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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 13h

"Miss Cary remains till next Tuesday - there is a woman of sense & goodness & I am glad Jane has such a friend to sympathize with her in her religious moments."JMSI to HDSII, 10/1858, SFP 26:17

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"Miss Cary remains till next Tuesday - there is a woman of sense & goodness & I am glad Jane has such a friend to sympathize with her in her religious moments."JMSI to HDSII, 10/1858, SFP 26:17

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

"I am arrived so late this morning (at ½ 9) that it is now 1 and I have done nothing but go to the french consul, whome I did not find in." Gaetano de Castillia to JMSI, 10/10/1839?, SFP 30:3

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

"I am arrived so late this morning (at ½ 9) that it is now 1 and I have done nothing but go to the french consul, whome I did not find in." Gaetano de Castillia to JMSI, 10/10/1839?, SFP 30:3

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

"How matronly dear Kate you must look! & how much more to be admired than if you had, like some of your perverse friends & relations, adhered to cold, unlovely 'singledom!'" Susan Sedgwick to Kate Sedgwick Minot, nd [10/1851], SFP 92:9

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

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Whatever yr cousin Theodore may say or think I know that I am innocent of what is so wickedly charged against me." Cheery to JMSII 10/8/????, SFP 32:5

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Whatever yr cousin Theodore may say or think I know that I am innocent of what is so wickedly charged against me." Cheery to JMSII 10/8/????, SFP 32:5

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"I hope you have mine of 3d before this, in which I told you fully about rooms with meals in house &c. I think the chair can be accommodated in the back hall but I will go there tomorrow . . . & ascertain & make it all right." Emma Sedgwick to JMSII, 10/7/1888, SFP 33:19

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"I wrote to Jane, but before I had finished the letter it occurred to me that the value of my affection would be multiplied like a mathematical cube in the inverse ratio of the Distance." HDSII to JMSI, 10/6/1844, SFP 26:4

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"I have endeavored to make Jane feel that she must be silent on the abolition question - that as she places herself voluntarily in this position she is bound not to gain any trouble by meddling with any subjects not relating to herself." JMSI to LDM, 10/5/1844, SFP 28:18

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Charley is a more difficult subject; he has a burning impatience, whether a vice or misfortune I cannot tell, and, whether directed to good or bad objects, it will subject him to many a trial." Charles Sedgwick to Elizabeth BD Sedgwick, 10/4/1825, LCS

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Tell Jane that flannel cannot be had at 3 shillings a yard, if it is a yard wide." Fanny to JMSI, 10/3/1846, SFP 26:4

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Tell Jane that flannel cannot be had at 3 shillings a yard, if it is a yard wide." Fanny to JMSI, 10/3/1846, SFP 26:4

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Besides, let me tell you that you will be disgusted at Norfolk. I know the society of that little place, and know therefore how little in accordance with your taste you’d find it." HO'S to JMSII, 10/2/1844, SFP 32:1

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"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 · 01/10/2026

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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

"who very happily turned it off (the accident, I mean, not the water, for that ran down his robes and best black coat &c, like oil) by saying that there was so little of it that it would not pass for emersion, only sprinkling." 9/30/1838, LM Letters

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

"there were four courses 1st boiled 2d roasted 3d desert 4th fruit, all of which he put on without mistake. The only mishap was his spilling a finger bowl over one of the council (Mr Lovening I think)"

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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

"Indeed she is a sweet companion in those hours which would but for her be not only solitary but full of the keenest regrets & most gloomy forebodings." JMSI to LDM, 9/27/1821, SFP 28:18

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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

" . . . a pair of black satin slippers at Mrs. Fields and goodness knows what else may be - However do no betray me, but get them together as quietly as possible" Cheery to Jane, 9/24/1845, SFP 32:1

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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

"she must not even look as though she could speak daggers if she were allowed - with Jane’s strong feelings I know that this must be a great trial and you must prepare her for it." Lucy Russell to JMSI, 9/24/1844, SFP 29:17

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

"& never shd answer directly any one excepting Mrs. H - it would not merely be showing a want of delicacy but it might be an injury to Mrs. Hackley’s school"

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

"and you must prepare her to be willing to be silent on both these subjects - she of course would answer Mrs. H truly if questioned; but I think as she voluntarily places herself in this situation she shd never volunteer an opinion to any one"

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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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