to send me all I left behind . . . I was horrified to discover the quantity"

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"And now dear Jane as we have concluded the business part of this concern I am going to volunteer some advice - you have of course considered the trying position in which Jane will be placed as regards her religious opinions and her views on slavery"

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"[You] will be glad to hear that the Stockbridge parish is getting along very well since Father Carroll went to reside there. Perhaps he is not quite so polished a man as the late Father Laughran; but I think his executive ability and financial ability much better." O'R to Jane, 9/21/1874, SFP 32:29

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Jane’s mercury has risen and fallen with the Hungarian cause - she & Grace Ashburner have been chief mourners over the death of Hungarian freedom." JMSI to LDM, 9/20/1854, SFP 28:9

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Jane’s mercury has risen and fallen with the Hungarian cause - she & Grace Ashburner have been chief mourners over the death of Hungarian freedom." JMSI to LDM, 9/20/1854, SFP 28:9

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Situated as it is near the post office, in a conspicuous and convenient place, we may hope that the land may not depreciate in value, as other property seems still to be doing - but the building is becoming less valuable from age as time goes on." WMIII to Jane, 9/19/1877, SFP

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"P.S. I open my letter to ask some questions in behalf of a dear young friend of mine who is studying for the priesthood. Are you willing to receive "old Catholics" into your congregation, or only converts?" Emma Cary to ITH, 9/19/1869, Hecker Papers 32:4

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"I arrived home on Sat. night, & went in immediately on Monday morning & consulted my Director, who agreed with me, that I should not do it without my Husband's permission." Anna Ward to Isaac Hecker, 9/17/1861, Hecker Papers 28:8

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"The weather is very cool and I am afraid you must feel the change too." Mary Dallas to Jane, 9/16/1882, SFP 33:6

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"The weather is very cool and I am afraid you must feel the change too." Mary Dallas to Jane, 9/16/1882, SFP 33:6

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"We had just stepped down from the scaffolding when it fell in, with two or three hundred persons! It was the most awful sight I ever witnessed, for we did not doubt they were all killed." SR to RCD, 9/15/1848, Dana 10:25

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"I think you ought to have gone to the church & walked in the procession but you should not have gone into the house. Suppose you were to take the disease & communicate it a yr own family." JMSI to Hal, 9/1850, SFP 25:1

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"What a paralizing blow! Alexander ws in a state of great agitation between his desire of going to the funeral & his reluctance to add to the anxiety of his wife & mother by any risk of infection from his most malignant disease." JMSI to Hal, 9/1850, SFP 25:1

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"poor Kate has been visited by another of her Job trials - but alleviated [by an] efficacious plaster . . . she has suffered very little & yesterday morning rose well eno for Nahant." LDS to CS & EDS, 9/12/1828

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"I received your letter last night by T. S. P., who arrived here at 8 o'clock, only thirteen hours from New York. This is an annihilation of space of which our forefathers never dreamed." CMS to RS, 9/11/1832, L&LCMS

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"While Mother was at the service I staid near the spot where St. Thomas fell . . . the tears rushed to my eyes as I thought of his martyrdom & how little his glorious struggle had availed, in time, but who knows what it has been in eternity!" Angela Skinner to RCD, 9/10/1882, LDFP 39:11

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"I suppose you heard about the breaking of my nose, sometime ago. I hit it twice since, so that it does not get well very fast, and the shape of it is considerably altered." Hal to Mary Speakman, 9/9/1837, SFP 86:20

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"I know you have heartily rejoiced in my deliverance and in my possession of another healthy child. Our friends take it for granted that we must regret it is not a boy . . ."

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"I know you have heartily rejoiced in my deliverance and in my possession of another healthy child. Our friends take it for granted that we must regret it is not a boy . . ."

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"I so sympathize with you in your disappointment with regard to the Sister sent to Denmark. She must be one of their best, to be sent so far off. That is the work of a Mother House in France - the Sisters can always be recalled, or sent off, at a moment’s notice." Addie to Jane, 9/7/1888, SFP 33:17

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"I cannot avoid feeling some anxiety of course. I cannot expect at a crisis like this when all our financial affairs must depend upon our military success to know or to be advised as to what is best for me to do - but must wait patiently for the present." Jane to Hal, 9/6/186*, SFP 86:2

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