Letter from Augustus Hesse, Camp Lyn[n]field, Mass, to Debora Weston, Aug. 7th, 1862

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Augustus Hesse, Camp Lyn[n]field, Mass, to Debora Weston, Aug. 7th, 1862
Author:
Hesse, Augustus, d. 1867
Addressee:
Weston, Debora, 1814-
Date:
August 7, 1862
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Weston, Debora, 1814-
Hesse, Augustus, d. 1867
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (3 p.) ; 8 x 9 1/2 in. + 1 envelope (3 1/8 x 5 3/8 in.)
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qz20tw00c
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Camp Lyn[n]field, Mass
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Augustus Hesse requests Debora Weston to secure a certificate from Mr. Humphry, the selectman of "my town" [Weymouth, Mass.], so that Hesse can have a furlough of a few days. Hesse writes: "I am content still I wish be mor[e] Content if I had bid you all---my Wife & Child good bye---We are here all in our Battery old Soldiers." If any of the Weston family should come to the camp, Augustus Hesse would make it as comfortable as he could. He sends a message to his wife, Almira, and "Kiss my little darling for me." It will take a month to get through all the manoeuvres which they have to learn in the artillery service.
Includes an envelope with the delivery address: Mrs. Almira Hesse, Care of Miss D. Weston, Weymouth Landing, Mass. The envelope has the image of a U.S. war flag.
Identifier:
2806752
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.31, p.12
Barcode:
39999066784081
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