Susan Warner - "elizabeth Wetherell" Author:Anna Bartlett Warner General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1909 Original Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Subjects: History / United States / 19th Century Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get... more » free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VI WORLDS TO CONQUER Perhaps, as a change from the baby talk, some other bits of the old letters may be given. One smiles to think how well grown was human patience in those days; and also how human impatience found much to stir it up. "Albany, June, 1821. "So here I am, my dear Anna, on the pinnacle of Capitol Hill and within a door or two of the capitol itself, that place of debate and folly, a place which raises no sentiment of awe, nor even of respect, as I behold it, but rather excites associations of disgust, contempt and shame. Such is the character of our Legislature! "We reached Hudson this morning at about eight o'clock, and Albany before 12. It is now 11 o'clock at night. I must conclude the day with a word to my far off dear ones. And oh how my heart leaps forth to you, my wife and my children! How often and how tenderly have I remembered you by the way; and now as I sit in my solitary chamber, the voice of affection is echoing through all the regions of my spirit." Then comes a bit from my " schoolgirl" Aunt Fanny.Httdson, June, 16, '21. " My dear Brother and Sister. "The fair wind on Saturday, which seemed to promise me a speedy passage up the river, did not continue any longer than to separate me, in the space of two or three hours, from almost all the friends I have on earth. My time was so much occupied with thoughts of those I was leaving and those I was about to visit, that the violent thunder storm which succeeded, passed almost unnoticed. Sunday was rather a fatiguing day to me, ...« less