Box 2
Container
Contains 40 Results:
Postcards
File — Box: 2, Folder: 74
Scope and Contents
Six items:- a picture postcard of Dublin with four small images: Custom House, Phoenixe Park, Sakville Street and Carlisle Bridge, and Shelbourne Hotel.- a small blue postcard book titled Views along the Line of the Lookout Mountain Incline & Narrow Gauge R'y, Chattanooga, Tenn.- picture postcard headed "Greetings from the Hawaiian Islands," postmarked at Honolulu, May 4, 1915 and addressed to "Mrs. Grace Robbins, 22...
Dates:
1864 - 1920, bulk 1864 - 1866
John Porcius Gage to Grace D. Nichols, April 22, 1866
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents
Written from Carversville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Dated "April Sunday" but without a year. From the other correspondence this seems likely to be 1866, and most likely April 22. Notes that her letter to him had come via Vineland, New Jersey. Notes that he received a letter at the same time from a school friend living in the Bahamas. He had left two weeks before to attend school, and says that the students "have got so much dutch blood in their veins that they do not know how white folks...
Dates:
April 22, 1866
John Porcius Gage to Grace D. Nichols, May 7, 1865
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents
Written from Vineland, Cumberland County, New Jersey. Reports that he got her letter via Mr. Orlando Linaker and hopes that she will not put off writing so long next time. Asks for her photo and says that he will have one done and send it to her "as soon as my Uncle Sam can carry it & I will request him to be right smart quick as the jerzy folks say." There is a long discussion about how they should address each other and he expresses a wish to "just for a moment behold thy angelic form...
Dates:
May 7, 1865
John Porcius Gage to Grace D. Nichols, May 25, 1865
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents
Written from Vineland, Cumberland County, New Jersey. Opens "Dear Grace." Notes that he had received her letter that evening. He sends a report about Celia, who had been on a visit but he had seen that evening and she was in good health. He returns to the topic of their salutations: "You think it familiar for one who never saw the other well to be candid about it I think perhaps we are both rather more so than is generally customary & then again we have always joked & carried on in...
Dates:
May 25, 1865
John Porcius Gage to Grace D. Nichols, June 4, 1865
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents
Written from Vineland, Cumberland County, New Jersey. Opens "Dear Friend Grace." Sends his old photo as Grace had promised to return it when he sent a new one. He describes the reasons his coat is so shabby: "the first is [I] like to chew the weed which makes the color come out of my coat when I dont look on what I am doing 2d I smoke so much that I dont care for anything else when I am enjoying my pipe & third but not least I get so drung [drunk?] that when I am in that state clothes...
Dates:
June 4, 1865
John Porcius Gage to Grace D. Nichols, July 4[?], 1865
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 36
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Written from Vineland, Cumberland County, New Jersey. Dated "July 2 times" [4th?]. Opens "My Dear Grace." Was glad to receive a letter "from the one that seems most dear to my heart." He says he will send a new photo and urges her to return one: "Celia said you would not send it and perhaps she told the truth but I hope not." He shares a trick Celia had played on him about going on a ride with him, instead she had gone with a Mr. H. He describes the process of having a photo taken so as to...
Dates:
July 4[?], 1865
John Porcius Gage to Grace D. Nichols, August 6, 1865
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 37
Scope and Contents
Written from Vineland, Cumberland County, New Jersey. Opens "My Dear Grace." Apologizes for not yet answering her letter of July 22, 1865, his parents having returned home and things being very busy. Describes a ride with his father and siblings of some eighteen miles. He reports that Celia had refused to give him the love Grace had asked her to deliver. He describes the state of the fruit crop and asks again for her photo. He suggests that he will write more with an ink that can only be...
Dates:
August 6, 1865
John Porcius Gage to Grace D. Nichols, October 22, 1865
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 38
Scope and Contents
Written from Lambertville, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Opens "My Dear Friend Grace Darling." Notes the receipt of her letter of October 1, 1865 and apologizes for the delay in answering. Describes a visit to Vineland where he attended a dance, visited some girls working on curtains for a "dramatic exhibition," which was to fund a bell for the Presbyterian church. He did not see Celia but heard that "Mr. H." was back. He asks about the picture she sent, and again offers to send a new one if...
Dates:
October 22, 1865
John Porcius Gage to Grace D. Nichols, November 10, 1865
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 39
Scope and Contents
Written from Lambertville, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Opens "Dear Grace." Describes another visit to Vineland, where he saw Celia and had gone on a ride with her to visit her friend Lizzie Laurence. He reports on the recent elections in New Jersey, noting "Copperhead stock is below par. The gentlemen of the democratic party dont have much to say about politics. I dont blame them myself. Would do the same if my party had got used the ways theirs has." The second sheet of this letter seems...
Dates:
November 10, 1865
John Porcius Gage to Grace D. Nichols, November 26, 1865
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 40
Scope and Contents
Written from Lambertville, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Opens "My Dear Grace." Describes good weather and that he is living with an aunt and her two daughters. Notes that the Methodists are building a church and hopes they will hold a dance before they put in the pews. Describes the apple tree and the flies that keep landing on his hands. He writes his views on smoking and drinking, noting in this letter [contra his earlier one] that he "never smoked a cigar or a pipe in my life and I never...
Dates:
November 26, 1865