David Fowler, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, 1765 September 23
Date23 September, 1765
Call Number765523.4
abstractFowler recounts his arrival at Oneida, and describes the state of his school and life there.
handwritingHandwriting is largely clear and legible.
paperLarge sheet folded in half to make four pages is in fair-to-good condition with moderate-to-heavy creasing and staining. There is significant tearing around the remants of seal, but it results in no loss of text.
inkInk varies in intensity from medium-brown to brown-black.
noteworthyThe contents of this letter are very similar to those of manuscript 765365. In the closing salutation, it is uncertain to whom "Master" refers, and so it has been left untagged.
and immediately began my School; but it is very ſmall
at preſent occaſion'd by gathering Corn and building Houſes,
I beleive I ſhall have thirty after the hurry is over — My
Scholars learn very faſt ſome have got to the ieght Page:
I am yet teaching both Old and Young to ſing, they can
carry three parts of ſeveral Tunes neatly.
I had ſuch heavy Pack.— I bought me Plow Irons and
ſeveral other Things which I could not do without very well.
I have got the littel Horſe; the Man aſk'd a Dollar for
[left]keeping him and half a Dollar for going with me ten Miles before he
would deliver the Horſe to me.— My coming up ſo ſlow,
buying ſo many things, giving Money to those Women and
bringing two Horſes almoſt took all my Money be‐
fore I got up; I think I was very prudent with my
Money.— I ſhall want twenty Dollars more. al‐
ſo I ſhall be exceeding glad you
a Compleat Letter Writer and Guide to Prayer.—
I have planted Corn and
up. ſo that I may be able to tell my Children how
they muſt manage the Garden in my Abſence.
Maſter I could not write to him this Time.— And ac
cept much Love and Duty from,