Letter to Lucy Ann Van Blarcom 1867

Added: Dec 06, 2017
Romeo June 30th 1867

Dear Lucy

Your early answer to my letter was received Friday of last week. My Dear I admire you for your prompting in writing so early.

I am always so glad to hear from you and that you are looking and feeling so well affords me pleasure–as to myself I have not been very well this summer have complained considerable of late but am in hopes of improving after a little. Nothing serious however that need alarm you–we are having very warm weather and everything looks lively and bright–the trade is not quite as heavy this summer as usual–not as good as I could wish.

My Dear you need not have any fears that I will be extravagant in my expenditures. I shall be governed by judgment and economy. I want everything good and substantial–that will tend to our comfort and happiness - will like to have surroundings such that you will not be ashamed of them. I tell you what I have been schooled in these matters and shall be governed by experience. Dear you have doubtedly discovered ere this that I cannot put on much style - it is foreign to my nature–let me do what I will I am the same Jim Price–I will stop as you say or you will think I am bragging on my plainship.

To be plain with you Dear I shall try to make you happy and contented in such a manner that you may never regret your acquaintance and marriage with me.

I have been prospered beyond my expectations for the last five years and I hope it may continue so that in a few years we may live at our ease. You are doubtedly having gay times in Jersey weddings on every hand coupled with elopements which will make it quite romantic.

I wish Dear that I could drop in upon you this eve and have a good old fashioned visit with you instead of sitting here alone and trying to convey my feelings and sentiments to you upon paper. It would be far more pleasant and gratifying–but space (cannot be annihilated) and we have to submit to circumstances. At least we have the pleasant reflection that Sept will soon come along where we will be united never to be separated in this life of changing vicissitudes.

You must acquaint me with the result of your cousins adventures and his endeavors to secure his wife–I should be glad to know how he succeeds. I admire them for their grit and wish them success and years of happiness in their new relations to each other. With the expectation of hearing from you soon I remain yours truly and faithfully.

James E Price