Courtesy: American Textile History Museum [#1005.150]
Transcribed: University of Massachusetts Lowell, Center for Lowell
History
February 28th 1847
My Dear Friend,
You will be surprised I presume
at receiving a letter from me, but I have often thought of you,
and have been tempted to write, but did not know exactly
where you were, but last Friday who should walk into the
factory but A ---1 I
tell you I was delighted to see her,
but I never was more astonished in my life. Our factory
started to, I have commenced working in it. and now I
am coming to the point. I want you dear L ---2
to come
down & work here. It is your sister's request too. Now
do come, & you will never repent it. I want you to
come very much. The factory is very pleasantly situated
and I think you will like very much. A3
boards very
near the factory. & you can see her at any
we have
delightful times. If you come, you can board, and
work in the room with me. I will do everything
in my power to mak you happy & contented.
Now if you do not come, I shall be very much
disappointed. You must come, so do not think of
refusing. But I must close, for my time is short
remember & fail not. Please answer this a soon as
possible, but give me the answer we wish for.
Direct your letter to the Naumkeag Corporation4
your aff Friend Anne E. Gilbert5
turn over
1Achsah Heald Ryerson b: 9 Jul
1826, Summer, ME d: 21 Aug 1851, Lawrence, MA –
consumption;
married: Moody Towns “Towne” b: 3 May 1821, Lisbon, NH
2Lovisa “Louisa” Jane Ryerson
b: 12 Dec 1829, Summer, ME d: 29 Sep 1847, Rumford, ME;
married: Charles
Pickney S. Wardwell b: 4 Feb 1824, Rumford, Oxford, ME d: 3 Mar 1879,
Boston, MA
3Achsah Heald Ryerson b: 9 Jul
1826, Summer, ME d: 21 Aug 1851, Lawrence, MA –
consumption;
married: Moody Towns “Towne” b: 3 May 1821, Lisbon, NH
4Salem, MA
5Anne “Anna” “Annie” E. Gilbert
b: 1829, MA d: 1897, Salem, MA; married:
Albert H. Miner
“Minor” b: 1826, MA d: 15 Jun 1864, Salem, MA
Care of Mr Charles Jelly6
Anne E. Gilbert7
caled me last evening and left me this letter
to finish for you but I have not recived an answer to the
one I wrote to you last. I found Anne last friday
in the mill. I got me a place to work in the same room
with her in a week or too, but I shant go you can come
and take my place as I am not able to work my cough is
no better and the Doc says that I must leave Salem8
if I want
to live & if you will go home with me & will go I recived a
letter from Father9
last week he wrote for me to come he said
he had a letter from you the week bfore he wrote to me
he wrote that you was coming home this spring Almira L.
is married and moved to portland10
quick doings Colo.
Heald11 is dead if you
cant go home you must come
out here to work and board with A12
and work with
her to but if you will go home you must write and
let me know when we must go as soon as you can
on the acount of my cough Towns13
says he will come
down after us when we want to come back if you
can go you must come out hear a day or to bfore we go
write and let me no all about it if you havnt got
money enough to git back again after you git
down this I will see that you are back safe give my love
to all write us soon as you git this so good bye from your
Write
Sister Achseah H. Towns14
Write Soon
March the 2 1847
[on cover]
Miss Levicia Reyerson15
Lowell, Mass
No. 14 appleton corp.16
6Charles H. Jelley 1850:
Salem, MA - baker
7Anne “Anna” “Annie” E.
Gilbert b: 1829, MA d: 1897, Salem, MA; married:
Albert H. Miner
“Minor” b: 1826, MA d: 15 Jun 1864, Salem, MA
8Salem, MA
9Howell Ryerson b: 6 Mar
1796, Paris, ME d: 1878 Sumner, ME; married:
20 Aug 1817,
Susanna Heald Roberts b: 13 Jun 1799, Sumner, ME d: 3 Apr 1836,
Summer, ME
10Portland, ME
11Colonel Benjamin Heald b: 25
Jun 1764, Acton, MA d: 12 Oct 1841,
Carlisle, MA
- maybe
12Anne “Anna” “Annie” E. Gilbert
b: 1829, MA d: 1897, Salem, MA; married:
Albert H. Miner
“Minor” b: 1826, MA d: 15 Jun 1864, Salem, MA
13Moody Towns b: 3 May 1821, Lisbon,
NH - maybe
14Achsah Heald Ryerson b: 9 Jul
1826, Summer, ME d: 21 Aug 1851,
Lawrence, MA
– consumption; married: Moody Towns “Towne” b: 3 May 1821,
Lisbon, NH
15Lovisa Jane Ryerson b: 12 Dec
1829, Summer, ME; 1847-1850: textile worker,
Lowell, MA
161849-1853 Appleton Mills #14
– Ruth E. Rand, BH Keeper b: 1812, ME
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