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Chase chastises Sophia for her lack of recent correspondence. He tells her he must leave for home soon even though doctors recommend against it.
Date
4-9-1830
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Mr. Minor, Philadelphia
Recommended Citation
Chase, Philander, "Letter to Sophia Chase" (1830). Philander Chase Letters. 850.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/850
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9th April 1830
Cumd. [Md.]
My dear Wife,
When I write every day there is certainly some reason in expecting a letter from home oftener than once in ten days!!
You have adequate idea of the heart[risking] effect of “No letters” from the west which I have heard even since Minor was here. My very Spirit dies within me.
I was not so well today but still have to set off for home on Monday. Although the Physicians in Phi. all [remonstrate] against it.
How many thousand letters have I rd. this winter from the Professors & Tutors at Kenyon?
Your affectionate Husd.
P. Chase