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Orra White Hitchcock's Letter to Eunice Huntington, February 11, 1856

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Edward was completing a speaking tour that took him as far as Chicago, Illinois, when he and Orra met up in Cincinnati, Ohio, to see their married daughter Kate. They had hoped to stop to visit their niece Eunice Huntington (addressed as "cousin" in this letter), but their train was delayed by very snowy weather. While Orra would have preferred to wait out the storm so they could stop to visit Eunice, she went along with what her husband wanted--"as I suppose a good wife should," she noted with dry humor.

Creator:
Orra White Hitchcock
Date:
February 11, 1856
Courtesy of:
Edward and Orra White Hitchcock Papers, Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library