Hezekiah Calvin, letter to Eleazar Wheelock, 1768 May 5
Date5 May, 1768
ms number768305
abstractA troubled Calvin writes to ask permission to leave school and go home.
handwritingHandwriting is formal and clear.
paperLarge tear on second page (2 recto and verso) results in some loss of text.
inkBlack-brown.
layoutPage one of the letter is on one recto, but page two is on two recto, not one verso.
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I take this opportunity to write a few lines unto you, and thereby to
inform you of my discontentment, I want to go Home if I can obtain
thy approbation I have no ease of Mind, I am daily thinking that I do not care
how soon I go out of the world. prepared, or not, & it seems as if I did not Care how bad I be, if it would but make my
Time shorter, My mind is full of such bad thoughts, so that I cant relate all my bad
thoughts, & when my thoughts are off this my Mind is Home continually laying out work
for me to Do sometimes Clearing, & sometimes Blacksmithing & so on
But I believe I should soon be tired of Home & Yet my
^[left]Mind^ is all the while Cleaving to go home, & sometimes it excite a motion in my Breast to go without leting the Doctor know of my Intentions, when I am alone I am almost crazy I
will catch my hair & pull & Cry, for to go Home,
Mr Anderson is left off working for Mr
Huntington so that I shant be able to go thro my Trade &cc
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And there is one thing more I would be
glad to inform the Doctor but I am affraid or at least I am basfush therefore I must let it be. but hopeing the Docter will give me Leave to go home I subscribe myself
Sir, Your unworthy Servant
Hezekiah
Calvin
Lebanon}
May 5th
1768.}
For the Reverend Docter
E Wheelock
H: Calvin's May 5.th 1768
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