Favorite Things I’ve Read In The Letters of This One Specific Family, 1790-1821 (paraphrased)

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  • “We’re engaged now and setting out on the sea of life together in our little raft.” dude you’re both rich as Midas. you’re setting out together in a yacht, minimum
  • Increasing amounts of “per my last email” in letters between Husband and Father-In-Law discussing Wife’s income from the family fortune
  • Husband: “HAVE YOU HAD THE BABY YET I’M SO WORRIED I WADED THROUGH A FLOOD TO GET TO THE POST OFFICE”
  • Husband: “Get the baby a suit of armor or I’m sure to crush her with hugs when I get home”
  • Wife: “Teenage Daughter, could you send me my gold lamé turban?”
    • I sat there staring into space mouthing “what” for like a solid minute
    • I want to see this hat SO BADLY
  • Husband: “Son was firing his toy cannon at my office door, so I had to sally forth and valiantly seize the enemy munitions!”
  • Teenage Daughter: “My friend and I had our mutual admirer guess which of us had made which pudding to win a pair of gloves from one of us.”
  • Wife quotes Byron NONSTOP
  • Wife: “Fuck slave-owners and fuck the Missouri Compromise.”
    • Yes, they were abolitionists
    • Yes, they actually did treat their servants well and pay them fairly
  • Husband: “That old widow I rent to is behind with her payments, but don’t evict her because that would be inhumane, especially since it’s winter.”
  • Husband: “Wife, remember to wear your flannel petticoats to stay warm- and so I can take them off you when I get home.”
  • Also Husband, not paraphrased: “How close I should lie to you and how hard I should love you if I were there.”
    • WONDER WHY THEY HAD 11 KIDS
  • Husband: “On our tenth anniversary, I just wanted to say that you’re as beautiful to me as always and I love you the most that anyone has ever loved anyone else in the history of the world.
  • Wife: “Hi yes I also love you the most that anyone has ever loved anyone else in the history of the world.
  • Wife: “My handwriting sucks and I’ve burned three attempts at this letter already but HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT THIS AWESOME TREE I SAW BESIDE THE ROAD YESTERDAY”
  • Husband makes so. many. puns. Help.
  • Wife: “Send two or three pounds of the best chocolate you can find, please.”
  • Husband: “We have ice cream with dinner every day here- don’t be jealous!”
  • Husband: “Young Adult Daughter, I wrote a poem about your rejected suitors. Here it is.”
    • Unfortunately I cannot remember the poem at the moment. But there was a part like, “And as for Frank Lyman/He’ll never be my man.”
    • Just roasting a bunch of young men with surnames you now see on Boston street signs

To Be Continued.