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Unidentified Clement letter, Oct 2 1864

The letter is signed, but the signature is unreadable. The sender seems to be a Clement or someone closely related.

Jacksonville Vt Oct 2nd 1864

Dear Cousins,
As I have a few unreadable moments I will try to unreadable in writing to you, it being the first letter that I ever wrote to you. I arrived home safe and well from my journey out to unreadable state. Had a very pleasant time while I was their. Also in Bennington, Lucinda and myself went up in the Observatory (also) Perron [?] and wife.

I got home Thursday about four o'clock. Found Father very sick. He was not expected to live Wednesday, the day out: But he did and Is getting better slowly. Mother and Grandma were also sick to. Not able to sit up easy. And I am thinking we had a very unreadable here for a while. They are all better. They were all sick with the typhoid distentary [dysenterry?] of which is very dangerous disease. The rest of us are well as usual excepting Charlie. He does not enjoy good health unreadable of the time hardly. How are you and your folks. Also Mr. Harrington well I hope. Please write and let me know all about them will you not. Cousin Jesse came here last Wednesday and stayed until yesterday. We carried him down to Mr. unreadables. We were very glad to see him and would also be to see you over this way. Jesse and myself and three or four couples from Jacksonville are intending to go to Brattleboro next Wednesday for a ride if it is pleasant. Hope it will be. Please tell Duane that I am glad if he is all right, from me. And he will know what I mean and ask him if he has been up in the Thrashing [?] floor lately.

Please give my best respects to him and tell him to write. Also Marvins folks unreadable and unreadable. Tell Mr. Harrington that I would like his Photograh as I have got yours. I shall expect it when I receive an answer in return of this. And I do not like to get disappointed. I think that I have written about as much as you will care to read this time so I will close by bidding you good bye. Mother sends love to all, and wishes you to write. Correct all mistakes and bad writing as I have written this in a hurry. Please except [accept?] this from our unreadable cousin, Ethan M unreadable
unreadable your letter to Jacksonville Vt. Write soon.

Notes:

This is the signature:

The writer's identiy is so far undetermined. They seem to regard Jesse B. Clement (1842-1914), Duane Howard Clement (1846-1908), Rachel Perham Clement (1838-1920) and Marvin F. Clement (1834-1866) as "cousins". They might not be first cousins, and for that matter "cousin" could even be a friendly term for an unrelated person. If it does mean first cousins, then the writer would be the child of one of Daniel Clement (1796-1872) or Martha Whedon (1809-1869)'s siblings.

  • First name:
    • looks to start with an "E" and is possibly Ellen or Ethan
    • Next letters appear to be "ll", and seem to match those in "shall" earlier in the page. However "t"s are inconsistent in the letter, sometimes looped like this and not always with a visible crossing line.
  • Middle initial is an M, and it matches the M in "Mr. Harrington". It's not a "Mc", because other capital Ms have the same curl at the end.
  • The last name starts with a letter that could be an A, and which resembles the A in "As" at the start of the letter.

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