Hezekiah Calvin, letter to Eleazar Wheelock, 1768 May 5
Date5 May, 1768
Call 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 dis
contentment, 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
a few lines unto you, and thereby to inform you of my dis
contentment, 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
Blank page. 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
[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
Blank page. 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
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