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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
then there need be no cross fence back 0£ 1..ritchen for the back yard would reach all the way down to the creek which would be about 200 yards from the kitchen and about 150 yards of that distance would be through the woods- None of these woods must be cut down on any account as they will J:>e a shade for the calf and poultry lots and break off the north winds from the gardin and orchard
EMILY M. PERRY TO JA:;\£ES F. P£ImY
December 1 st 1831
MY DEAR HusnaND-- I was highly pleased to henr from you by Joel, and of your safe return from your last scrupc, I hope to God that you will not suffer by your being so exposed to the Cold for so many nights, I am fearful! that it will give you the Fever and Aguef you are not half as carefull of your self as you should be, how, careless to go out with out your bat, or cont, I am really astonished at you, all the uneasiness that I have now is on your account, for you are so careless, of your self, I have to live so very much e:vvosed, I shall be miserable if I bear of your being Sick, you must try and come up, if you should be taken unwell,- I am very smart, the Baby is not two weeks old, and I have been 01.1,t into the eating room twice, as bad as the weather has been, we have the prospect of a pleasant day at last, the first for two weeks,- . I send you a Plan of a House that Stephen sent down for me to look at, I approve of the Plun very much, it will be a '\'ery convenient, and pleasent.house, altho it is on a pretty large Scal,e, but not two large, if you think your purse will allow you to venture so far, if you could git the frame up, and the 'roof on and weather• boarded, by having one chimney and three rooms made habitable the Balance could remain unfinish'd untill, time, and money ennabled you to finished it; at all evence you can make some improYement on your own Plan by comparing it with the one I send you, I would rather have more room thrown into the rooms, and not have the Passage so wide, I should prefer having the Back-GaJlery much 1 wi,de1·, than the Front Gallery as it will always be used more than the Other, I approve of Stephen Plan as it respects that end of the house, were the Childrens' rooms are struck of; also by devicling one of the large rooms,-; but you can make such alterations as you think propper, you are a better judge that I am how, large a house we can build, and the expence attending it; go according to your own
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