"Today I am 55 years old. What a long time to have lived considering what I have done. I must try & be more faithful over the duties which remain if any more time be spared me." JMSI Journal, 8/5/1849, SFP 30:26

"I had intended to place her with the Sisters of Charity in the half orphan asylum, but feel that is impossible to pay her board there, and it has occurred to me that the country would be just the thing." Cheery to Jane, 8/4/1856, SFP 32:3

"I had intended to place her with the Sisters of Charity in the half orphan asylum, but feel that is impossible to pay her board there, and it has occurred to me that the country would be just the thing." Cheery to Jane, 8/4/1856, SFP 32:3

"There is a most terrible awakening there, and though one may get a little occasional relief by laughing at the absurd follies which it produces, it is certainly most melancholy to see so many minds . . ." 1/2

"There is a most terrible awakening there, and though one may get a little occasional relief by laughing at the absurd follies which it produces, it is certainly most melancholy to see so many minds . . ." 1/2

"My dear husband does not change the nuts of his mind. On this subject I am nearly desperate but I have become more enured to this state of things & therefore suffer less than I did from this great calamity." JMSI to CS, 8/2/[1828-31], SFP 85:27

"My dear husband does not change the nuts of his mind. On this subject I am nearly desperate but I have become more enured to this state of things & therefore suffer less than I did from this great calamity." JMSI to CS, 8/2/[1828-31], SFP 85:27

"I am very glad that Jane is better, and Fanny benefited by her jaunt to Williamstown. The fate of those two dear creatures will always be a most interesting concern to my heart." GdC to CMS, 8/1/1842, SFP 80:22

"I am very glad that Jane is better, and Fanny benefited by her jaunt to Williamstown. The fate of those two dear creatures will always be a most interesting concern to my heart." GdC to CMS, 8/1/1842, SFP 80:22

"I believe a judicious friend can sometimes do more for the young than a saint." Lucy Channing Russell to JMSI, 7/31/1840s, SFP 29:17

"I believe a judicious friend can sometimes do more for the young than a saint." Lucy Channing Russell to JMSI, 7/31/1840s, SFP 29:17

"My school at which you are so greatly shocked has closed for six weeks, and I am resting and recreating...I should not be surprised at your feeling jealous of my being able to teach school!" Cheery to Jane, 7/1844, SFP 32:24

"My school at which you are so greatly shocked has closed for six weeks, and I am resting and recreating...I should not be surprised at your feeling jealous of my being able to teach school!" Cheery to Jane, 7/1844, SFP 32:24

"Nahant is full of folks, & every body out of doors, riding, driving, walking, talking, bathing & gossiping - an excellent place to rub off some of the hard & dry lines of american domestic life." LDM to Julia Minot, 7/29/1848, MRP 2:6

"Nahant is full of folks, & every body out of doors, riding, driving, walking, talking, bathing & gossiping - an excellent place to rub off some of the hard & dry lines of american domestic life." LDM to Julia Minot, 7/29/1848, MRP 2:6

"Jane has the influenza. Frank & the rest of the boys & girls are to have an expedition by torch light through the ice hole on Monday." JMSI to WMI, 7/28/1843, SMP 2:1

"Jane has the influenza. Frank & the rest of the boys & girls are to have an expedition by torch light through the ice hole on Monday." JMSI to WMI, 7/28/1843, SMP 2:1

"Yesterday Mr. & Mrs. Quincy with a family party including Jane went to Lebanon with the intention of staying till tomorrow night, but finding the society there quite inferior to what they had left here, they returned this afternoon." JMSI to LDM, 7/27/1833, SFP 29:8

"Yesterday Mr. & Mrs. Quincy with a family party including Jane went to Lebanon with the intention of staying till tomorrow night, but finding the society there quite inferior to what they had left here, they returned this afternoon." JMSI to LDM, 7/27/1833, SFP 29:8

"Old Dr. Field...said that our Corner Stone should have his prayers and blessing - which for the type of blue presbyterianism as he was formerly considered was saying a great deal." Jane to ITH, 7/26/1860, HP 27:19

"Old Dr. Field...said that our Corner Stone should have his prayers and blessing - which for the type of blue presbyterianism as he was formerly considered was saying a great deal." Jane to ITH, 7/26/1860, HP 27:19

"Jane will be grieved, as I have been, by the sudden death of Margaret Fuller. Coming upon her as it did, after a long voyage had been all but finished and almost within sight of her friends..." Hal to JMSI, 7/25/1850, SFP 26:9

"Jane will be grieved, as I have been, by the sudden death of Margaret Fuller. Coming upon her as it did, after a long voyage had been all but finished and almost within sight of her friends..." Hal to JMSI, 7/25/1850, SFP 26:9

"Jane has led rather an eccentric course from her love of independence & her desire to obtain useful occupation - but I see in her a decided improvement in self-government & in her consideration for others." JMSI Journal, 7/24/1846, SFP 30:26

"Jane has led rather an eccentric course from her love of independence & her desire to obtain useful occupation - but I see in her a decided improvement in self-government & in her consideration for others." JMSI Journal, 7/24/1846, SFP 30:26

"I saw no other way in which I could adequately return your love, than by declining my piece of mince pie . . . Having a little cold, I was as much afraid of it as of the acids at the Medical College which dissolved a whole man in four hours." CS to Bessie, 7/1850, LCS 298

"I saw no other way in which I could adequately return your love, than by declining my piece of mince pie . . . Having a little cold, I was as much afraid of it as of the acids at the Medical College which dissolved a whole man in four hours." CS to Bessie, 7/1850, LCS 298

"Jane met with an accident which liked to have proved very serious, she was thrown from her horse when within a few rods of home, struck on her head, was taken up insensible . . . she was bled & is now quite recovered." LDM to Julia Minot, 7/22/1845, MRP 1:22

"Jane met with an accident which liked to have proved very serious, she was thrown from her horse when within a few rods of home, struck on her head, was taken up insensible . . . she was bled & is now quite recovered." LDM to Julia Minot, 7/22/1845, MRP 1:22

"Art is not sufficiently appreciated here to invest in pictures which bring to the possessor no return in money. Materialism is the spirit of the age; and dollar must produce its dollar, to satisfy present yearnings." Bishop O'Reilly to Jane, 7/21/1877, SFP 33:1